If ever you needed evidence that the stock market is filled with rabid possums who play dead at the sight of danger. Better the stock price take a dive than a plane load of passengers.

I released d66 Toolkit: The Book of Hauntings this week. A system-neutral horror toolkit containing 36 atmospheric hauntings. Perfect for horror one-shots, modern investigations, or adding dread to an ongoing campaign. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

My “plan” for this Substack is to post my “work” on weekdays and my thoughts on weekends. So. It’s Saturday, buckle up buttercup. open.substack.com/pub/lategame...

Mind Games — A Rules-Light Culture Toolkit A system-agnostic guide for telling stories in the spirit of Iain M. Banks’ Culture, focused on playing as Minds Inspired by Microscope, The Quiet Year, and Paved in Blood. This is an unofficial fan work. Free, open content 🔗 lategamer.itch.io/mindgames

It’s the WARS Open Day this Saturday so a heap of geeks will be descending on Floriana to play RPGs, board games and war games. I’ll be running a non-violent space game (think first responders in space). facebook.com/events/s/war... #malta

This weekend I’m running PIONEER, using the preview of Mongoose Publishings latest game. It’s still on kickstarter so have a look. Adventures at the dawn of the new space race.

Today’s “sit back and realise nothing really matters” is realising that even when given the definition of diegetic and non-diegetic, most people are never going to get it.

Pioneering Space Adventures is a toolkit of grounded, near-future mission hooks for hard science-fiction play. No aliens. No hyperspace. Just people, machines, politics, and pressure. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

New for Twilight: 2000 (4E): Vilkalaukis — Resistance and Superstition in War-Torn Lithuania Fight Soviets. Survive the winter. Fear the wolves. legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5354...

I have a Multiverse setting. Sure. Everyone does. This one is specifically to enable some stories. Jerry Cornelius/Luther Arkwright/Doctor Who/Barsoom/Melnibone/Conan/Kit Kimble/Elijah Snow type stories. I’m telling you this because I released the first book that mentions it…last night.

On the plus side, the Witcher Hack is expanding vastly.

Social Media was easier in the Noughties. I had a job I could talk about and I was in my early thirties and scads of enthusiasm Now? I’m channelling my GenX nature, treating every interaction with deep suspicion and disappointed when a potential extinction level event turns out to be a flyby

This week on the Witcher TTRPG Hack. Added Fumble tables to the Hack. And rules for Dwarven clockworks and Gnomish Firepowder. All prep for a game I’m playing. Which means the REAL books that I can make money on take a back seat. Silly really. But writing has to remain fun and not just work.

The first Vaesen supplement I’ve ever made. #ttrpg

And I've just released CYST lategamer.itch.io/cyst #onepagerpgjam2025

Made my first entry for the One Page RPG Jam: itch.io/jam/one-page...

I’m launching my fourth book tomorrow. Short Tales From Distant Lands: books.apple.com/gb/book/shor... A Whole New World: books.apple.com/gb/book/a-wh... This Bitter Earth: books.apple.com/gb/book/this... Three Verdicts of Ruo Xianling: books.apple.com/gb/book/thre...

Another new book. This time it’s about the nuclear winter in Twilight 2000. Can you survive PERMAFROST www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

**Shameless Self-Promo** www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... Made this with the help of a few complete strangers on RPGPUB. royalties all split. Clever innit.

New stuff on the Patreon. Lite rules!

Mini Review: Fountain of Youth: 4/10 Ok. It’s beautifully shot and the CGI and scenery is top notch. Krasinski is the wrong lead for it. Portman is wasted. González is playing a cliche. Tucci is barely used. It just lacks joy;

What do you want? A new fantasy epic where magic is plentiful and dragons are real? #TalesOfDistantLands A noblebright retelling of the escape of humanity from Earth? #AWholeNewWorld What about a noir detective story in a world where superpowers won World War 2? #ThisBitterEarth cimota.com

The new book I’m working on. How awesome is it when you get the cover?

I was thinking of including the character sheet from my in-dev XIANGGUO #TTRPG for the protagonist in my latest #book. Does this make it #LitRPG?

Today I started commissioning new and shiny art for MAJESTIC and XIANGGUO. Aliens for the first and a big stonking map for the second. Easily the biggest expense in the whole process. Luckily found artists that I like and trust. #ttrpgcreator

Today I completed my first casebook. Three Verdicts of Fǎ Guān Ruò: A Casebook from the Outer Provinces 三桩判案：法官若的边省案簿

THIS BITTER EARTH A Cold War noir of power, guilt, and the superheroes who didn’t stay heroes. Boston, 1950. The war is over, but the scars remain. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2JK8JSK Just out now! #superheroes #noir

My latest project, visualised

At the moment I’m being possessed by the multiverse cosmic fantasy writing. Which saved me from the Asian fantasy horror writing. Oh. And I’ve started another book about winter.

The data layer of the universe (including black holes, quantum information, and higher-dimensional structures) is an ontological substrate—it is the raw informational framework of reality.

So I’m writing the next book in the series I’ve not finished yet, wait, I’m writing a game about UFOs, wait, I’m writing the TTRPG about the book series, wait, I’m writing a game about Wuxia fantasy-horror, wait, I’m writing a book about interdimensional weirdness, wait, look, a writing competition…

www.patreon.com/posts/122474... Outline: XIANGGUO is a mythic fantasy TTRPG set in a land inspired by medieval China and Joseon Korea, where wandering heroes, cunning magistrates, and devout Daoists navigate a world of courtly intrigue, supernatural horrors, and martial prowess.

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I’m revealing more and more about the world of #xiangguo every day. There’s also heaps of free stuff on the link. www.patreon.com/posts/122474...

i'm a tabletop roleplaying game writer and i’m writing a game set in a culture very similar to china. I am looking for some help in my description - particularly for cultural sensitivity.

Today we resume the playing of the Tales of Distant Lands TTRPG. Real life really got in the way for a while - so it will be good to pick up again. Sad to lose one player but happy to have gained another. Exit Makaira, enter Utgar #TTRPG

Don’t be disheartened by someone who DNF your book or struggles at a certain point.* *they’re just a bad person. (Joking. But really.)

Look. This is a big admission. Someone I don’t know from real life or socials read my book and gave it a 5 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ rating and a wish to read more. Whomever you are, you’re now my secret crush.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

Of course you should try my second book; an anthology of optimistic and heartfelt sci-fi. Link in bio! #writer #author #skywriters #indieauthor #sciencefiction #scifi

I should be writing Book Two. I should be writing Majestic. But no, I’ve dug out my old notes for Xiongguo, any quasi-Asian fantasy adventure story.

I’ve just got home and the process of travelling within the EU is a model for all nations. Minimum documentation. Minimal wait. And that’s across a Schengen border. The #EU is far from perfect but it increasingly looks like the best deal available.