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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hiking by Loch Lochy today, arriving at Laggan Locks.

A shoreline view of Loch Lochy in the Scottish Highlands.

Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stage 1 of the Great Glen Way. A walk along the Caledonian Canal to Gairlochy. Lots of water! Sorted out global geopolitics on the way. Something less taxing tomorrow I think...

Walking by the Caledonian Canal on the Great Glen Way. Lush trees and grey sky.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm on an Ember electric bus for the 109 miles of the West Highlands from Glasgow to Fort William. The bus has more than 350 miles range and is a dream to drive (so the driver tells me)! The service is subsidised to a total cost of £4. Epic journey ahead!

A new Ember electric bus, parked in its bay at Buchanan Bus Station in Glasgow.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Many thanks to @asako-soh.bsky.social for putting on the much beloved annual Owlbear and Wizard's Staff #ttrpg event! Played in @icooper.bsky.social Legend in the Mist and @burnafterrunning.bsky.social TOR2e. Great games. I ran a fun session of Zweihander Reforged. Looking forward to next year.

A group playing Zweihander at Owlbear and the Wizard's Staff event in Leamington Spa.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Demoing @montecookgames.com Cypher #ttrpg today and Sunday at Patriot Games in Sheffield, UK. Fun to get back into the new edition of the game, still with the core highly playable premise and choc full of ready to play ideas.

A table at Patriot Games in Sheffield, UK, setup for a demo of Cypher RPG.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I took the PDFs with me to Crete, for a holiday two years ago, but now at last have the full range of @stoogoff.com masterpiece the Aegean RPG. Great game. Some play at #FurnaceCON?

The full range of Aegean RPG books ina proud table display.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Sartarite Quarrelsome, Reckless, Fiercely independent, Devoted to Orlanth & Ernalda, Hate Lunar Empire. Men: Emotional, Violent passion, Swiftly shifting opinions and feelings. Women: Cunning, Practical, Vengeful. Bandit Bow, Evaluate goods, Intimidate, Outcast, Outdoor Survival, Stealth, Swords

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Almost good to go for a short Zweihander Reforged series on YouTube, starting next week. I'll post up some links when ready. My players have come up with some great character concepts. Will they return the light to the Eternal Night of Lockwood? #ttrpg #Zweihander #FoundryVTT

Four Zweihander RPG character sheets in a Foundry VTT session.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Fortnightly Thursdays, 7pm GMT, Session Zero on 5th March. @foundryvtt.bsky.social @zweihanderrpg.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@GrahamSpear...

Eternal Night of Lockwood, a campaign for the Zweihander RPG, also displaying a Foundry VTT icon, as the game will be played on that platform.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I still have some table space for GMs at AireCon 12-15 March 2026, Harrogate. We have a remarkable #ttrpg programme, so do come and join us! www.airecon.co.uk/gms Player sign-up is in the New Year.

A schedule of #ttrpg games for Airecon 12-15 March, Harrogate.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Join us for a #ttrpg festival of games at #AireCon Harrogate 12-15 March 2026. Submit your games here: www.airecon.co.uk/gms I'm here to support you on the way and during the convention. We are starting to fill those tables... 😀

A screen shot of the AireCon 12-15 March 2026 #ttrpg convention schedule.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I'm running some complete 'fantasy #ttrpg tosh' this weekend for #TavernCon online, using Heroic Fantasy 2nd Edition. If you're gaming this weekend, hope you have a great time!

A Foundry session with a map of a port city and some images of characters and maps ready for a Heroic Fantasy 2nd Edition #ttrpg game.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

BoL has the advantage of a @foundryvtt.bsky.social content module, which for 16 Euro gives you the full game, compendium and adventures. Much quicker to adventure that way. I have started a quick evaluation using the raw Everywhen system, with a series of Young Kingdoms adventures in mind.

A screenshot of a Foundry VTT session, with a map of the Young Kingdoms as the backdrop and an Everywhen RPG sheet and sword item in the foreground.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Zozer Games' Cepheus Universal #ttrpg running at #TravConUK this weekend. I like the ruleset a great deal. Everything is recognisably close to Mongoose, but stripped back and honed from the Cepheus main document. Currently weighing up whether to revert to MgT2e or stay with this cunning version...

A picture of me running a Traveller session at TravCon UK last weekend.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Treasure hunters have returned from the haunted ruins of the Helux Dynasty, carrying portentous lore that could shake the very fabric of fantasy roleplaying for ever. Dug Up Trivia is a short PDF of optional rules for the Heroic Fantasy #ttrpg (In the works). www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Cover for the Dug Up Trivia supplement for the Heroic Fantasy RPG, showing a treasure hunter with a torch peering into a huge portal.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

- Heroic Fantasy 2e - MERP - The One Ring 2e - Warhammer Fantasy 4e - Star Trek Adentures 2D20 I try and spread it around a bit.

A doughnut graph of the ttrpg systems I have played so far in 2025.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Who's heading for #TravConUK this October? I'll be running some Cepheus Universal using a #ttrpg adventure by @boondock60mm.bsky.social. Happy to become Pirate bait?

A poster for a Traveller game entitled 'Pirate Bait'. Character sheets, a subsector map and a backfrop of a starship deckplan make up the poster.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Feeling 'a bit poorly', so having one of those gentle #FoundryVTT prep afternoons. 😀 #FantasyCraft #Hellfrost #ttrpg

A screenshot of a Foundry VTT prep session, with a some journal items starting to appear over a map of one of the regions of the Hellfrost world of Rassilon.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

When you can't help thinking of a #ttrpg mash-up (again), to the extent you start some character gen and VTT shenanigans.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

LongCon 2025, play a #ttrpg all weekend, was a great success. Five excellent games. I had a great table of players, discovering much of 'Tales from the Lone-lands'. The One Ring 2e is an excellent game with a Tolkien tone. We'll be running this again in 2026, so watch this space! longcon.ttrpg.uk

Dom's setup, with copy of The One Ring RPG, our 3D printed One Ring dice trays, mini All Rolled Up with map of Middle Earth, character figure and character sheet.

