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How We Roll at Savage Legend

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Mike Page

Hi reader(s), it’s been a while since I posted. Seeing as we only game in the winter and that game dates are getting more and more difficult to arrange we don’t play as often as we like. I just wanted … Continue reading →

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You Really Can’t Make This Stuff Up – Part II

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Mike Page

Because our group only games alternate weekends for about 4-5 months of the year, we tend to move rather slowly. In November 2012 I published a post titled You Really Can’t Make This Stuff Up about a castle in south-western … Continue reading →

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Firaxis and the art of GMing

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Mike Page

Despite my advancing years (vintage ’68),  I still enjoy a good computer game. A couple of games that I’ve enjoyed more than I thought I would were the Firaxis titles “Sid Meier’s Pirates” and more recently their re-working of “XCOM: … Continue reading →

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Dragon Cake

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Mike Page

Too good not to share: I turned 45 this week and had my birthday party last night. Here’s the cake that my wife and kids put together for me. My daughter couldn’t bear to see me decapitate it 😉

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Lóegaire, Nemesis Par Excellence

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Mike Page

Ever since reading an article on them in White Dwarf back in the 80s I’ve wanted to run a long-term nemesis that starts at low level and essentially develops in power as the heroes do. The party came across Lóegaire … Continue reading →

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Changing the Mood

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Mike Page

The last few sessions of Savage Legend have been quite dark; a demon plague wiping out a village the PCs saved months ago (and them being framed for it), the son of the PCs’ benefactor dying before their eyes, the … Continue reading →

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Visual Inspiration

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Mike Page

If there’s one thing I can literally waste hours doing, it’s browsing through fantasy art. It feeds my imagination, gives me things to dwell on and figure how they would look in a game setting. It’s incredible, how much artistic … Continue reading →

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Bitter is the Bark

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Mike Page

A brand new Savage Tale: Bitter is the Bark. This fantasy adventure for a group of Seasoned or Veteran characters is centred on the party having to obtain the material components for a cure for lycanthropy; wolfsbane from the grave … Continue reading →

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Skynet – for Real

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Mike Page

Completely off my normal topic, but why isn’t this all over the geekosphere? The UK has today launched a Skynet military satellite:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20781625. No-one seems to be making the obvious connections: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28Terminator%29 Maybe the Mayans were right after all…

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Repost: Review of Public Attitudes to Gaming

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Mike Page

As a Christian who plays RPGs I thought it worth reposting the following review article on roleplaying and the public/media. I’m still very careful about who I tell about my roleplaying. With colleagues because I don’t want to face ridicule, … Continue reading →

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