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 | Jan 22, 2018 | 2nd Incarnation Development, Monkey Monday
So said one of my Kung Fu teachers many moons ago, when we turned up with long faces, and miserable spirits to class one cold January evening. I then went on to have one of the most fun and enjoyable classes I ever had. As a result, I find that sentence a nice little...
by Newt | Nov 13, 2017 | 2nd Incarnation Development, Monkey Monday
This Monkey Monday I’m busy updating the Kickstarter backers of where I’m up to. Monkey the Roleplaying Game has gone to final proof is more or less art complete (in the sense I might go “Oh I need a picture of the Jade Emperor!” i.e. last...
by Newt | Oct 9, 2017 | Monkey Monday
Over a day and a half, while I was researching for the Mandate of Heaven (which I co-ran with +John Ruddy and +Lynn Yin at Furnace in Sheffield last weekend), I’ve learnt what an absolutely fucked place/concept the Chinese 10 Courts of Hell are. A place of...
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...
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