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Neon City Overdrive at Seven Hills 2024
I’m glad to be able to attend Seven Hills this year, one of a brace of great ttrpg conventions in Sheffield, UK. The convention has a theme to guide GMs who submit games. the theme for 2024 will be ‘Punk’. … Continue reading
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Peril Planet’s Freeform Universal RPG – Action Tales!
Having got excited about 1981’s best RPG, DragonQuest, to show my eclectic side, I have really got excited about Peril Planet’s Freeform Universal RPG, more generically known as ‘Action Tales! RPG’. In particular the 2e of the game, currently in … Continue reading
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SPI’s DragonQuest RPG in Play
Simulation Publication Incorporated (SPI) 1980 DragonQuest fantasy RPG was a game that passed me by, back in the day. I started the gaming hobby in 1981, my first year at university, playing AD&D 1e, Runequest 1e and Traveller. Although aware … Continue reading
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Dragonbane: Trudvang
It seems like an obvious connection, pairing the most up-to-date iteration of Drakar och Demoner, Free League’s Dragonbane, to the rich game world of Riot Mind’s previous system expression, Trudvang Chronicles. I have wanted to explore the Trudvang setting for … Continue reading
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LongCon – Convention Design
As much as I enjoy one-shot convention ttrpgs, I really enjoy the longer form ‘Longcon’, where games last either a whole day, or full weekend. mini-campaign-alicious. I’ve composed some thoughts, which are below. Please feel free to comment, to help … Continue reading
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DragonQuest Characters
A quick update on DragonQuest Characters. They are mostly done for now. I’ve used a simple pro-rate method to give them starting Ranks in two professions, profession skills and adventurer skills. There’s some more fluff text to add, but … Continue reading
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Furnace Convention XVIII
Our 18th Furnace(!!) was another fun gathering of 65 gamers or so, all together for a packed weekend of top RPGs. As ever the GMs had offered a great variety of inventive games and worlds for us all to explore. … Continue reading
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Pro Rating DragonQuest Characters
Perhaps one of my more specialist blog posts! I’m planning some convention DragonQuest, and wanted a method to uplift starter characters to a higher degree of competance, edging into the ‘adventurer level’. Initially I looked at generating a pool of … Continue reading
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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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