Our gaming table at LongCon 2025, as we are in full flow.

We used miniatures as part of our The One Ring game. Here is a wraith terrorising Ginar the dwarf and Bell the hobbit.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I'm running The One Ring as an all weekend game in a few days. As a special treat for me I have dug out this notebook that I always thought I would never write in. I think this event is the right one...

A Hobbit themed notebook, untouched and ready to be written in.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I feel like the super richest of Dads. Birthday drawing from my youngest son. Sweet ❤️

A custom drawn Pokemon card by my son depicting me in wizard pose.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Last day of #AireCon in Harrogate. It's been a great extended weekend of #ttrpgs, with another session to go. I have also got to run #wfrp4e a couple of times which has been such fun.

My group of players at AireCon for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The opening scene from a forthcoming one shot of Fading Suns (4th Edition) #ttrpg on @playrole.bsky.social. It's fun to re-submerge into an old friend universe, syphon up game rules, and present an experience that gives just a taste of this kitchen sink space opera. I hope to run this a few times.

A screenshot of a Role VTT Room, presenting the opening scene for a one shot of the Fading Suns RPG. The scene is of a desert mansion and portrait icons of some of the key players.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It's #Airecon in a few weeks in Harrogate. The convention now supports a large schedule of #ttrpgs across the extended weekend. Would be lovely to see you there. www.airecon.co.uk/rpgs

The schedule of ttrpgs to be played at Airecon in Harrogate in March 2025.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We have a further game at #Longcon longcon.ttrpg.uk/index.php/ga...

Four games submitted for the Longcon ttrpg convention.
Against the Darkmaster
The One Ring
The Between
The Origin

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Just a marker to note the end of my #Dragonbane #Trudvang campaign of well over a year of play on @foundryvtt.bsky.social. It was great fun throughout. Many fond memories as we move on to new games. Thanks to my fantastic players: @vidargavia.bsky.social, @pedr.me Tom, Josh and Simon.

A screenshot of a Trudvang game session on Foundry, displaying some journal items as I look happy and wistful about a long running campaign using the Dragonbane game.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hello my old friend, shall we create some heroes? The Chaos Scar is not going to heal without you... #4eRenaissance #ttrpg

The load splash screen for the D&D 4th Edition character builder.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Well, I am in... Miniatures will be on their way soon. I need to look for brushes, paints, maybe some dressing for bases? It's like I'm starting all over again.

Elf scout miniatures from a range that I have just bought.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296661709418

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

As I head towards the Trudvang Dragonbane end game, I was thinking of getting some play out of Keltia+Yggdrasill #ttrpgs. So I've done some rough sheets in @foundryvtt.bsky.social using the Custom System Builder. Of course, they would play so well in Trudvang... 😆

A Keltia RPG sheet in a Foundry VTT instance. Some D10s clatter across the virtual table.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We have our first three games submitted for #Longcon, June 28-29 in Sheffield, the convention for #ttrpg adventures that last all weekend. Our GMs so far: @madbeardman.bsky.social @firstage.bsky.social and @burnafterrunning.bsky.social Find out more and sign up: longcon.ttrpg.uk

Images of the games for Longcon so far. Covers for Against the Darkmaster, The One Ring - Lone Lands and The Between.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I popped my WFRP #ttrpg buboe at #Grogmeet this weekend. My players made it such an entertaining few hours as 'Hell Rides to Hallt'. Thanks to @andyhemming.bsky.social @ottomancer.bsky.social @matthewbroome.bsky.social @cottonmouthmcr.bsky.social +one more!

My group of players at a Grogmeet table, playing Warhammer Fantasy RPG

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My online #ttrpg games are hugely improved by the tech wizardry of both Foundry VTT @foundryvtt.bsky.social and a new, responsive and very good value hosting service in Sqyre @sqyre.bsky.social. Add to this the development skills of people like Moo Man and you have a fun and lush game environment!

Warhammer Fantasy TTRPG modules running in a Foundry VTT instance.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The storm seems to have subsided somewhat, so I may venture into the outside for the first time in 2025. Have spent a bit of time preparing the Lockwood region for #ZweihanderRPG #ttrpg on @foundryvtt.bsky.social. At least we don't have to contend with the Eternal Night.

A screenshot of a Foundry VTT session with a Zweihander RPG location and journal items.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Grim and Perilous characters for next year's #ttrpg convention play.

Warhammer Fantasy RPG character stands, sheets and the rulebook, readied for face to face play.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I can't do it justice. I know where the pot of gold is though, back in a jiffy.

A beautiful full arch rainbow outside my window.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Planning the family Xmas #Dragonbane #ttrpg. It's always one of the highlights of my year, and such fun to game with my grown up kids. We have the Oracle Cave to explore...

A montage of the player characters for my Xmas Dragonbane game.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

High fantasy, #Cypher cut as the Diamond Throne #ttrpg, has arrived here, with thanks to Kate Evans of @montecookgames.com for summoning. A counterpoint to my current 'Grim & Perilous', this hopepunk fantasy of daring heroes in a world full of awesome is a bright and luscious palette of wonderment.

The Diamond Throne roleplay game core books and slipcase from Monte Cooke Games.

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