Staring at the now ruined cover feature from our next issue

I don't usually blame my weakness as a collector on other people but these beautiful, stupid pieces of 40 year old plastic are all @wyrdscience.bsky.social's fault.

A solid column on the impossibility of interstellar travel Counterpoint:

A solid column on the impossibility of interstellar travel Counterpoint:

Oh, this also applies if you read my article on games and the Cold war in issue 7 of @wyrdscience.bsky.social - the survey is open to anyone who has read my stuff, heard one of my talks, watched a video I've been involved it, etc.

It's the last 48 hours to back Shannon Appelcline's four volume dive into D&D product histories. Shannon has built the backbone of the RPG history and is a constant reference point for my work. No Shannon, no Stu! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own. www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...

Internet outages getting you down? remember you can always read a magazine (& in fact you can still buy them as our site’s still working) Wyrd Science, we’ll be there for you when you’re living in a fallout shelter, hiding from irradiated mutants rampaging across the above land shop.wyrd.science

Having grown up around Kingston I can assure you this is in fact just the Royal Borough's traditional Christmas Gryph-Hound

Wyrd Science Issue 5 Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabeltop games through interviews, extensive reviews and original artwork. Grab your copy here: peregrinecoast.press/products/wyr...

Wyrd Science Magazine Issue 6 Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games and in this, the sixth and final issue of volume 1. peregrinecoast.press/products/wyr...

🗣️ WINTER SALE STARTS TODAY ! Save up to 70% on our wide range of board games, wargames & RPGs. Browse now: https://bit.ly/3WWYmlN The sale runs from today to midnight GMT on 7th December 2025. All games released October or later this year not included.

Received the latest issue of the always awesome Wyrd Science from @wyrdscience.bsky.social . Subscribe now at shop.wyrd.science

and we take a break from our usual nonsense to say go take a look at these octopus tea cups!

At some point some one will make a skirmish game with miniatures of Japanese mascots and it will be the single greatest thing that has ever been released, will revolutionise tabletop gaming and make serious bank

big fan of @bodieh.bsky.social's artwork there's some lovely original paintings that have just gone up on the store. super tempted by this big round lad just floating around looking for some fool to zap with an eye stalk www.slowquest.com/products

the rise of the unethical consumer is lowkey fascinating/depressing. I very much know that we're not alone in taking a big hit from, eg moving off substack. apparently a lot of people have more allegiance to the tech platform that hosts the writing than the people that actually write they stuff host

Röknauts Exö-Squad live! I'M SO EXÖ-CITED! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Just in case you missed it before…

I am once again asking you to read the gazetteer

Issue 3 of Secret Passages is about to hit Kickstarter, click below and follow along to get notified when it goes live.

some day someone who either works at or developed the DriveThruRPG website is going to actually try using it and they're going to feel bad

We must salt the earth, and make the soil that would produce such a sick harvest as this barren for decades to come

I am once again asking you to read the gazetteer

Issue 3 of Secret Passages is about to hit Kickstarter, click below and follow along to get notified when it goes live.

2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon

Bet he subscribes to magazines too

2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon

Dawn has broken, and I’m still cataloging. @wyrdscience.bsky.social rules! If you have not checked it out yet, you totally should. As a gaming journalist I can say it has set a benchmark for me to reach for in the modern media conversation. It’s worth your time.

Imagine buying a magazine today? Honestly you’d feel like A BOSS So, with that in mind i want to give a Saturday shout out to @raremags.bsky.social who not only have our latest issue but also a bewilderingly good selection of other stuff, so let’s have a look & see what I want to read… 1/15

Been thinking about this overnight and I have come to the horrible realisation that I do in fact very much want a lavish in depth book detailing every single ridiculous Dungeons & Dragons toy, colouring book, back of cereal packet hologram, view finder etc God help me.

I appreciate John at Wyrd Science giving a shout-out to the Designers & Dragons: Origins Backerkit.

Wild to think that in January Wyrd Science will celebrate 5 years of having more journalistic integrity than the NY Times. Need to think of a way to celebrate.

I'm interested in fresh perspectives on @certifiedforgot.bsky.social, which is why I'm always excited to open our doors to writers and game designers who love horror just as much as we do.

Gazetteer anyone? This week we get excited about where @tinstargames.bsky.social's new book is leading us, marvel at @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's new project exploring TSR's D&D output & we've one of the finest set of links for you to explore at your leisure that I think we've ever assembled.

whilst looking for something else in my collection and stumbled across this banger from 2020. the soundtrack to hobbits going magic mushroom picking and hallucinating Nazgûl

Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ok, serious Q here, anyone have a spare half a million? there's an auction at Christie's next month with both J.R.R. Tolkien's desk AND the original John Blanche artwork for the 1st edition of Warhammer & I promise you we would be wonderful stewards of these items www.christies.com/auction/auct...

After a break Black Lodge Press have just reopened their store with a whole load of new prints, tees, calendars, zines etc for those, like us, who like their work blacklodgepress.bigcartel.com

Comics enjoyers eat so well in Europe, even the mags about them are beautifully produced

The wonderful @helleborezine.bsky.social scaring the faithful with the old ways, seriously if any of our readers want to magic up some free international media coverage for us by wearing one of our tees to a Cliff Richard gig or something please do

Look, say what you like* about the rest of the article but I killed it with that standfirst *actually please don’t if it’s mean 🥺 👉👈

would be remarkably easy to reboot the Bioshock series as being set in a underwater nonce retreat for the mega rich

It is yet again time to hawk my Badab War fan-art booklet! darkmechanic.gumroad.com/l/ubwxk?layo...

More @fightingfantasy.bsky.social fresh on the Haunted Generation website... my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of Ian Livingstone and Jonathan Green's beautiful anthology of artwork: hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...

BoardGameGeek thread title of the day

For perhaps the first time ever I’ve been beaten to the punch in sharing my own post 😅

Y'know what I love about Iglootree.com ? The easy thing to do would be to stock and promote indie stuff from people with huge followings; have your cake and eat it, so to speak. Instead it's a huge pile of mad books made by people who loved something.