GrellCon '26 Tickets Now on Sale!

 

 

That's right everyone, I decided to finally pull the trigger. Tickets are on sale here and are very limited, so you'll want to be quick off the mark!

 

This is GrellCon, our first attempt at getting together a small-ish group (around 75 individuals) interested in old-school D&D, which in this instance specifically refers to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Original Dungeons & Dragons, and Basic/Expert Dungeons & Dragons as well as any of the relevant retroclones. 

 

Taking place in the historic Stanley Arts halls in South-East London, all games will be run on the 1gp = 1xp principle to ensure we're all on the same page and to maximise playing time over three gaming slots! The con on the Saturday will be preceded by a social meetup event on Friday details of which are pending.

 

Any questions do let me know - I'd love to see you there!  

 

 

 

Books read in 2025 (non-RPG)

Better late than never eh? Not too many compared to some years, but Animals Without Backbones and Incarnations both took me a long while. Definitely worth it, the former was some of the best stuff I have read in ages and the perfect Carcosa monster manual...love the style of the old Pelican non-fiction books. Also if you have any interest at all in classic death metal or grindcore you owe it to yourself to get the Scott Burns book.

Fiction's not really stuck with me this year. Nothing truly blew me away apart from Shea and Grudova.

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack
Spanky - Christopher Fowler
Engines of Desire - Livia Llewellyn
Polyphemus - Michael Shea
The Coiled Serpent - Camilla Grudova
Herne The Hunter #4: The Vulture's Shadow - John McLaglen
Hawk Mountain - Conor Habib
Herne The Hunter #5: Apache Squaw - John McLaglen
Beware! - Richard Laymon
The Doll's Alphabet - Camilla Grudova
Entangled Life - Morton Sheldrake
The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life In Death Metal - David Gehlke
Idealism in a Nutshell - Bernardo Kastrup
Animals Without Backbones Vol.1 - Ralph Buschbaum
Animals Without Backbones Vol. 2  - Ralph Buschbaum
The Sucking Pit - Guy N Smith
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K LeGuin
Incarnations: A History of India in 50 Lives - Sunil Khilnani
Ports of Call - Jack Vance
The Time Machine Did It - John Schwartzwelder