First post of the new year and I haven't got a great deal to say, so just a brief stream of consciousness to get things going.

Part 1


I recently purchased a copy of Fr16 The Shining South from ebay which is a great item, just so you know. At the moment I am slowly but surely rebuying all of the Forgotten Realms items that I once owned and foolishly sold. I brought this for a fairly acceptable amount and when it arrived it turned out to be a softback reprint. This was my bad -the  auction clearly stated that it was a new reprint, I just hadn't read the description properly. The moral of this story is to pay attention - I have no issue with the seller and left positive feedback, after all he had done nothing wrong. However the same seller got a little bit of flak on a forum that I frequent which I felt was unfair. Without going into too many details why I generally don't use forums as much any more just because people are idiots - your thoughts??!!

Part 2

On KODT. Check out the Kickstarter and it's creator Ken Whitman for the Live Action videos.
Hours of endless fun for all the family and a great example of why kickstarter is potentially a bloody disaster!!

Part 3

I still haven't painted any of my miniatures - definitely this year, definitely.

Part 4

Looking for some new podcasts to listen too so any recommendations gratefully received.
(BTW please listen to the Grognard Files and the Smart Party, can't recommend either one enough.)

Part 5

There is no part 5.


Keep on gaming, or not if you're me!

Take Care

Carl

Me - it's all about me!

A brief introduction may be in order. I am Carl, a 48 year old from the South of England.
I have a huge fondness for RPGs as well as most other type of analogue games. My game playing is limited to a very small amount of Monopoly with my daughter - simply put I do not have the time or the freedom to play and enjoy games so I have restricted myself to enjoying them in a kind of sideways fashion by listening to podcasts, watching Youtube videos and reading a load of RPG books, as I once again expand my collection of game books.
I buy and sell a bit on Ebay in order to get this stuff, that way it doesn't impact the household finances. This also means that I get to look over loads of books that I most definitely won't be keeping for one reason or another. I am trying to be quite strict on what I keep as there is most certainly the risk of collection "creep". Over the years my collection has literally come and gone; my original stuff went many years ago, and I built up a reasonable amount up until about 4 or 5 years ago when I sold everything off. Whether or not this will be the last time is yet to be seen. (More on what I am collecting in a later entry).


So just a couple of other small points for this entry, as an idea of my interests and the type of thing I like.


Media I follow - again, I'll post more of my reasoning behind these at a later date.


The Grognard Files - podcast.
The Secret Cabal - podcast & Youtube Channel
Game Classy - podcast.
Shut Up & Sit Down - Podcast.
Real Lifes a B****er - blog
The Acaeum Forums - Website.
Lead Adventure Forums - Website
Watch it Played - Youtube Channel


And finally - this is the first RPG book I ever bought (not the actual copy - that's long gone).
From memory I got this in a beach shop in West Wittering(which seems odd even now) in around 1980. It's actually a fine book but I took a bit of stick back then because it wasn't the latest iteration of  the daddy of all RPGs.

Holmes Basic Rules



Humble Beginnings

This is it, a new blog for musings and nonsense about games and gaming.




Not that I am a gamer, I'm just involved in the hobby vicariously through assorted websites, podcasts and forums (with just a small collection of RPG books and magazines safely boxed away in the garage!)




I will probably immediately neglect this though there is a small chance that I might put a bit of content on here. I'm really only doing this for my own benefit - a kind of journaling if you will, but who knows where it might lead.