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RPGADAY2024 04
August 4, 2024
An RPG with Great Art. It’s been a long time coming but I have to put a shout-out to The Borellus Connection and Jen McCleary, but I could have added...
RPGADAY2024 03
August 3, 2024
Most Often Played RPG. Gumshoe for sure, but specifically it’s been The Yellow King RPG. I’ve run most of the published material and even started writing my...
RPGADAY2024 02
August 2, 2024
What is my Most Recently Played RPG? That’s easy, though I could have waited until tomorrow afternoon to make it Bees of the Invisible, but I’ll go with...
RPGADAY2024 01
August 1, 2024
I’m doing Autocratik’s RPGaDay 2024, see the link. Today the question is First RPG Brought this year?. Luckily Drive Thru RPG is my friend and I found out...
Pelicon Intensifies
July 28, 2024
It’s been oodles of hard work but we are less than a week away from the start of Pelicon 2024! Pelicon 2024 Pelicon 2024 is a “replacement” for Gen Con...
Degrees of Darkness
June 10, 2024
Degrees of Darkness After Session One of our Coriolis Mercy of the Icons campaign, I am now into double figures when it comes to Darkness Points. So what?...
Pelicon 2024
May 29, 2024
Pelicon 2024 is coming, 2-4 August 2024 After much discussion, negotiation and tirelessly typing into Warhorn, Pelicon 2024 is open for registration! Here...
All about the Benjamins
May 14, 2024
All about the Benjamins In which we finish off the Coriolis Great Dark quickstart and do a quick ponder on what was good, bad and ugly. Moon Ruin We’d left...
Delve into the Depths of my Jaded Heart
April 23, 2024
Coriolis The Great Dark First Thoughts A fun first session running through the Quickstart adventure, we managed to get through the surface interactions and...
Dahn Sarf
March 24, 2024
Dahn Sarf This UK TTRPG convention is the brainchild of Simon Barns, usually he's found dabbling with Dragon Warriors, but he's broadened he's oveure to take...
For the love of dog
March 19, 2024
For the Love of Dog Our Travelers left Littleville, continuing their Journey to the next Stop. Bruised, distraught, but feeling a spark of Hope, that light...
The Acid Test
March 5, 2024
The Acid Test Four on a road trip. Four in a car. Four feeling tension. But four share a destination. One in the rear dreaming of a world without Neuronics,...
Gumshoe and Pelgrane Virtual Con 2024, Part 4
March 4, 2024
Gumshoe and Pelgrane Virtual Con 2024, Part 4 Here we are on to the final games and some thoughts on how it went and what's next. So, to Fear Itself Mr....
Gumshoe and Pelgrane Virtual Con 2024, Part 3
February 26, 2024
Gumshoe and Pelgrane Virtual Con 2024, Part 3 We come to the final games and start with a cracker, Timewatch from Paul Baldowski, a scenario called Sink or...
Gumshoe and Pelgrane Virtual Con 2024, Part 2
February 24, 2024
Gumshoe and Pelgrane Virtual Con 2024, Part 2 Moving on to The Fall of Delta Green and Mr Fabio, a Raspy Raven regular GM pulled out all the accents for his...
GrogLove 2024
February 18, 2024
GrogLove 2024 GrogLove/Law comes around quicker than you think, but is now a UK con that is a regular for me, usually running twice a year in Feb and Oct,...
Gumshoe and Pelgrane Virtual Con 2024, Part 1
February 16, 2024
Gumshoe and Pelgrane Virtual Con 2024, Part 1 So it's all over, 11 games run over 12 days that featured a different GM for each game. We had around 70...
How to write an Esoterrorist Scenario the hard way
January 22, 2024
So you want to have some fun? Break out the big guns Here's a quick run-through of how I've put together my Esoterrorists scenario for a season of Gumshoe...
2024 McCfesto Part Three
January 3, 2024
2024 McCfesto Part Three (Community) Here we go, the final part of my plans/manifesto for 2024, this time we are looking at my Discord, The Raspy Raven, and...
2024 McCfesto Part Two
January 2, 2024
2024 McCfesto Part Two (Playing) Now we come on to what I want to play in 2024, this is a tough one, I get more enjoyment out of running games, but I still...
