About Us
The Bladelands Chronicles is a non-profit LRP system run by Majestic Oak Ltd, a company started in May 2005 by Jonathan Ely and Emma J. King. When they started the company Emma and Jonathan had between them over 25 years of LRP experience, playing, assisting with and, in Jonathan's case, also Reffing other systems. Finding that no system offered them quite the LRP experience they were looking for, they decided to run their own, and created Majestic Oak Ltd. While writing the Bladelands system it soon became apparent they would need help running it, and so they approached Paul Cope and Emma L. King, old friends from LRP circles, who between them added another 25 years LRP experience to the team. Since then refs have come, gone, and come back again, and the team currently looks something like this:
[NB, to contact a member of the team by email, put their email username in front of @bladelands.co.uk]
The Ref Team
Jonathan Ely
Email username*: jonathanI'm the co-founder and main rules author for The Bladelands Chronicles. I have been working on this project with Emma J. King (when real life allowed) for the past few years, although the main underlying ideas are much older, dating back to a project in 1994.
I have been playing live action games since 1990 and writing and refereeing for them since 1991. I have been playing and refereeing tabletop roleplaying games since 1977 when an American brought copies of a new game with him to our school in Oxford.
You should contact me regarding rules questions and particularly anything involving the magic system. I'm also the person to send your pre- and post- event turns and character information to.
Rob Ghest
Email username*: robg
Rob Corlett
Email username*: robc
Paul Cope
Email username*: paul
Some people know me as Copey and I have been Live Role Playing for many years.
I was born in London but live in Coventry because it is easy to escape to
different parts of the country at the weekend. I like amateur trepanning,
making models of my friends from ear wax and collecting pictures of Joanna
Lumley. I dislike blue cheese and writing blurb about myself. People think
I lie a lot but that's just not true.
There's very little point emailing me about anything.
Ian Fergusson, aka Fergie
Email username*: fergieKnown as Fergie by most I joined the Bladelands referee team after the first event. My main role is to plug gaps and generally support the Jon, Copey and the other refs.
I've been Larping for 18 years and have been involved as a Referee, Design Team, and Organiser of events for about 10 years, in various different systems and games.
I'm a believer in The 15 Rules of Better Living, Rule 1 ‘Do it if it’s funny’, and I constantly try to complete the shopping list.
Others
Emma J. King, aka ~m~
Email username*: m
Before starting The Bladelands Chronicles with my partner, Jonathan,
I'd never been involved in running an LRP event in my life, although I have played and
crewed in a variety of systems enthusiastically since some time in the mid-90s.
Having never been terribly good at remembering complicated rules
I leave most of that side of things to Jon - I did try the reffing thing for a while, but it really wasn't my cup of tea, so these days I stick to what I'm good at.
This mostly involves being a rather frothy player, but I also make the odd prop and throw myself enthusiastically
(and in some cases literally....) into combat as a random monster.
As well as being webmaster for this site I also deal with event bookings & various boring admin stuff. I also field general enquiries about the system and events, so if you're new 'round here and not sure who to contact about what, feel free to drop me a line and I'll point you in the right direction. Please don't send me information about your character, though - I'm a player, not a ref!
*for email address, put this in front of @bladelands.co.uk
