Two Shelves of Gaming

It's been a while! I've been absent from the podwaves on account of the weather being so nice - with the beach being but a ten minute bike ride away I've been catching up on my body boarding or honing my SUP skills. Also I was a bit of a loss about what I talk about next. Having quite a few games to choose from gave me a case of what I gather is now called 'choice paralysis'. However, fear not. Due to the fluke of nature, I decided upon the D&D Gazetteer, The Elves of Alfheim for this

A 'sequel' episode to the last one. In this podcast Games Workshop's Blood Bath at Orc's Drift is discussed and poured over with much more attention and care than when I first bought the game. I specifically remember seeing this game either advertised in White Dwarf, or on display in the old Games Workshop on Liverpool's Bold Street some time in the mid-80s just after its release. I must confess I carry a certain burden of guilt with this product for the twin reasons of only really wanting it for

It's been a while! Everyday life has meant I've not been so active with my efforts to get another podcast together so I thought it was high time I got my finger out and recorded something. The candidate for this episode is Games Workshop's 1985 product 'Blood on the Streets'. A great little package designed for the Role Player or Wargamer to use how they please. I'm a big fan of this period of gaming or Old School Gaming as it's known, particularly Warhammer as it seems to hark back to a time when

Greetings listener(s) or indeed viewer(s) this latest episode is a bit different as the podcast audio comes directly from the video HERE The latest episode is a quickie for the board game I've currently got set up. A perhaps not so well known one by those Titans of gaming; Avalon Hill. Unlike many other of that great company's games, this one isn't about some detailed strategic or tactical situation from history, but rather a 'pulpy' adventure amid the dinosaurs and dangers of a lost world. It's a

Welcome back listener(s)! In this episode I ramble semi-coherently about TSR's First Quest boxed set which was an introduction to role playing games using the 2nd Edition AD&D system. I remember seeing this product back in the day when my interest in the RPG hobby was starting to fade. Yet even so I didn't have any kind of idea how it fitted in to the larger AD&D gaming universe / multiverse and kind of wondered whether this was some kind of re-start attempt or even a means to bypass the

Welcome back listener(s). Following on from my tour of my Two Shelves of Gaming and solo RPG experimenting, I'm switching systems this week and taking a closer look at Decipher's Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Adventure Game. Not just a role playing game, but a role playing 'adventure' game no less! Like many games in my collection this was a charity shop purchase I picked up for pennies and something that was many years old. Almost as if from another era. In many ways it was. I first saw the

Welcome back listeners! Thank you for taking the time to click on this podcast and listen to my attempts to try and effectively solo an RPG game. Carrying on from last week's episode, the sketch map is delved into, wanderers encounters, hazards braved, creatures fought and foes battled - it's all going on! Upon reviewing the episode I realized I'd probably omitted a few game mechanics in the process of playing through things, not to mention a house rule I had come up with - alas, this is what

Hello folks, Tom here, I've been tabletop gaming since the early 1980s and love the hobby. It's been something I've carried with me (both literally and figuratively) through all the crazy twists and turns my life has taken. Sure there was a time when my interest in RPGs, Wargames and Adventure board games waned a while, but fortunately new life was breathed into it a few years back and this carries on to the present day. My collection is a mix of games bought back in the 80s and 90s, ebay