...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.

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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.