Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Day 120 - So why do we play? - Required 330000, Achieved 327937

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And this is the question I need to ask of everyone, my essay of an answer tomorrow, but it's why does everyone play the games they play,...
Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Day 119 - A day of many things - Required 327250, Achieved 325763

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Last of my four days on and finally though all the entrants for the Expo awards, there were supposed to be a few others, but they seem not t...
Monday, 28 April 2014

Day 118 - Nearly missed the daily - Required 324500, Achieved 322406

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More tomorrow

UK Games Expo Awards - Seventh Offering - World War Cthulhu

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Seventh Offering, and interestingly enough the counterpoint to yesterdays offering, World War Cthulhu: The Darkest Hour from Cubicle Seve...
Sunday, 27 April 2014

Day 117 - I don't have the words today - Required 321750, Achieved 320139

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My good friends wife died yesterday She was my age

Life goes on, until it doesn't...

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Nearly twenty years ago I met a man who made a difference to me in a way I can't easily describe, we lived in different areas, so only c...
Saturday, 26 April 2014

UK Games Expo Awards Sixth Offering - Achtung Cthulhu Keepers Guide to the Secret War

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Sixth offering, and this time it's the Keepers Guide to the secret war for Achtung Cthulhu. Achtung started life as Three Kings, a sc...

Day 116 - Something most exciting just landed in the dropbox... Required 319000, Achieved 314884

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I haven't mentioned it before, but I'm doing my own game to be released this year, it's taken some time and indeed some money, a...
Friday, 25 April 2014

UK Games Expo RPG Awards - Fifth Offering - Numenera

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Fifth Offering and this time it's Numenera, the new offering from Monte Cook Games. Set in a world where there have been eight previo...

Day 115 - John Dodd of Mars - Required 316250, Achieved 313125

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It's been an eventful couple of days, I'm learning that my opinions on things are more interesting to people that the stories I'...

UK Games Expo RPG Awards - Fourth Offering - Hellfrost: Tales from the Sands

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So, Day four and the offering this time is not a game by itself, but rather a set of four individual adventures. The Golden Queen - The...
Thursday, 24 April 2014

Day 114 - Of Conventions and being out of Yorkshire - Required 313500, Achieved 311463

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So, sitting in a Great Western hotel trying to keep up with things in general.  The convention meeting went very well and I have to ask how ...

UK Games Expo RPG Awards - Third Offering - 13th Age

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Today we have 13th age, from the people who brought you D&D 4th and D&D 3rd, this makes for a distinct pedigree in the gaming com...
Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Day 113 - Busy - Required 310750, Achieved 310886

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To Derby to see friends To Plymouth to resolve conventions To Birmingham to resolve conventions Things may be quiet tomorrow.... This ...

UK Games Expo RPG Awards - Second Offering - Maelstrom Domesday

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The Second offering to the Awards is an alternate timeline for the Maelstrom game.  For those who weren't around all those years ago ...
Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Day 112 - So when you do add up the written word, it provides a useful backup - Required 308000, Achieved 310492

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Which I'm going to need this week, between a massive convention meeting in Plymouth, then an all day meeting in birmingham on friday, it...

UK Games Expo RPG Awards - First Offering - Intrepid, John Keyworth

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The first game on the Expo list is Intrepid, designed and produced by John Keyworth, a member of the UKRP Design Collective (http://uk...
Monday, 21 April 2014

Day 111 - Sometimes days are less Epic :) Required 305250, Achieved 308535 (and that's not all of them).

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With the writing things by hand, I like to finish the page before I count the words on it, and I've got a number of pages where they...

The Wolf Online....

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A while back, I put up a link to a kickstarter that I really liked,  http://millionwordman.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/what-with-world-war-wol...

On the subject of Games and what people look for.

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This year I'm in charge of the judging for the RPG awards at UK Games Expo and it's been an interesting exercise in seeing what peop...