Got Game? - The Rising Sons Brewery

26/07/2022

A small group of us from Got Game have started a Podcast! Actual Play of the Monster of The Week RPG. We would love it if you'd give us a listen!!

Our first mystery, Fresher's Week Blues is available now on Spotify and Anchor! Just search for What Could Possibly Go Wrong? !!

01/05/2020

*chuckles darkly*

Secret Panel HERE 🏎️ tapas.io/episode/657055

08/04/2020

3 years ago today we ran our second international table top day and thanks to you it was a great success

29/03/2020

Good evening all, and a right fine day it was too. Except for all the bad stuff, but I'm not going to mention that.

Instead, I'm going to throw up a new link for the Discworld RPG we're running as a play by post!

18/03/2020

Hi folks, Jon from Got Game here. Just throwing up a link to the Slack workspace I've set up for a play by post Discworld rpg. Join in, create a character, or just chat, whatever you like! It's running on the Fate Core system, all of which is freely available as an SRD online, details on the channels in Slack.

17/03/2020

If you need to take your mind off things, We are setting up a play by post Discworld Rpg via Slack. DM us for details!

17/03/2020

Great idea for those of us needing a board game fix during the times ahead

While we wait

Okay knaves I get it, there's nothing like getting together with friends and gaming, it's the community part that makes it good. WEELLLLL tough s**t, we can't do that at the moment. Not forever just for now but in the mean time we need to be clever.

I spoke about Through the Ages a while back, until the restrictions are lifted I'm going to talk all about online gaming. A lot of you will be familiar with this, maybe a few are not or disagree with this type of witchcraft but that never stopped me talking in the past.

There are a number of platforms out there to allow you to play boardgames online. I'm going to talk about a few, first up is the granddaddy of online gaming VASSAL or more correctly the Vassal Engine.

http://www.vassalengine.org/

The Vassal engine is an environment that runs on Linux, Mac and Windows and allows you to run a variety of board games in the form of modules. Here's the good bit. Vassal is Free, the modules are free. Bad bit? You mostly have to enforce the rules yourself which you do have to do anyway with the cardboard version. The second badish thing is there's a bit of a learning curve on using the interface. It's not bad, far from it but it takes a little time to get your head around it. That's okay though, you have time.

Now once you're up and going and picked your weapon of choice and persuaded a buddy or five to do the same you can play a STACK of games against each others. There's currently 2000+ games there. Some are pretty amazing. I've played Twilight Struggle with gaming friends and it even enforced the rules itself. The interface is like a good conference call application with chat areas and a variety of tools. Interestingly a lot of games companies like GMT release modules themselves so they can test their game before they go intro production.

It's worth going and checking it out, it's also worth watching a few YouTube videos on how to operate it. Now the last good thing is it's not processor intensive so it will run on very low spec hardware.

Anyhoe, check it out, There's a LOT of game on there and it's really proper free. a good place to start

Huzzah!

Vic

17/03/2020

Hi folks, our friends at diceandcounters.com would like to offer a discount to our members while we're all getting through this trying time.

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We are a board game site based in the north cork area. With our passion and knowledge of board games we want to bring this fantastic social pastime to as much of Ireland as we can. Dice and Counters bringing you offline fun, one board game at a time.

15/03/2020

With many of us stuck indoors in the coming days/weeks, would people have any interest in an rpg play by post via discord?