if you're running an rpg, war, play-by-mail, or live action role-play gaming club that is open to new or newly-arrived in the area players, or an rpg or gaming session that wouldn't mind a little new blood, or offering aught else that you think might appeal to people of such interests as are liable to read my pages, please feel free to contact me with a view to my listing your contact details and a brief description here - reciprocal links to IMT definitely welcome:
e-mail me at v$imt$v at my sub-domain, i-m-t.demon.co.uk, with your suggestion & details.

n.b. i've only relatively recently been asked to start listing these, so the format of this page is definitely "subject to suggestion and change".
- ppint. at IMT

• The War Den
  "have just bought that new roleplaying system and you cannot find any players?
  do you want to learn to roleplay?
  do you already play but don't have any where to host the game?
  whatever your reasons may be, we need you.
  we have plenty of dice and rulebooks
  the community centre serves food and refreshments.
  first time is free, so come along and see what you could be enjoying."
  for more information email the games war_den
  i have just (30th October 2007) been told that they moved the weekly rpg session ages ago, to Monday Nights from 7pm, and have now moved venue to the YMCA on Damside Street, Lancaster (opposite the taxi-rank that's on the corner beside the bus station)
  rpgs change every three months, next change-over being due January 2008; one of the games that's currently running is a Paranoia XP campaign
  fuller details'll be dropped in sometime. honest guv.
• LURPS Lancaster University Role-Playing Society
  tuesdays & thursdays during term time
  faraday seminar room 1
  university of lancaster
  bailrigg
  lancaster
  from 6pm
  [n.b. the university campus is approximately three miles south of the - tiny - city of lancaster, served by buses up & down the A6 from lancaster (including the bus station) to the north, from garstang and preston, to the south, and is hitchable from lancaster (& back), especially during term time.
  i believe at least six rpgs linked in some way to LURPS run during term time.
  a group of lurps members used to socialise to the left of the bar in the pub currently named "The Bobbin" on the corner of Chapel Street & the A6 One-Way System in town (very near the bus station), on Friday Nights prior to going up to one of the clubs around ten(ish), and almost certainly still do so.
  in times past - five or ten years ago, now - games were also organised to run during vacations, and "taster games" in week-end sessions at the start of the academic year. LURPS also used to organise non-stop rpg sessions during term time for charity/charities. - ppint.]
• Barrow-in-Furness i've a contact number for one of the (at least three) small groups here who play a number of rpgs including Deadlands and D&D; i've been asked not to give it here, but to give it when phoned up, and send it by email to e-enquirers, as it's the organiser's parents' home phone number at the moment.

• ? (see LURPS above, where people definitely used to play MtG, VtES, etc, and i believe at least some yet do.)
  more information on the current scene[s] is invited, especially from groups' organisers...
• mike is an avid player of MtG, desirous of more real, live (as opposed to online) games; as he's a mountain-biker, he can travel reasonable cycling diustances around & from lancaster & morecambe, to play.
  he's also enjoyed playing Yu-Gi-Oh CCG, is interested in Jyhad/VtES, and also might like playing other ccgs.
  [he does need a secure place where he can (& attachment to which to) lock his bike, whilst playing. - pp.]

• ? (see LURPS above, whence people definitely used to organise attendance at larps elsewhere in the uk, and i believe yet do.)
  the local scene fragmented badly as a result, i understand, of a power-grab (!) attempt in LURPS some considrable time ago: i believe at least three larp groups separated off/out, but do not know the various fates these may have met.
  [more information on the current scene[s] is invited, especially from groups' organisers... - ppint.]

• The Warlords of Loyne play diorama-based miniatures war games.
  they used to play in one of the rooms in:
  ryelands house,
  ryelands park,
  skerton, lancaster
  [more information on currently-played game[s] is invited, especially from the warlords' organisers... - ppint.]

• fair trade drugs
  information on fair-traded coffee, coffee beans, drinking chocolate, cocoa, chocolate (bars & eggs) & other goodies available in the uk & europe
  they're drugs. whether they're essential or no may be arguable, but we certainly don't need to support effective, and even actual slavery in the producer countries, to indulge ourselves in 'em:
  and there's now a lot of places to buy clearly fair-trade logo-marked lines, with a wide range of recipe strengths, flavours and feels-to-the-tongue to 'em - leastways, there is in the uk, including the co-op, and supermarkets. and some of them deliver! (and others at least do mail-order...)
  for the specifically Chocolate page
  go look, then buy, try and die^W settle on the ones that suit you best...
  not always completely up-to-date, last time i looked: sainsbury's've started stocking an own-label fair-traded 70% dark chocolate from santo domingo, which isn't yet listed (31st march 2007): keep an eye out for the mildly-resembling a taoist symbol fair trade logo appearing on more good things in your local shops! *g*
• merkin-distributed fair trade drugs
  for merkins & prob'ly canadadadadians, too - and those co-locating with either in their native habitat.
  [and i suspect a fair few others'll have their own local/national equivalent pages.]

• Virtual Lancaster
  if you're looking for, or running, playing, and/or organising aught interesting locally, you'll prob'ly want to check this site out.

• boardgame geek is an excellent site (though it can take a bit of reading around, to discover whether a given reviewer has strong prejudices for or agin some particular variety of game, or subject matter, or game designer or publisher: bear in mind that the reviews are personal appreciations, and no attempt is made to "normalise" them across any theoretical general population.

• (no-one & nowhere yet to add)

• suggestions for useful & interesting rpg, ccg, nccg, & board-game playing groups' sites welcome