Finding the Fun: A Special New Year Edition
Welcome to the last Finding the Fun of 2015 folks! Its been a busy year at Casa Draper, between work, embarking on a few personal projects (I’ll keep my incessant whining about the futility of...
View ArticleFinding the Fun — Rise: Battle Lines
According to Steam, Rise: Battle Lines is all about drafting an army and fighting a battle all in 15 thrilling minutes. So, we sent in David to take a look at it. Is it table top game play brought to...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
“Your world remembers magic,” The wizard tells you, reclining in his chair and taking a puff of his pipe. “Once, travel between our worlds was far simpler, but those paths are now mostly forgotten, and...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Numenera
Grim clenches his fists, fixing his glare upon the false Aeon Priest. He can feel the nano-machines saturating the air above him, providing the link he needs to the ancient monolith of synth and metal...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Don’t Turn Your Back
All of them knew that friendships in the Mad City could only last as long as they were convenient. This time the Wax King smiled discernibly as he turned away. “And don’t turn your back, my dear Awake...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Monster of the Week
I spent a large part of my teenage years watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Even now, I still find the series a great way to while away an evening, though I don’t watch it with the same reverence and...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Savage Worlds Deluxe
Behind the party lay the wreckage of Doctor Von Marck’s behemoth of a machine, the Burrower. After bringing them through miles of the earth’s crust, deep beneath the earth, the fight with the giant...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Dread
It was just like any other party, until the screams started and the body turned up in the study, now the survivors are on the run from a man in a hockey mask and there’s only a slim chance they’ll make...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: D&D 5e, Part Two
The fighter’s sword is sharp, the mages have their spells prepared, and the rogue has a dagger up their sleeve, ready for the opportune moment to strike. This time on Finding the Fun, we’re talking...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Star Wars Edge of the Empire Beginner Game
Blasters at the ready! The party has been let loose on the lawless streets of Tatooine, ready for adventure and to fight for survival and escape Mos Shuuta using only their wits, their skills and a...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Trail of Cthulhu
The clues have been assembled, the forbidden lore has been uncovered. Can the party of investigators fight off untold horrors to prevent eldritch creatures from running amok and consuming their world?...
View ArticleFinding The Fun: Seven Hills Convention
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last Finding the Fun, so let’s do something a little out of the ordinary. Instead of a review of an RPG system, how about I walk you through the highlights of my...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Misspent Youth
The Man is clamping down, tightening the grip on society. Our only hope is a group of defiant teens with nothing but distaste for authority. Will they save the day or sell out? This week on Finding the...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Neon Sanctum
Mutants are everywhere, the lands beyond Neon City are ruined wastelands, you can buy cybernetics and implant them with relative ease, and the mega-corporations rule supreme. Yup, this week we’re...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Book of Lost Spells
It’s been more than half a year since the Starter Set for D&D 5th Edition was released, and we’re starting to see the phoenix-like rise of the third party published sourcebook from the ashes of...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Lords of Gossamer and Shadow
In my mid-teens, I picked up a copy of Swords of Corum from a second-hand market-stall, it wasn’t my first experience with Michael Moorcock (my dad had given me a stack of Elric novels a few years...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Iron Edda – War of Metal and Bone
Since I reviewed Fate Core in December (You’ve not read the review yet? Go read it now, I’ll wait…okay, done?) I’ve been eager to get back into the system to give it another try, but finding a setting...
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)
In the welsh dresser we keep in our living room there’s a small collection of board games; mostly they stay there because I am unforgivably crap at board games. I like to call it the Dresser of Shame....
View ArticleFinding the Fun: Fate Core
GM: It’s been a while since you left your Battered Old Ford Cortina. *holds up Fate Point* It’d be a damn shame if something where to happen to it, in the middle of Crusty Ol’ North-East London,...
View ArticleFinding the Fun – D&D 5e
A few weeks ago there was a discussion on Twitter about the lack of RPG reviews out there that simply show whether the reviewer had fun whilst trying out the new product. I was trying to point out that...
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