This week we took a trip to the mountains for the first annual Beyond Cataclysm RPG Retreat. The plan was to escape for a bit to a beautiful place, and to use that time to rest, and to enjoy good games, good food and good people.
The full gang of us ended up as Anna Blackwell and Panny & Aled from Leyline Press. (And me, Chris Lowry). Don't we look magnificent?
The Lake District is a decent trek away. The Leyline boys came up from London by car, and Anna jumped on the train down to Kendal where I picked her up.
The weather was... as you'd expect, in the Lake District, in October. Lots of heavy drizzle; a perfect excuse to sit inside playing tabletop roleplaying games for hours on end.
Shadow of Mogg
Our first evening, after a pitch black hunt for Aled & Panny in the damp hills, we settled down to an utterly ridiculous game of Shadow of Mogg, Leyline's mock political anti-game. With a group voting mechanic and an Alice-in-Wonderland approach to a London Underground map, it was deeply stupid and quite a lot of fun.
I played a 96 year old dementia-riddled alternate-universe version of Laura Kuenssberg, and eventually died after being shot by James Bond. It's how she'd have wanted to go.
The History of D&D
We slept long and deep, waking around 10am ready for porridge and coffee. Professor Panny took us through a sort of informal …
