We're still here.

Howdy folks, hope you all had a good Easter. Worlds Away is back up and running this Saturday as usual though we will likely be in the smaller meeting room due to the Writers Squad event that is going to be in the Larger room. Last night was World Book Night and this marked a whole year since the launched the club. Lyndsey showcased some of the things that we run and spoke to a number of people about the club so, fingers crossed, we'll have a few new members soon.

Things have been quite busy at work for the last few weeks, what with reorganising pretty much the entire 1st floor of the Library and all of the end of financial year admin. I've also been really busy outside of work with the Ultimate Frisbee team I run and getting ready for the first Empire LRP event that occurred last weekend. Consequently I've not had very much time to write to write blog posts, hence the radio silence for the past few weeks.

I have a few posts in the pipeline as part of the "Focus On" series, concerning roleplaying games and LRP as well as updating you on the progress of my Imperial Guard army. There is always space for other members to write posts for us, which should mean you won't end up having to wait nearly a month for the next post!

Look what we found when tidying up the office.

So those of you who have been into the office to help move the gaming clubs boxes on a Saturday will know that that it is often a bit of a mess (it's because its a busy working space full of books and boxes and not because we are all untidy, honest!). Earlier today we were clearing out some unneeded furniture to be taken away next week and we found a copy of Once Upon a Time the Storytelling Card Game that was used on a project about fairy tales organised as part of Bournemouth and Poole Cultural Hub. Well I couldn't let that go to waste so its now part of the gaming clubs growing collection of games.

Lyndsey has been working on the latest newsletter and this should be with you all shortly. Keep your eyes peeled for more information on our Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team tournament, AGM and World Book Night.

...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?

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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.