So it’s been 67 days since I posted. What’s changed? Well in many ways, not a lot. In other ways, quite a bit. Conventions – The catalogue of convention cancellations has grown exponentially with essentially everything from mid-March onwards being cancelled. Greg and I had already decided to cancel our...
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Day 81 of Year 2020…
2020 huh. The year of the Critical Hit etc etc. It’s certainly going to be one for the history books for the saddest of reasons. The next few months are going to be really challenging for everyone and I hope you’re all keeping safe and staying well. I’d like to...
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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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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,...
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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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Community Engagement
So you’re part of / organise a community of gamers and want to increase the profile of your community or indeed you’re a game store owner who wants to reach a new audience. How do you do that exactly? I related in a previous post about Growing The Dice Pool...
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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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Gaming at a Beer Festival
So I’m going to a craft beer festival – Cambolicious – on Saturday 8th November and I’m taking games with me to play with people I know and hopefully introduce some games to complete strangers. Given it’s a beer festival and the focus is on the beer I’m not looking...
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- 28/10/2014
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DMing Lost Mine of Phandelver
So I’ve finally got round to running a game of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Specifically I’ve started running Lost Mine of Phandelver. This is the scenario that comes with the Starter Set and I’ve chosen it for a number of reasons. None of the players have played it. It’s...
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- 23/10/2014
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