by Newt | Jul 26, 2019 | Convention Games
I’m off to Burrito Con at fanboy 3 tomorrow and I shall be running Peaches Falling Fallen From Heaven (which is part of the upcoming Mandate of Heaven adventure book). Chang’an is the cosmopolitan capital of the great Tang Empire. Here Chinese citizens, brush...
by Newt | Sep 3, 2018 | Convention Games, Monkey Monday, Rules Advice
Recently Lloyd, UK Games Expo’s Games on Demand extraordinaire, pointed out that my usual 40 minutes to one-hour explanation of the game’s setting doesn’t hack it as a quick and fast intro to a table full of expectant players. To avoid Lloyd’s displeasure in the...
by Newt | Jul 30, 2018 | Convention Games, Monkey Monday
A couple of weekends ago it was time for the biannual Continuum gaming convention at Leicester University in their lovely leafy student village in Oadby. Friday Arrived safe and sound just after lunch after a faultless drive down from the North of England, with driver...
by Newt | Oct 2, 2017 | Convention Games, Monkey Monday
Furnace this weekend coming, so here’s the information about the three tables that the Mandate of Heaven runs across. Information for players You will need to sign up for a ‘table’. This means we’ve got table allocation done before the game starts and we can...
by Newt | Jan 5, 2017 | 23 Days of Monkey, 2nd Incarnation Development, Convention Games
Today I’m going to talk about the most ambitious game of Monkey I’ve ever written – The Mega Monkey. I’m planning to run the whole thing at 7 Hills convention in April, after play-testing it with my home group. I’ll also run it again at UK Games Expo, but I’ve yet to...
by Newt | Dec 25, 2016 | 23 Days of Monkey, 2nd Incarnation Development, Convention Games, Kung Fu Christmas
This an introductory scenario for Monkey, that I’ll be including in the main rulebook if he Kickstarter funds as one of the Stretch Goals. The following is the pitch I gave when i ran it Furnace 2015 a UK convention in Sheffield held during October. If you see...
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