Firstly, I need a birthday present for my brother.

He something of a geek, but not that much of a gamer. However, he rather liked the Ninja Burger game I got him for christmas (for anyone interested, it's a good game, with some intricacy, but not too hard to get into). And he's asked me for somethine else of that general nature for his birthday.

So can anyone suggest anything? Not anything too fantastically complicated, nor taking too long to run, but something fun. Stuff with slight geeky references is fine, but stuff like Munchkin, which makes extensive references to gaming culture, probably is less appropriate.

Secondly, I need an interesting character concept.

I'll shortly be playing in a nWoD game set in Plymouth in 2015, with all the players being mortals. Currently I'm lacking inspiration as to what to play. We've got a 'combat accountant' in the group, so the concepts can be slightly out there, but should be fairly reasonable.

Also, interesting if rather worrying 100 minute film on how many of our civil liberties have been eroded in the last 10 years