Are you sitting comfortably?
I think I mentioned this before but when my group get together and game it happens two or three times a year. We rent a house, the one we have used for the...
January 19, 2018
Games I am excited about: 2018 Edition
Yes, I am easily excited. There are a lot of gamers who are wary of new things, who stick to their old and well-tread ways, but I am not one of those. I...
January 16, 2018
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Distress Call, a Starfinder adventure on Kickstarter, an interview with the author.
A couple of weeks ago I found about a new product in Kickstarter. With the success of Starfinder there are a slew of new third-party products available. Many push the system in new...
January 15, 2018
Tomes of Cthulhu
Bear with me on this one… Recently I have looked at the Fria Ligan games. I like their mechanics and it satisfies my desire for a rules lite but flavour rich game. In these...
January 12, 2018
Happy New Year
While I am still enjoying a few days off from work (and blogging) I thought it would be nice to wish you all a happy new year. I hope you had pleasant and...
January 4, 2018
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Sunglar’s Year in Review!
Hello one and all, and welcome to my look back at 2017, and a look at what may be in store for 2018. I don’t pretend to do a retrospective for the blog...
January 2, 2018
Coriolis
I have spent some of my down time over Christmas reading up on Coriolis from free league publishing. I was super impressed with Mutant:Year Zero with its beautifully simple skill resolution mechanics, the...
December 31, 2017
Game Master Emulators
I half expected Micheal to post this morning, it being Christmas eve. In our house we celebrate a Swiss Christmas today and then do a British one tomorrow as the two halves of...
December 24, 2017
How to GME
This is part two of my mini series on Game Master Emulators [GME]. I want to talk about the actual mechanics of how to use a GM Emulator in this instalment. To give...
December 19, 2017
Truly Collaborative
I am starting my reading up on Corolis but this is going to take a while so I thought I would give you a mini series based around GM emulators. With the discussion last...
December 16, 2017
Star Wars musings… a gamer’s perspective!
Today Star Wars: The Last Jedi premieres, and as I count down the hours to it (12 to be precise as I write this post), it’s got me thinking about the movies, my...
December 14, 2017
Gaming All Day, Gaming All Night
Today I thought I would do a bit of an opinion piece just to break up the number of game read throughs I have done recently. I like to think that deep down...
December 12, 2017
Mutant:Year Zero
I have read just about everything that is available to get for free several times in the past couple of weeks and this looks like an awesome game and I really want to...
December 8, 2017
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition available as PDF
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition was the first roleplaying game I’ve played for an extended period of time, and it’s to this day one of my favorites. Recently there was a Warhammer Fantasy...
December 7, 2017
Fate Accelerated And Fallout
Last weekend I wanted to give Fate another chance. Even though I have given up on Fate several times before, I wasn’t happy with that decision. In theory I love what Fate Core...
December 6, 2017
A Look At Awaken
A while back Zoltan Lečei from The Games Collective, a Croatian game developer, contacted me and told me about their game Awaken which had been successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2015. Awaken is...
December 5, 2017
When is a table not a table?
Where I game has a huge impact on how I game. For example, I have a group of players that I have gamed with since the late 1970s/1980s. We have got together a...
December 2, 2017
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