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International awards winning publisher in Scotland.
https://www.stoutstoat.co.uk
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Carved in Stone is officially out! In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
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Sequential Scotland Comic Con
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So excited to reveal to everyone the absolutely incredible 2026 poster created by
@mortiscausa.bsky.social
😍 We can't wait to welcome you all back to the DoubleTree this August to celebrate everything sequential and small press!
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Critical Chance Collective
4 days ago
Pleased to announce the Glasgow Roleplaying & Storytelling Gathering this July. Two days of games, stories, and connection. Follow us for more info. Running as part of the Commonwealth Games festival.
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The ENNIE Awards
4 days ago
Don't let time run out! March 31st is the last day for submissions:
ennie-awards.com/new-submissi...
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2026 Submission Form – ENNIE Awards
https://ennie-awards.com/new-submission/
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404 Media
5 days ago
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/
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It’s official - Carved in Stone is finally available in the USA, through the one and only
@ipr.bsky.social
! You can order your copy directly from them (alongside a host of other beautiful books and games!)
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Carved...
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Markus aka The Chindividual
10 days ago
So glad that people in the US can now also get a physical copy of this amazing book. Still on the fence? Then check out my video about it!
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It’s official - Carved in Stone is finally available in the USA, through the one and only
@ipr.bsky.social
! You can order your copy directly from them (alongside a host of other beautiful books and games!)
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Carved...
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Michael Curtis
15 days ago
Delightful arrival in today's mail: Carved in Stone by
@stoutstoat.co.uk
. Absolutely gorgeous book, thoroughly researched and reviewed, and crammed with everything you never knew you needed to know about the Picts. Not a game stat in sight, but plenty of prompts for your game design needs.
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The Weekly Scroll
17 days ago
New Episode! We review SCURRY by
@stoutstoat.co.uk
, a ttrpg where tiny beasts embark on fast paced heists with all-or-nothing stakes through the Scottish underbrush! watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBi...
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EP 312 | We review SCURRY!
YouTube video by The Weekly Scroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBi6pyvIlY
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George Outhwaite
17 days ago
You know when you make a silly little video that gets retweeted a million times by everyone from Philip Pullman to people who hated you at school, and it gets licensed for use in a documentary, and you think oh I actually enjoyed making that and I think it’s valuable and people like it ...
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barclay travis
18 days ago
i would love to be able to post more about Current TTRPG Discourse but this is my stance on almost everything
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snow
24 days ago
advice to new ttrpg creators: live most of your life outside of ttrpgs. if you catch yourself talking shit about another indie creator on some discord, y'know, questioning if they're really queer or something, stop and go outside.
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A toad
25 days ago
my first of
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#marchtoCamelot
drawings for this year! don't know if I'll be able to put this much effort into them all but I had fun with this one! as with last year, theming them around my ongoing GN because I'm still obsessed with it.
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Ingenuitive as always
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Hinokodo
28 days ago
And... we're live baby! Hop aboard the Elseware Express!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mim...
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Card & Coin // Elseware Express
Ride the rails of the Elseware Express before the world ends and have unlimited fun with Cards & Coins.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mimicpublishing/card-and-coin-and-elseware-express
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ADHKASJDHKL BIG NEWS FOR THE LOCAL NERDS!
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Brian LaRossa
about 1 month ago
I am hiring a junior designer.
scholastic.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Junior Designer
Job Description: NOTE: This role is based in New York City and encourages a minimum of two days per week in the SoHo office. Some roles or teams may require additional in-office attendance if the esse...
https://scholastic.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Junior-Designer_R15238
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Peregrine Coast Press
about 1 month ago
Border Riding is a game about boundaries, exploring how arbitrary borders can create long-lasting divisions between communities. Lavishly illustrated and printed on Ordnance Map material meaning it’ll survive through anything. Get yours @
peregrinecoast.press/products/bor...
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Cara 🏳️🌈
about 1 month ago
This feels very relevant to Scottish comic creators selling internationally - a survey to explore the possibility of setting up a Cultural Export Service
scotland.britishcouncil.org/Cultural-Exp...
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https://scotland.britishcouncil.org/Cultural-Export-Survey
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A toad
about 1 month ago
I'm still without any current clientwork, so would really appreciate anyone wanting to share this! Alternatively, give my patreon or my shop a look? They both have a lot of things on.
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Dig It!
about 1 month ago
When uncovering traces of people from the past, evidence comes in all sizes, can be found everywhere and might not look like what we expect 🤔 Confused? Don't be! Learn more about how archaeologists uncover these stories and how you can get involved:
www.digitscotland.com/what-is-arch...
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The Weekly Scroll
about 2 months ago
Oh hey, we're live to review SCURRY from
@stoutstoat.co.uk
, is a ttrpg where tiny beasts embark on fast paced heists with all-or-nothing stakes through the Scottish underbrush! watch here 👇
www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
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TheWeeklyScroll - Twitch
We review Scurry
https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
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Hari Conner
about 2 months ago
Diary comics thread for hourly comics day ✏️ intro/9am
#hourlycomicday
#MEcfs
#ChronicIllness
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Small Press Scotland CIC
about 2 months ago
What do YOU want to learn and hear about? We're planning the programmes for our first Professional Development days, and we want to make sure we're targeting vital gaps in knowledge among Scotland's small press creators. Help us by filling out our short survey! 📝
forms.gle/NxHKSsMM2MJX...
