Yesterday's Word Count = 860 I love the maps, I love the inferred world building, the sheer amount of thought that went into the background material... What do you mean this is the SIMPLIFIED system?

Yesterday's Word Count = 982 This was the first game I ever played where money was not a thing. James Bond does *not* have to fill in an expenses form :)

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,131 Another quick digression back to the 70s and WHITE DWARF magazine. As my friend @jmswallow.bsky.social says back then, like the hunter/gatherers of old, we used to use every last bit of the beast - even the adverts.

I swear there was a 1920s CoC scenario involving a mansion in which a performance of THE KING IN YELLOW is staged with dire consequences but it's not in MANSIONS OF MADNESS - did I imagine it, has ancient Carcossa slipped into my mind. Anyone know what it was called.

Yesterday's Word Count = 576 Some of the best inferred world building in an RPG ever.

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,064 I loved this adaptation, especially the sorcery mechanic. I've included the 3rd Edition Cover because that was my favourite edition (this one released by GAMES WORKSHOP).

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,023 A fitting end to the week as we plunge into the 1980s - and one of my favourite games ever because I love me some historical detail.

Yesterday's Word Count = 853 Before we get on to the 1980s a little side step into the universe of almost but not quite an IP RPG. Do be honest I remember nothing about this game except I owned it.

Yesterday's Word Count = 516 You all knew this one was inevitable. Classless, skill system (alright Traveller was that already but...) a percentage based skill system and a hugely detailed bronze age secondary world.

Somebody castigated me for where Dr Walid did his animal autopsies - could they raise a hand pretty please.

Does anyone know whether UK farmers have chatrooms or some other kind of social media forum - facebook maybe?

Yesterday's Word Count = 617 Oh I spent so much time traipsing across this map and dying from bonkers random encounters...

Yesterday's Word Count = 296 Now give me elegant simplicity, minimal artwork, 1 dice only and vector based ship to ship combat.... MAYDAY MAYDAY, this is the FREE TRADER BEOWULF...

Yesterday's Work Count = 348 Never mind your streamlined unitary resolution mechanic. I want sub-rules for everything, astrology, economics, alchemy, status. This book was so beautiful - it had its own mass combat rule (*sniff).

Yesterday's Word Count = 251 Just scraped in enough words to justify the first ever SF TTRPG I bought. Still a class system but mutants, robots and bears Oh My...

Yesterday's Word Count = 790 All for one and one for all..... EN GARDE (They totally nicked their own fencing system for the Monk class in early D&D)

Yesterday's word count = 1040 Boot Hill reminded me that this miniatures rule book from 1970 was a really good source of historical detail to enrich the background.

Yesterday's Word Count = 954 Let's pop back in time to the era of small brown books... I had a lot of fun with this although mortality rates were high. (*just to clarify I'm posting the covers of games I either owned or played contemporaneously with the editions shown.)

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,144 The first example I encountered of serious world building in a RPG - one that rejected the conventions of faux European fantasy. Much too good for it's system (although a class system might be a better fit for the clan based society of TEKUMEL.)

Yesterday's word count = 517 Oh that first burst of enthusiastic amateurism.

Yesterday's Word Count = 529 I thought I'd show my age and have a waltz through my Role Playing History - beginning with the start...

Sneak preview of the next Rivers of London book at Dragonmeet today!

I'm spending a serious amount of time on hold to various organisations so to keep myself occupied I have returned to British Comedies of the 1960s - I give you the MOUSE ON THE MOON. I think that Nick Park may have been consciously or unconsciously paying homage to this film.

As a reward for me clearing my way through this weeks admin I'm going to watch some more comedy...

Continuing my trip through films that I used to watch on afternoon TV when I was young...

There’s nothing like a crisp November morning….

I love the bit in Mr Hulot’s Holiday where the lunch bell goes and the whole beach empties.

Yesterday's Word Count = 935 I cab't believe I was 13 when I read this book back in REDACTED.

A REDACTED character has gone all modernist on me. If I wanted to stream of consiousness I'd wouldn't have to employ a copyeditor. Characters ha!

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,202 Moving on to Donaldson book 2.

Kindle Deal: RIVERS OF LONDON by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is currently on sale in North America! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BN... Published by @awfulagent.bsky.social #RiversOfLondon

What is it about bloody "amateur" thaqt I can never spell it correctly first time. I once wrote it by hand twenty times in the hope that it would stik but no... ameter, ammauter...etc etc

Yesterday's Word Count = 537 This was the leading edge of the fantasy boom of the late seventies.

Research - does Navada count as the south west US?

Yesterday's Word Count = 684 Moorcock had such a way with titles...

Aha - another Penric and Desdemona novella by Bujold - just in time to save me from doing any further work today 😀

Yesterday's Word Count = 595 How about a little bit more psychodelia, oh yeah, grooovy 🙃

Yesterday's Word Count = 931

If you have a copy, or you know someone who has, please report it to: [email protected]

Also I'm at the London Museum of Water and Steam this weekend - hooray - details below... lmws.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...

Hallo - somebody is sending out fake emails to fellow writers that purportedly from me but I never send unsolicited emaisl directly to people. Please ignore like that. Thank you for you attention on this matter. 😀

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,101 I thinkI skipped his one by mistake...

RESEARCH: Nerd Culture: would it be fair to refer to AO3 as the premiere Fanfiction sharing site in 2020 or has the ever protean internet mutated while I wasn't looking.

Yesterday's Word Count = 785 And now we're caught up with my re-read...

Sometimes the story takes you somewhere so beautiful and terrifying that you ask yourself - do I want really want to go there and what will the readers think. So in about two years - don't say I didn't warn you 😝

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Yesterday's Word Count = 533 Moving on...

Ah ha! A REMARKABLE PLACE TO DIE tricked me - she IS the wayward daughter,

I’m heading out to…. youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fi...