Well, I managed to run Evil Bilbo’s Game at The Smoke. It was ok, it needs de-gendering a bit more, hadn’t noticed quite how gendered the names on the family tree were until right at the end when my lovely experienced players had to go with it. Got almost all possible endings out of the … Read More
Had dinner out for my birthday, pizza because BBF could get a gluten free option easily. Before that though I played two games, both very gamey which leaves me a little worried for tomorrow. So this morning The Pirate and I were in the same game which was really nice. He hasn’t played Space 1889 … Read More
So, this is my birthday treat, a LARP um… festival? Convention? No idea what to call it. In any case this first night is all a bit of a party and hang out. My hotel is wonderfully close, met up with BBF for sushi beforehand and discovered to my cash rich horror that too much … Read More
I’m managing to have more fun when it comes to Sigehold socials and social Empire roleplay but they are absolutely the thing that has written large to my psyche quite how disconnected I was feeling. The wild disassociation of a mental break is like nothing I’ve experienced previously but negotiating what part of my psyche … Read More
I was late to the whole tabletop RPG thing, by which I mean I was intrigued at the group of nerdy guys who were running it when I was in fifth form but I wasn’t actually able to play it myself. Mostly I saw them playing OWOD Vampire (Old World of Darkness as opposed to … Read More
Together Forever has advertised again, not the in person game Together at Last, but the actual online version that I fell in love with over the pandemic. I’ve signed up but I have to admit I’m slightly curious about how many people will sign up. After all I know at least one former enthusiast who … Read More
I am running a Dungeons and Dragons gane. It is possibly the maddest idea I’ve ever had. In order to get a solid world I’m running multiple pre-written games linked roughly together in a meta-plot that (hopefully) scoops up all the characters together. In between big game moments the players end up interrogating the various … Read More
I really love a lot of the weirder bits of the Wintermark brief, the automata in the storm (troll creations obviously…), the alien ancestors of the Steinr, the dead in the fens. Mostly though I love the Krampus. I love the Krampus in the real world too, but in Wintermark I love a beast who … Read More
(Content Warning, some mention of real world emotional states) I LARP to cry. Specifically I LARP to properly sob, ideally crawling around spottily expelling deep sadness. I LARP to bleed. Not literally, I mean the Nordic term where you access your real emotions in order to further the scene. I guess I method LARP. Or, … Read More
My first Empire event of the year. I was originally looking forwards to it, a chance to get out and do things, get into Empire without my Welsh partners being there. Then – everything seems to have gone wrong and I’m not in a great headspace. The Jellicle made me jewellery especially for this event … Read More
