The Melsonian Arts Council and Iglootree are teaming up to open a FLGS/bookshop in South London. Yes, THIS Saturday. Come say hi, buy a book, maybe win one of the ludicrously posh games we're offering in the raffle (I goddamn love raffles), play games in our basement. THIS IS REAL!

Queue the Pacific Rim soundtrack: MAC ATTACK is out. (As a PDF, anyway.)

I investigated the Western Gunfight Wargame Rules in some depth in a series of posts on my blog. The research included interviews with the surviving creators and access to unpublished documents.

Hey folks, I'm moving out of Substack, and starting a self-hosted blog. Check it out here www.thecodedtype.com

Really enjoyed this deep dive into Inquisitor, it's history and a critique of its rules. He also discusses Western Gunfight, an old and influential skirmish game, a proto-RPG, which you will have read about in Playing at the World or Elusive Shift. Inquisitor if Bananas.

An early look at the Kickstarter preview for DURF Expanded! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtsE...

I have big news! I've launched a Patreon for the Hex setting, including monthly maps, fully-illustrated installments of the Hex Guidebook, a playtest version of The Hex Hack system, and an archive of older high-resolution maps. Subscribe here: www.patreon.com/c/beardeddevil

I watched the documentary and it's a really great introduction to the #Inq28 scene if you're unfamiliar. You can grab the film over here: trademarkfilms.com/films/d121a6...

A great review by Tim for Wargamer about The Grim and the Dark, a documentary about the #Inq28 scene, Blacheitsu, etc. Looking forward to watching it. It also sounds like a great introduction to the scene.

This incredible piece of Artillery Witch fanart was drawn by strange_house on Instagram! Many thanks to them for allowing us to share their beautiful work 🔥🔥 #trenchcrusade #fanart #grimdark #illustration #artillerywitch

What a glorious time where both Secret Passages and Wyrd Science exist.

Today my new adventure Orestruck is officially released! Return to the Tannic Forest to confront monstrosities, both magical and mundane. Itch weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck DrivethruRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... @spacepenguinink.bsky.social spacepenguin.ink/collections/...

we just need one thousand five hundred more subscribers to the print magazine this week to secure our future! wyrd-science.subsail.com/subscribe/

A gift from my brother. Akira is one of the best, one of my favourites of all time. KANNNNEEEDDDDDAAAAAA!

It’s interesting to see Chris’s career in gaming all laid out like this. Success is often a slow burn.

The all-seeing guardian. #ttrpg #illustration #osr #myths #art

“Unacceptable!”

Spearhead is up there with Warcry as one of the best things modern Games Workshop has produced.

The Cauldron is starting a discussion of one of my favourite RPG texts, Philotomy’s Musing. An absolute classic.

It’s Dead Orbit Mail in real life, another zine from @evlynmoreau.bsky.social!

The people at @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io are crowd funding a few games on their own shop. A nice blog post on why they are skipping Kickstarter/Backerkit this time around.

One down. Not sure how many more to go.

Sample page layout from the upcoming Altaina Galffa magazine for D6 space adventures. There will be a few more pages for each world for the GM, but this should be enough to hand the players and say here you go, this is where you're heading. ‪ #AltainaGalffa #StarWarsD6RPG #StarWarsRPG #StarWars

Do blogspot. No one wants to see your Substack pop-up while reading your Substack and encouraging to read the Substack you are reading.

Wednesday. #torontOSR is back. Once more into The Shrike.

How I prep: Got some small dungeon locations and places that random wilderness encounters can lead to for the weekend.

The kind of drawings I like to draw for myself. :3

Bananas sale from Patrick for people outside the US. I am a big fan of all his work, but DCO and Gackling Moon are particularly cool.

Black Pudding Play Book is live! You can get the PDF for PWYW, or get the hardback book + PDF option. If you ain't got no cash, grab the PDF for free. It's cool. Have fun out there! Play some games. #BPPB #BlackPuddingZine www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

I love this approach to teaching the game. The first game I saw that really leveraged examples of play in a fantastic way was Apocalypse World 2e. Each example featured someone playing the rule correctly and more importantly incorrectly. I think Magpie steals this approach for their games too.

I made a travel set for Sword Weirdos. Includes old GW dungeon tiles and my Bekir's Battlers meeples. All fits in a big plastic bag. Let's play a little bit of a solo game.

When I ran my Carcosa game I didn’t want to have to actually roll a dCarcosa (roll all the dice, d20 tells you which die you read) whenever that die roll came up, so I made a little program to generate a giant mess of them and printed them all out. I scratched them off as I used them.

Might have ruined it with the colors, but I think it’s at least clearer now to use at the table.

Pacific Rim really holds up.

Between the Bolter and Me discusses Mike Hutchinson’s new game, Space Gits.

The man’s still got it.

Ok, this is either the worst, most self indulgent Gazetteer in what is a fairly competitive field or not bad. Still, this week... @themerrymushmen.bsky.social are back! buy @friendly-ghost.bsky.social's game so I can play you! enjoy some hot trade chat! oh my god why so many links! etc etc

So these are a thing now store.necaonline.com/collections/...

Wyrd Science is the best, and you should buy it already. It’s also available digitally, so there is no good reason not to read all their great articles.

I fell hard for Mythic Bastionland this summer. Here's exactly how I prepped and ran it (plus a pile of resources). If you're asking "where do I start?", this is for you: elmc.at/running-myth...

Evan and I headed to Brendan’s friends house for our #torontOSR meetup. Brendan ended up running a game for 9 players, everyone else was new to the game. Fun, of course.

I think I'm done with shipping anything to Canada that didn't start in Canada. 😡

Need to dig in properly, but this looks great.

Mindstorm is one of the best “new” OSR blogs, one I always enjoy reading. You should read too.

Love a good OSR deep cut on Fear of a Black Dragon: The Stygian Garden of Abelia Prem by Clint Krause. Clint made the Vacant Ritual Assembly zines, which I haven’t thought about in a million years. One day he will release his whaling OSR adventure and we will all rejoice.

From a minimal, rough zine to a worldwide art phenomenon: hear Pelle Nilsson and Johan Nohr retell the story of MÖRK BORG, from its humble beginnings to the eccentric multi-headed monster it is today. Panel recorded at TooManyGames 2025. youtu.be/xMNNBXWHOkI

This is kind of perfect level of engagement from Games Workshop. Don’t fuck with the perfection that is Warcry, just small tweaks and adding new models to pool of units usable in the game. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Played some Kill Team today.

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