Author Archives: First Age

Emergent Campaigns

 There has been some discussion in the podverse about the term ‘campaign’ in a roleplay game context. What is a campaign? How up front do your goals for a campaign need to be? How planned in does the framework need … Continue reading

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D&D 4e Convention Prep

 

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RPGs Played in 2022 – February Update

  As at 28th Feb A slow start to this year’s gaming, but given a boost by Revelation Convention. My D&D4e game is the main game of the year as expected. As I plan to attend a good number of … Continue reading

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Running Tribes in the Dark

 It was great to re-explore Vimary, the ruined city and home to tribal humanity in the post-apocalypse roleplaying game Tribe 8. The impetus to return came from the Quickstart of the new version of the game, powered by John Harper’s … Continue reading

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Fictional Positioning My Arse

 And with that I dive into my first go at running a Forged in the Dark (FitD) based game: Tribes in the Dark. This is a long awated return to the Tribe8 setting, which I loved and ran in the … Continue reading

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Truer20

I haven’t been able to resist doing some prep for a future Greyhawk True20 game. True20 keeps calling to me, and this isn’t part of the plan. So, it might be an investment for a later time. The tweaks have … Continue reading

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Hinterspace Notes #3

I’m still working on the two page spread for each mainworld system in my Eventide subsector setting. The plan is to have two pages in a standard format per system, with just over thirty systems to record. That gives a … Continue reading

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A Return to Middle Earth

More tingles as the Kickstarter for The One Ring 2e becomes a physical reality, forged to seduce mortal men I wanted to say a bit about why I am excited to see this game re-emerge with an evolved and streamlined … Continue reading

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Hills, Moors and Fantasy RPGs

I had a happy day yesterday, walking the hills and moors around Derwent Edge and the resevoirs below. It’s a favourite site, beautiful surrounds and a mix between clear trails and out of the way walking on the edges. On … Continue reading

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The Picts – A History

 I’ve just read Tim Clarkson’s ‘The Picts – A History’, and really enjoyed it. In fact I finished it breathless and wanting more. At 206 pages, before launching into a useful set of appendices, you get a fly through of … Continue reading

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