Very enjoyable Mythic Bastionland tonight. A crisis came to a head as the heir to the throne, Sir Godak, besieged the capital. The knights had been harrying his army and had destroyed his siege engines. There were sorties, fires, massed bagpipes and all sorts. Merryshire Detective Club next week.

I'm certinaly no Gygax apologist but this podcast is strange. It talks about the birth of D&D, Gygax and TSR and all the nasty stuff and then just goes off on one about everything that has happened since EGG died is his fault. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

In the latest episode of my podcast, which is out now on all platforms, I discuss the role of the ghost in the medieval period with my expert guest @goingmedieval.bsky.social Listen free on your podcast apps, or at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-186.... or watch at youtu.be/UXT9f5sWD5Q

Pick up the nearest boo. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "There eftir i entrit in ane grene treis, because the borial blastis of the thre borouing dais of Marche hed chaissit the fragrant flureise of evyrie frut-tree far athourt the fieldis.

Mine are: - Mostly run some games, maybe around 50. - Publish a zine, which requires some rewrites and getting some art, hopefully from my family. - Collaborate with a friend to get some of the stuff I've run in my 10 year mostly improvised campaign into print. - try and do some art more regularly.

Spamtastic.

My GiP, Trail of Cthulhu, has drifted to the Library of the Dreamlands and the group have come in through the lower levels and are seeking to escape. I'm using the Stygian Library to run this, with thematic changes, but it's going great. Quality stuff from @soulmuppet.co.uk.

It has escaped from Worlds Without Master Vol 1, Issue 3. Get it before it gets you!

If you design or run #ttrpgs, read this. @levikornelsen.bsky.social has done much of the heavy lifting for you.

My first thought was, "Oh shit, who blabbed that I've been using the Carthusians in my game in progress?!"

@sainsburys.bsky.social it's a shame I can no longer get these.

The Filing Cabinet of Fear is a show with a possessed filing cabinet and demons, UFOs, cryptids and spectral synthesisers making supernatural sounds! Tickets for @cambridgejunction on Feb 19th available now at the Cambridge Junction website.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

You've just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it? I'm not sure yet, but I've already got a sign.

Tons of great stuff here for anyone interested in the #Gothic.

Filled in my personal assessment tax return, only to discover that HMRC think I owe them £180 for the previous year's tax. However it's on my bank statement so at least one of us can keep good records. Oh yeah, and they lost records of all my PAYE payments I made while working as a student.

After looking at the Lee Miller photographs of Buchenwald in Tate Britain, all the portraits in the permanent collection were just more dead people.

Another excellent zine from @gonzohistory.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

The Allusionist, Helen Zaltzman's amazing podcast about language, has an episode on anxiety with sufferer and poet Paul Clare who has two free courses on his website: 100 Day Writing Challenge supported by a podcast and the 8 week Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp. www.timclarepoet.co.uk

I think I've talked to everyone at #Dragonmeet except @pacogmsmagazine.bsky.social.

The queuing area at #Dragonmeet is larger than any previous Dragonmeet.

Cray Valley beat the world record for attendance at a football match. Must have been quite crammed in. #IsthmianLeague #CrayValley #WorldRecord

#TheHauntedLandscape has been a smorgasbord of delights, the devil, demons, ghosts, spirits of dogs and place, churchyards hidden or loreful, cunning folk and witchcraft. And there's still legend tripping to come, a favourite activity of ours.

@jaylikesthings.bsky.social kicks off #TheHauntedLandscape looking at ghost stories and their afterlives.

I'd not heard of Jubensha before but turns out it's a kind of LARP or murder mystery game originating in China. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubensha

The website says up to 70% off despite what the advert says. @voxparlour.bsky.social 's Machen influenced The Terror Beneath is only £12.50, half price!, and there are many other titles. www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/discover/...

This is my Death in Space character, an optimistic freight tracer has a glitching face and wears flamboyant robes in a reflective material.

Played Death Was The Only Road Out Of Town by @gshowitt.bsky.social and @helloalexroberts.bsky.social tonight and it was glorious.

TIL about Roda Bowles, a true pioneer, more details here: www.thearticle.com/rhoda-bowles....

The spring in my printer that holds the paper jam detector has broken and there's no easy way to replace it without some very complicated dismantling. So I tried a little elastic band instead and it works! I will have to buy a bunch of spring onions any time I need to replace the fix.

And if we're doing recommendations, here's the new @lootthebody.bsky.social track, www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbap...

Harpya, as recommended by @alicelowetime.bsky.social at Tales of the Weird. It's a short Belgian comedy horror animation from 1979.

Some high quality material in this bundle. Stealing Cthulhu is just the best for anyone thinking about writing Mythos material.

Thanks @microsoft.com, that's very helpful. I will off course connect to the internet to refresh my offline access. Although I must be online if I'm able to post this. How does that work?

State of the US government. That's what Farage wants for us.

If it work in Mass, I'm sure it could work everywhere.

"Count Magnus" and "Number 13" by M R James, in Belfast for a week next month, 10 - 16 Nov. Tickets here: lyrictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/cou...

A bit close to the knuckle.

And there I was thinking Don't Mess with Texas was the state motto, and not an anti-littering campaign from 1985. Apparently it's actually Friendship (to a very limited number of people it seems).

Some newly arrived October themed reading, including a signed @katecherrell.bsky.social chapbook and a pseudonymous JC de Plancy, better known for his Dictionnaire Infernal.

A big part of the drop in fertility rates over that period is the collapse in teen pregnancies, so this is really creepy stuff from RFK, Jr.. Also, release the Epstein Files.

I'm not sure how correct it is, but using ChatGPT to parse a recent letter about my back MRI scan certainly made it a lot easier to read.

If anyone was thinking of ordering a copy of Darkened Hill & Dale in the immediate future, you might want to place your order before lunchtime tomorrow – I'll be away and have to pause shipping for nearly a fortnight from Friday evening! shop.patchworkfez.games

There's a creature on me! #ReeceShearsmith #SuchBravery #Taskmaster

Land of Cicadas now available free, as well as the core rules. Get some great hexcrawl action! I played this then ran it, and one of my players has done the same. We've already got three generations of #CloudEmpress. #TTRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Share the last 4 TTPRGs you played and expose your gaming habits. Swyvers Trail of Cthulhu Cloud Empress Mythic Bastionland

Brian Lumley's cultists are specific in "The Second Wish" on #StrangeStudies this week - you don't want people thinking you're worshipping the wrong cosmic horror! Grab your bolo and head over to Patreon for more! Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts! #hppodcraft

Listened to this today, www.gauntlet-rpg.com/fear-of-a-bl... and it sounds so fabulous that I just had to get a copy from @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social.

We are TWO top tier pledges away from hitting our stretch goal to upgrade the book! Can we do it?

Now Live! 🏔 A tarot powered mountaineering RPG 🚠 Set on some of the world's deadliest peaks ⛰️ Inspired by your favourite outdoors documentaries 🐐These emojis feel a little pointless but I feel the need to inform everyone there ARE early bird discounts. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...