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...

With teasers for the trailer, countdowns and international time notices, you can't help but think that those behind the PR for the Supergirl movie have learned nothing from anything, ever. The harder the hype (for a trailer) the deeper the disappointment...

With the launch of the Thundercats prg kickstarter, I was wondering... ...have any of the 80s/90s TV rpgs launched over the past few years gained any traction whatsoever? Maybe My Little Pony? But I have not heard anything about Transformers, GI Joe, Terminator etc etc. What's the sitch?

It's amazing how you can associate a taste and a time. I had my first pint of Boddingtons today since 1992, and had all manner of flashbacks to Uni days...

@profanity.accountant ... Tell me the obvious?

Right, UK gaming folk - Revelation is an amazing, focused convention in Sheffield. Quality games in a great gaming location. The early numbers have traditionally been threadbare and I've been forced to use a Cold Hard Stare to convince people they like fun. Lets not do that this time. Come play!

On the bus to work, the driver is playing a podcast on 'The Short History of the Panama Canal's across the speakers. I approve. More of this!

Years ago, I was lucky enough to work high up enough in Newcastle to take this picture. The actual fog on the actual Tyne...

I have way too many things to promote. I'm going to end up diluting my message! 😓 Let's start with the Kickstarter for GRAVITY, shall we, which is doing much better since the self-pity boost last weekend. Still need £640 to fund though -- that's 32 more hard copy sales!

That moment when you know you have a quiet night in on Thursday and your favourite curry house sends you a 15% off discount code...😊

Playing Daggerheart on Sunday, we experienced something magical... [DH in Theory] - No! I'll keep going. I'm attacking again. You can't have a go, I have the spotlight because I'm special!! [British DH] Would you like a go? No? Are you sure? Anyone else want a go? Please say? Are you all sure? 😀

It struck me last night how quickly I have fallen out of love with D&D. Not seething hatred. Not sitting in front of a keyboard spitting bile about it. Just an absolute numb apathy to it. There's nothing about it that fills me with joy. Just a ball of meh. That came as quite a shock as for the...

I just backed Gravity: A Roleplaying Game on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot... If it's anywhere near See Page X, it is definitely worth your consideration.

It says something about the age range of my followers here, when my most liked post of the year is one about an inexplicably injured back! You old gits! By the way, it was fine until I tried to pick some cat food up at Aldi. Some people simply don't learn do they?

New middle aged achievement unlocked. I've managed to pull a muscle in my back by (checks notes) picking up an RPG book. It's just been one of those days.

I have far too many games I want to run and far too few players and too little time to do so effectively. Bollocks.

@eddieap76.bsky.social the same choreography as kicking out time at the North Star....

My 'glance not read' brain saw this and leapt to the conclusion that *Babylon* Five was getting a second chance!

This morning, I find myself thinking about LongCon next year. It's my turn to take the GMs chair back and initially I was 100% in on Spectaculars. However, having a full weekend shakedown of D&H2 is appealing too. I'm going to have to consider how carry things too because that's changed recently 🤔

Just played a cracking game of @meghanlynnftw.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social 's HUNT(er/ed) with @omnihedron.co.uk as a royal vampiric monster I was tailing - this game absolutely slaps, 1 hour of high tension duet action (that didn't end well for my hunter) meghanlynnftw.itch.io/huntered

PWEI Carter USM Wonder Stuff Neds Wedding Present Pixies NIN The Smiths New Order The The REM House of Love Dinosaur Jnr Cud The Cult The Mission Sisters of Mercy And then at uni, a load of Manchester and Greebo stuff too.

At the weekend, I was challenged about what I liked so much about Daggerheart. I couldn't really put it into words, but after some reflection, now I can. It does things I want to do in a game like that, in the way I want to do them, so I can work with the system rather than fight against it Sorted

Rare footy post: weird commentary last night, criticising AG for not doing enough in the game, over a montage of his crosses from the left, being missed by Kane et al. I pondered at the time, who is playing on the right? I honestly couldn't tell. It was Saka. He was anonymous. No-one cared.

On the off chance that England win the ICC Women's World Cup, can we just have the BBC SPOTY Team Award go to the concept of English Women's Sport please?

Another session of #daggerheart Saltmarsh with @eddieap76.bsky.social Naturally, we looked at a formerly haunted house with a route to the sea, and our captured cutter, and thought 'location, location, location!' Some stellar negotiation, copious uses of prestidigitation and giant power, and we..

So I just watched a horror movie, intentionally, for the first time. The Conjuring. It nicely confirmed to me that jump scares and spooky shadows do nothing for me. I think that a lot of the problems might be solved by not having inside locks on every bloody door, and not designing houses with..