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December Rotation - Who is in where

Who is in what game for December Rotation Shadow of the Weird Wizard  GM: Andrew  Adam  Andy Denton  Daniel Cook  Jerrie Curran  Richard C  Richard Tunnard  The End Days  GM: Helen  Benjamin Caller  Kat  Marco  Rosie A  Shaun Parsons  William Pearce  The Indie Dozen  GM: James  George  Graham Wilson  Jo  Mark Cunningham  Michelle Snow Saif  Castle Falkenstein  GM: Liam  Douglas  Em  Julian Weston  Milo Caldwell  Neil  Ornette Powell  One Tail of Two, Three and Four  GM: Chris  Daniel Collins  David H  Freddie Meier  Jon kasama  Matt DLP  Will Laurenson We are always on the look out for people to try out GMing in later rotations April 2025 needs at least 1 more GM August 2025 loads If the Idea of running a full rotation scares you, share it and split it into a couple of games. Some Guides and Tips on ...

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 –...

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...

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 fan...

Draft Constitution Released

  It has been emailed to all members, the Draft Constitution and date for the inaugural Annual General Meeting where this Constitution will be voted on and, if agreed, then Committee members will be voted in. Exciting times

An Acorns life

 In the land of sundried tomatoes, lives an acorn who wishes to be a tree. The Acorn is happily growing from its branch, as its time will come, when it can be tree. As the months progress it swells and grows, it is ripe n ready for its time. Finally its time came, and it sprung free from its bond to the tree, free to grow further and independent of the tree, free to reach up to its potential. Hitting the ground it landed softly in a bed of leaves. My time is here, I must show them I can be tree. When suddenly a squirrel came along and stuffed the acorn into its gob and chowed down on it. For the Acorn was not to be a tree, the Acorn was to be squirrel shit.