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  • 2024

    2024

    A new year with a new gaming agenda. I don’t do resolutions — this is more of a general to-do list. More Games – Other Peoples’ It feels like a very long time ago that I spent most of my time at conventions running games. While I haven’t stopped, as smaller cons don’t require my full…

  • Elements of Procedure

    Elements of Procedure

    I am a huge fan of the P J Hammond classic Sapphire and Steel (Amazon UK) series of the late 70s/early 80s, so my discovery of Elements of Procedure, on DriveThruRPG, was very welcome. By way of caveat, I believe the game is not final yet, but everything I write below follows multiple read-throughs of…

  • Favourite Convention Purchase – RPGaDay 2023

    Favourite Convention Purchase – RPGaDay 2023

    The original question was: Favourite Convention Purchase In what I suspect was 2005, I went to a gaming convention in Cambridge. At the time, I was freelancing on PARANOIA XP and working on The Underplex, which was one of the reasons that I attend this event loosely in the company of Allen Varney. He was…

  • Where Have You Run This Game – RPGaDay 2022

    Where Have You Run This Game – RPGaDay 2022

    The question is: What situation is your character currently in? As mentioned in the last post, I don’t have a current character. So, I thought I would repurpose this week’s questions to be about a game project, Divided Horizons. So, the question is: Where Have You Run This Game? Conventions. The opportunity to run a…

  • Where to Host a First Game – RPGaDay 2022

    Where to Host a First Game – RPGaDay 2022

    The question is: Where would you host a first game? I personally enjoy the freedom of running at a convention. It might not be ideal — as it can be noisy, disrupted and heaped with added pressures for everyone who hasn’t met before — but it does provide a chance to play brand new games, experience new…

  • Blocks, Cookies and the King of Spain

    Blocks, Cookies and the King of Spain

    For me, attending UK Games Expo in the past has meant preparing and running five or six games – and probably misjudging that prep until the last moment. This year I chose to run only three games and opted to focus on adventures – or, at least, set-ups – that I have run before. For…

  • Don’t Pity Him

    I suspect B.A. would pity me for my shoddy respect of his fighting skills. You can only really appreciate that you’ve done something wrong when you test it in anger – and I can see after a couple of sessions that I haven’t figured B.A. Baracus out right. It isn’t a problem – indeed, I…

  • Quick Doctor Who Characters

    I’m running one or more convention games of Doctor Who (from Cubicle 7) over the next few months, starting with this coming weekend. This past weekend, I finished creating a set of “pre-generated” character cards for the game. Essentially, they’re not complete characters by any measure – just enough to get through a session. While I could…

  • The Importance of Being Urgent

    I’d say we have about two weeks before UK Games Expo. By that estimate, I have a mere 336 hours or so to spend panicking. It shouldn’t be that way. I mean, I have seen this coming for some time now. I have no excuse. The adventures were submitted a long time ago. All five of…