after action report

Sci-fi is very in fashion at megagames at the moment. I attended the amazing Crisis in Elysium last month. We had four sci-fi games pitched for the Pennines 2018 Calendar…

Some megagames, you check the cast list and the character you’ve been given is a resounding meh. You often don’t know who they are or why they’re important, because you…

I don’t think there’s any historical setting which is more ridiculously accessible than that of pirates. Even if you don’t know the name of a single real pirate, or the…

On Saturday 1st July, over 600 people around the world played the same megagame. The game was based at 11 different locations around Europe and North America, with each location…

One of the many issues with running Megagames in real world settings (or even well-established fictional settings) is that people have preconceptions. I came up against the issue in my…

(gritty, New York, film noir accent) The mean streets of Big City, USA, are no place for an honest person to make a living. The stench of corruption and scandal…

So, that’s it. My second megagame, Everybody Dies Harder, is over and done with. I don’t think I can really believe it. It seemed too good to be true. The…

We’re back into megagaming season, so expect to see a fair few more After Action Reports from me over the next few months. The first of which is… Foxes and…

We’re back into the megagame season! After a long cold dark winter, summer is on the horizon (if you squint), and with it, the first megagame of 2017. Its name…

So I’ve missed a few of my Megagame write-ups while thoroughly engrossed in writing my own. It was a relief to chill out and play in the “Popes, Poison &…