Board Games 4 Great Board Games with Traitor Mechanisms 11 Jun 201612 Jun 2016 Games are fantastic social tools. They are a scaffolding for social interaction and a great source of shared experience and enjoyment. Cooperative games give a great opportunity for camaraderie and…
RPGs The Cover Up: D&D Player’s Handbook Part 3 7 Jun 2016 Welcome back to the Cover up! Today we’ll have a bit of a quick-fire round to analyse the 3.5 (the 3rd edition cover was essentially the same but less fancy,…
Rant I Have Never Wanted to Turn Off Chat in a Tabletop Game 5 Jun 2016 This has been rattling around my head and needs to get out. Don't expect coherence in this post, please! Thank you for your indulgence. I love Overwatch. I'd go so far…
Learning… Games & Learning: A Short Literature Review on Games and Autism 2 Jun 2016 Another Start to Another Irregular Series, Games & Learning will focus on both games and... wait for it... learning. As a teacher, I think that games are fantastic tools for…
RPGs The Cover Up: D&D Player’s Handbook Part 2 31 May 201631 May 2016 Last week we saw what image adorned the 1st Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook, and today we’ll be looking at what the 2nd edition of (Advanced) D&D has to offer.…
RPGs Finding Inspiration: The White Wood Gala 29 May 201630 May 2016 Another start to another irregular series, this time looking at events, movies, books and such that have provided inspiration for some roleplay! This weekend, I travelled down to Huntly…
RPGs The Cover Up: D&D Player’s Handbook Part 1 24 May 201624 May 2016 Hello and welcome to The Cover Up! In this column I will be taking a look at probably the first thing you see picking up a new board game or…
Blogging… Supplementary: Goblin Markets for Changeling: The Lost (Audio Edition) 20 May 2016 You know, the original poem - which can be found by clicking here - was so hastily written, largely in desperation at getting some initial content produced for this blog,…
Uncategorized First Game of Dread 15 May 201631 Aug 2025 Last week, I ran a one-shot game of the horror RPG, Dread. Dread is a light system with very few rules, no stats and no dice. In place of dice, the game…
RPGs Dealing With Difficult Players: A Request for Advice 15 May 201625 Jun 2023 Roleplaying games are collaborative experiences. They are collaborative storytelling games that depend on the ability of the players and GM to work together to tell a story. This is one…
Uncategorized The Dresden Files RPG: Session 6 (Finale) 7 May 2016 The final session of our The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game campaign opened with a bit of regrouping. The kinetomancer was getting used to his new leg, which doubled as his staff,…
Board Games Dungeon Crawls Part 2: In Your SPACE Dungeon, Killin' Your SPACE Dudes 30 Apr 201617 Dec 2022 In my previous post, I discussed the classic fantasy dungeon crawl genre of board games. I took a look at classic examples of the genre and at more modern iterations. Today…
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