Today the impossible happened. I found a mobile game so satisfying, I had to delete it! It was a bit like that film Mortal Engines. Your castle on wheels, with little dudes inside, smacks the shit out of your opponents. The games were quick and intense, there were tactics, and you could play...

There can be few more aesthetically pleasing things in the world than an Ellie Kildunne try on the wing ... Except maybe Maud Muir stuff arming someone...

It's been a proper bug bear of mine, and honestly more than a little petty, but I was very pleased to see Iron Maiden are to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this morning. That's all.

Always the last to meme... TTRPG about me First game: Basic Red Box D&D Last game: Daggerheart Longest Game: Symbaroum Favourite Game: Monsterhearts Favourite Mechanics: Aspects in Fate Favourite Art: everything in Wildsea is amazingly evocative Nothing super sexy or quirky. Sorry folks 😄

I have far too many potential games rattling around in my head (Wildsea, Imperium Maledictum, The Between, Blades in the Dark, Soulbound) and not enough players to play them with. Bollocks.

Yesterday, at this time, it looked like I wouldn't have any gaming this weekend. Now I have three games tomorrow. Life really does know how to pull a Crazy Ivan sometimes!

Junk mail arrived today tell me I could have £000s owing to me because of the car I bought on finance years ago. Does anyone in the audience know why this is demonstrable bullshit? Hands up, don't be shy!

I suppose I should start BinQuest. No fences down at the back, which puts Dave in the 'nowhere near as annoying as Arwen' category,.but I heard some hot Wheely action going on last night, and not the good kind! (The lack of good C&tW GIFs is an outrage)

Wonder how the flat earthers are handling this morning? I assume it's all just airfix models and CGI, right?

Back from my holidays with a cracking case of the zoomies, a 38pt list of jobs that need doing, five hours of shit sleep and a gnawing feeling that if I'm not in the cafe within the hour, the entire days routine will be off kilter. Today will either be the most productive day of my life, or ...

Hey groovy RPG kids! Want to play a game all weekend like when we were kids? Yes? Sign up to LongCon, Sheffield, 27/28th June and indulge that long game groove. longcon.ttrpg.uk There's spaces left in my weekend game of Spectaculars, a full run of A|State, DCC and much more. Do it!

Because it's always true...

Oh so *NOW* people are being all vocal about their ambivalence, if not disdain, for Firefly? Where have you been for the last decade? That said, welcome to The Resistance...😀

Watching rugby after watching Aussie rules is like watching sport in slow motion... Egg ball bleed is a thing. For at least some of the year I watch rugby and wonder why someone isn't downed by contact!

Out of the house for the 08.26 bus to go playtest D&H v2. The PCs are hunting down a traitor in Oporto, and someone has been murdered at the last society ball before the French arrive....

Time for a rare internet moment. I was wrong about Knight of the Seven Kingdoms I wrote it off after the first couple of episodes as slow and plodding, but it has been excellent, compelling and technically brilliant. Loved it. Don't abandon shows after the first brush, you might miss greatness

Once settled, I can be a little difficult to persuade to move from the sofa, even to go to bed. Previously my daughter has taken to playing 'What I've Done' by Linkin Park to force me to stand and do the Optimus Prime monologue. Tonight? In her shrillest voice: "Get up! Get up Ser! Get UP!"

Could this week be any worse? Sliced by nail making tea last night, and the thing has come away now. So I have a nice big plaster on my left index finger, making typing less than efficient. So, when it's pissing down with rain outside, I can't even easily crack on with D&H or Liminal stuff #ouch

So I asked my daughter to proof read of D&Hv2. What I expected was the application of her degree-level English skills to the text. What I got was a litany of sarcastic comments. "What is your obsession with hypens?" "What has the humble full stop done to you?" "Widow. Another widow. Another widow"

I wonder whether there will be a tipping point where the writing ticks of AI as presented in scripts for Tik Tok etc. will become so normalised that they bleed into people's own expressions? It won't just be a disaster - it will change the written form forever.

In which I discuss the start for our new Werewolf game and why getting a solid base to play from is so important for all games, but I believe in this 1-on-1 scenario especially www.omnihedron.co.uk/play/roadtri...

Session 1 of Werewolf: Roadtrip today, with @fandomlife.net 1-on-1 drama antics inspired by modern cowboy tales and gothic Americana. Fascinating and fun experiment in laying down a rock solid premise and then riffing hard to make great choices.

My gaming brain is doing some hard handbrake turns at the mo'. I'm exiting Arthurian Liminal headspace, taking a detour into 1809 and all the Peninsular War action I can muster, and then bodyswerving into midwest USA wandering small town werewolf stories...before I start planning teen e-sport drama!

When did I become this organised? Everything planned and printed for my D&H2 playtest on Friday morning, next week's Liminal game and my first session proper with @fandomlife.net for WW5e. The days of Last Minute Charlie seem to have disappeared...

Finally watching 28 Years Later. So Spike and his mam hoof it across land from Holy Island to near the Angel of the North eh? And from where they were standing, straight by the Metro Centre and Newcastle, stood on the hill next to Lobley Hill Rd. Fast travel, dodged all the Geordie zombies too

Started watching Yellowstone as research for an RPG thing. It's about the least Neil show I have ever watched. It's the anti-Neil, however there's definitely something there. I continue with my modern cowboy conversion...

