Bye bye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, see you in a couple of months for #grogmeet.

33. #OverTheEdge (#AtlasGames) - I played OTE for the first time. I've run it plenty but it was lovely to play a PC. As part of Virtual #Grogmeet, @TheTweedmeister ran a massively enjoyable double length dose of weirdness. We were looking for someone's daughter in Al Amarja - it was that simple. We managed not to destroy the universe, so, result!

#ttrpg #2023Games

Since Patreon sign-ups are going live soon for Virtual Grogmeet, i thought i'd indulge in a little self promotion for my Romance of The Perilous Land game ...... #grogmeet

@montecookgames Totally worth grabbing while you can. If I want to take a work of fiction or a TV series or whatever, Cypher System is my go-to #TTRPG for creating it. Here, pictured, four happy players playing #TheATeam at a recent
#Grogmeet face-to-face event in #Manchester

Might run some Traveller for virtual Grogmeet this year #grogmeet.

If anyone doesn't know the setting, #Vaesen is about exploring mysteries in 19c Sweden - this is the intro I wrote for #grogmeet

1. Vaesen are neither good nor evil: They have their own dreams. They always have a motive for their actions. They are dangerous and not to be trifled with!

2. Nature is dark and dangerous: No one will find you if you go missing!

Today, #Grogmeet Thread the Third! And it's on #FengShui 2, Robin D. Laws game of Hong Kong action cinema, run for an interprid group of middle-aged nerds by the one-shot master
@milnermaths

I backed Feng Shui 2 on Kickstarter at PDF level, quite possibly my first KS. I downloaded the documents, read the opening couple of pages, and filed them away to gather dust in the soon-to-be bloated by Bundle of Holding PDF cellar.

Sorry Robin.

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Just wrote up my third #Grogmeet thread on the birdsite. It's a long one. Will copy it over imminently...

#Grogmeet has certainly rekindled my #RPG gaming mojo so I'm definitely up for some more online sessions moving forward 🙂 Also wayyyy past time I ran a thing myself so I'll be looking into doing that too. Onwards!

#Grogmeet has certainly rekindled my #RPG gaming mojo so I'm definitely up for some more online sessions moving forward 🙂 Also wayyyy past time I ran a thing myself so I'll be looking into doing that too. Onwards!

Tomorrow's #Grogmeet thread will be on Feng Shui

Here's a teaser. Yes, sometimes I do like to live up to my handle 😄

to people who didn't know the system at all.

However, the #Grogmeet game did also highlight the weaknesses of the system and made me re-evaluate my affection for this elderly game.

And this is really down to one single thing: cognitive load.

I'm pretty good with numbers. But by the end, even I was slightly tired of figuring out the result of 73 + 87 skill +15 flanking -30 enemy parry -10 wound penalty.

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WHY I WON'T BE RUNNING #ROLEMASTER AGAIN
or
I LOVED & LOST & NOW I HAVE A HEADACHE

I really enjoyed running #Rolemaster at #Grogmeet, with an adventure designed to lean into RM's infamous lethality and crit tables. And, in this respect, it worked well.

Three amusing deaths, sharing crit tables around the players so everyone gets a bit of buy in to the gory detail, much fun.

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Some pics of this past weekend's #Grogmeet gaming event held as always in the bustling metropolis that is Manchester 😎

First of several #Grogmeet threads I'm going to scribe this week, and I decided to start with the hardest one.

Not #Rolemaster, or #FengShui2, or the joys of spending time with some excellent nerds.

This is about becoming a better me.🧵

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Morning #heffalumps - grey and misty outside, and feeling a bit of a post #grogmeet slump. I need to get some more games in my diary!

Home! #Grogmeet was absolutely brilliant as always. The GMs and players were the best you could possibly hope for. A magic weekend 👍

I may not have #grogmeet'ed (grogmet?) but a little retail therapy goes a long way.

Today at #Grogmeet

Ran #Rolemaster for first time since the 80s despite owning it for many years. I have thoughts (for another day)

Played #FengShui2 by the inimitable Robin D. Laws and run by the wonderful Guy Milner of burnafterrunningrpg.com. Great fun. I also have thoughts, both about the game and his GMing style (spoilers: he's good)

Tired but buzzing. And with my #PF2 online game over I need to think about where my next regular fix is coming from.

I may have bought a Torg Eternity book from Fanboy 3 in Manchester.

BUT it doesn't count as a purchase because (a) it was out of gratitude for them hosting #Grogmeet , and (b) it was £5 off. Ergo not an actual purchase.