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Here’s part two of my 2019 ‘Round Up’ blog, concentrating on the actual rolling of dice this year.  For the first time ever this past year I kept a tally of all the ‘Public’ games I ran (Convention games or those in gaming stores, cafes and pubs) and in 2019 I ran 36 individual sessions. I haven’t counted the games I took part in as a player quite so accurately, but including our monthly 5E game at home (where I’m currently playing a feisty Dwarf Fighter called Dina) I reckon I’ve played somewhere between 15 and 20 sessions which probably taking the total to 50+ games this year.

There hasn’t been a lot of variety, almost everything I’ve run or played has been D&D based so maybe a goal for next year should be to shake that up a little? Oh and no, for long term readers  I STILL haven’t run Savage Worlds, but I did get as far as picking up the lovely hardcover of the new edition this year!

I kicked off the year in January running the first session of the year for our pub game and also ran a funnel session at local club at short notice.

In February I arranged at game with some friends at The Dice Cup in Nottingham, running “The Hole In The Sky” DCC RPG funnel by Brendan LaSalle.

I also ran some RPGs at the first Burton On Trent Fantasy and Sci Fi Con.  I used scenery and minis to run some ‘set piece’ games and they proved really popular.  I’m looking forward to growing the gaming side of this fun little event with help from some fellow gamers in 2020.

In March I made a return trip to Gary Con, Lake Geneva, WI, USA.  It felt a little less like a pilgrimage this year but was every bit as fun rolling dice with good friends.  I celebrated my birthday there and was suprised by friends with an awesome cake.  All being well I’ll be back in 2020!

In May I met up with some twitch mini painting streamer friends at Warhammer Fest.  I’m still #NotaWarhammerGuy but so many good friends makes this a great day out every year!

UK Games Expo 2019  was, as always another highlight of the gaming year.  Once again we played host to Brendan LaSalle from Goodman Games and together with fellow UK Road Crew judges we ran and played over 100 hours of our favourite games!  

That same weekend I was also really excited to see my first every RPG product published.  Small Niche Games published Operation Peardrop, a ‘mission’ module I’d written for Pete Spahn’s fantastic World War 2 RPG WW2:Operation Whitebox.

I carried on evangelising my favourite game, Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, specifically the new Lankhmar rules, with a couple of games at some fantastic one day mini conventions hitting the aforementioned Owlbear and Wizards Staff in lovely Lemington Spa and making a trip up to Manchester for ‘BurritoCon4′ 

I also  got to play in a lot of memorable games this year, both at conventions and at home but one that really stands out was my old school mate Paul, a regular in our DCC pub game who ran a game on his birthday using Whitebox: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game  It was a really fun session, Paul puts a lot of heart and soul into his character description and roleplaying and I loved the laid back atmosphere.

The last convention of the year was as always Dragonmeet which I’ve covered in a previous blog entry.  Always a good day out.

Well, that's Dragonmeet done for another year, the last convention of 2019!  I didn't take a ton of photos this year but it was great to game with this bunch of people. 

 DCC Lankhmar was, once again a big success as a con game.  I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into a running a campaign in the city next year.   My Operation Peardrop for WW2: Opeeration Whitebox also got another run out and it was pretty awesome to have a copy of the finished, printed module in hand rather than running from my primitive play test notes.  Thanks again to Pete Spahn for making that happen this year!  

Dragonmeet is always a good social occasion too and whilst I didn't get to awkwardly hug or high five everyone it was great to meet some folk in person for the first time. See you next year!

It’s been a busy week for the postman here.  I’ve picked up an ebay bargain, my Mutant Crawl Classics RPG kickstarter finally arrived and I received a well timed gift from a friend in the states.

At Gary Con one of the old school board/wargames I checked out was Dawn Patrol.  The game is long out of production but it still has a big following and I have a long standing interest in aviation, so I’ve been on the look out for a copy since I got back.  I picked up this ‘as new’ and unpunched copy on ebay this week.

The second arrival was my Mutant Crawl Classics kickstarter.  I went in for the hard cover.  It’s a typical high quality Goodman Games product, great artwork and layout and I’m pumped to run or play this.

I also received this well timed gift from Stephen Newton.  I’ll be running some of his adventures in the coming months so he kindly sent me a T shirt and dropped me a copy of his new adventure Children of The Fallen Sun.  I had to make the difficult decision to skip this on kickstarter while I was saving for my Gary Con trip so it’s great to have a print copy.