Thursday, 18 March 2021

Those Dark Places miniatures game

I'll be purchasing some 15mm minis from Ground Zero Games to playtest the miniatures game of Those Dark Places which I've given the working title of Darker Places.

I'm looking forward to this. Wargame design is new to me and it'll be nice to try something different.





Saturday, 13 February 2021

Warlock! from Fire Ruby Designs

Warlock! is a game that I really need to sit down at a table with, and it's on my list of games to play when these lockdowns are lifted.

'Warlock is a rules-light roleplaying game that aims to emulate the feeling of old-school British tabletop games of wondrous and fantastical adventure. Warlock looks to reproduce the play style of its illustrious predecessors but in a light, quick and simple manner, with a consistent rules set that is easily hackable and adaptable as desired.

Features of the system:

Character creation, core rules, combat, magic and creatures all in one book!

Stat-less skills-based characters.

Unique careers that give skills and add flavour.

Simple resolution mechanic - roll a d20, adding your skill and try to get twenty or more.

Simple opposed tests for combat means there’s always a result, for good or for bad!

Spells available to every character.

Built-in setting, the Kingdom, for your games.

Easily adaptable to other settings.

Visit the link below to read an extensive preview of the book and to buy the book and/or PFF.'

Fire Ruby Designs

It's also the game I chose over WFRP 4th edition, believe it or not; my favourite fantasy RPG of all time is WFRP 1st edition, and I got all the other editions in between including Zweihander, but when 4th came out I got the PDF and - as much as I enjoyed it - I didn't feel I needed yet another version of WFRP and another iteration of the rules. I was looking for something similar but much more malleable and then I came across Warlock!, which ticked all my boxes. Great system with an old-school flavour that invoked two of my favourite games, and a nice simple learning curve because I turn 50 this year and I simply don't have the time or the mental energy to learn or remember reams of new rules!

Warlock! is excellent and it's a game that came along at the right time for me as it was simple, evoked my favourite era and genre of fantasy gaming and is just an all-round excellent game. 

Wednesday, 3 February 2021

A look at the Those Dark Places Roleplaying Game from Osprey Games

A bit of self-promotion - a brief look at my RPG 'Those Dark Places' out on November 26th 2020!

More information: https://ospreypublishing.com/store/os...​

The Garblag Games playthrough is here: https://youtu.be/nVTNcgBc2Pg​

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Sunday, 27 December 2020

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Thursday, 19 November 2020

Those Dark Places Tabletop RPG Actual Play

I've just had a really fun ttrpg session with Dicebreaker on their channel playing Those Dark Places!

Check it out!

Saturday, 14 November 2020

The Farsight Podcast Episode 9 - My TTRPG 'Those Dark Places'

A bit of self-promotion - a brief look at my RPG 'Those Dark Places' out on November 26th 2020!

It's taken the better part of 3 years to get to this moment, but I've finally got the printed book in my hands. In three weeks it'll be on general release. I'm so happy with this. So very, very happy.

Pookie review here

Garblag Games playthrough here

Book details here

Reviews from R'lyeh: Blue Collar Sci-Fi Horror II

The first review of 'Those Dark Places' is out, and I'm happy with that!

Reviews from R'lyeh: Blue Collar Sci-Fi Horror II: In the ecologically ravaged future, twelve billion people live on Earth in environmentally sealed kilometre high city blocks clustered aroun...

Wednesday, 4 November 2020

I have the book in my hands!

 I finally have it. I have it in my hands.

It's taken the better part of 3 years to get to this moment, but I've finally got the printed book in my hands. In three weeks it'll be on general release.

I'm so happy with this. So very, very happy.