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Event Report: A Wizard is Never Late...

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Last month I attended my first MESBG event of the new edition, and only my second MESBG event in total. The event was a GBHL80 "A Wizard is never late but is slightly early for April" (the pun here being that it was on the last weekend of March and held in a town called Earley). For the uninitiated, GBHL (Great British Hobbit League) events are organised into different tiers by how many league points they can award - 80, 90, or 100 - with 100s being the highly competitive tournaments where the top players test their mettle, 80s being fluffier local events usually with some themey special rules, and 90s sitting somewhere inbetween.  Tournament Overview This event was a 600 point 1-day tournament with 4 games to be played from the standard array of 6 scenarios from the main rule book. The list building quirk was that if you brought both a wizard and a Baggins you could choose a scenario that must be played on the day! I could have built a Wizard + Baggins list by taking Ganda...