Category Archives: Games

Daniel-André Sørensen Map Love

Posted on May 2, 2025 by First Age

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

Posted on April 27, 2025 by First Age

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

Posted on April 25, 2025 by First Age

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

Posted on April 17, 2025 by First Age

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

Posted on April 15, 2025 by First Age

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

Posted on March 23, 2025 by First Age

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

Posted on February 25, 2025 by First Age

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

Posted on February 20, 2025 by First Age

 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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Talislanta Epic Edition

Posted on February 7, 2025 by First Age

Talislanta 6th and Epic edition has landed in the People’s Republic of Sheffield and is, perhaps, one of the heaviest roleplaying games I own. The system itself is blissfully light, but can take in a lot of factors that effectively … Continue reading →

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Keltia and Yggdrasill RPGs in Trudvang

Posted on February 4, 2025 by First Age

As I head towards the Trudvang Dragonbane campaign end game, I was thinking of getting some play out of the Keltia and Yggdrasill RPGs. Once licensed through Cubicle 7, these French historical (with magic) RPGs have long held a fascination. … Continue reading →

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