#GoodMorning all. There's been #coffee & prayer, and soon a trip to Leeds. However, a sadder note, in the news that veteran #RPG friend & con-goer David Gallico has died. A regular at Continuum 2026 & other Midland cons like #OBaWS, and I'm pretty sure, others, he will be missed.
1. Forbidden Lands. I've always liked the idea of robust survival fantasy, and @orlanth.bsky.social sold this game really well on his podcast.
Beautiful box. Bought from @allrolledup.bsky.social and collected in person at #OBaWS last year.
It's still in shrinkwrap
Oh yes - think you ran at #OBaWS with incredible models
Yes, saw we had a few games on offer at #OBaWS - would like to try when next get a chance
Last 5 #TTRPGs
Slugblaster
Pathfinder 2e
Call of Cthulhu
Liminal
Punk Is Dead
Slightly influenced by having been at #OBaWS last weekend.
From #OBaWS, The Hidden Isle, Black Hack, Bladerunner, Sentinels Comics and from non-con games Star Trek Adventures, Pendragon or Legend of the Five Rings for the 5th
Gradually coming out of my post-con gloom. After #OBaWS I was pretty convinced Mon and Tues that I wasn't going to be gaming again.
Indeed, Tuesday was the bleakest I've been about *everything* for a long time.
But now am planning again and talking to people without wanting to punch them...
Feel a bit recovered from #OBaWS - thanks to all those who came and supported the con
My write up of The Owl Bear and The Wizard’s Staff #OBaWS is on my blog.
rpgs4all.blogspot.com
TLDR: A boutique con run by an auteur that acts as a meeting point and melting pot for TTRPG grand wizards from North and South.
#OBaWS in my game I had a young guy. He’s got some stuff up on Adventurers’ League and is considering writing his own game. Throughout the game he was amazing correcting all my calculations. At the end he pointed out a maths mistake on a pregen sheet and suggested I action occur even if people…..
#TTRPGTHOUGHTS
1
I’m a pretty sure I’m a TTRPG good Referee but sometimes it’s difficult to keep up the presence.
The Owl Bear and The Wizard’s Staff #OBaWS is a good convention. But it’s a bit like a real-world Grand Tribunal of TTRPG Grandmaster Wizards. Looking around. Seeing.
1
Honestly fantastic weekend of games at #OBaWS! Thanks so much @asako-soh.bsky.social for organising! And thanks to the wonderful players and GMs - I thoroughly enjoyed every game!
#GoodMorning all! Back after a thoroughly enjoyable weekend of games & gamers a at #OBaWS, and now back to normality (whatever that is). Will feature #coffee & Morning Prayer to start though. Carry On!
Home from #OBaWS and thrilled to have run my first con game for such an enthusiastic group. All round friendly and well run event, would totally recommend. Thanks to @asako-soh.bsky.social for organising.
Really enjoyed running my Liminal scenario today at #OBaWS with excellent players @kehaar.bsky.social @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social @rpgkitchen.bsky.social @red-dog.xyz & Ian (don’t know your handle) who came up with a really clever solution to resolve the plot. Well done chaps. Deluxe and delightful
Above all thanks to @asako-soh.bsky.social. So good to play games and meet friends for a long weekend, needed that, so thanks. #OBaWS
Back safe home again from a fab #OBaWS con. Thanks to @fabiovol.bsky.social for Eat The Reich (and we did 😋), @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social for Cthulhu Hack (loved it but can’t say why, spoilers dude) and @burnafterrunning.bsky.social for rip-roaring transformers fun.
Home again from The Owlbear and Wizard’s Staff day 2. #OBaWS Played Wildsea for the first time, with @icooper.bsky.social - much weirdness around our bar in the skeleton of a leviathan. Then chatting and minor challenges with trains.
Another wonderful #OBaWS is sadly complete.
Much fun had. Great to meet old and new people!
Many thanks to @asako-soh.bsky.social for organising. And @davepaters.bsky.social @druggeddwarf.bsky.social @burnafterrunning.bsky.social @zos93.bsky.social for GMing!
🧡🧡🧡
Having enjoyed two excellent games at #OBaWS convention yesterday, I have an addendum to RPG theory:
System matters...but in 3 hour convention one shots, it doesn't matter very much
Got back from #OBaWS just over an hour ago, great weekend! Thanks to @asako-soh.bsky.social for organising and thanks to @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social and @firstage.bsky.social for running Blade Runner and Warhammer respectively. I ran Star Wars D6 Scavenger Hunt twice, thanks to all the players.
Back from #OBaWS a little early, woke up the sniffles and a bit of a sore throat.. decided to get an earlier train.
Had so much fun though...played Outgunned and Star Wars - got to play a failed Jedi - was fairly obvious why they were failed.
And ran my Rivers of London/Enid Blytonesque 1939
Day 2 of #OBaWS and third shirt of the trinity, Call of Cthulhu and the monster size reference chart. Many thanks to @chaosium.bsky.social for their generous support for the convention
Is there any lunch available at the venue today? #OBaWS Or I’ll hunt a sandwich on the way up.
Day one of #OBaWS in the bag - played Runequest with @dracowie.bsky.social at the helm, and ran @evilhat.bsky.social Deathmatch Island is its backstabby, betrayal-laden one-shot format. Excellent fun and hat tip to @matthewbroome.bsky.social for making it all happen!
Second game at #OBaWS was Savage Rifts run by the infinitely patient @orlanth.bsky.social
I played Glitter Boy pilot, Jean-Paul with an outrageous French accent and I punched a wrong-un through a wall.
Best day evAr!
Nipped home quickly - change and out again to post-games drinks. This time, a Runequest shirt, Snakepipe Hollow to recognise the support of @chaosium.bsky.social for #OBaWS - tomorrow, Call of Cthulhu
Today at the Owlbear and Wizard’s Staff convention in Leamington Spa; first time visiting.
Played Runequest with @dracowie.bsky.social, with a motley crew following a treasure map. And Triangle Agency with @druggeddwarf.bsky.social, making sense of a local threat to reality. Good stuff. #OBaWS
So #OBaWS over for me for this year. Train down, two great games. Met people - @thedicemechanic.bsky.social at last - train home. Gonna work out Super cheap.
