Author Archives: First Age

Alright Sqyre?

Posted on January 4, 2025 by First Age

My online RPGs are hugely improved by the tech wizardry of both Foundry VTT, and now a new, responsive, and very good value hosting service in Sqyre.  I’ve been really impressed with Sqyre. Having Foundry hosted for me takes all … Continue reading →

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A Book a Month – 2025

Posted on December 31, 2024 by First Age

I suppose it is the time of year where we over-promise and then under-deliver, or perhaps variantly achieve? I have a couple of pledges on the slate for me, one of which is to take up running/jogging/staggering/move quickly when people … Continue reading →

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My 2024 Music ‘Wrapped’

Posted on December 28, 2024 by First Age

I need to get with the times. My 2024 Spotify listening has been enthusiastically wrapped by Google’s NotebookLM. As my gaming buddy Hattie has observed: “They turn every topic into a podcast “run” by an over enthusiastic valley girl and … Continue reading →

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My 2024 of RPG Play

Posted on December 20, 2024 by First Age

To some my 2024 of tabletop RPG play may seem a decent haul of games, and I expect for others they remain rookie numbers. At over 150 sessions for the year, I am happy with the volume, it has felt … Continue reading →

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Diamond Throne Arrived

Posted on December 14, 2024 by First Age

Diamond Throne core books and slipcase Thanks to Kate, the MCG Marketing Manager who I met at Dragonmeet, my Diamond Throne books have arrived via FedEx and the US of A. I wasn’t in a pressing hurry for them, as … Continue reading →

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Gods of the Forbidden North

Posted on December 3, 2024 by First Age

I trust you have all recovered from your Black Friday / Cyber Monday purchases? There did seem to be some real bargains for RPG PDFs and books, and I picked up a few. Although I have plans for both Symbaroum’s … Continue reading →

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The Diamond in the Rough

Posted on November 5, 2024 by First Age

This is the one that almost got away. I have to go back to October 2020 for the end of the Kickstarter campaign for Here Be Dragon’s ‘Monte Cook’s Diamond Throne. In that dim, dark plague epoch, I was in the … Continue reading →

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Fabled

Posted on October 29, 2024 by First Age

Fabled is another VTT that’s Kickstarting, which ticks all of my boxes, probably… Slickly marketed, this is an all in one integrated experience, which promises, if you can find it tucked away with dice skins and roll effects, the Holy … Continue reading →

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Sample Dungeon

Posted on October 24, 2024 by First Age

My game pitch for Grogmeet 2025… Sample Dungeon AKA  The Ruined Tower of Zenopus A century ago the sorcerer Zenopus built a tower on the low hills overlooking Portown. The tower was close to the sea cliff west of the … Continue reading →

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Game Planning for 2025

Posted on October 21, 2024 by First Age

Fun times planning the games that I might run in 2025. The list is always a malleable soup of ideas, prone to fickle change, but the process of coalescing to an actual game is an imaginationscape(TM) all of its own. … Continue reading →

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