Today I dropped by Kensington Town Hall for
Dragonmeet 2013 with two of the next generation of gamers* in tow.
We had barely entered the building when we bumped into Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone CBE, who were giving the first seminar of the day on the early days of
Games Workshop. It was a surreal experience to later find ourselves sitting in said seminar with FF and GW artist
Tony Hough, the
Tin Man himself Neil Rennsion and Mr Joe Dever, the creator and writer of the classic
Lone Wolf series of gamebooks.
Mr Joe Dever and Yours Truly
We weren't there for long but did manage to catch up with Graham Bottley of
Arion Games (and take delivery of my copy of
Maelstrom: Domesday, that I'd backed via Kickstarter), say a quick hello to Jay Wallis of
Greywood Publishing, FF fans Stuart Lloyd, James Aukett and John Berry, Dominic McDowall and Andrew Kendrick of
Cubicle 7, one time artistic collaborator of mine
Ralph Horsley, and Paco Jaen of
G*M*S Magazine. Oh, and buy a lot of dice of course**.
Tony Hough, Neil Rennison and Stuart Lloyd
FF fans James Aukett and John Berry
Graham Bottley of Arion Games
Messrs Jackson and Livingstone did reveal one interesting snippet about the future of
Fighting Fantasy, involving a possible game involving miniatures of FF monsters, and possibly being crowdfunded. So, backers of
YOU ARE THE HERO, watch this space...
* And maybe even games designers, judging by the way they were changing the rules of 'Loopin' Louie'.
** But then why wouldn't you?
