So, this weekend saw the end to my 5 session Dungeon World run and my 16 session Call of Cthulhu run. I am now pleasantly free of GMing duties except for my two one offs for Confusion in August, which are pretty much both done. I plan to kick back a little before deciding what's to do next.

So, the first half of 2013 has already flown past and the second half has arrived. What an amazing year its been to date!

The first half was dominated by Dungeon World, which seems to have finally answered my seemingly eternal quest for an RPG to my satisfy my frequently occurring, if not always long lasting, urge to play old school D&D. Not only ( Read more... )

My weekend sees the start of a short GMing frenzy. No matter how hard one tries to organise things, these surges happen :/ :)

Saturday: Hero Kids - Curse of the Shadow-Walkers: Originally this was just for my family, but it looks like Mat, Liz, Savanah and Rory will be joining us.

Sunday: The One Ring - Marsh Bell: This is the first meeting of ( Read more... )

With certain work commitments out of the way, I can report on what has been a very productive week RPGwise.

1. Glade my Kapcon scenario for Tenra Bansho Zero is pretty much formed as a concept, including story, PCs and NPCs. None of the hard work has started yet as it will have to wait until April (fortuitously when the physical books arrive). I ( Read more... )

The Doom Train is one of the more difficult parts of the Horror on the Orient Express. So much so that we pretty much skipped it when Dale ran it for us. Anyway, with plenty of caution as to its many pitfalls, I ran it last night pretty much in its entirety and everyone had fun ( Read more... )

In other news, I am running Horror on the Orient Express for Call of Cthulhu starting on Monday. It is for three college students and Sam. They have no experience with Call of Cthulhu (other than Mansions of Madness) and little roleplaying experience. We are starting with "The Haunting", before moving into the campaign proper at a pace of weekly ( Read more... )