Not that I’m encouraging any would be stalkers or anything but… With Gen Con less than 5 weeks away (how did that happen?!!??) the event booking system has gone into lock down with respect to returning tickets so my itinerary is pretty much as done as it can be. So,...
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Building a Tabletop Games Convention
This post has changed format a couple of times in the past few weeks largely down to technical issues (not the fault of my new tablet I’m sure!). Anyway, I’ve had some feedback on my recent posts (more wanted) on what constitutes a tabletop games convention and the current position...
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- 29/06/2014
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The Scottish Tabletop Games Convention Scene
Off the back of my post(s) about Conpulsion and indeed the multiple references to conventions throughout the blog of late I figured I should share my thoughts on “The Scottish Tabletop Games Convention Scene”. To do that I need to be clear about what I mean when I say Tabletop...
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- 12/06/2014
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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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International Tabletop Day
So I’ve mentioned Tabletop on here before. Last year on March 30th the first International Tabletop Day was held and in the UK it was all a bit of a rush. This was no fault of the team behind Tabletop, more a victim of it’s success than anything else. For...
Continue reading...Reflections
In my post on why D&D Next is important I talked about the strength that the brand of D&D brings to the RPG format of the hobby, indeed perhaps to the hobby as a whole. Evolving that thinking a bit further the question of Media Coverage comes to mind and...
Continue reading...Navigating the Barriers
Whilst perusing the blogosphere lately I’ve either struck on a pattern forming or at very least I’ve found some blog posts that resonate with where my head is at with the hobby. It’s probably the latter really and the nature of my Google-fu. Over on Plaid Hat Games there was...
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- 28/12/2013
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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...
Continue reading...Questions – When do people play games?
And we’re back! What did I miss? Nothing? Really? Oh well… I’ve only got 1 more post to make on the revisiting the questions before I return this broadcast to your usual content. When do people play games? In the previous post on this subject I focussed on the length...
Continue reading...Questions – Where do people play games?
Continuing the theme of re-asking the questions I’ve come to a revisit of this post on where to play games. I focussed a bit too heavily on the FLGS side in that earlier post and I think in this post I want to focus on the majority of gamers that are...
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