Author: Bill Heron
ORC Edinburgh: Moving On
ORC Edinburgh (Open Roleplaying Community Edinburgh) is the RPG community website I’ve been running for several years. It has been a challenge. The RPG scene in Edinburgh has grown exponentially, along with other tabletop games. Over the last few months, I’ve realised I can’t keep track of the various games and groups, not to mention…
Damnation Dossier: NPCs for the Mutant Chronicles
As I’ve been working on Mutants & Heretics as well as the Dark Eden campaign, I’ve been having fun stat’ting up NPCs for the Mutant Chronicles. Here’s a couple of new NPCs: Avena Reznik [NEMESIS] “The pin-up of CEN” as she is known in Luna PD (although not to her face), Avena is a detective,…
Taking a breather!
It’s almost the end of summer here in Edinburgh. The leaves are already coming off the trees, and the Festival is finally ending. After a rotten personal start to the year, things have – by and large – sorted themselves out. I’ve found it necessary to de-clutter, and got rid of some of my gaming…
A Silent Spring!
It’s been pretty quiet here recently. There’s a number of reasons for this, and I’ll come to them shortly: it’s a mixture of good and bad news. Simply put: I’d had a lot of plans but some are going to have to take a back seat. I’ll be attending the UK Games Expo and Dragonmeet conventions this…
Great RPG clearout begins!
I’ve got a number of books in my collection that are either duplicates or are of no use to me, so I’ve decided to give them away. As with the Pathfinder give-away recently, I’d rather these went to a decent home, and someone made a donation to charity. Alternatively, trade me something. Some of these books…
Open Games Day 2016
As de facto High Heid Yin for the Open Roleplaying Community (ORC Edinburgh), I thought I’d mention we decided to try and get more folk in to play RPGs. We’re open to anyone who wants to play RPGs in Edinburgh, but not everyone can get into a game. Also a number of GMs would like…
Fiction – Morning, Noon, and Night
This (very short) piece of fiction is set within the Mutant Chronicles universe, the day Imperial Conquistadors unearth a strange tablet on Pluto… The day of the Big Scream. It is also available to download as a PDF here. Happy to hear any feedback in the comments – I plan to do more of these. Morning,…
Demo Games and demonstrations of RPGs
It’s no secret that I’ve been running a lot of demo (demonstration) games over the year. Over at ORC Edinburgh we’re planning to try out a “Games Day” of demo games to allow those new to RPGs to have a shot at them. So what makes for a good demo? I’ve written some basic stuff…
RPG Retrospective – 2015
As has become the tradition, this RPG Retrospective looks back over my gaming year. It’s been one hell of a year for me. ORC Edinburgh After a management change at the Peartree lead to the possibility of being charged to play, ORC Edinburgh moved to the Kilderkin pub on the Royal Mile. It’s been a…
Dragonmeet 2015 – London ILEC
Dragonmeet 2015 was great fun. It’s safe to say that I had a great time. It’s a busy 1-day convention held in London, at the ILEC Conference Centre, usually on the first Saturday in December. It looks like it has outgrown the venue this year and will relocate to another location next year, though. There were…