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The Sons of Guilliman
Eight Ultramarine brothers met for Remi’s 50th and kicked some arse! https://zerolatencyvr.com/en/experience/space-marine-vr Thirty minutes of pulsing action, as our two teams swept chaos before us. In the mood for some Wrath & Glory or earlier FFG RPG games now!
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Heroic Fantasy 2e Updates
My Black Hack based ‘Heroic Fantasy’ game continues to see play online and in the real. In the background I’m continuing to develop it, and consider where I might take it in the longer term. For now, it has been … Continue reading
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Furnace XX
We have just had a great weekend of RPGs and company at our twentieth Furnace Convention in Sheffield at the Garrison Hotel. To celebrate this milestone we arranged some merch in the shape of emblazoned messenger bags from our accomplished … Continue reading
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The Storytelling Divide
I was inspired by the extended conversation on Che Webster’s Roleplay Rescue with Anthony, aka ‘Runeslinger’, from Casting Shadows. I’m a regular listener to Che and recommend you check out his podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/roleplayrescue I’ll try to summarise the excellent … Continue reading
Classic Traveller – shrouded in nostalgia
The Traveller science fiction RPG was first published on 22nd July 1977, so my continuing forever game is soon to reach the important milestone of a 50th anniversary. I anticipate something of a formal celebration from the current publisher, Mongoose, … Continue reading
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LongCon – Tales from the Lone Lands
We had a fantastic weekend at LongCon this year. I just wanted to mark the Tales from the Lone Lands game we played with a few photos. The core of the game was fully supported by the ‘Tales from the … Continue reading
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Half Way Around the Sun in 80 Games
We are half way around, already. Time to take a look at the gaming year so far and reflect a little on the games that are getting actual play, and those that I have poured the energy and joy into … Continue reading
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LongCon – A Fellowship of Heroes
Next weekend is LongCon, a tabletop RPG convention where you play through a single mini campaign. It’s going to be full on! On Friday I will set-up the temporary curtains in our main room, to shade the players from the … Continue reading
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Heroic Fantasy Actual Play
It’s really nice to have an opportunity to run some of my Heroic Fantasy for the Thursday Nighters. We chew through a range of games on our shelves to get some interesting variety of games for short form play. The … Continue reading
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New Game Old World
I’ve been reading the reaction to the arrival of the new ‘Old World RPG’ from Cubicle 7. One of the threads has been a criticism that the current Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition (WFRP 4e) is low powered, producing less … Continue reading
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