Category: Game Play

Roadtrip Retrospective #2

Ah, the difficult second game – it’s always a proper challenge and one that I have a tried and tested solution for in normal gameplay. The patented NPC fest! I usually throw my players into an NPC rich environment and see where they gravitate and build up from there. However, in this campaign one of our challenges is to not just do the usual ‘gaming by numbers’ stuff we had noticed, so where did I go?

Roadtrip Retrospective #1

Introduction Ian (@fandomlife on bluesky) and I decided to try out some 1-on-1 gaming, both as a way to put some meat on the conceptual bones of the gaming we enjoy and also, you...

2025: A Gaming Year in Review

Looking back, one of the most telling things in 2025 is that my gaming review can almost be done from memory. No lists, no spreadsheets – gaming has changed into a different rhythm, finally...

Learning to love solo play

It’s fair to say that I haven’t had the best relationship with solo RPGs in the past. For the longest time I saw them as a distraction at best, and a lazy reduction of...

Improv, LDN and Chimaera

“punky electronica…kind of grime…kind of like…new-wave grime…but kind of maybe like more broken beats, but kinda dubby broken beats…but a lil bit kind of soulful….but kind of drum’n’bassy, but kinda more broken drum’n’bass like...