New additions to the collection – September 2014
Another month gone by, and a few more items added to my still growing collection. There are always so many different items that are out which I would still like to get a hold of. Add them to the collection. First up is a Role Playing Game book which I have been meaning to buy…
Pariah Missouri Kickstarter
I would like to draw your attention to a Kickstarter project I have listed on my Kickstarter list page, my fellow game lovers. It is a project called ‘Pariah Missouri Books 1 & 2 Hardcovers’. Now at first you would be lead to believe that this project is only for those of you who love…
Yomi – Kickstarter
David Sirlin’s Yomi – awarded Game of the Year by Tom Vasel in 2010, has a brand new expansion with hilariously overpowered abilities and a new rank of face card called Destiny cards for over-the-top gameplay. These new cards will be available exclusively in the EX Powerup Box – the premium way to collect and select all of…
Dragonmeet relaunches for 15th Birthday
About five days ago now I was informed about this information via email, and unfortuantely I have not had much time to share this great news until now, (I did put a link up on the conventions page however.). So please read the following press information as given to me. London Tabletop Convention ‘Dragonmeet’…
Birthday Giveaway 2014
On the 14th May 2014, it will be four years since I first started this blog, and posted my very first post. I am glad to say it has been slowly going from strength to strength, with more people visiting everyday, and more following, either here on the WordPress blog, on our Facebook page, or…
International Tabletop Day
Today is International Tabletop Day. Saturday 5th April 2014. Worldwide. In different places all around the world, people, shops/stores, and organisations, are celebrating gaming on this special day. Allowing newbies and old alike to enjoy different games, and just have fun together within our beloved hobby. Please check out your local shop/store, or go to…
New additions to the collection – March 2014
Almost another month gone by, and this time the clocks altered once again. Find below some pictures of my latest purchases of gaming goodies. The first up, and first of the items I had bought, is the core rule book for the Fantasy Flight Games’ Warhammer 40k series of roleplaying games. This one being the…
UK Games Expo 2014
Climb on Board for the UK’s largest Hobby Games Convention Board Games are back! Thousands of families are discovering a new generation of table top games that are fresh, exciting and just plain fun. If you think board games are limited to Monopoly, Cluedo and Scrabble think again. An annual Expo of all the latest…
Koe (声) – A JRPG Kickstarter
Koe is a Japanese style role-playing game (JRPG), but with a difference. It is reminiscent of your typical JRPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, whilst also introducing the player to the Japanese language, helping the player to learn the language as they play the game. This giving the person a great start to learning…
Shadows of Esteren Kickstarter
Shadows of Esteren is a Medieval Horror RPG (TRPG), that seems to be very successful already without any help from me, and probably most will already know of this game, but for those that do not I thought I would enlighten you to this game project on Kickstarter. Project page here. The game is largely…
Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition Kickstarter
On the 28th January 2014, another roleplaying game was launched on the Kickstater site, in the hope of receiving funding to go ahead with the project. This game is the third edition of a game enjoyed by many people in its previous lives. Now Modiphius Entertainment is taking charge of the helm on this one,…
Another batch of goodies
A little late with this but never mind, it is better late than never as they say, and it has given me a chance to add more additions together in one post. First off we have a collection of game source books, all for the White Wolf Vampire roleplaying game. Now the last Thursday before…
Kromore 2145
There is another roleplaying game up on Kickstarter, and again it is in the steam punk style, but this one is with a twist. Kromore 2145 is a Victorian Steam Punk game where the world has had time to advance and evolve in to the space era. It is not set on planet Earth, but…
The Oleg Story
The Oleg Story: Survival, is a new board game project that was launched on Kickstarter this past Friday. The game is a prison based board game, based on Oleg D Tyler. He is an international hacker who is believed to have been captured and handed over to the U.S. Government, suspected of leaking confidential governmental…
Space: 1889
A new, (well a return of an old game, and to be in English not just German), roleplaying game has been put up on Kickstarter. And as I write this they have reached their funding goal already, so now it us down to seeing what stretch goals they can reach now. The original game was…
Something Old, Something New, & Maybe Blue.
Over the weekend just past I went to a City that is about an hours journey by car, so as to take a look around the shops. You know the usual hunting for things that may entice the wallet. The city has a good selection of shops that cater for my tastes, and as usual…
Announcement: The land of the dead claims Orpheus, but what returns?
This post is being handed over to our contributor, Chris (alcoholandaphorism), to update you on news of the game he played in and transcribed the write-up for. So with no further delay over to you Chris. Sad news for the fans of the Orpheus chronicle I am afraid, after extended hiatus the GM has officially called it…
Three Years Strong
To all our followers and readers, subscribers and fans…. THANKS 🙂
Mutant Chronicles RPG
Modiphius Entertainment are going to be creating a new Mutant Chronicles RPG, a re-boot if you will and a full rewrite, making this the 3rd edition. And they have asking all their fans, and fans of RPGs in general to take a look at a survey they are holding on their website, to gauge the…
A New Steampunk RPG Kickstarter
While on Twitter I came across a tweet that was intriguing so I took a look. What I saw was definitely interesting, as it was a link to another Kickstarter for a new roleplaying game. And as there are many fans of RPG/TRPG on here, and no doubt a lot of you are fans of…
Introducing Magic Madhouse from the UK
It is with great pleasure to introduce to all of you my dear readers, an online business which will be featuring on this very blog. I would like to introduce Magic Madhouse. This company will have a link on the ‘Sponsor Link’ section, as they will be providing to you my readers a code at…
A long overdue update to my gaming collection
It has been a while since my last update, showing you guys (& gals) what my recent pick ups and buys have been. First off here is a picture showing all of the goodies together, (except one item.) Right at the end of this post I will put a picture of the backs for you…
Assault on the Mountains of Madness
Since my report on the Achtung! Cthulhu kickstarter last week, Modiphius has managed to reach two-thirds the funding on their stretch goal for the wartime Antarctic campaign inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘At the Mountains of Madness’. And they have been gradually releasing illustrations for the campaign by the Japanese guest artist, Korungn. Enjoy some…
Achtung!
I am not sure how many of you know about this already, but I thought it was worthy of letting you all know, especially those that have not heard before. Personally I had not heard about it straight away, and only found out about a week after it had started. Now for those who love…
What’s happening
This post is just a quick update to let you all know what is happening, as there was no game or write-ups last week. Basically there will be no Tribe 8 game session for the foreseeable future, as our GM has burnt himself out. There was no one-shot either for last week, and I have…
More pics added to FB
I have added a few more pictures of my painted miniatures to the Facebook page, and this time it was for the figures that was mostly used for the great Games Workshop board game come roleplaying game called Warhammer Quest. My group of players loved playing this game, and it was a shame that it…
Sharing pictures of old gaming habits.
I have added some pictures of my old lead (& plastic) miniature figures, that I used for some of my role-playing (RPG/TRPG) session years back, to the Facebook page. Find the page here. amongst the pictures there are also figures that I used for boardgames and or tabletop battles too. I hope you will enjoy…
Update to character list 8-8-12
I would like to inform you all that I have just added seven more characters to the growing list, three of which are from/for other players. These three are all from the same game that I ran earlier in the year for everyone as a one-shot, the write-up on here is the one for the…
Update space filler! [UPDATED]
(UPDATE to post) (Well I would like to apologise and inform you all, that any who tried to view any of the old characters listed and discovered that they went to somewhere completely different, should now find that it all works. For some reason WordPress seemed to have messed up all the links on the…