The EPI-log

Despite the age of this blog, I have still not written a blog for every event we hold, EPIC Crafty Creative Day is perhaps the most prominent one I've missed.  What is EPIC Crafty Creative Day? EPIC Crafty Creative Day started off as a concept way back when EPIC first opened, the premise was to combine Trish's Crafty Studio and EPIC on one day a month, where creative parents could craft whilst their kids could craft on minecraft (yes that was way back when we ran a minecraft server in store). Over time it transitioned into miniature painting for games like Warhammer, D&D and such using the paint supplies from crafty whilst the crafty studio adopted a crop day structure. Both retail and space for EPIC Ipswich and The Crafty Studio will remain open all day as per usual. The price? The price? oh riiiight, the price! Yes that'd either be your mortal soul or ownership of your first born child..... KIDDING! It's free with exception to hiring supplies and purchasing a mini...

  For those that partook in the original Modern Masters League, you will recall that one of our beloved community members Vaughan designed t-shirts for the entire league, continuing into the Aus Magic League, he once again got shirts for his local playgroup at EPIC. I'm pleased to announce that we will continue carrying this torch for him. Ordering through a friendly local t-shirt shop. EPIC Ipswich will be making and taking on all future orders of the current shirt run for the EPIC Modern Community. As our way of saying thank you to our community, shirts will be $17 if ordered on Thursday the 11th of August. Beyond that, we will be running them at a total price of around $39 (price isn't locked in yet). Tshirts have a number of different designs on the back. Sizes for this run include: small, medium, X Large, XX Large & XXX Large This may be the future of many more custom t-shirts EPIC does to celebrate our different social groups, so even if you aren't in our modern o...

If any poor soul has been on the receiving end of my non-league games, you’ll know I love handouts in my D&D campaigns – so much so I wrote a recent blog post about it. After writing that blog I couldn’t resist pouring more of my unfinished thoughts from that article out somewhere. DON’T CLICK AWAY YET! Please bare with me, whilst this post continues off some of those ideas this is its own unique post and not a follow-up! My many passions coalesce into the hobby of D&D – Miniatures, Caligraphy, Creating, World Building, Storytelling & Acting. This is true for many other RPGs I love and adore, such as  Call of Cthulhu and my beloved  Fate Core System . Until EPIC came into my life, I didn’t nearly have the resources on hand to make these handouts and creative ways to immerse players at the table. Putting the “C” in EPIC EPIC as the name goes is an acronym for  E at  P lay  I nteract &  C create. The Crafty studio has most of the supplies. If...

If you have had what I hope you’d perceive as the joy of meeting me, you would know that my favourite game is Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), I LOVE THIS GAME! As a former theatre nerd – the combination of acting and props are nearly a no-brainer for me. Props in a traditional sense are used as symbolism and a manifestation of the world you act in. In D&D, however, it’s the latter that helps with my D&D Games.   The Job of a Dungeon Master As a Dungeon Master (DM), it is your job to describe the world in immense detail, I think of it as reading adjectives and verbs in a fictional novel to paint the scene. Describing how cold a sword hilt is or how wrinkly the leathery remains of a corpse are adds drastically to the immersion of your players. It beats the nondrescript “you pick up the sword hilt” or “The corpse is long dead”.   Props vs Handouts Whilst props are excellent to use for immersion in the theatre world, a player having a giant foam sword at the table and...