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...
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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...A look back at 2018 & 2019 and a look forward at 2020.
I skipped the whole of 2018 and 2019 from this blog and I feel kinda bad about that. Not hugely bad because both years were excellent in hobby terms but still kinda bad as I had plans for this thing. So how do I summarise the last 2 years in...
Continue reading...2018 is on the horizon and it’s going to be a busy year…
So as ever I’ve not posted here for some time. Why now? Well this remains my primary “brain dump” source for what’s going through my head hobby wise. I do brain dumps less and less these days because I have a number of other channels in which to do that...
Continue reading...RPG Pre-Conditions and Self Limitations
So way back when I started this blog I kicked it off with a post called “I’m Dave and I’m a Roleplayer” and I proceeded to talk about the rediscovery of what I wanted my hobby to be. Since then I’ve managed to rediscover my hobby and I’ve achieved some...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...One Small Step For A Meeple…
One Giant Leap For Meeple-kind? Not quite. I realise I’ve slipped into another “no update” zone with the blog which I can only apologise profusely for. Other than work, family and of course gaming I’ve not really had any real time to spend on the blog. So a quick update...
Continue reading...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...
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