📣MuppetMeet 2025 Announcement! Join us and a host of fantastic guest speakers on the evening before Dragonmeet (Friday 28th Nov) for an evening of #TTRPG industry networking and knowledge sharing. Be sure to grab your FREE tickets here: dragonmeet.co.uk/tickets 👇Read more about what's on 👇

Artist manifesto: 1 - you can’t capture the world or even a fragment of it so be specific. 2 - there’s value to taking a position in your art that is more extreme and less nuanced than you might hold in your actual life, to make a point, to be a counterweight. 3 - do what you like. That’s it

I'm going to be at Thought Bubble!!!! Come see me (handsome, overstimulated) and my new book Carved in Stone (transcendent, ground-breaking) and also my slightly less new book Scurry: Heists in the Undergrowth (delightful, beautiful) and my very large unfolding book Border Riding (actually a map)

Hey folks, here's my post-con post-mortem for Essen Spiel 2025. Slightly different vibe for this one, but hopefully it'll give you an idea if a trip to Spiel 2026 is in your cards! #PostConPostMortem byodinsbeardrpg.com/2025-10-29-e...

Carved over 2,800 years ago, Ballochmyle in East Ayrshire is home to one of Britain's most extensive areas of rock art 🧑‍🎨 It's even been suggested that sites like this may have been a focus for "communal performance involving sound, light, and activity": www.digitscotland.com/top-six-arch...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

That morning after feeling. #tagsfestival #comic #journal #illustration #inspo #convention

As if the excitement for this weekend wasn't enough, TAGS Festival has been shortlisted for a Creative Edinburgh Festivals Award! We're delighted to be finalists and can't wait to see you all this weekend for our best event yet. 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

(looking at my portfolio) (noticing old ttrpg srd websites I made back in 2022) aoad.carrd.co

I think the world would be a better place with more arts funding and less project managers tbh

Listen to our TWO HOUR Roundtable discussion about actual play and teaching TTRPGs with @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social @itsquinns.bsky.social and @friede.bsky.social Listen now on Talk of the Table spotify.link/IOwhVx6uCXb

Did a new one

Roman empire 2.0

I will say this: a lot of new folks are clinging to a nostalgia for ‘getting a publisher’ as a marker of validation, of being a ‘real game’. And I’m here to tell you that’s bollocks. They need you more than you need them. If they can provide a service, awesome, but you hold the means of production.

I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more. Check it out! carvedinstone.scot

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics. Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

The rounded transparent bobble UI change that every company is doing is so fucking infantilising. I feel like I'm being kiddy safety scissors wherever I go. Everything is a tab, and slightly hard to read. PayPal is doing it. Tumblr is doing it. Instagram is doing it. YouTube is doing it. It sucks!!!

want this as a poster in my office

💬 PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT! Join @tomhumberstone.com in conversation with La Belle Adventure as they talk about generative AI in the arts. 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk 🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks

"As well as being a smart play experience, it's also fantastically put together in a book that looks and feels like it belongs in Nanny Ogg's bookshelves." BIG COMPLIMENT 😊 Thanks for the review Marx! Really appreciate your insights (and fair cop criticisms too haha)

This is how a $45 shirt becomes $90 and then $180. This 2x multiplying through the chain is called keystone pricing. So why can't the brand just sell it to a consumer for $90, cutting out the retail markup? Because if they become a retailer, they will need to raise prices to cover their new costs.

I'm thrilled to finally announce Leafy Dragon Games' next project: Infinite Paths! Designed by @jamiethul.bsky.social, this sleek solo TTRPG system lets players jump into an epic adventure of their own creation in just a few minutes. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lea... 1/3

One of our four favorite days of the year, as we send payments to 247 member-publishers. Our thanks to all our publishers, customers, and retailers for a strong quarter, and to our hard-working staff.

🦭 It's time to announce the shortlist for our 2025 Selkie Awards!🦭 Check out the link below for the details, and for information on how to sign up to our online award ceremony: 🦭 selkieawards.org/2025 🦭

Hades 2 released at the perfect time (while I was sick with COVID for a week and spare change). There's a lot of refined, polished success to love about the game, and it's music is one of them! Without spoilers, one of the later tracks in the game really got my heart going:

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

"It’s basically the best book on the Picts ever written" 😍 Dig into 7th-century Scotland with "Carved in Stone", a comprehensive guide to the Picts with 350+ historically informed illustrations covering everything from language to fashion. Pre-order to save 20%: www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone

Distraction from Today's News. Let me infodump about my favourite Pictish stone carving, called "Old Scatness 3" after where it was found. He is one of my favourite drawings, and he has a very important lesson to teach us. I tear up just thinking him because he's so wonderful. (1)

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

I'm going to do the October challenge where I live through every day of October

I am a machine that turns Pictish research into vaguely gay speculations

We spent years researching and writing about the Picts... if we can't use that for weaving magic, what was the point??

If you enjoyed a game on Itch, leave a comment! Honestly, it really brightens a creator's day. And it's a big encouragement for others who may be interested in getting that game. Itch hides reviews from the game page, so I find comments more useful in the long run. Like a game? Comment away!

OH YEAH did I mention that pre-orders have a 20% discount until the 5th of November?? Probably the best price you could grab this actually physically massive tome for. This book is 300mmx260mm. It's bigger than the D&D PHB. It's encyclopaedia sized!!

I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more. Check it out! carvedinstone.scot

Morning bump! Come learn about this funky little boar and why he's so cool (also there's footnotes, who doesn't love footnotes)

Distraction from Today's News. Let me infodump about my favourite Pictish stone carving, called "Old Scatness 3" after where it was found. He is one of my favourite drawings, and he has a very important lesson to teach us. I tear up just thinking him because he's so wonderful. (1)

Our panel lineup is out! This will be our first year running talks alongside the Marketplace and Board Game Zone, and we have some great discussions lined up for you. 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

I love being autistic, it's 85% of the reason I'm a multi-award winning one-man-operated powerhouse. I do literally 8 different jobs to a professional standard simultaneously, day in, day out. I am inextricably, continuously and permanently autistic. I will never not be autistic.

You can just run events!! There's no Guild† saying you can't. It's so much fun (and work, let's be real), and it's also extremely rewarding. If you want games in your community, you can absolutely make the space. Start small, start local, and start with what you know!

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

Heather has INTERESTING WIZARD INFORMATION for Pictland and you should read it (This is also awakening my Opinions on why saint worshipers should be Warlocks in D&D 5e BUT THAT’S FOR ANOTHER DAY)

Remember these old paintings I used to do, would you like to buy a pdf that collects all 70+ of them together? If you make me feel really good maybe we can bump it up to 80, 90? Probably not

Pre-orders for Carved in Stone are open!! This book is gorgeous, and I am so grateful to use it (and the artwork!) in my videos. You can pre-order from @stoutstoat.co.uk here: www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone Thanks to @archaeonado.bsky.social for the endorsement! 🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

I really like the design of this spread, it's satisfyingly snappy! Both delightfully medieval, and also modern.

Finals are filtering in for Carved in Stone over the next week. I've been very quiet recently because art direction has been 3 months of non-stop crunch. But it has been so, undeniably worth it. Cuisine was the first actual topic we wrote for the book, and @joutp.bsky.social brought it to life

Goodness, chronic illness is awful this year, but I'm finally making videos again, and I just have to say: Humans are ridiculous. In good ways, in bad ways, in all the ways. Case in point: This tiny hedgehog on a wagon, from 1500 - 1100 BCE Iran (photo © Louvre) 🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky