We went to the new PD LRP fest game Odyssey this weekend. Although we didn’t stay for Saturday evening as we had wedding planning to do we did get a good feel for the game. Instead of Maelstrom’s Play-by-(e)mail game of Civ Odyssey is very much rooted in the events of the weekend. The generals [...]
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A few paragraphs
There are a number of potential topics for blog posts swirling in my brain which I’m not going to have time to write. I shall therefor attempt to address each on in paragraph form (Twitter style is a little too brief for me). We were at Maelstrom this weekend. We splashed out for a van [...]
Inauspicious
Maelstrom was fun to a degree but I was plagued by a number of OOC occurrences which slightly marred our enjoyment of the event. We arrived on site pretty much without incident and as per usual we opened the car windows as we handed over our tickets. After finding somewhere to park (having car next [...]
Packed and ready to go
I’m all packed and ready to head off to the (hopefully) sunny climes of Maelstrom for a little light role-playing fun. The weather forecast doesn’t look too horrendous and at least Saturday looks as though it will be fine. As usual I have a nagging feeling I’ve forgotten something but I’m sure it#s nothing major. [...]
Bifurcated Weekend
The weekend was one of two halves, one half LRP and the other half drinking bubbly in gardens. I worked late on Thursday to get everything I needed out of the door for our “alpha” release so I could take Friday off. This included a crash course in Java Server Pages so I could make [...]
Ouchie Pain
LARP is a funny old game that I find very enjoyable. Unfortunately I think my body is disagreeing with me It was an entertaining weekend at the Tower (the only all-indoor LARP site we use at SoS). The narrow crawl ways make it a good place to play Lightning Jack (a Teornarch, apparently the characters [...]