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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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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RPGs in Scotland and New Gamemaster Month
I started 2021 with a few notions in the back of my head about what I wanted to achieve this year I referred to some of those in my end of 2020 post. Mostly my hobby goal is to enjoy my hobby as much as I can whilst also introducing...
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What, a post so soon? It’s Day 1 of 2021 but I’m not using that naming convention for these blog posts anymore. I mentioned in my end of year post about potentially publishing content for games other than D&D. Whilst doing some reading of the other Community Content Programmes on...
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...
Continue reading...Day 81 of Year 2020…
2020 huh. The year of the Critical Hit etc etc. It’s certainly going to be one for the history books for the saddest of reasons. The next few months are going to be really challenging for everyone and I hope you’re all keeping safe and staying well. I’d like to...
Continue reading...GenCon 2020 – The Prep…
Flights – Booked Accommodation – Booked Tickets – Booked So pretty much sorted then? Logistics wise yeah largely there. What comes next is figuring out what I’ll be doing when there. Events wise there’s a LOT to choose from. Event booking goes live on Sunday 17th May and based on...
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- 29/01/2020
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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...
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