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...
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A New Podcast is born – End The Turn
So as with my post on Roll Against Cancer (hopefully have shareable news on that soon) I have another one of my revised Hobby Objectives to update you all on. This time it’s More Involved. Tomorrow at roughly 6pm UK time a new podcast will launch. End The Turn is...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo 2016 – Teaching with Games Seminar
So the seminar was billed as – “How are games used to teach and learn? Games Jams, boardgames sessions and design are increasingly used in universities around the UK to help the next generation of games developers explore gaming. Come and find out how games help us learn, what academics...
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- 16/06/2016
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RPG Life UK
So a while back I stumbled upon a Twitter chat using the hashtag #RPGLifeUK Curiousity got the better (?) of me and I started to interact with the chat and found myself amongst fellow hobbyists with a particular interest in Roleplaying Games. Now that’s not really a surprise. What...
Continue reading...RPG A Day 2015 – Day Thirteen
Favourite RPG Podcast. Ok so this one is tricky as I don’t actually listen to podcasts of any form any more. That said about 7 or 8 years ago (need to check that!) I was listening to lots and lots of podcasts although not all of them were RPG related....
Continue reading...Hobby PR
So I was contacted recently by the Aberdeen Press & Journal about them wanting to run a feature on the local scene for games like Dungeons & Dragons in their paper. I’ll let you digest that for a minute… So I’ve previously reflected on media coverage of the hobby and...
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- 27/12/2014
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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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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...
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