Has it really been a year since OBaWs 2021? This one seemed to come around quickly, I guess that's just life being busy with post-covid normality. The drive to Leamington Spa took a little longer than anticipated, but I reached to the Royal Pug, greeted by friendly grognards and more as the evening went on. … Continue reading Owlbear and Wizards Staff Con 2022
What a build up, what a sense of excitement, the first proper Expo since 2019! With the two games I was running prepped and ready to run, my checklist fully checked (I do lists for pretty much everything), hotel and parking tickets printed and bags packed I was good to go. Expo offers a lot … Continue reading UK Games Expo 2022: Good to be back!
A lot has happened in the three years since the original The One Ring Roadtrip in 2019. It should have been an annual event and we had got as far as booking a cottage for the 2020 event when that bastard Covid hit. It seems strange looking back, but at the time we thought there … Continue reading The One Ring Roadtrip 2022: The Scouring of the Herefordshire
You've heard it all before... "can't wait for this", "more excited than a kid on Christmas eve", "will be brilliant to catch up with people". But this time every sentiment like this carried the hopes of Grognards everywhere. Missing the face to face Grogmeet in 2020, we were desperate for this one, we needed our … Continue reading Grogmeat 2021, the meatiest yet
In the lead up to #OBaWS I was expecting something to go wrong; we'd go into another lockdown or I'd test positive for Covid. It was with true joy and relief that a couple of weekends ago I arrived in Leamington Spa and walked from my digs to meet fellow Grognards at the Royal Pug, … Continue reading Owlbear and Wizard’s Staff Con 2021
With UK Games Expo going ahead in a limited format and still having quite a few reservations about attending events, I got together with good friends @davepaters @OrlanthR and @TonyLayter for a weekend of gaming, boozing, eating and game spending... The weekend started for me on Thursday 29th, picked up by long time gaming pal … Continue reading Expo Gaming Weekend 2021
The last year has been awash with fantastic online RPG events, but both Grogmeet and Virtual Grogmeet stand out, not just for the quality and range of games on offer but also for the extras - the pub quiz and traditional Sunday morning celebrity interview. Here's how it went down for me this April. The … Continue reading Virtual Grogmeet
Spoiler alert: if you plan to play The Evils of Illmire, don’t read this! After defeating the cultists in the Temple of the Luminal star the PCs deal with the villagers in the temple who were infected with mindphage worms, forcibly extracting them when necessary. As before none of the villagers recall recent eventsWorried that Birella and … Continue reading The Evils of Illmire: Fearspawn Killers
It is with a warm afterglow and a mild sense of relief that BurritoCon6 has been and gone and by all accounts everyone involved had a great time. At over 70 participants it was the biggest BurritoCon yet - the first was a face to face event back in 2018 with about 20 attendees, and … Continue reading Bye bye BurritoCon6
Thanks to everyone who has registered to play at BurritoCon6 and of course to the GMs who have offered their time to run these brilliant games. I wanted to ensure most players would get onto one of the games they wanted and have been mostly successful; for the few that haven't I hope you will … Continue reading BurritoCon6 Game Allocation
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