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Who is in what game for April Rotation

The One Ring GM: Andy  Andrew W  Graham W Jo F Kat  Will L Traveller  GM: Richard T  Callum   Chris J  Freddie M Helen H Neil  Hard to be the Bard  GM: Mark  David H Lucas M Matt  Richard C  William P  Star Trek Adventures  GM: Liam  Daniel  George  Jon Kasama  Mareen  Simon Hibbs  Star Wars Edge of the Empire  GM: Shaun  Benjamin C Em  Jason  Saif

Roleplaying Game? Sounds cool... but what is it?

A Roleplaying Game is a tabletop game that gives players the opportunity to take on the roles of characters. They are available in a vast variety of possible genres, including Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror and Superhero genres, and the possibilities are endless. Roleplaying Games can be based on anything, from your favourite novels, computer games, films or period in history to games with an original story. Roleplaying Games are usually run with 1 Game Master and 2 to 6 Players, but it’s possible to have a game session with as few as 1 Game Master and 1 Player or to have more than 6 Players join the game. Getting started with Roleplaying Usually, before beginning play, each Player creates a character or picks a pre-generated character from several available options. This gives the character a personality and background. This is supported by the character’s abilities. Most Roleplaying Games use character sheets to record specific vital statistics for each character. These are often expressed

So what's your favourite acronym?

Role Play Games are littered with acronyms from DM (or Dungeon Master) or GM (or Games Master), both of which are used interchangeably. But you can roll further up to Role Play Games, or is it Roleplay Games, or even Roleplaying Games, or Role Playing Games..... confused, yep. Well the acronym stays the same at least RPG. Then Tabletop (or is that Table Top) RPG enters from stage left, crying out ha har! You forgot me! then you have TTRPG, as why not elongate an acronym to make it longer. So with this mess kicking it all off, what other acronyms litter the game(s)? AC – Armor Class d% or d100 – A percentile die roll, either by rolling a round 100-sided die or two 10-sided dice. AoO/OA – Attack of Opportunity or Opportunity Attack AoE – Area of Effect AP – Action Points BTB – By the Book CP – Character Points Crit – Critical Hit DC – Difficulty Class nat 1 – fumble HP – Hit Points IC – In Character LoE – Line of Effect LoS – Line of Sight Metagame – Metagaming is when players discuss th

Votes are in, dun dun dunnnnnn

The Clubs Inaugural Annual General Meeting went ahead on the 26th of March. There was 3 main items Voting on the new constitution Voting on the nominated committee members Information on the shortlist of Venues so far found The meeting was held on our discord channel. The Constitution  The new constitution was voted on and with 100% of the votes, the new constitution was passed. The website has been updated with the new constitution. Committee members Chairperson With 100% of the vote, Carol was voted in as our Chairperson Treasurer With 100% of the vote, Jerrie Sharp was voted in as our Treasurer Secretary With 100% of the vote, Marco was voted in as our Secretary Online Presence Officer With 60% of the vote, Mark C was voted in as our Online Presence Officer Membership Officer With 88.9% of the vote, Hannah was voted in as our Membership Officer Shortlist of Venues  We would be looking to be in a venue by June/July, with that in mind we reached out to over 20 venues, so far 4 have re

The Clubs inaugural Annual General Meeting date announced

The Clubs inaugural Annual General Meeting was announced via email to its members. 26th March starting 7pm on our discord channel. The first part will be voting on the Constitution (attached in the emails). The second part will be voting in your committee for the club. There are 5 roles Chair Secretary Treasurer Online Presence Officer Membership Officer We have had very limited responses for nominations (4 responses, 2 of which are none). Please look inside yourself and see if you would like to nominate yourself for a position on the committee. You can nominate yourself for one or more of the positions, as the way the voting will go we will be voting in each position individually. Then the person who gained that position is removed from the voting list for the other positions, this way there are no wasted votes.

Members Blogs

 As well as this blog which is updates and info from the Hobbits Hole itself. There are a few blogs that our members have themselves: Girls in RPGs A blog by a girl! shock horror! yep and its quite a cool read (especially as I badgered her into starting one 😁) Gaming and Geekery This is a blog by Simon Hibbs about his gaming and geeky thoughts and musings. Knights and Castles This is a blog by Freddie about Knights and Castles, a collection of stories about famous German knights, castles and the legends, myths and sagas which surround them. Role Play Games: sessions from a Mad man This is my (Mark) personal RPG blog, atm the moment mainly for formulating the sessions I GM into an ongoing story, so things can be re-referenced (and or spikes my memory of bits I forgot to write about). Been pondering writing other bits about RPGs, but well we will see.. The Aggregator These along with this blog are aggregated to show on out website: https://www.hobbitshole.uk/blogs So if you fancy being