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Fixed Costs
In the days before digital printing services such as Lulu, everything hinged upon setup costs. Physical printing plates had to be made for each page of our book, and that cost a lot of money....
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Learning our Trade
Before there was Faerie Wood, the gang had another project. ‘Ug!’ Magazine was a low-circulation gamer ’zine, produced as a reaction to the dry nature of our wargaming club’s official magazine. We all...
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Adventures in the new realm… of desktop publishing
From 1989, Garry and I both used Atari STs. These were pretty typical 16-bit computers of the day, plugged into a portable TV because neither of us could afford a monitor. We played video games (heck,...
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Road Trip!
The very first copies of Faerie Wood were sold at Baycon ’93, a board gaming convention held near Exeter. We were there by invitation, the convention’s organiser having read a review of our game. The...
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The Garden Snatchers
Born the son of a wholesale grocer in 1851, Lord Leverhulme made a fortune from the manufacture of soap. At the end of the 19th century he bought an estate not far from his native Bolton, where he...
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Faerie Wood: Reviewed
Alan over at Lost in Time was kind enough to review Faerie Wood, earlier this year (and in fact kicked off this whole “the making of…” shemozzle in the process) but he wasn’t the first to review the...
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Scratchbuilds
Some of my earliest completely scratchbuilt figures were made in early 1994, using a technique of forming a wire ‘skeleton’ that’s anchored into a wooden base and stiffened by selective soldering, then...
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Almost done
As you may have noticed, these recollections come in no particular order. Garry recently said he doesn’t think it matters, and I’d hate to have to leave something out because it couldn’t be squeezed...
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Tricky Questions from Faerie Wood
Number one in, perhaps, a very long series… Treelings as Herbalists All treelings are herbalists to some degree, but how does a treeling go about harvesting herbs, given that she: (a) is a form of...
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A promise of faerie gold… at the end of the rainbow
A while back, in this article I described how a late issue of ‘Ug!’ magazine included an article by Garry, in which he described a new kind of roleplaying game that he was experimenting with. He called...
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Good out of bad
Unless you have been hiding behind a particularly substantial sofa, you’ll know that the BBC recently put out ‘The Day of the Doctor’, 799th episode of the franchise and a celebration of fifty years of...
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Faerie gold
OK, it took me more than a year to get around to providing this, but here’s the first ever public mention of Faerie Wood, reproduced from an article in ‘Ug!’ Magazine, courtesy of the Southeast London...
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The Faerie Wood Manifesto
In a recent article I reproduced Garry’s first article about Faerie Wood, as published in 1991. One thing that we need to remember, when we look back upon the days when Faerie Wood was taking shape is...
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If you go down to the woods tonight…
If you like reading old blog entries, you might recall that I described our sales trip to Exeter to promote Faerie Wood, when I ran into an old git who claimed that our faerie-themed roleplaying game...
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We need a ruling on rules
Garry contacted me out of the blue, requesting copies of the ‘Game Master’ notes that I could give him. (Yes: he’s thinking about running some games!) This is almost reason enough to sell up and move...
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Herbalism – Simples!
(Introducing the idea of “folk remedies” for faerie folk.) If you’ve ever played a herbalist character, you’ll have endured occasional frustrations where you’re either unable to find anything useful,...
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Whatever Happened to Faerie Wood?
Sometime in the mid-1990s, we ground to a halt. I’m sure there were lots of reasons. One of the frustrations that I remember from that time was that I felt that I needed Garry, but he didn’t really...
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