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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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Fading Suns Fun
I have recently returned to one of my favourite games through reading and playing its most recent 4th edition: Fading Suns. What is it with me and 4th editions?! Fading Suns is a medieval factional space opera, set in a … Continue reading
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Designing a Basic Roleplaying RPG
I’m confessing to a return to my roots with some Basic Roleplaying game building. This is something we did endlessly in my early years of the hobby in the 80s, using Stormbringer as the chasis, to play out great games … Continue reading
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QuestWorlds
Chaosium’s QuestWorlds RPG has now arrived in POD at DrivethruRPG. I have a long history with the Hero Wars and HeroQuest game line, with my favourite being the excellent Mythic Russia. Although I will be applying a slightly more traditional … Continue reading
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Playing Dragonbane
I’m a big fan of Dragonbane, the BRP derived fantasy RPG from Free League that has set the gaming world on fire. I’ve been running the game for just over a year, setting the light and flexible game rules in … Continue reading
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