With the last Tabletop Scotland event being held in 2019 I had a feeling of apprehension coming into this year’s event. Not about attendance levels. Our pre-sales had blown the doors off 2019’s pre-sales. Not about whether people would have fun. Put gamers in front of games and that’s largely...
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Days and Weeks
This time next week I’ll be at Gen Con. Fly out on the morning of Tuesday 2nd August and then get home again on the 9th. Plus it’s less just over 4 weeks to Tabletop Scotland 2022. As I said in my previous post, I’m more than a little bit...
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- 27/07/2022
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Gen Con 2022 Event Booking
As I said in my recent post, I’m looking forward to Gen Con 2022. Flights, accommodation, tickets etc are all sorted. So the next step is to work out what I’m going to be doing for my best 4 days in gaming. Gen Con event booking is different to most conventions,...
Continue reading...Conventions (and ears) in 2022.
So, as with many things, attending conventions in 2022 have an element of hesitation about them. Many of us who go to multiple conventions per year can’t wait to get back to visiting them, whilst at the same time we’re all maybe a little bit apprehensive. So when this year...
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- 30/04/2022
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More RPGing + Board Games on the horizon?
2021 was a year of more roleplaying, 2022 looks similar but with regular board gaming hopefully on the horizon. I came into 2021 with a reasonable expectation that unless there was a significant improvement in all things COVID, I would continue to game exclusively online. That expectation became reality fairly...
Continue reading...AlbaCon 2021 is soon!
Last year AlbaCon raised over £3,100 for a Scottish charity, specifically for It’s Good 2 Give who provide amazing support to young cancer patients and their families. Ahead of last year’s event we had no idea whether people would come or indeed if people would pay to play RPGs....
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- 01/09/2021
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Onwards and upwards…
Since my last post I’ve done a few things. Running & Playing Ran session two of Midnight Sub Rosa for Pelgrane Press’ Trail of Cthulhu. As someone who likes a visual reference both as a GM and a player I decided to make a “map” of sorts for one of the...
Continue reading...Day 366 of Year 2020…
It has been 31 days since my last post and it also happens to be the last day of 2020. As far as leap years go, it has been a year full of challenge and no doubt many people will be keen for it to be over with as soon...
Continue reading...Day 332 of Year 2020…
So it’s been 184 days since I last posted here. Certainly some of the weirdest days most of us will have experienced and no doubt most of those days will have blurred into one another. So what’s happened? Conventions –After cancelling Tabletop Scotland 2020 I saw a slew of online...
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- 27/11/2020
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Day 148 of Year 2020…
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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