“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien So we continue to build our company and align our games. All eyes here are on Essen and the biggest boardgame convention in Europe. There is so much to do and so little time. Our main focus right now is preparing the prototype games, we are taking 3 to the show to meet some game production leads

As a bit of an aside from boardgames which has been entirely consumptive of my free time these last weeks I thought I would post about RPGs and in particular one of my passions ad-libbing. So obviously I am a fan but you can’t ad-lib in a vacuum if you want a game to last more than a couple of sessions. For this reason I have some strict rules 😊 So the first is I am a big fan of macro level world design. I hate those hints for starting GMs that tell you to start small with

Greetings from the Other One, Darren, Co-Owner of Halcyon Games. Halcyon Games gets its name from the expression "Halcyon Days" from a Greek tale about calmer, more peaceful times. I remember when Jon and our other gaming buddies met up about creating a games company before we all set off on our various careers, when we were fresh out of school, but we never took the leap. Well it has come back full circle with the creation of this new journey. From the early days we spent l

So, we are two old guys who started playing games together back in first year of secondary school. Through my mum, a college Economics lecturer I had learnt about this weird idea called Dungeons and Dragons and 1980, as it was, I went and bought myself the ‘Blue Book’ D&D rules. Taking a big A0 sheet of 2cm graph paper my dad had from his work as a graphic artist I drew a dungeon and took it to school along with some dice the rule book and some miniatures. I found half a doze

JibbaJibba: So in the words of the great lost sage Ao Oa "do you mind not washing your socks in that sink, my penguin sleeps there.” DamberVance: Nice little Ao oA quote by the way, though note the proper spelling of his name, Need I remind you of the example he set with the famous historian, Quinx of Purpurp, who once clumsily misquoted him. 1'm told the people of Purpurp would miss their mascot, the green spotty 'Quinx' bunny, after it has been with them so long. Apparent