Category Archives: Games

Gods of the Forbidden North

Posted on December 3, 2024 by First Age

I trust you have all recovered from your Black Friday / Cyber Monday purchases? There did seem to be some real bargains for RPG PDFs and books, and I picked up a few. Although I have plans for both Symbaroum’s … Continue reading →

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The Diamond in the Rough

Posted on November 5, 2024 by First Age

This is the one that almost got away. I have to go back to October 2020 for the end of the Kickstarter campaign for Here Be Dragon’s ‘Monte Cook’s Diamond Throne. In that dim, dark plague epoch, I was in the … Continue reading →

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Sample Dungeon

Posted on October 24, 2024 by First Age

My game pitch for Grogmeet 2025… Sample Dungeon AKA  The Ruined Tower of Zenopus A century ago the sorcerer Zenopus built a tower on the low hills overlooking Portown. The tower was close to the sea cliff west of the … Continue reading →

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Game Planning for 2025

Posted on October 21, 2024 by First Age

Fun times planning the games that I might run in 2025. The list is always a malleable soup of ideas, prone to fickle change, but the process of coalescing to an actual game is an imaginationscape(TM) all of its own. … Continue reading →

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LongCon 2024

Posted on July 2, 2024 by First Age

It has been a joy to bring back LongCon, a convention formatted for tabletop roleplaying games that last the full weekend. We have just had a great weekend with games that have had the room to breathe, exploring a full … Continue reading →

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State of Play – June 2024

Posted on July 2, 2024 by First Age

With the first half of 2024 in the rear view mirror, I thought I’d take a peek as to how my own ttrpg play is going.  81 sessions. As is customary there are a few stand out campaign games, with … Continue reading →

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A Return to Role VTT and Streaming Settings

Posted on June 19, 2024 by First Age

With Role VTT bringing back cameras, and making some progress on their integration with Owlbear Rodeo, for maps and tokens, I have made a return to use the platform in my own gaming.  There is now a subscription for the … Continue reading →

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RPG Actual Play – a YouTube Streaming Test

Posted on June 13, 2024 by First Age

I’m not a big watcher of live stream RPGs, but I do participate in a channel full of great games that are routinely streamed. The Dungeon Musings channel is an unpretentious ‘fourth wall’ channel, of gamers simply playing lots of … Continue reading →

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Keltia – a return to Arthur

Posted on June 10, 2024 by First Age

  I still wonder at the games that never made it to actual play. With more time on my hands I am looking to make that right, ad as i find it difficult to let any of them go, I … Continue reading →

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Shadow of the Weird Wizard

Posted on May 28, 2024 by First Age

I have taken some time to have a quick look at Shadow of the Weird Wizard and thought I’d make a note of my first impressions. As ever with such enterprises, I’m conscious that the proof is in the eating … Continue reading →

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