Licensing of popular TV shows, movies and books has been fairly common place throughout the hobby for as long as I can remember. In my post on MERP I only covered the RPG licensing of the setting for The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. Currently Middle Earth can...
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2nd Breakfast
Last year on the 21st of September it was 75 years since the publication of The Hobbit and there was a fan-led celebration event to host a Hobbit 2nd Breakfast which was enjoyed the world over at precisely 11:00AM on the 21st. I organised one at my workplace last year and...
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- 21/09/2013
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- blogging my hobby something different
The Daily Dilemma
This is post 67 and I’ve recently been rethinking my approach to the blog. Actually rethinking is too strong a term, probably more accurate to say “more thinking”. When I set out to do this I wanted it to be a daily digest/brain dump of whatever views or insights I...
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- 20/09/2013
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- blogging commitment
YARRR!
So today is the 19th September which means that it’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Why is this relevant to tabletop games? Well in reality it’s not but why ignore such a prestigious event when it can be turned into a blog post about Pirates in games? Pirates are...
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- 19/09/2013
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- community something different the hobby
Newfangled Nonsense…
RPGs come in a vast array of flavours. Setting is one way of splitting up the flavour of RPG but the split I’m talking about here is more on the ruleset. I’m going to be very general about the terms I use here largely down to my blasé approach to...
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- 18/09/2013
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- RPGs something new the hobby
Online Resources
In the quest to better my gaming I’ve been looking at how I can streamline certain things about the play experience. A lot of how that can be achieved is through using more resources to make things easier for me to prep for games and in particular RPGs. I’m going...
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In the past few years the hobby has gone through a number of changes. Some games/formats have gone.WoWTCG is probably the most notable although to be fair this had been coming for a while. Some games/formats have shrunk and awaiting some sort of relaunch.There’s a perception in some parts of...
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- 16/09/2013
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- the hobby what's next
Prison Break
I’ve referred to a one-shot scenario I’ve used for Star Wars on here a few times. The scenario itself is inspired by an old RPG magazine by the name of Challenge which was published by Games Designers Workshop, a now defunct gaming company. GDW were the publishers of a number...
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- 15/09/2013
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- ideas settings Star Wars storyboard
Seasons is a game of layers.
Not that long ago I picked up a copy of Seasons. I picked it up on a whim really, I knew of it but only that there had been positive noises on the internet. Plus the box had the typical Asmodee approach of “lets use lots of colours to dazzle...
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- 14/09/2013
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- community game report my hobby
Horror & Me
So it’s Friday the 13th and other than trying to make sure nothing disastrous strikes today I also wanted to touch on Horror in games and my views on it. As a genre Horror covers a multitude of things whether that be the splat fest of a slasher movie to...
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- 13/09/2013
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- my hobby settings storyboard