As I said in my recent post about Game Time I attend a club on a Friday night to play games. In a conversation with a friend about the post we got onto the topic of me organising a club or something a bit more local to me to see...
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Expansive Gaming
Expansions are a big part of the hobby. For every board, card, role and war game that’s published there’s likely an expansion that goes along with it. Not a 100% situation obviously but it’s likely counter-balanced by some games which have multiple expansions. So what does an expansion bring to...
Continue reading...Lords Of Waterdeep
I picked up Lords Of Waterdeep on a recent visit to my FLGS. I had planned to buy it when it first came out but it was too early in my journey into the 2nd Chapter so I ruled it out. When I learned that the expansion Scoundrels of Skullport was...
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- 10/09/2013
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Game Time
As with any hobby, tabletop games require an investment of time to play them and if I’ve noticed anything as the years have gone on I have less and less game time available. In my teens and early 20s I could get away with gaming practically every night of the...
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- 09/09/2013
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The RPG Experience
I’ve referred to this in a previous post about RPGs as that style of play choice which exists between a campaign and the “one and done” scenario. What makes that choice for you and what are the reasons to choose one over another? Campaign PlayThis exists in a number of...
Continue reading...Gateway Games?
As a “category” I’m not really that keen on the term Gateway Game. Yes there are games out there that are great for introducing “the hobby” to non-gamers but at the same time there are, especially now, almost too many games that are seen as “Gateway Games”. That aside I...
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- 07/09/2013
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Numenera – For me?
I was in my FLGS the other day to pick up some stuff (future post will reveal) and I spotted a copy of Numenera on the shelf. Now I mentioned Numenera in my post on New RPGs for GenCon but didn’t really go into my thoughts about the game. Some background...
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- 06/09/2013
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Using Character Motivations
About 8 years ago I had an idea for a “one and done” scenario set in the Antarctic named “Polar Light”. It used the All Flesh Must Be Eaten ruleset but it could just as easily have used Savage Worlds or indeed d20 Modern (remember that?). I chose All Flesh...
Continue reading...50 Days Later…
So this is post number 51 on this blog. The 50 daily posts that precede this one cover various parts of my opinion on the hobby and some insight into my hobby of gaming. I started the blog for a number of reasons that I’ve touched on over those 50...
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- 04/09/2013
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August’s Gaming – A look back.
My gaming time is exclusively Friday nights at the moment. During August I managed to play the following games over 3 sessions of gaming. The Resistance twice.Played it wrong the first time (which seems to be a pattern!) but got it mostly right the second time.Excellent game and definitely has...
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- 03/09/2013
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