Normal Service Resumes

We are running as normal this week, well semi-normal anyway. The larger meeting room is being used for another group so we are going to be distributed across the smaller meeting room, exhibition space and the small 1st floor office. The plan is for wargames to be in the meeting room, board games in the exhibition space and roleplayers can use the office.

I won't be with you this week as I'm attending the local roleplaying convention Conception. This runs from today until Sunday so if any of you have a moment to spare, pop down and say hi (you'll probably find me playing Call of Cthulhu).

Next week we have a prime spot on the first floor just by the exit. We are hoping to play a variety of games that the public can join in with. It also gives you chance to practise some WH40K Killteam in preparation for the upcoming tournament (tentatively planned for the 8th March).

Sadly I haven't had chance to finish the post I was writing on the role of story and narrative in games, you can look forward to that for next weeks post.

Heretical Tomes

Look what arrived in our new stock this morning, its a whole load of Horus Heresy novels, free to borrow at Bournemouth Library.

If that doesn't float your boat you can see what new stock we have in all the libraries on our online catalogue. If you are looking for e-books we have those too, as well as e-audio books. And as promised in an earlier post I have started making lists of all our gaming related novels, here is one for Warhammer Fantasy based books.

Roads and Rivers

Yesterday was my day off and it was spent rather productively turning a selection of bits of card that was packing the posters we sell into modular sections of river . I just need to finish covering these  in paper maché and to give them a lick of paint and varnish and we'll have some water features for John's Lizardmen to bathe in. Photos to follow shortly.

I also spent some time putting together some supports for flyover road sections bought from Urban Construct. They make some really nice stuff, I'm particularly impressed by their tunnels/sewers. Over the next few months I'm hoping to put together a selection of relatively intact urban scenery to add to our ruins so we can get a Necromunda campaign underway.

Remember David is starting his Only War campaign this weekend, get to the club for 12 prompt if you want to join in as places are first come first served. The week after the library has Chinese New Year celebrations and consequently the club is cancelled. We are back on the 1st Feb, though in the smaller meeting room. The 8th Feb is National Libraries Day and National Music Libraries day so a wide variety of activities will be occuring, we will have a space on the main library floor so bring along your best painted armies to showcase the club.

Another week goes by.

It's been very busy at Library towers so I haven't had much of a chance to blog this week. So here is a quick set of updates about the club and the library.

For the second time Worlds Away was featured in the Bournemouth Daily Echo last week. They even managed to print the correct times in this one (even if the description is a bit odd).

This week saw the new library catalogue go live, it has all sorts of cool new features. Not least this, unfortunately quite small, list of books related to roleplay and wargaming. We'll make some more lists of fiction related to games at some point in the near future, as well as lists of Manga and Graphic Novel series.

If you live in the Kinson area you may be interested that Ian, the Library Manager at Kinson Hub, would like to start a wargaming club. He's set up a display of his models and sent us some pictures which you can see on our facebook page.

Over the next few month we'll be roaming around the library due to a variety of different events. For the next two weeks we will still be in the larger meeting room. There is no gaming club on the 25th due to the Chinese New Year celebrations. On the 1st Feb we will be in the smaller meeting room and on the exhibition space. The 8th February is National Libraries Day, there is a wide range of activities going on and we will most likely be on the 1st floor.

...and a Happy New Year

Hope every ones Christmas was a good one and you weren't affected by the awful weather. Did Santa bring you all the toys you wanted?

Over the next months Lyndsey and I will be discussing the best ways to improve on our impressive start with our volunteers and the rest of the club. Sometime soon we will hold an AGM so you can let us know what you think we can do to make the club even better.

We already have a few things up our sleeves for this year. Our demo copy of Deadzone has arrived and the rules are sitting on my desk as I write this, we also have the prospect of the 40K Killteam tournament to look forward to. David is planning on running some Only War roleplay, which I can confirm is great game as I'm running a campaign using it at the moment. We should have all the old favourites continuing with more X-Wing, Judge Dredd, Settlers of Catan, 7 Wonders etc., plus a load of games we haven't played yet e.g. Flames of War, Necromunda, Mordheim, Risk.

Have you registered as a book giver?

Check out their website for details

Looking further ahead we will run an event for World Book Night, held on Shakespeare's Birthday, which is happens to be the club's 1st Birthday too. I may even get around to running the Neverwhere roleplaying game I had planned for last year. Even further ahead we have International Games Day, for which we hope to be able to do something even bigger and better than last year.

But that's not it there are a whole host of other things we can do. For the younger members there is Games Workshop's School League to enter, we could run painting or scenery making workshops, a murder mystery, trips to local conventions. The list could go on. The GCN is looking to create better links between local clubs and I'm hoping to do some networking myself especially at Conception in a few weeks and at What's Your Game LRP kit fair after that.

On this blog we still need more contributors we are looking for book reviews, battle reports, game reviews or even simply your musing on games and gaming. I am planning a series of posts focusing on different aspects of gaming, imaginatively titled "Focus On - <insert type of game here>"

It should be a good year.