FYI, Myanmar used to be called Burma.
https://www.mmtimes.com/news/yangon-dragons.html
It's an interesting article. The books are too expensive, so they use PDFs.
Huh, that's quite fascinating. Burma is not a place I would have thought would have any kind of D&D scene. I guess it really is opening up!
Quote from: RPGPundit;1027763Huh, that's quite fascinating. Burma is not a place I would have thought would have any kind of D&D scene. I guess it really is opening up!
Malaysia also. I have a bunch of Malaysian gamers continually photobombing my Instagram account with sessions, mini-conventions, and conventions.
Question: Isn't there a couple of big gaming shows a year in Montevideo? Reason I'm asking is Bill Owen who started Judges Guild with Bob Bledsaw is now living in Uruguay, and he has an Olive Tree Garden down near the Rio De Plata. He'd probably be very interested in showing up, if he knew there was a gaming convention close to him, and especially if it ran a wargames track, or ran Naval Miniatures games.
About 2-3 years ago I found and posted about a site called Hari Ragat Games (https://honorandintrigue.blogspot.com/2015/08/hari-ragat-games.html) that is a blog about "Fantasy, science fiction, and role playing games with an Asian twist." He hasn't updated in a while, but he had some really interesting setting ideas and there are still some good links and archived material. One campaign was a Vikings or Mycenean pirate style of campaign but set in a pseudo Polynesia. It looked pretty cool.
Fascinating article, thanks for sharing.
Two things stand out for me.
1. The place is called Dagon Dice! How much is because Dagon is the old name of the city, and how much is due to a Cthulhoid influence is unclear. :)
2. The problems with bringing women and girls into the hobby apparently no know borders, I hope Evelyn is successful in recruiting more of them. And more locals too. The news article will surely help.
Malaysia holds a Magic the Gathering Grand Prix on a rotating basis with Singapore, so there should be no reason why RPG's have not spread there. A reasonable amount of the people there speak English, so it is just a matter of access to a couple of books, and PDFs can be sold there are easily as anywhere else. WoTC's decision not to sell PDF for 5e undoubtedly holds back sales in places where getting a physical book is expensive, but you really only need one set of books for a large group. Or you can just play one of the 100's of other RPG, many of which are free. Or pirate, as the article seems to say happens.
Quote from: Motorskills;1027776F1. The place is called Dagon Dice! How much is because Dagon is the old name of the city, and how much is due to a Cthulhoid influence is unclear. :)
Dagon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagon) has been a Mesopotamian Deity for much longer than the Cthulhu Mythos has been around. :D
Well, good for them! :) All it is is some structure to a game every child plays, "active imagination." And I'd be interested how they might innovate RPGs to accomodate to their cultural & world view desires.
Quote from: GameDaddy;1027771Malaysia also. I have a bunch of Malaysian gamers continually photobombing my Instagram account with sessions, mini-conventions, and conventions.
Question: Isn't there a couple of big gaming shows a year in Montevideo? Reason I'm asking is Bill Owen who started Judges Guild with Bob Bledsaw is now living in Uruguay, and he has an Olive Tree Garden down near the Rio De Plata. He'd probably be very interested in showing up, if he knew there was a gaming convention close to him, and especially if it ran a wargames track, or ran Naval Miniatures games.
There are a couple of gaming events each year; I certainly wouldn't call them big by any North American standard (they usually get somewhere between 75-250 participants). There isn't typically any wargaming, but I'm sure people could be interested.
I had no idea about Bill Owen. The Rio de La Plata is huge; anyways, I assume you mean he doesn't live in Montevideo?
Do you know if he speaks Spanish?
Anyways, I'd certainly be interested in getting in touch with him.