This is really just a long list of STUFF that I’ve perused on a variety of websites listing what’s coming out at Gen Con. Some of this will actually be bought and some of this will simply be looked at and drooling will commence. I’m going to fail to stick...
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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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Charity fundraising…
Many many years ago (it was either 1991 or 1989, not sure) I took part in a 24 hour RPG event to raise money for Red Nose Day. Throughout the KoA days we had a modest but consistent charitable donation plan focussed around cancer charities such as MacMillan Cancer Support....
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- 18/06/2014
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Tabletop Tech
So, I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 + Bluetooth keyboard that doubles as a hard case for it. The main reason for this sounds a bit silly and a bit of an extravagance but…I wanted a tablet which I could take to Gen Con with me so that I...
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- 14/06/2014
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Gen Con 2014 – Event Booking
Given the experience of booking accommodation that we had for Gen Con I felt I should do one on the Event Booking. This was a multi step process – What To Do? The event catalogue is a monstrous spreadsheet (that could do with some data refinement but that’s me being...
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- 08/06/2014
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Frankenstein’s Bodies – A Demo At Conpulsion
The gaming highlight of Conpulsion for me was taking part in the “Kickstarter Launch” demo of Frankenstein’s Bodies. Ok so it was also the only game I actually played but it was still the gaming highlight! After all if I hadn’t enjoyed it then it wouldn’t have been a highlight,...
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- 30/04/2014
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Conpulsion 2014 – The positives.
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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- 29/04/2014
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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...
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