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  • Megagame Costs – Worked Example

    Megagame Costs – Worked Example

    I’ve just run my first megagame, and there aren’t many places that show you how much a megagame costs to run. Most megagames are run by enthusiasts, and the costs seem to vary wildly from speaking to game runners. So I thought I’d keep some notes for my first megagame “Lit By Another Sun” which…

  • Lit By Another Sun – Tickets on Sale now

    Lit By Another Sun – Tickets on Sale now

    You can now get Lit By Another Sun tickets from Ticket Tailor. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/truenorthmegagames/1834618 Lit By Another Sun A megagame of space colonists and murky factions A realistic Sci-Fi game about establishing a new human Colony in the 23rd century. Inspired by The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, and a lifetime of reading and watching SF. The game…

  • By the Grace of God [Megagame]

    By the Grace of God [Megagame]

    Today I played David Leslie, Admiral of the Scots Navy in By the Grace of God, a Megagame of the period at the end of the first of the civil wars in the 1640s. The game started in the Autumn of 1646 with the Covenanters in control of King Charles I, by the Grace of…

  • Tokuemon Takedown [D&D 5e]

    Tokuemon Takedown [D&D 5e]

    Tokuemon Takedown is the third, and final, session in the Yojimbo mission followed hot on the heels of the Silkworm Inn incident. Starting without pause where we left off the party gathered on the street outside. A crowd of potential helpers had arrived to put out the fire. As they assembled Harbek had created water…

  • Silkworm Inn catches fire [D&D 5e]

    Silkworm Inn catches fire [D&D 5e]

    Fire in the Silkworm Inn is the next part of the Yojimbo D&D campaign following on from Taking Yoichiro Home. Having been bailed out of the local jail, and recruited Kohei to help find Nui the group assemble in the town square to discuss their next moves. The local constabulary keep a close eye on…

  • Taking Yoichiro Home [D&D 5e]

    This is a write up of a D&D 5e session titled Taking Yoichiro Home which is part of a mini-campaign being run for Alexander and his friends. Taking Yoichiro Home So last time round you found Yoichiro, the son of Seibei, and persuaded him to go home with you to see his dad before he…

  • Destructive & Formidable by David Blackmore [Book Review]

    Destructive & Formidable by David Blackmore [Book Review]

    Destructive and Formidable by David Blackmore is a quantitative look at British infantry doctrine using period sources from the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century up to just before the Napoleonic wars. If anything you can see the constancy, which drove the success in battle of British forces, even when outnumbered. Development of British…

  • Washington Conference Megagame Newspaper Reports

    Washington Conference Megagame Newspaper Reports

    For his 70th birthday Dave Boundy decided to run his Washington Conference Megagame again. It’s at least the fourth time Washington Conference has been run as a Megagame. I’ve previously played as a Japanese Admiral, although this time I was one of the press team. Also, unlike recent megagames the entire cast list were veteran…

  • Blood and Thunder 4 – a Megagame of Pirates

    Blood and Thunder 4 – a Megagame of Pirates

    Alexander and I played arms merchants in the Blood and Thunder 4 pirate megagame on Saturday. It was mostly a fun game, although there were a couple of sticky points for us as merchants. I was cast as Theophilus Blodwell, a Glaswegian on the run from the British Authorities. As well as being an arms…

  • Divided Land – Being a Terrorist in a Megagame

    I played the leader of a terrorist organisation in the Divided Land megagame. Divided Land was about the situation in Palestine in 1947, we played from March through to an agreement on partition in August 1947. We then made plans on what would happen when the agreement came into force at 00:01 on 1st January…

  • Undeniable Victory – offside report [Megagame]

    Undeniable Victory – offside report [Megagame]

    Today I played in Undeniable Victory, Ben Moore’s megagame of the Iran Iraq War. I was an Iranian Radical and a member of the Council, starting off as the Procurement Minister responsible for buying military kit. Undeniable Victory I was a late entrant to Undeniable Victory, getting a place because someone else couldn’t make it.…

  • UNSOC Playtest After Action Report

    UNSOC Playtest After Action Report

    UNSOC = Urban Nightmare: State of Chaos. UNSOC is Jim Wallman’s latest evolution of the megagame. After the 300 player Watch the Skies the next step was multiple simultaneous and linked megagames. I blogged about Urban Nightmare during its first run. I played as the emergency services with a friend. UNSOC is multiple cities in…