2020: What’s been happening with the DM?

In gaming, 20 is a great number. Natural 20. Critical hit. So you’d think that a year with two 20s in it would be good. 2020, right? Think again.

2020 has been an annus horribilus in the most classic sense. Pretty much everything has gone down the pan. In the past couple of months we’ve seen ourselves in lockdown and as a result of the worldwide situation, three gaming conventions I was due to attend have first rescheduled, and then ultimately bitten the dust, along with various other social events and holidays. I’ll be sad not to see some of the people I expected to see at Tabletop Scotland, UK Games Expo and Conpulsion but these are tiny sacrifices if it means that lives can be saved. There’s always next year. In fact, many conventions have moved online and one positive side effect of the Covid-19 crisis is that…