Right. Let's do this

I'd been wanting to play a tabletop RPG since I was in my early teens. My parents had an unused copy of the 1977 D&D Basic set which my brother and I pored over, looking through the bestiary and trying to figure out how to play it.

Prior to this, we'd played Heroquest and Space Crusade, not to mention playing the ever-living shit out of Necromunda and Blood Bowl, but we'd never made the leap across to playing anything with the "Role Playing" element.

I'd bought pretty much the entire Old World of Darkness sourcebooks, but again never got around to playing it (a mixture of a lack of confidence in trying to find other players, and being unable to work out how to run a game which in my mind was a bit too touchy-feely for me).

It wasn't until I was in my mid-20s when we finally got a group together and started playing roleplaying games, starting with the Fantasy Flight "Black Crusade" game (playing as the "BAD GUYS!!!" in the Warhammer 40K setting) which was a lot of fun, Eventually I felt confident enough to start running my own games (starting with Call of Cthulhu, and moving on to Deadlands, Numenera and Wyrd Games' Through The Breach).

I've found that I prefer writing my own scenarios to running them, but I've had a lot of fun running various adventures. Published campaigns I've run/am running:

- Masks of Nyarlathotep (6th Ed - Call of Cthulhu)
- Horror on the Orient Express (7th Ed - Call of Cthulhu - Ongoing)
- Nythera - (Through the Breach)
- The Devil's Backbone (Numenera)
- Beyond All Worlds (Numenera)

Games I'm planning on running:
- In Defence of Innocence (Through the Breach)
- A Bad Night in Rottenburg (Through the Breach)
- Northern Aggression (Through the Breach)
- Red & Pleasant Land (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)
- Black Sun Deathcrawl (Dungeon Crawl Classics)
- Maze of the Blue Medusa (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)
- Slumbering Ursine Dunes (Labyrinth Lord)
- Fever Dreaming Marlinko (Labyrinth Lord)
- Misty Isles of the Eld (Labyrinth Lord)

I'm also planning on fleshing out the campaign setting that my Numenera games sort of mutated into. As opposed to the Ninth World, it has gradually turned into the mangled up offspring of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol and Fist of the North Star. I'll be examining this further in this blog hopefully.

(We've finally got around to playing D&D a few weeks ago)

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