After months of anticipation Grogmeet was over and done in a flash, but as usual it was utterly brilliant, a great opportunity to hang out with the many gaming friends I have made over the last few years. Thursday My weekend started on the Thursday when I picked up my mate @Corsair1973 from Liverpool (he'd … Continue reading Grogmeet 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
Spoiler alert: if you plan to play The Evils of Illmire don’t read this! So this is it... the last session report of our The Evils of Illmire campaign which has been running for well over 12 months and 35+ sessions. When I started preparing for the campaign earlier in 2020 I knew The Evils of Illmire … Continue reading The Evils of Illmire: This is the End… or is it?
Spoiler alert: if you plan to play The Evils of Illmire don’t read this! Here's another bumper set of the last two sessions of The Evils of Illmire written up by @Dragongirl74, thanks for these amazingly detailed notes. Deciding that the cult needs to be taken down, no matter the cost, our heroes leaving the fungal caverns, … Continue reading The Evils of Illmire: The Lair of the Nightmare Cult
Spoiler alert: if you plan to play The Evils of Illmire don’t read this! Once more I have to thank @Dragongirl74 for keeping such detailed and brilliant session notes for our group. Here is a bumper set covering our last two sessions. The blades the giant undead hold are quite archaic, they must have lain here in … Continue reading The Evils of Illmire: A Shortcut to Fungi
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
Spoiler alert: if you plan to play The Evils of Illmire don’t read this! @Dragongirl74 is really turning out these session reports, this one brings everything up to date as the party explore and ponder on the nature of the Forgotten Crypt of the Lost Clan. The room is full of dark shapes whose baleful stares turn … Continue reading The Evils of Illmire: A Drudge of Skeletons*
Spoiler alert: if you plan to play The Evils of Illmire don’t read this! Once more my players have stepped up and provided notes for the last couple of The Evils of Illmire sessions. First we have a letter from the front style report by @JimjimTheGrim, sent from his character Anistor to Lord Crellmont in Illmire. The … Continue reading The Evils of Illmire: The Forgotten Crypt
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