Another week in the life of GURPS

Sorry I'm running late . . . I had to knock off work and go out immediately, so I had no time to write up my weekly leaks. The news:

• We released Transhuman Space: Personnel Files 5 – School Days 2100, by Phil Masters. And you thought school was complicated when you were young . . .

• We – meaning the stalwart Nikki, mainly – put the finishing touches on GURPS Gun Fu, by S.A. Fisher, Hans-Christian Vortisch, and y.t., and GURPS Urban Magics, by Bill Stoddard (whswhs). I've seen near-final PDFs, so it's only a matter of time.

• The final draft of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy: Clerics, another Phil Masters work, just arrived. Into the Holy Hopper with that one, too!

• The final drafts of GURPS Low-Tech and GURPS Low-Tech Companion 1-3 – all by Peter Dell'Orto (peterdellorto), Dan Howard, Matt Riggsby (wombattery), and Bill Stoddard (whswhs) – also arrived. I've started my edit, which will probably take a while . . . this is lots of text, with lots of tables. Apologies in advance if I'm sometimes a little silent in coming months!

• Comments went out to Phil Masters (yes, him again) on the first draft of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy: Summoners, and to David Pulver on the first draft of GURPS Spaceships 7: Strange and Alien Spacecraft.

We all have a fetish . . .

. . . and mine is for zombies. But I'm also happy to see latex, leather, etc., if it's for a good cause. In this case, the cause was a Save the Main event. These guys are campaigning to keep Montréal's red light district from being turned into yet more office space (we already have more than we can lease!). Anyway, part of Bonnie's baladi troupe was dancing in the evening's cabaret element, although the feature event was a fetish film festival as part of the Montréal Fetish Weekend.

The dance connection wasn't the only reason I went. As it happens, I believe that cities need red light districts. Tonight, I heard that lots of cities are bulldozing red light districts to make room for more offices. Well, I've seen that happen, folks, and the reality is this: It disperses the district's people and activities all over the city. If you're into this stuff, it becomes harder to find. If you're opposed to it, guess what? It ends up in your back alley. Either way, nobody wins . . . least of all the people who work there.

And that's enough politics for one night.