Category Archives: Games

Grogmeet 2025 and Hell Rides to Hallt

Posted on January 20, 2025 by First Age

I’m now back with my feet on the ground after a fun Grogmeet weekend in Manchester centre. I played two and ran one, with a nice slice of meal and pub socialising exquisitely dovetailed between. Throw in a slightly bizarre … Continue reading →

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An unexpected return to the Third Horizon

Posted on January 11, 2025 by First Age

It’s the 11th january and, having just finished my concrete RPG planning for 2025, I’m running an unplanned mini campaign. I expected flagrant deviation, but perhaps not 24 hours after finishing my plans. An end, or extended pause to Tom’s … Continue reading →

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Alright Sqyre?

Posted on January 4, 2025 by First Age

My online RPGs are hugely improved by the tech wizardry of both Foundry VTT, and now a new, responsive, and very good value hosting service in Sqyre.  I’ve been really impressed with Sqyre. Having Foundry hosted for me takes all … Continue reading →

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My 2024 of RPG Play

Posted on December 20, 2024 by First Age

To some my 2024 of tabletop RPG play may seem a decent haul of games, and I expect for others they remain rookie numbers. At over 150 sessions for the year, I am happy with the volume, it has felt … Continue reading →

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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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