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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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The Company Gathers
I am enjoying the preparation for the LongCon all weekender of Tales from the Lone Lands, using Free League’s The One Ring. There are endless things that I have to do, from the basics of absorbng the game rules and … Continue reading
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LongCon Preparation – Tales from the Lone Lands
I am both excited and a touch nervous as I switch to a few weeks of preparation for my ‘Tales from the Lone Lands’ full weekend game at LongCon at the end of June. It will be a heady mix … Continue reading
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FantasyCraft – the noughties strike back
I appear to have an unhealthy attraction to ‘designed in the 2000s’ fantasy D20 games. FantasyCraft is my third after Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition and Green Ronin’s inventive True20. It’s not as though I have any meaningful history with … Continue reading
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Daniel-André Sørensen Map Love
At the very least from reading the Hobbit when aged nine, I have poured over maps, both real and imagined, following their contours and throughways with an open and exploring imagination. This fascination alone has voraciously consumed whole afternoons, before … Continue reading
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Updates to Heroic Fantasy 2nd Edition
I’ve completed a quick and fairly minor update to Heroic Fantasy 2nd Edition. The changes are found in the digital PDF on DrivethruRPG. The changes are predominently typos and some wording changes, plus a restructure of the Magic Chapter introduction, … Continue reading
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Just Going For IT
The ‘Legendary Thursday Nighters’, provides an opportunity to play out a whole host of games, accumulated in a wish list that we can, over time, play through. As such, our european roster of players (I think of myself as such … Continue reading
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Clash of Steel
We are living in legendary times, when lightweight and flavourful sword & sorcery rpgs are strewn like a carpet of glittering jewels over lands of high adventure. Clash of Steel from Zozer Games, sits high on the raised dias of … Continue reading
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