Over the years, I’ve participated in playtests for a number of games, often as part of ORC. It’s a good community to run such games in as we have a variety of different gamer age groups – from younger gamers just starting out in their first RPG, to those who first played D&D in the …
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Where have all the GMs gone?
It’s a little ironic that up until recently, the Open Roleplaying Community Edinburgh (http://orcedinburgh.co.uk) suffered from a lack of players and a venue. Now we’ve got plenty of players and venues… and no one to run RPGs 🙁 Seriously. That’s how much it has changed recently: from what used to be lots of people wanting …
Dawn and Development of the (un)Dead
I’m feeling fairly fired up creatively speaking. I’m planning to get a lot of development work done this weekend for The Secret Fire, the new RPG that I’m helping develop. Certain shackles have been released (the game won’t be OGL any more) – so the D20 side of things is less restrictive, and we can …
Beta Test Blast!
As I’ve blogged previously, I’m involved in some of the development of The Secret Fire RPG. I ran my first game of it at ORC (as Maze Controller or MC) on Saturday and it went really well. You can see the footage from the Beta Test game of TSF here : WARNING: it includes much …
Ruminations & Realisations
As you might have heard, my life has taken an interesting turn recently. As a result of me becoming involved in the The Secret Fire Beta test I blogged about previously, I’ve also become involved in helping to develop the game in some small part. Without breaking an NDA, I’m actually enjoying the creative process, …