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Bloodwood
A few sessions of fantasy gaming on offer. Streamed to YouTube. Heroic Fantasy 2nd Edition (The Black Hack based) 3-4 sessionsFortnightly Thursday 14:00 GMTSession Zero: Thursday, February 8th, 14:00 GMT Your adventurous company are travelling North to Redstone, protecting Atticus, … Continue reading
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A Summary of 2023 Gaming
Well, another good year of gaming, and the stats don’t lie. Let’s start with actual play and look at the story told by the numbers. In terms of volume, there are a few standout games. For all that it might … Continue reading
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A Company of Heroes
Whilst running Dragonbane at conventions, and for a delightful home group on Foundry VTT, I’m side hustling a few other game ideas that I’d like to do something with. In particular, I am busting to give Freeform Universal 2e a … Continue reading
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Neon City Overdrive at Seven Hills 2024
I’m glad to be able to attend Seven Hills this year, one of a brace of great ttrpg conventions in Sheffield, UK. The convention has a theme to guide GMs who submit games. the theme for 2024 will be ‘Punk’. … Continue reading
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Peril Planet’s Freeform Universal RPG – Action Tales!
Having got excited about 1981’s best RPG, DragonQuest, to show my eclectic side, I have really got excited about Peril Planet’s Freeform Universal RPG, more generically known as ‘Action Tales! RPG’. In particular the 2e of the game, currently in … Continue reading
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Dragonbane: Trudvang
It seems like an obvious connection, pairing the most up-to-date iteration of Drakar och Demoner, Free League’s Dragonbane, to the rich game world of Riot Mind’s previous system expression, Trudvang Chronicles. I have wanted to explore the Trudvang setting for … Continue reading
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DragonQuest Characters
A quick update on DragonQuest Characters. They are mostly done for now. I’ve used a simple pro-rate method to give them starting Ranks in two professions, profession skills and adventurer skills. There’s some more fluff text to add, but … Continue reading
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Pro Rating DragonQuest Characters
Perhaps one of my more specialist blog posts! I’m planning some convention DragonQuest, and wanted a method to uplift starter characters to a higher degree of competance, edging into the ‘adventurer level’. Initially I looked at generating a pool of … Continue reading
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DragonQuest: The Fifth Book – Worldly Endeavour
Having recently jumped into DragonQuest, I am testing its edges and expanding the game where it expects and encourages. With no practical experience of the game, I’m running on instinct and the GMing Rank 4 ability: Table Sense. To be … Continue reading
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A rumble through SPI’s DragonQuest – play like it’s 1981!
As happens every time a Grogmeet emerges, I scurry off to bury myself in a game from ‘back in the day’. Today, I have taken a joyful canter through the densely enumerated DragonQuest (2e), to look in some depth at … Continue reading
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