You meet in a Hackspace…
One Shot Wonders is our monthly tabletop role-playing game meetup at the Hackspace. As it celebrates its third birthday, we look back at how our quest started and the friends we made along the way… When I was younger, me and my friends would meet and play Dungeons and Dragons. It was the era of the satanic panic, with role-playing games seen as a gateway to the occult, which made it all the more appealing. We played for a few years, before everyone went their separate ways, to Uni or wherever, and that was the end of that. While I didn’t play for years, I always had fond memories of playing – the stories we created together, the characters we rolled up and felt sad for when they were eaten by a dragon, the cheers when you rolled a critical success or the howls when you rolled a fumble. After years of not playing, I eventually found a new group to play with, and then… lockdown! During covid, the Hackspace organised a weekly meetup on Zoom, which still exists, and me, Steve, and Ali would spend time talking about role-playing games, chatting about everything from genera