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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Gen Con – My Itinerary (The Sunday)
All good things… Whilst Gen Con comes to an end on the Sunday my trip to Gen Con doesn’t as we don’t fly back until the Monday. So what does the Sunday have in store for me? Not a lot (of events). The list is short because Gen Con essentially...
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- 08/08/2014
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Gen Con – My Itinerary (The Saturday)
I hope you’ve all recovered from the last post not being about Gen Con.I could have put Gen Con references in it as after all it’s about posting daily about RPGs in August which is when Gen Con happens but I decided to make it all about RPGaDay instead. Anyway,...
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- 03/08/2014
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Gen Con – My Itinerary (The Friday)
Before I continue with the perfect guide to stalking me at Gen Con I need to reflect back on my post for the Wednesday. One of the events that I planned to attend has been cancelled – Every School Should Have a Games Club. This made me sad as I was...
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- 02/08/2014
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Gen Con – My Itinerary (The Thursday)
So almost 2 weeks ago (really?!) I posted about the Wednesday at Gen Con. It’s now 3 weeks til we fly out to Gen Con and my excitement level increases on a daily basis. Unfortunately it also means that I’m working harder and thus having less time to create content...
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- 22/07/2014
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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...
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- 02/04/2014
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A Late Entry – D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge (Part 2)
A continuation from the previous post of what was supposed to be a Daily Posting challenge for February. Day 15: What was the first edition you didn’t enjoy. Why?AD&D 2nd Edition. Multiple reasons. I bought it when I wasn’t really gaming and tried to use it to reinvigorate my hobby....
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So I totally missed this (and the follow up which will be subsequent posts!). The D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge was (from what I can see) set up by Stelios V. Perdious who is the author of the d20 Dark Ages blog. The intent of this challenge was to...
Continue reading...Why D&D Next is important.
So Wizards have confirmed that D&D Next / 5th Edition will be released in the Summer of 2014 which is usually code for “around the time of GenCon”. Why is this important though? If you look at the D&D “family” of games you can see that these still account for...
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As I’ve posted previously me and horror don’t really work that well together and given that this post is going out on Halloween I felt I should post something with the word Horror in the title. This post could so easily have been about horror stories of games that have...
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- 31/10/2013
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