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.

Thought Bubble remains my favourite convention, even if this year we ended up in the red. Here's my latest #post-con-post-mortem for Thought Bubble 2025. #TTRPG #TBF25 byodinsbeardrpg.com/2025-11-17-t...

Thank for everyone's extremely kind words in support of the book! I'll be back to Pict Posting in a few weeks ❤️

We've done three ThoughtBubbles with @shop.peregrinecoast.press - in 2022, £1,400 across the weekend (our first convention!!). In 2023 we went through a significant downturn and made £800. This weekend we've continued our positive upwards trend and hit £1,600.

I will be at THOUGHT BUBBLE in 24 HOURS!! And then YOU can be at THOUGHT BUBBLE in 36 HOURS!!

Talking with Thomas was a real delight! Heather and I peel back the curtain on the process behind Carved in Stone (and we gush about how much we love all of our artists, too!)

Carved in Stone is HERE!!! @archaeonado.bsky.social called it “the best book on the Picts ever written,” so you should definitely check it out over at www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone 🏺 #picts #archaeologysky #rpg #ttrpg #indiettrpg #dnd #pathfinder

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.

Oooh, Kickstarter's pledge manager charging me VAT *after* my original pledge does NOT make me happy. That is very much something that should have been upfront at point of backing.

Small Press in Scotland is in desperate need of sheltering and support.

Part 1 of "Cool People What You Should Visit at #Dragonmeet And Buy Things From" is now live over on Insta! www.instagram.com/p/DQt674mjCv... Featuring Cool People PT 2 of Pubs n Devs later today!

📣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!"