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2025 Reading Challenge 02 Zona
January 15, 2025
Book two. I’m not 100% sure what exactly it is, it feels at its heart like a love letter to the film Stalker. It’s entertaining, heart-wrenching, insightful...
2025 Reading Challenge 01 The Honjin Murders
January 8, 2025
I’m reading a book a week in 2025, there are no rules apart from finishing it and it also has to be a physical book. This is mainly a TTRPG blog, so I’ll...
Let me tell you a story part two
November 26, 2024
Scene Five They come. The cops. Nasty and Nastier. They saying nothing grab Leigh, leaving Donnie on the floor. Marched to a hole in the stone floor, bricks...
Let me tell you a story Part One
November 26, 2024
Our Discord has recently started a new community area - Story Games. The first of these is Lovecraftesque from Black Armada Games, by Becky Annison and Josh...
Project Cassandra
November 12, 2024
The first game of Cold War season on The Raspy Raven, what better way to kick off than psychics in 1960s Berlin. Project Cassandra A bit of background, it...
Heroes are made by the paths they choose...
November 7, 2024
A few months into my attempt to run five players through a play-by-post game of Alteregomania, the Gumshoe One-2-One adventure that shows Super Heroes in...
Concrete Cow 24.5
September 22, 2024
We are heading down the motorway at 8 am to visit Milton Keynes Premier TTRPG Con Concrete Cow. Concrete Cow I’d missed Owlbear and the Wizard’s Staff due to...
Play-by-Chat 0
September 12, 2024
I was struggling to find a second session to finish off a Trail of Cthulhu game, The Dance in the Blood by Graham Walmsley. I offered the players two...
Swords of the Bosphorus 1
September 12, 2024
I’ve just started a new campaign, run by Martin. It’s a fantastic take on Swords of the Serpentine, using Martin’s knowledge of the Byzantium Empire circa...
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August 31, 2024
Game or Gamer you’ll miss. This is an odd prompt, but I’ll make a case for Golden Heroes. Golden Heroes It’s probably more accurate to say, “The game I...
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August 30, 2024
Person you’d like to game with. I will go with KARTAS (Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff), I don’t mind if it is Ken Hite or Robin Laws, but one of them has to...
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August 29, 2024
Awesome App. As a constant organiser of RPG games on Discord, I’ve selected Hammertime. Hammertime Hammertime does one thing and does it really well, it...
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August 28, 2024
GREAT GAMER GADGET. Let’s embrace technology and say the Virtual TableTop (VTT). Now I could easily say the internet, Skype, or any other tools, but I’ll...
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August 27, 2024
MARVELLOUS MINIATURE. Kudos to Morgue Miniatures Fabio Vollono and Julie’s wonderful array of eclectic RPG minis. Perfect for Mouseritter I’ve particularly...
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August 26, 2024
SUPERB SCREEN. Again, I’m not big on stuff like this, but a mini-screen was appealing for con trips, and okay, I’m not the biggest Mörk Borg fan, but this is...
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August 25, 2024
DESIRABLE DICE. Okay, I’m not a big dice fetishist, so I’ll keep it simple. If and when I next play 13th Age face-to-face, I’ll put together a very large...
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August 24, 2024
ACCLAIMED ADVICE. Following the work of one Paul Baldowski, I’ve picked up several gaming approaches that align with what I enjoy and get out of TTRPGs. I...
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August 23, 2024
PEERLESS PLAYER. Incredible fun sitting back and watching the performance of Mr Spike aka Mike Percival Maxwell, who played a mild-mannered antiquarian,...
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August 22, 2024
Notable Non-Player Character. I'll go for Meepo, a kobold from Tales from the Yawning Portal, specifically The Sunless Citadel. Meepo We discovered him...
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August 21, 2024
CLASSIC Campaign. So many to choose from but I'll plump for The Two-Headed Serpent for Call of Cthulhu 7e. The Two-Headed Serpent by Paul Fricker, Scott...
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