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Chivalry & Sorcery: The Early Years

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Barwickian

Back in the days of the Loyal Order of Chivalry & Sorcery mailing list I enjoyed swapping emails – both public and private – with C&S designers Ed Simbalist and

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Gaming C&S, Chivalry & Sorcery, old school, tabletop 2 Comments

Traveller 5 review: second impressions

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Barwickian

As I keep reading the new Traveller 5 rules, I am becoming more and more impressed with them. The underlying mechanics – roll under a target number (often Characteristic +

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Gaming review, science fiction, tabletop, Traveller 16 Comments

Traveller 5 review: corrected character generation

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Barwickian

Mistakes I made in the archaeologist character. 1)      I missed a trade classification for Natoko; it’s a pre-rich world, so the archaeologist gets a craftsman skill as well (pop 9

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Traveller 5 review: First impressions

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Barwickian

As I’ve had the T5 rules for less than a day, this is not, at this stage, going to be an in-depth review at all. My aim here is to

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Gaming review, tabletop, Traveller 1 Comment

Laserburn – the ancestor of Warhammer 40K

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Barwickian

This article was supposed to be the start of an occasional series on what I call revenant games: long out-of-print gems (or near-misses) cluttering up my bookshelves. However, I can’t

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Gaming British, Laserburn, old school 4 Comments

One character or many: an old-school turning point?

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Barwickian

When I started playing D&D in the early ’80s, it wasn’t uncommon for players to play several characters simultaneously. It wasn’t the way we played in my first game; there

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Treasure Trap – the first British LARP

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Barwickian

The last entry mentioned the White Dwarf ad for Treasure Trap, the first commercial British LARP, and perhaps the first British one altogether. It ran its first adventure in April

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Gaming live action, old school, Treasure Trap, White Dwarf 1 Comment

From the Archives: White Dwarf 28

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Barwickian

White Dwarf 28, dated December 1981/January 1982, contains the usual columns supporting D&D/AD&D and Traveller, with news reviews and one general article, The Magic Jar by Andy Slack, on how

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Gaming AD&D, old school, tabletop, White Dwarf 2 Comments

From the archives: White Dwarf 27

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Barwickian

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying James Maliszewski’s descriptions of his old copies of Ares and Dragon magazines. It’s long been in my mind to do something similar for some of the

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Pathfinder and Uzbeki party games

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Barwickian

Gosh, it’s been 10 months since I wrote anything here. If something as eclectic as this blog ever attracted a regular reader, he or she has long since given up.

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Gaming freeform, Pathfinder Leave a comment
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