2024 McCfesto Part One
December 31, 2023
2024 McCfesto Part One Here we go for a Raspy Raven and jwmuk proposal of games to write, run and play, inspired in no small part by Neil oldscouserrping who...
2024 plans made to fail
December 22, 2023
So I've been filling in various tabletop roleplaying game 2024 lists... Gumshoe Season II Number one is planning for a Gumshoe Season of Tabletop Roleplaying...
Tuba Tales
December 13, 2023
So a second play-through of Fiasco, with tuba-playing Salvation Army members, gym bunnies, army buddies and a whole lot of gangs; Russian, Jewish and...
It's only just begun...
December 5, 2023
The time was upon us, Magda Klein of The Fulgurators had to be stopped. Only one person could convince Magda of her wrongs, Shiny Nick and so it was that...
Happiness is Laser Shaped
November 22, 2023
The troubleshooters head into SBR Sector to discover why citizens are unhappy. Happiness is mandatory citizen. Subscribe now Bottel-O-BEA-2: Roland &...
It never rains in Manchester...
November 17, 2023
Subscribe now It’s Grogmeet two days of RPGs with friends followed by MORPCon. AND it’s sunny in Manchester! This Grogmeet I’d offered four games, which is...
Dakota is hated
October 17, 2023
Here we go. We've just finished our world building and we're about to go silent for the next 90 minutes. I'm playing Dakota, best friend of Alice. I'm a...
Office Space
September 27, 2023
A lot of our downtime had centred on investigations into Magda Klein, a member of The Fulgarators (A guild that powers and runs the failing train network in...
Tea urn?
August 14, 2023
So a long-term ambition has been to play Sue Savage’s Matrons of Mystery. It’s a genteel take on Brindlewood Bay, a new wave of PbtA (Powered by the...
Drama in RPGs
August 9, 2023
We are play testing Windheim, a new setting for Dragonbane. This will become our going forward Sunday game and we were all keen to create PCs from scratch. I...
On the Gen Con Trail
August 8, 2023
I'd signed up with the intention of running Trail of Cthulhu, The Wreck and The Yellow King RPG, The Night of Masks. When it comes to Gen Con, for me it's...
Where is my mind?
July 28, 2023
Thro’ Centuries Fixed is a recently released second-edition version of a scenario for The Cthulhu Hack. Cthulhu Hack is based on The Black Hack by David...
A Declan in the hand is worth...
July 18, 2023
After the last session nailbiter, Lex had been facing off to a large group of Risers, on the top of Tower 9. Meanwhile, Shiny Nick, Keys and Alt hunkered...
Luso-Hispanic Sabbatical
July 16, 2023
First of all, work wise it's been insane, some major projects coming out of the blue plus a complete reorganization and some intense industry initiatives...
Up, up and away
June 20, 2023
Keys went on a date at the local club, a singer of some talent, Nick almost became a third wheel but decided to leave them to it and join Lex down the pub....
Out of the chip pan...
May 9, 2023
We'd left Nick and Lex to negotiating with gang members on behalf of Maeve the Pawn shop owner. Meanwhile Keys and Alt had pilfered some money to also help...
A song for every emotion ...
May 1, 2023
Dragonbane has some cool Heroic Abilities. My mallard, Moggie, has a few of them - Ill-tempered, when angry he gets advantage on attacks, he has to take the...
Between a rock and a hard place
April 25, 2023
We now have a good understanding of our “corner” in the city. The corner sits within Dreamingspires, specifically between two high, fog shrouded blocks,...
Urban Planning
April 4, 2023
I went all in on the a|state campaign, coins, books, play mats, compass the list goes on. So I was somewhat ecstatic to join a campaign, an excuse to read...
John Wick 4 versus Dungeons & Dragons. Let battle commence...
April 3, 2023
Subscribe now My birthday. A last-minute trip to the cinema. Son moaning that John Wick 4 is also on, “Why do we have to go and see something so sad?” Off...
Blade Runner, some thoughts
March 15, 2023
Subscribe now I've been thinking about Blade Runner the RPG a lot, I've run the starter set scenario around four times I believe now and worked on various...
How to create a TTRPG Discord Community?
February 8, 2022
This is The Raspy Raven Rag, a newsletter about TTRPGs. Subscribe now First a shout-out to the man that started me on this journey, Chris Sharp. Chris is an...
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