A continuation from the previous post of what was supposed to be a Daily Posting challenge for February. Day 15: What was the first edition you didn’t enjoy. Why?AD&D 2nd Edition. Multiple reasons. I bought it when I wasn’t really gaming and tried to use it to reinvigorate my hobby....
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A Late Entry – D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge (Part 1)
So I totally missed this (and the follow up which will be subsequent posts!). The D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge was (from what I can see) set up by Stelios V. Perdious who is the author of the d20 Dark Ages blog. The intent of this challenge was to...
Continue reading...GenCon 2014 – The Detail (So far!)
I had planned to do these as different posts but in the interest of actually making a post alongside the interest of there being other things I want to blog I’m going to condense all of this together. More after this break!1) The booking experience.Gen Con Tickets – that was...
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- 14/03/2014
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GenCon 2014 – The planning.
So as I said in my Tumbleweed post – tickets, accommodation and travel for Gen Con Indy are all booked. What I plan to do in the next few posts (which might not be consecutive) is cover off some of the planning I’ve done and will be doing in the...
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- 23/02/2014
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Alpha Strike After Thoughts
So on Friday 10th January I played Alpha Strike for the first time. Tonight I expect to play it for the second time. What worked? I bought it on the premise of it being a simplified and distilled rule set that enabled me to play Battletech on a Friday night....
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- 21/02/2014
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Tumbleweed (1d4-1 damage)
It’s been almost a month since my last post. Jeez. Sorry about that folks. A number of things conspired against me but mostly it was down to work consuming more and more of my time. Brief run down on what’s been happening – International Tabletop Day – As mentioned...
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- 18/02/2014
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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...Battletech: Alpha Strike
Way way back at the beginning of this blog I posted about Battletech. As I said back then I tried playing the full (well Introductory Set) rules and it didn’t quite work for me. That aside the universe and the idea of playing with giant robot mechs (I’m a boy after...
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- 02/01/2014
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That 2014 Look Ahead Post
A blog like this wouldn’t be a proper blog without taking a look at the year ahead and making some bold commitments. So what does 2014 look like from here? Game Time It looks like I’ll largely continue where 2013 left off when it comes to game time. I want...
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- 31/12/2013
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