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BoardGameWire
2 months ago
France’s highest-profile board game prize, the As d’Or, has updated its rules for 2026 to ensure that artist names must appear on a game box in order for designs to be eligible for the award:
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
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More Apwthecaria! More-wthecaria? If you're hankering for potion brewing, wandering the Scottish wilds on four legs, and gathering trinkets from the birds and beasts your help, this is the solo-rpg for you.
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about 2 months ago
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Dr Holly Nielsen
2 months ago
Here you go!
www.eteogames.com/winter-and-d...
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Winter and Death in Harvest Moon
While letting go of a beloved pet is hard, death plays an essential role in preventing farming sims from feeling stagnant.
https://www.eteogames.com/winter-and-death-in-harvest-moon/
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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ
3 months ago
FINANCE GURU FUGU
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ArchaeoPlays
2 months ago
There's a streaming link, too, so those not in Luxembourg should be able to tune in!
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Some guidance on this issue was written up by my IOSS integration provider:
easproject.com/romania-ital...
Long story short, new €2 fees to Italy (unlikely to proc) and ~€5 fees to Romania (very likely to proc). I believe these fees will be bundled in as part of shipping services (e.g. Royal Mail)
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2 months ago
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Dr. Jens Foell
2 months ago
LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it
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Sean T. Collins
2 months ago
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Josh Sawyer
2 months ago
Also crowdfunding games imo.
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Clayton
2 months ago
I try not to say "this is required reading" because that gets old really quick, but I genuinely think this is great advice that will help make you an absolute gem to work with. You'll get better layout, timelines, and collaboration by following this advice. Give it a read if you can.
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derek guy
2 months ago
i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about
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TAGS Festival
2 months ago
The TAGS Fest 2025 report is now live! We collated and analysed all our stats for this event and reflected on feedback submitted by our exhibitors. 🏷️
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Dr Holly Nielsen
2 months ago
Whenever I hear devs or other creatives who do worldbuilding say they *have* to use ch*tGPT to help with their lore bibles because no human could possibly collate such a huge and complex world… I glare in historian
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I'm not quite back, but thinking about it! Slowly creaking my rusty hinges and shedding dust.
3 months ago
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Zedeck Siew
3 months ago
Some notes about how I write TTRPG adventures: My texts tend to be terse. A location described in two lines; a single spoken sentence to describe a character. The aim is *not* to be laconic, but to mirror the pace of natural dialogue; a TTRPG is a conversation between players, after all! 1/
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I'm taking a break till January 5th! I won't be checking work social media, work email, or discord until then. See youse in the new year :)
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Rian Johnson's latest Knives Out is by no means subtle but sometimes it is wonderful to be beaten in the face repeatedly with the narrative and its (barely) subtext. I enjoyed it, even though I personally feel like I am not *necessarily* the target audience 😉
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Idle Cartulary
4 months ago
Critique Navidad! What do you get when you hire a university to write the most comprehensive history of a civilisation to support a module, and illustrate it better than most children’s history books? You get Carved in Stone, a module about living among the picts!
idlecartulary.com/2025/12/13/c...
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Critique Navidad: Carved in Stone
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
http://idlecartulary.com/2025/12/13/critique-navidad-carved-in-stone/
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2025 goals: listen to all of dice exploder (again)
over 1 year ago
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sam “fully armored” sorensen
4 months ago
what's up gamers, I'm back with ten more tangible tips for editing your tabletop RPG manuscript:
samsorensen.blot.im/ten-more-tan...
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Tiffany Baxter
4 months ago
Carved in Stone - St. Serf & St. Mungo For some of the smaller saint illustrations I went with iconography surrounding events and deeds from each saint's life. St. Serf: the Dragon of Strathearn & the staff he rebuked it with. St. Mungo: the robin he miraculously brought back to life.
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Adrián Maldonado
4 months ago
Finally got my hands on the physical book for Carved in Stone by Heather Christie
@archaeoplays.bsky.social
and Brian Tyrrell
@stoutstoat.co.uk
. Really gives me hope that early medieval archaeology can inspire worlds that are hopeful, empathetic and overall, fun
www.stoutstoat.co.uk/products/car...
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ArchaeoPlays
4 months ago
This is tonight!!! In-person tickets are sold out, but you can tune in online for free - we look forward to seeing you there! For those who can't attend at all, I believe our talk will go live on the Society's YouTube page within a week or so 😁
#ArchaeologySky
#HistorySky
🏺
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"This is a hobby of makers" resonates with my growingly informed opinions on RPGs for the last 5 years. RPGs are not an industry. Every project is a passion; the results of success would be unequal to the reward, if not also for the fact that it *satisfies* a deep need in the maker.
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Today!!!
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