2022 Review

I many ways 2022 was an improvement on 2021 (see my 2021 Review). I started a new job which I quite like, I've spent lots of time with my family and friends and also got in a load of gaming, although quite a bit less that 2021 - I guess a sign of life returning … Continue reading 2022 Review →

2021 Review

I started 2021 believing it could only be better than 2020. On the gaming front there definitely was an improvement with a significant amount of face to face gaming, but life in general continued to be pretty lousy, including 5 months of furlough (ok, being paid not to work isn't too bad), redundancy, wrong step … Continue reading 2021 Review →

2020 Review

I guess any review has to begin with the resolutions I'd set out at the end of 2019. Despite the limitations caused by coronavirus I still had a good year of gaming, it just didn't go down the way I had expected. Like pretty much all resolutions, I knew I wouldn't meet them all, but … Continue reading 2020 Review →

My Old School Essentials

The more games I play the more I appreciate the simplicity and brilliance of OSE and B/X. For me it's a game that just works every time and does the job it's supposed to do. When I play modern games or more complex older games I find myself thinking about what OSE lacks and questioning … Continue reading My Old School Essentials →

2020 Gaming Plan

Last year I set out my gaming plans for 2019 - they were ambitious but open to change, and for the most part I followed them, getting to cons and running most of the games I had planned to. The games I didn't get to run were Black Blade of the Demon King and World … Continue reading 2020 Gaming Plan →

2019 Review

In preparation for this I was reading my review of 2018 - it showed a very busy game filled year. I'm pretty certain though that 2019 has been even busier, with more games, more cons, meeting more gamers, all great stuff. Once again Roll20 played a massive part in my gaming life, in fact apart … Continue reading 2019 Review →

The Lemurian Seven: Thoughts on BoL

Last Friday I started running Barbarians of Lemuria... it's a game that has been on my shelves for ages and I thought it would be worth a trying it out. I read the rules a couple of times (for it's 200+ pages BoL still feels like a light game) and had a plan to run … Continue reading The Lemurian Seven: Thoughts on BoL →

Better Than Any Man: The End and Closing Thoughts

Warning: BTAM serious game ruining spoilers ahead! Caught in a desperate and bloody combat inside the main entrance to Goblin Hill, the Black Dogs are scrapping with half a dozen masked and unarmed cultist Burgerfriedensmiliz who stand between them and the huge iron doors that lead outside and to freedom. The alarm has been raised … Continue reading Better Than Any Man: The End and Closing Thoughts →

2019 The Big Plan

At the conclusion of a highly satisfying 2018 of RPGing, it's time to give some thought to the next 365 days. Like all good agile plans this is likely to change and I'm quite happy to accomodate quite a bit of feature creep... Conventions Convergence (1st-3rd March, Stockport) - I'll probably only attend on the … Continue reading 2019 The Big Plan →

2018 Review

So much has happened over the last 12 months, it's really been a fantastic year for gaming, so many highlights and excellent regular games played with great gaming folk. I deliberated long and hard about the best way to present this; top 5 games, top events and so on, but in the end went for … Continue reading 2018 Review →