Having just spent the weekend at Conpulsion 2014 in Edinburgh and having very mixed emotions and a wide range of thoughts I felt it best to compartmentalise those various elements and do a series of posts. This is the first of those posts. So, the positives. Actually before we dig into...
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The first East Neuk Tabletop Games session.
I should have done this post on April the 13th itself but unfortunately it’s taken til now for me to get around to it! So on Sunday April the 13th, Alan (+donjondo) and I hosted the first of hopefully many events under the banner of East Neuk Tabletop Games. So how...
Continue reading...First there was an ORC then a DWARF. Now there’s an ENT.
Ok so that post title needs an explanation… When I moved from Glasgow to the East Neuk of Fife I had a bit of a purge of my gaming collection with the expectation that if I was to get back into gaming I was start anew. The first breakthrough I...
Continue reading...Tabletop Day 2014 @ DWARF in Dunfermline
So this Saturday is Tabletop Day. If you’re not sure where to go and take part in one of the many thousands of events to celebrate our hobby then go to the Tabletop Day website and find out where your nearest one is. If that happens to be Dunfermline in...
Continue reading...International Tabletop Day
So I’ve mentioned Tabletop on here before. Last year on March 30th the first International Tabletop Day was held and in the UK it was all a bit of a rush. This was no fault of the team behind Tabletop, more a victim of it’s success than anything else. For...
Continue reading...Still gaming
I’ve had no time to post but still gaming so thought I’d share some of the games I’ve played recently. Dread Curse – A pirate themed game where the players take on various roles on the pirate ship. Objective is to have the largest hoard of gold at the end...
Continue reading...Questions – When do people play games?
And we’re back! What did I miss? Nothing? Really? Oh well… I’ve only got 1 more post to make on the revisiting the questions before I return this broadcast to your usual content. When do people play games? In the previous post on this subject I focussed on the length...
Continue reading...Questions – Where do people play games?
Continuing the theme of re-asking the questions I’ve come to a revisit of this post on where to play games. I focussed a bit too heavily on the FLGS side in that earlier post and I think in this post I want to focus on the majority of gamers that are...
Continue reading...Questions – Who to play with?
This goes back to my previous posts about community and how you find other like minded gamers. If your search for people who play the same games as you is starting completely from scratch then the best routes that I’ve found are – Internet search for clubs – you shouldn’t...
Continue reading...Online Communities
Pre-Facebook/Google+ etc online tabletop communities tended to be based around forums. Those communities are still very vibrant today and tend to be the best “hub” for activity on discussing your hobby online. In the past I’ve used sites like ENWorld and RPG.net in the main really down to my RPG...
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