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1d6 – The Great Ones Undercover
You should never judge an RPG by its cover, for that way madness lies. Fail your SAN roll and you can end up spending your hard-earned pocket money on something completely rubbish. I’m still falling...
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1D6 Old Scrotes and Armchairs UNITE!
I’m 46 Live in Southport not far from Bolton and like you we used to play rpg’s from the age of 12 many years ago through those long summers. And have recently got in touch with the old gang & are...
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1D6 The Sea Caves
On Saturday evening, I hosted the first Patreon, Online Grog-Club in the den under-the-stairs. Supporters at the $5+ level, who were interested in playing, were drawn from the beret to participate in a...
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1D6 The Fire Opal of Set
Ours is not the only existence – not the only time stream on which there is an Earth. There are others and, like the planets in space, there are an infinite number… Luther Arkwright, Roleplaying...
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1D6 Operation Fast Pass
When I was preparing Ep. 11 TOP SECRET, I was desperate to play the game again. I was keen to understand how the rules worked in play, as they’re paradoxical: a class and level game, that doesn’t...
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1-D-6 UK Games Expo 2017
Flat-cap? – CHECK RPG Tees? – CHECK Polished Docs? – CHECK Freshly stocked All Rolled Up? – CHECK All I need is a travel pack of Hob Nobs and I’m on the road, heading to the land of Slade and...
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1-D-6 RuneQuest Glorantha (Play Test)
This weekend I attended my first ever UK GamesExpo in Birmingham, now confirmed as the third biggest games convention in the world. One of the many highlights of the experience was the opportunity to...
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1D6 RuneQuest Adventures in Glorantha QuickStart
I went on a HeroQuest on Free RPG day on 17th July 2017: to get hold of RuneQuest QuickStart. There was such a great anticipation of the new RuneQuest, I knew that there would be competition to get...
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1D6 Judge Dredd RPG
… down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual...
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1D6 Blades in the Dark: a GROGNARD’s Guide
Mike Cule and Roger Bell West over at Improvised Radio Theatre with Dice podcast apply two criteria to any new game before it is introduced to a table of gamers. I like to call this the IMPROVRAD...
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1D6 No sleep ’til Five Eyes!
I think my ‘old-timer’ body clock is almost getting back into synch after last weekend when I participated in the 24 hour RPG charity event. This is the fourth time that the event has been run, but the...
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1D6 Spaghetti ConJunction
“What fools we are,” I said to my wrinkled reflection as it stared at me disapprovingly at five thirty AM yesterday. I was off to Spaghetti ConJunction 2a, the twice yearly convention hosted by Pookie,...
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1D6 The Two Headed Serpent
…having an encounter with a three-thousand-year-old walking, talking corpse does tend to convert one. – Eyelyn Carnahan, The Mummy (1999) This week we came to the end of the first chapter of the...
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1D6 The Owl Bear and The Wizard’s Staff ’18
This is the play report from last weekend’s RuneQuest marathon at The Owl bear and Wizards Staff mini-con held in Leamington Spa. I took my players through not one, but two QuickStart adventures:...
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1D6 GROGMEET 2018
According to Tabletop Gaming Magazine, GROGMEET is the UK’s favourite “Manchurian” RPG games event; who can argue with that? Tabletop Gaming Magazine, November Issue 24 Back in the eighties, we would...
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1D6 12 hours in Duskvol
There was something about Blades in the Dark that captured my imagination when I read it last year. Apart from a couple of games, it has not become part of our regular repertoire, so when the...
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1D6 wielding the WARHAMMER
We never played WARHAMMER Fantasy RolePlay back in the 80s, so we’ve been making up lost time over the past few weeks to catch up on what we missed. The WARHAMMER Grogpods have been produced with the...
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1D6 UK Games Expo ’19 Exposed
Sigh. That’s it. Over for another year. This is the third time that I’ve been to UK Games Expo and it was my best experience so far; I know the geography of the place and feel more comfortable than I...
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1D6 Two Headed Serpent – The End
In their podcast about Burnout, the Smart Party rightly advise caution against committing to a large book campaign; disappointment is almost inevitable because it’s difficult to sustain over a long...
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1D6 – Reviewing even more GM Advice
I made an appearance on The What Would the Smart Party Do? Podcast chatting to Gaz about Reviewing Games Master Advice currently available in print and featured on blogs. Baz is on holiday, so like a...
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