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...

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.

Here you go! www.eteogames.com/winter-and-d...

FINANCE GURU FUGU

There's a streaming link, too, so those not in Luxembourg should be able to tune in!

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)

LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it

Also crowdfunding games imo.

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.

i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

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. 🏷️ docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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

I'm not quite back, but thinking about it! Slowly creaking my rusty hinges and shedding dust.

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/

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 :)

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 😉

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...

2025 goals: listen to all of dice exploder (again)

what's up gamers, I'm back with ten more tangible tips for editing your tabletop RPG manuscript: samsorensen.blot.im/ten-more-tan...

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.

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...

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 🏺

"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.

Today!!!

Heads up! Final orders at stoutstoat.co.uk need to be placed before 12pm GMT this Sunday (14th December). After then the store will be going into hibernation till January.

There are lot of haters out there. Hate is easy. Hate is loud. And in the age of digital reviews, hate can now be permanent. Do your community a favour, and share some love.

This Thursday at 6pm GMT I'm giving a lecture with the wonderful @archaeoplays.bsky.social about how to conceive and build living images of the past. All the in-person tickets have been snapped up, but you can still watch online for free (I think via Zoom) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carved-in-...

This Thursday at 6pm GMT I'm giving a lecture with the wonderful @archaeoplays.bsky.social about how to conceive and build living images of the past. All the in-person tickets have been snapped up, but you can still watch online for free (I think via Zoom) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carved-in-...

Got the PDF of CARVED IN STONE: A STORYTELLER'S GUIDE TO THE PICTS; immediately got me looking for some of the folks behind its lovely illustrations. A few on BSKY: @anineillustration.com @jagalart.bsky.social @elemei.bsky.social @queerwizard.co.uk @mortiscausa.bsky.social @toadlett.bsky.social

This land is ancient, and you are welcome to discover it. In today's video, I share with you the three things I love most about @stoutstoat.co.uk's Carved In Stone, and why you should check out this setting book! #ttrpg

There's still about a week where you can order this to the UK for arrival before Christmas!

Apple's iPad is such a powerful multi-purpose tool for drawing, writing, and touch-based interfacing, and it is utterly let down by it's UI and OS restrictions. If you don't want to use it exactly like how it's shown off in a tech demo, it stumbles and chafes just enough to break your workflow 😩

Happy Critique Navidad my friends! A year ago, Clayton suggested the best gift of all was to write about a designers game, so I decided to review your games for the holiday season! I’m doing it again this year — a review (or so) every day! Submit your own if you dare!

Dragonmeet mystery: who left this on my table and why

Quinns is reading the brilliant Border Riding by @jomreid.bsky.social! You can join in on the fun with some free community copies over on @itch.io stoutstoatpress.itch.io/border-riding It's a game about maps printed on a big map, but there's also a book pdf with accessibility tags!

I wanna write dril tweets but I'm too dyslexic to spell it right first time. typos undermine the notorious take hustle

You: hey how's that Pictish TTRPG come along? Did you finish it? Me:

Carved in Stone - Relics Most of these are just theoretical examples barring the open casket which is based on the Monymusk Reliquary.

Made a post on my patreon with a look at some of the first art for my gn, BONE COMB! it's free to read wehther you support me or not! www.patreon.com/posts/144716...

I'm here! I'm queer! I'm not caffeinated!

I'm at Dragonmeet this weekend! L22. I'm bringing Carved in Stone and that's it, so buckle in for the longest Pictish rambles you've ever heard yet.

More New Arrivals from Thought Bubble! From @discordcomics.bsky.social @stoutstoat.co.uk and Eve Greenwood! Going home to warm up then back to log more 3-5! littledeercomics.ie

Hey fun fact I don't sell any of my books on Am*zon and I never have. If you ever see one of my books on Amazon that's actually a drop shipper trying to undercut honest publishers and physical stores by taking advantage of wholesale deals through distributors. Bad stuff!

🙏CHAPTER SERF🙏 I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight. PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt... 1/

Once again shipping things to the USA, once again confounded by how truly awful UPS is with their online service.

I had a wonderful, friendly (and fully booked!) launch for Border Riding with Argonaut books and @ancientrobotgames.bsky.social. This only happened because they both wanted to help out a small local publishing house. No big chain business has (yet) ordered or stocked the books and games I publish.