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You may have noticed some changes, or that the articles section just grew quite a bit and that some of my game experiments just appeared in the sidebar. This is because I’m correcting a mistake from 2006 and migrating the ezine content across into this site. All this is content that had languished on the old org.uk version of the site, and that I wanted in one place because Realms is one site with different facets, not a set of distinct projects.

The first weekend in June is the weekend of the wonderful UK Games Expo, a three day long games extravaganza featuring the best of the UK’s boardgames, miniatures, card games, video games and RPGs.

I’ll be there with the Collective Endeavour, with copies of Pulp! and Covenant for sale. I’ll also be running a game of Covenant on Saturday morning, it’s called Ends and Means, but like all such scenarios it’s wide open for playroom input.

I’ll also be running demos all through the Saturday and Sunday in the trade hall. With a little surprise, if I can get my act together…

This weekend I’ll be at the wonderful Conpulsion in Edinburgh. A great weekend’s worth of convention, I’ll be speaking on a panel on smallpress publishing and manning the Collective Endeavour stall. Come and say hi!

In 1999 I got the realms.co.uk domain name free as part of an ISP deal. This site, in its initial form, was created. Uploaded by 56k modem (remember those?), it began as a place to put reviews, articles and game ideas. Some of those reviews look pretty awful now – 7th Sea being one, but some of the other work holds up. That site of course moved to the Realms.org.uk domain, largely due to wanting server-side scripting, but not being able to free the domain from the ISP…

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I just got back from UK Games Expo, a wonderful local convention in Birmingham. As always it was a well organised, diverse and entertaining event. A heady mix of board games, card games, roleplaying games and computer games (including a funky retro gaming area). RPGs had a bigger presence this year, and the event as a whole seems to be growing rapidly.

My main purchase of the con were some of the excellent, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang miniatures from Copplestone castings, who have a fun looking game in preparation for the same.

As always I manned the Collective Endeavour stand, where I soft launched Pulp!. This is now in final form (not radically different to the ashcan, but now with coil bind, fixed points calculations and corrected traits). If you fancy trying it, the quickstart demo is available.

Finally, I played a very enjoyable game of Hot War, run by Scott Dorward. If you get a chance to play his con scenario, “A New Covenant”, it’s a must.