Aug 24, 2009

Exp: With the enthusiastic assistance of Dizzy, Dave and humbug leave a bewildered Shane in the dust reminiscing about the Fighting Fantasy game-books of yore. Features:

• Archetypal something
• Use of your own judgment
• The abandonment of reason
• Little cube things
• Adventurers from another world
• Skill, stamina and...

Aug 18, 2009

Per: Shane, Dave and Oisín are joined by veteran rubber-sword LARPer Brian (not that Oisín isn't a veteran in his own right) to introduce us to the magical world of rubber-sword LARPing in general, the Lorien Trust in particular and The Gathering specifically. It's a long one (fnar fnar) but very informative and...

Aug 11, 2009

NPC Exp: Further somewhat obscure board war game antics in the bag, Tom and Dizzy return to tell Shane, humbug, Dave and YOU about Command & Colours: Ancients and Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, where players do battle over the colour purple. Apologies for lots of background noise, caused by constant fiddling with game...

Aug 4, 2009

Downtime: With limited knowledge of historical wargaming, Shane, Liam, humbug and Oisín embark upon a rambling but ultimately productive discussion of using historical, quasi-historical and half-quasi-historical time periods in role-playing games. Features:

• Boring learning
• Weird Wars
• Deadlands
• History with...