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DragonQuest: The Fifth Book – Worldly Endeavour
Having recently jumped into DragonQuest, I am testing its edges and expanding the game where it expects and encourages. With no practical experience of the game, I’m running on instinct and the GMing Rank 4 ability: Table Sense. To be … Continue reading
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A rumble through SPI’s DragonQuest – play like it’s 1981!
As happens every time a Grogmeet emerges, I scurry off to bury myself in a game from ‘back in the day’. Today, I have taken a joyful canter through the densely enumerated DragonQuest (2e), to look in some depth at … Continue reading
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Roleplaying in the Ashes of an Empire
Twilight Imperium Embers of the Imperium A Genesys RPG Space Opera Campaign Setting This sourcebook delivers a galaxy spanning space opera for Genesys, taken from the strategic board game. In 290 attractively laid out pages, a GM is given all … Continue reading
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More Hjältarnas Tid Actual Play
Not quite a once and done then! It was nice to get Hjältarnas tid out to the table once more at TavernCon. The game ran very smoothly, demonstrating most of the key concepts, or at least as many as I could … Continue reading
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2023 – Half Way There Games Tally
Can it be July?! As I try not to look at the Free League games sale on their store, I have opportunity to reflect on where I have got to with 2023 games. With both the D&D campaigns ending during … Continue reading
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Shadow of the Sorcerer – Session #2
With a Session 0/1 under our belts, and some intriguing characters needing adventure, our Conan 2D20 RPG mini-campaign got properly underway last night. Our heroes, of appropriately loose character, are off to steal a jewel artefact from the house of … Continue reading
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It’s a beautiful bridge and it is going to be there…
Sometimes you have to dig deep, grit your teeth, clutch tightly to the inside of the turret, and trust your comrades to left and right as you hold the line against the bellowing thrashes of monstrous Internet trolls. Sometimes you … Continue reading
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Aldland of the Kall
I’m hoping to run a simple scenario from Burning Light Press, ‘A Royal Treat’. at conventions during this year, using Hjältarnas Tid instead of D&D5e. It’s a simple enough tale, with some nice pressured interactions and a fun moral decision point. … Continue reading
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North Star Convention 2023
Top Science Fiction #ttrpg action over the weekend at The Garison Hotel, with a great family of gamers. Cortex Prime, New Eden. Paul Mitchener’s excellent GMing provided a great setup and the right hooks to propel us players to some … Continue reading
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Setting for Age of Heroes
With the ‘Age of Heroes‘ rules now under my belt, it is perhaps time to consider setting and adventure. With the assumption that we are looking at High Fantasy in the KSR style, it leaves wide vistas of places to … Continue reading
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