2026 Reading Challenge 6 The Big Sleep
As part of The Grognard Files Book Club, I’d re-jigged my schedule to line up this book with that meeting. If you’re interested, you can join too. Click the...
The King of Santa Fe Session Twelve
Sheriff Fletcher bursts into the clearing, “We got trouble! Them Ross boys are armed and ready to burn Steaming Rock to the ground unless someone's swinging...
Dice on the Borderlands 2026 Review
After missing the inaugural DotB in 2024, I made up for it in 2025 and vowed to return in 2026. To summarise, it’s rolling dice in a real castle, Chepstow...
2026 Reading Challenge 5 The Lawless Roads
I got to Graham Greene’s book via Tim Butcher’s Blood River; he’d mentioned it as inspiration, and I’d been so immersed in Blood River that I picked it up...
The King of Santa Fe Session Eleven
The investigation into the death of Howard Ross continues. Given a last minute switch meant that Pinkie and Silas went to meet Ross and that these boys work...
2026 Reading Challenge 4 The Water Knife
I’m a big fan of The Windup Girl and Paolo’s short stories in the same universe. The Water Knife is mightily prescient; at its heart, desperate misfits try...
The King of Santa Fe Session Ten
Sheriff Fletcher calls Cody in; he needs Cody to take a lead on this missing person. He needs an answer to where Howard Ross has gone. Fletcher passes over...
The King of Santa Fe Session Nine
We join our party as they look to get paid after delivering the body of a dead bounty hunter to Ellis Rockcliffe. But paid by whom? Actually, Hubb McGraw, on...
The King of Santa Fe Session Eight
We’ve made it to Silver City and met with undertaker Gus McLeary to arrange the transfer of the body of Thomas Vance back to Steaming Rock. Whilst there, it...
GrogLove 2026 Review
It comes around so soon and is all the better for that. GrogLove is one half of GrogL, the other being GrogLaw. A TTRPG convention organised in London by...
The King of Sante Fe Session Seven
When we left the party, they’d rescued Goyan and her family and killed one of the varmints, with another high-tailing it from the scene of the crime....
2026 Reading Challenge 3 Some Japanese Ghosts
Lafcadio Hearn was a 19th century interpreter of Japanese language and culture. He arrived in Japan during the Meiji era when the country was modernising...
The King of Santa Fe Session Six
Halfway to Silver City and the party has committed to young Apache Góyąń to find her parents and, if needed, rescue them. Góyąń Winston tracks two on foot...
2026 Reading Challenge 2 The Bat
Inspired by the release of Paul Baldowski’s Nordic Noir RPG Cörk Børd, I decided to delve into the start of the Harry Hole series. So Scandi Noir, it’s...
2026 Reading Challenge 1 The One Hand & The Six Fingers
I’m back. A new reading challenge, I’m being softer on myself this time, just 26 books in 2026, so one every two weeks and maybe a review. Oh plus audiobooks...
Grogmeet 2026
A new Grogmeet and the first at the Brickhouse Social. I’d missed 2025, adjusting to the new Jan slot, post Christmas, winter weather, but put in the...
The King of Sante Fe Session Five
The party is travelling south, a 100-mile trip from Steaming Rock to Silver City, to pick up a corpse and belongings. But first, they have to navigate the...
2025 TTRPG: The Road Travelled
Welcome to 2026. I hope the holidays have treated you well. So, on to a look back at my gaming in 2025. Dicing in 2025 Firstly, most of my Gaming took place...
The King of Santa Fe Session Four
Last session saw Winston gunned down in the street, but he survived, and the New Mexico Mercantile Cooperative (NMMC) retreated for now. So what next for the...
The King of Sante Fe Session Three
Please note SPOILERS will follow Founder’s Day was supposed to be a day of celebration, Steaming Rock’s premier family day out, but Howard Ross, of the New...
