As per a previous post I signed up to take part in the Storytelling Collective‘s RPG adventure writing workshop during July, this time opting to write for Call of Cthulhu after previously writing a DMsGuild module – Unsettled Ground. I wanted to capture some of the thinking that went into The...
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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....
Continue reading...Call of Cthulhu – RPG Writer Workshop Summer 2021
After doing the RPG Writer Workshop in November 2020 and producing Unsettled Ground on DMsGuild, I came into 2021 with grand plans to produce more. Those plans haven’t turned into outputs and it’s in part down to the usual “spinning too many plates” but it’s probably as much due to...
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Since my last post I’ve done a few things. Running & Playing Ran session two of Midnight Sub Rosa for Pelgrane Press’ Trail of Cthulhu. As someone who likes a visual reference both as a GM and a player I decided to make a “map” of sorts for one of the...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...Community Content Publishing (OneBookShelf)
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 335 of Year 2020…
So it’s been 3 days since I last posted here. That’s got to be the shortest time between posts for a LONG time! So what’s happened? My adventure, Unsettled Ground, has been published on DMsGuild! Exciting! Not only that, but people are buying it!
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...
Continue reading...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...
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