I'm sure I say this every 6 months or so, but I think it is time I decided what RPGs I really want to focus on going forward...

It seems to be that my interests rotate around three main games at the moment, and I suppose these are the games I'm always going to support as the years past. If you aren't aware the games are:

• Call of Cthulhu (Horror)
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Well I survived running Fright Night for the first time. To be honest it was a lot easier than I'd expected and I got lots of help from Dale, Stephanie and of course Emma, on the night!

A couple of comments:

• I'll say it again, Luke & Mash were lifesavers for stepping up to run a game!
• Everyone was great, happy and fun to be around!
• The Pizza ordering ( Read more... )

Yesterday Em & I attended Confusion for the first time. We fun, especially as the day started badly...

• We were up at 3am to get my Mum to the airport for an early flight, thankfully we had lots of notice of the clash of events (Confusion & dropping off Mum), and so the boys were packed off to Em's Mum's Friday and we had an early night.
• By 7 am we ( Read more... )

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I'm getting to the point where I need to make a decision about my gaming. The reason for this is the looming dilema I only have so much free time to devote to things outside of work hours, and as the boys grow older, and as things like upgrading the house becomes more viable, one has to ask himself - what do I give up?

Obviously gaming takes up a ( Read more... )

So with Emma and I hosting Luke and the Kapiti Newbies on Saturday. I thought it would be a good idea to get Emma's head around D&D 4e ( Read more... )

I know that I've got a lot of games going on at the moment (on top of which Luke has started a monthly boardgame group!), but I've been wanting to run my wife through a solo game for quite a while now. We did attempt to do this with Dragon Warriors and briefly discussed using Mouse Guard, but in both cases system - having to run multiple characters ( Read more... )

Again this is out of order, but as it is fresh in my mind I thought it would be worthwhile posting...

Recently I've been hankering for a good old, no pressure campaign. Sure, I have the alternate Thursday night games, but they have a different feel (an almost one rushed really) with time pressures and tight structures. Now don’t get me wrong, ( Read more... )