As part of my revised hobby objectives I set out to be more involved in the hobby at large and to organise events. Roll Against Cancer does both of these. I’ve been involved in charity events in the past, mostly during the 1st Chapter but also through events at DWARF...
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UK Games Expo 2016 – RPGLifeUK TweetUp
As per my previous post about RPG Life UK I met up with some twitter folks to talk about RPGs and other stuff. Tweetup Part 1 – Hilton Thursday 8pm For something that was largely a random collection of twitter folks this went better than it probably should have. Ok,...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo 2016 – Summary Thoughts
Summary I had fun, met some great people, played some great games, bought some games, drank beer (some good, some not) and all in all had a great time. Highlights Travel there and back went smoothly. No real delays and we made good time despite some crazy drivers on the...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo 2015 – Part 4
Of course after commenting in the last post about using the word Two rather than the number 2 I forgot to append the year onto the post. Argh! Anyway, there’s a convention report to wrap up! UK Games Expo 2015 – Day Three So the Sunday morning wasn’t as bad...
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- 27/06/2015
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UK Games Expo – Part 3
I realised after posting Part Two (rather than 2) that I’d used the word rather than the number. Completely unplanned as that was it reminds me how out of the habit of this blogging I am. Anyway, onto matters more pressing. UK Games Expo – Day Two The hordes descend…...
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- 22/06/2015
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UK Games Expo 2015 – Part Two
UK Games Expo – Day One Let the con begin!We had planned to meet for breakfast but we all failed miserably at meeting at the same time. Perils of my body clock meant I woke up at 5am but fortunately I was able to get back to sleep.Breakfast (and parking...
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- 11/06/2015
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UK Games Expo 2015 – Part 1
So after Gen Con last year I decided that 2015 would be the year I went to UK Games Expo. Not since the days of Gen Con UK has the UK had a suitable equivalent to the big convention that North American and indeed other countries have had available to...
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- 09/06/2015
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Games aren’t just for kids, but should be for them too.
So I’ve been busy the past couple of months which has resulted in no updates to this blog (ironically another post to come on that). What have I been busy with? Well it turns out one of my planned themes for a post (this post’s title) turned out to be...
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- 06/04/2015
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Hobby PR
So I was contacted recently by the Aberdeen Press & Journal about them wanting to run a feature on the local scene for games like Dungeons & Dragons in their paper. I’ll let you digest that for a minute… So I’ve previously reflected on media coverage of the hobby and...
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- 27/12/2014
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Golden Axe Award
So movies have the Oscars and the BAFTAs if you’re in the UK.Music has the Grammys, Mercury Music Award and other awards.Tabletop games have plenty of awards, not least of which is the Spiel des Jahres. Over at East Neuk Tabletop Games we’re not to be outdone by industry awards with...
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- 09/12/2014
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