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Ironsworn
With all the conspicuous and crafty consumption of Kickstarter RPG tomes, it is great to remind oneself that my hobby only needs some good ideas, some dice and some friends. Out in the Wild Web beyond the walled fastness of … Continue reading
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I want to run an RPG campaign
It’s been a while. Thursday nights games has a good rotation going with some fun games played. Of the six in the group, five are GMs, with a 3-6 months slot each, my turn will come around every 20 months … Continue reading
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Furnace 2017
Furnace 12 has been and gone and once again we seem to have had a really good time. It is particularly heartening to hear such good things from ‘first timers’ as it becomes difficult to see the event through fresh … Continue reading
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SF Splurge
With the Infinity RPG lumbering, slightly embarrassed out of a lengthy Kickstarter campaign, there is a prospect that some actual books, digital and physical, will start to emerge over the next couple of months. Modiphius remain in approval quagmire, slowing … Continue reading
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Roll20 Shenanigans
I have a tottering RPG game pile. I’m not wanting to compare how prodigious my stack is with yours, but it is safe to say that I now have more games than I have gameplay left in the time allotted … Continue reading
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Cypher Jorune
I’m in midst preparation for UK Games Expo, which lands next weekend. It’s always a lot of fun getting your games together, not least because, often, I find that I am re-exploring and re-discovering games systems and settings that have … Continue reading
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Characters for Dramaguhl
I’ve been writing again, which I had hoped would happen whilst I was on holiday this week. I’ve missed getting words down and the move away from the intensity of work has freed me up a little. Mostly I’ve been … Continue reading
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A Storm Eternal
I’m running a game of ‘A Storm Eternal’ at Seven Hills in a couple of weeks. I plan to allow the players to provide the portentous underpinning of our saga. I wrote some playbook introduction text for each of the … Continue reading
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Numenera
I dip in and out of Numenera and have used it frequently as a convention game which it is well suited for. A simple system with some avoidable gotchas that let me narrate and go with the flow as I … Continue reading
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