It’s been a year of mixed fortunes, and one I’m both glad and sad to have ended. Gaming highlights: I went to UK Games Expo, Gen Con, hosted Tabletop Scotland, ran lots of games, published Horror in the Highlands, got back into board gaming at East Neuk Tabletop, and went...
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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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I need to stop stopping this thing and instead need to keep keeping it. So over on End The Turn we’ve launched a few episodes and posted a number of reviews. We’ve not had much feedback on how we’re doing so please give us feedback. We’d love it. Even if...
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At least for now. I’ve kinda drifted away from the blog for a while. I’d say it’s been the best part of a year since I really blogged anything of note. So why am I back? I suppose you could call it a checkpoint or perhaps something more fundamental than...
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So I’ve spoke about changing how I engage with my hobby and that has a number of facets which I’m going to break down over several posts to provide greater detail than I would in 1 post. Some of this is more “the hobby” focussed and is both aspirational and...
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2014 has been full of highs in relation to my hobby and how I explore it. There are some low points but those are heavily out weighted by the high points. My continuing attendance at DWARF is a high point albeit there were times when that attendance was infrequent. In...
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I’ve completely lost track of this hence why I’ve not done an updated post on the value assessment of my hobby. Plus as I said in my last post there are some games which on the value scale just haven’t earned their position to stay in my collection. So there’s...
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I’m going to do a few posts on my experience at Gen Con but I thought I’d do a quick one on what I actually bought. It’s safe to say that I bought a lot of stuff… That pile doesn’t include any of the 12 (yes twelve) t-shirts that I...
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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...
Continue reading...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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