So a month or so ago I posted about what I saw as my Hobby Objectives at that time. Let’s do a checkpoint – Sustainable and regular gaming. Big success here as I think I’ve managed to go to the games club every Friday for 4 weeks in a row...
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Nearly Gamer
I was recently away with work and whilst waiting for the flight home I sat at the airport with one of my colleagues at work who I don’t really know that well. So we cover the usual topics of family, work history, holidays and then she asks what I do...
Continue reading...Holiday Posts – Guests?
I’m taking some time off work the week starting the 7th of October and starting to forward post more to ensure that there is content ready for publication during that week as we’re having a family holiday.I have couple of posts already done but whilst I was writing the third...
Continue reading...Gaming Group Dynamics
Gaming Groups come in various flavours and many gamers are members of multiple groups at the same time. As your gaming evolves so does your group dynamic and I wanted to explore those a little here. Established “Static” GroupThis is often the group that people first find themselves in. Also...
Continue reading...Conventions: What do you want?
I can’t really speak to what makes a good gaming convention as I’ve only attended 3 different named conventions. One of those conventions I’ve attended on multiple occasions although it has changed a bit each time I’ve gone. I know why I attend conventions but that’s not the purpose of...
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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...
Continue reading...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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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...
Continue reading...50 Days Later…
So this is post number 51 on this blog. The 50 daily posts that precede this one cover various parts of my opinion on the hobby and some insight into my hobby of gaming. I started the blog for a number of reasons that I’ve touched on over those 50...
Continue reading...Plan for a plan…
In the world of Project Management there’s a phrase that normally sends shivers down my spine. Actually there are MANY such phrases but the one I’m referring to here is “Plan for a plan”. Essentially this means that you can’t build a full project plan so you build a skeleton...
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