Hey North East folks, if social justice and socially conscious business is your thing, the lovely people at Society Matters are on Bluesky now. You might even see my handsome mug popping up there from time to time!

Quick WWE snark: I hate it when wrasslin' tries to merge real life logic with in-ring antics, like wrestlers pressing charges against each other. As if the unspoken pantomime rules of pro-wrestling don't apply. See the emerging storyline from RAW last night between Bron Breakker and Adam Pearce?

Cracking game of Daggerheart with @eddieap76.bsky.social on Sunday. To earn our underwater breathing gills, the local archmage challenged us to face the dreaming versions of our own worst moments, riffing off the background questions. We each learned about our instigating moments and bonding as...

My good deed for the day was telling the staff that this book absolutely does not belong in the kids section. Not ever.

Surely now the ghost of Hereford Utd and Ronnie Radford can be exorcised. Surely...

Quoting this so-as not to dilute the replies but this has got me thinking about the possible perceived hierarchy in the RPG scene Publishers Designers Con Organisers (?) GMs Players Purchasers There may be a place in there for reviewers but I'm not sure. It explains the glee when some people...

When lyrics creep up on you... 15 Years, by the Levellers. "He's never been kept waiting, cos he pays the landlord's wage" I always assumed this wasbecause he was a high spending regular. It only just struck me because he could be the landlords employer, drinking in his own pub. Different take.

Do you know what I would love to do? A 'full production' RPG campaign. You know the ones - maps, music, minis, artwork, handouts - the works. Session on session. Proper commitment to create an ongoing gaming experience. The game is layers and reintegration of ideas and characters. Ah, bliss...

After a brief hiatus, gaming returns to the Gow household this weekend. Lara is off on her Cthulhu adventures tonight, I'm in Saltmarsh with Daggerheart and @eddieap76.bsky.social on Sunday, we restart the Caliburn Chronicles on Tuesday, and the first D&H playtest is next Friday. Whoo hooo!

I emerged, blinking into the light, at 17.00 last night, having finally finished the first redraft of Duty & Honour. Weighing in at 160pp, author and draft printed copy are doing well... It's a very weird feeling to have it so far down the line so soon, never thought I'd see the day etc.

I'm at the 'things I left to do later' part of the D&Hv2 draft - it's like a snag list for decorating a room. I hate doing snag lists and I hate doing this too, just saying...

I'm fascinated with watching Stranger Things fandoms go through the stages of grief, in real time. Denial - That wasn't what I wanted. What about X, Y and Z? Anger - Well that was SHIT! Bargaining - Hang on, if you line some letters up, ignore some others... it's a CLUE!! I await Depression...

Woke up at 4am ... no snow Woke up at 8am ... no snow Emerged from writing pit at 10.30am ... fucking NARNIA Well, I guess D&H V2 draft 1 gets finished today then?!

In which I give a sort of tongue-in-cheek bittersweet prediction for the fates of the lives of the Stranger Things kids after the finale, based in the late 80s/early 90s they will find themselves in. Needless to say, riddled with spoilers, read accordingly www.omnihedron.co.uk/review/the-b...

After some wrangling to resurrect it, just killed my X (account). Not one pang of regret was felt.

Walked by/through... Peter Beardsley Fabulous Flournoy Fleur East Una Stubbs The 1997 Aussie Cricket Team ...I really need to pay more attention when I'm wandering around.

I ran a game recently where I needed to look up a rule for initiative, but the game didn't call it initiative. So I had to whistle through the index, looking for synonyms instead. Which got me thinking... Has any RPG done an 'expected' index? So you might call initiative 'strike turn' or ...

With 24 hours to go, I finally found the pdfs with the Star Wars conversions for Tachyon Squadron hiding in the media tab on a Messenger thread. Phew! Better read the rules now...

40 years on, I have become my parents. Just walked into FP and thrust a list into someone's hand and said 'I have no idea who or what a 'Junji Ito' is but I need three of them, please' #nolongercooldad

If you're in search of a seasonally appropriate RPG scenario to run, I recommend picking up the Liminal Casebook where you'll find my scenario The Crown of Winter set in mid December, i.e. about now, with a very seasonal mystery. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... modiphius.net/products/lim...

The Christmas Lecture in the Dept of Paranormal Studies has a guest lecturer - Steve Hatherley's amazing Department for Irregular Studies addresses the students. It's free #liminalrpg content for Christmas - enjoy! Or give the gift of subbing for only $3/month www.patreon.com/posts/christ...

#ttrpgyearinreview 2025 Scum and Villainy Star Wars Daggerheart Dr Who: AITAS 2e Liminal Vaesen Fight with Spirit Swords without Master The Between Spire Run Out The Guns Pendragon Starforged (Sundered Isles) Slugblaster ...and some 1-on-1 games with Guy that I can't remember the name of!

WWE reaction thoughts? Spoilers ahead . . . . . . . No seriously . . . . . . Not having a 'Let then fight' decision between Cody and Oba was criminal. Cody doesn't need protecting and Oba is the future, now. My girl Sol, doing Sol things. Bravo to Bailey for making her look even better...

Earlier, I was tempted to post something about the overuse of the term enshitification, out of context of it's original meaning. And then I went to my local fish and chips shop for a cheeky treat and found that they no longer fry anything for the shelf and instead you need to pre-order frying...