I could have done with a couple more days of annual leave from work, but had to cut short the purely social time and just attend the main portion of the event. After a day fighting an unpleasant technical problem at work, I arrived home, transferred my luggage to the car and set off for the coast. A couple of hours of motorway night driving later and I was…

My experiences with Conception have been slightly odd. I first went last year, and managed to spent the con suffering from a cold (which rather spoiled my ability to enjoy the event). This year, the con was split across two sites. The usual areas we used for gaming in were being renovated during the week that we were supposed to be using the site…

About a year ago I took part in the filming of some pre-recorded video segments for a freeform live roleplay game called 12Light30. The players are responsible for guiding a group of mercenaries who are trying to capture a terrorist (naturally, things are complicated by the player characters have their own agendas). I helped run it at UK Games Expo earlier…

Last year I ran Heroes of the City more-or-less every day for a week in a campaign that spawned a 6000+ word actual play write up . Later this year, the group is getting back together to run Season 2 of that campaign. Suffice to say, I really like this system. The Bundle of Holding is currently selling the core game and a bunch of PDFs very cheaply (with…

EVE Online , along with many other video game RPGs, has a rather nice tool for designing your own character image. You can tweak hair, features, clothes and lots of other details. With a Star Wars game coming up, I thought it the ideal way to get some visual representation of my Rebel and his Imperial father. The latter was built by returning to the edit…

I wasn’t going to bother with 5th edition D & D. I glanced through the playtest materials and wasn’t really grabbed by them. Then the Internet started talking about it and praise was heaped high. When my FLGS announced it was going to start running Adventurers’ League , I was sold. Last night was character creation and Dark Sphere managed to fill three…