Great set of minis from a good buddy of mine. Support indie shops, there aren’t many of us left! www.kickstarter.com/projects/132...

I’m having a blast creating new fantasy creatures with Talia Beckett. Meet the Great Snowy Prowl. Part snowy owl, part snow leopard; probably irritable and hungry. Do NOT attempt to pet one, even though yes we know it looks very soft and fuzzy. Art by Aaron Howdle!

Ellen’s books are delightful - romantic and funny. Buy her stuff!

Well, hot damn. Kaiju in a Bronze Age setting? Sign me the fuck up! Just ordered a copy.

The Alaska RPG Con is coming up soon! They’re still looking for more GM’s to run games! I’m running two myself, plus I’ll have a booth set up all weekend. Come check it out! I’ve got a caravan of Fairbanks folks driving south for the weekend - it’s gonna be a blast!

whoa, looks like anyone in the US ordering from us gets free terrorism stickers now

Absolutely fantastic! One of the best I’ve seen!

Annnnd, I’m done inking the map! It’s a little rough, but I’m a little rusty. It’s going to be printed at half this size, so it’ll look OK, I think.

Alright, I think that’s enough inking for one night.

The Alaska RPG Con, being held in Wasilla from Oct 10-12, is looking for more GM’s! I’ve talked with a few people who were potentially interested, but who had some reservations, so I wrote something about how I plan and run my convention games. tabletop.events/conventions/...

Allrighty, I think I’ve got this mountaintop temple sketched out. Now I’ve just gotta ink it. That’ll be 3-4 hours tomorrow. *sigh*

I don’t remember whether or not I posted these pics here - I painted a casting of the Wine-Dark Sirrush that goes with the Twin Heads of Avarice adventure that Bill & I wrote. The statue is only $6! (And the adventure is $20) Its base is from Dragonforge Design.

A couple of my Alert Sentries, painting in progress by Dan O’Brien.

The indie minis community in the US is a small one. A lot of us know each other, through FB if nothing else. Red Box’s slow descent from cringe Libertarian to MAGA to white nationalist has been like watching a decade-long slow motion car crash. His Kirk-inspired crashout was sadly predictable.

One of our local game shops here in Fairbanks has a Forge of Ice Dragon Turtle on display, painted by an employee! I love the bright colors, like something out of 1980’s animation. Stop by Fantastic Realmz (next to Lemongrass & the Red Fox) and check it out!

The hypocrisy and gleefully feigned ignorance will never not be irritating.

I forgot that this ad existed - I was reminded this morning. It’s my attempt to make an ad for my stuff that looks like the sorts of miniatures ads I used to see in Dragon Magazine when I was a kid. Definitely a little self-indulgent, but I love how it turned out. Art by Mustafa Bekir!

It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time: 1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society 2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth

All I have to do is remember his sentiments whenever children were shot to know which direction to turn my limited energy towards. Also, and totally unrelated, but I’m pretty sure that the ancients had a few things to say about hubris and tempting fate. Can’t imagine why that crossed my mind.

The CEOs are all really excited about AI being people because that means they can own them again

PROPHECY Officially now my second favorite mutant bear movie. Surprisingly good. Weirdly terribly delightfully goofy manbearpig costume. First half was a solid & fairly serious eco-thriller. Second half was a slow but silly awesome creature feature. I had a lot of fun watching it!

I suppose I should do more to push these, but self-promo just makes me feel greasy… Anyways - If you like my range of lost world miniatures, there are currently two system-agnostic RPG adventure modules published for that setting, Azor. They are only available directly from me, so reach out!

Illustration for a game book written by me that’s nearing completion. Art by Jesse Switters!

Life sized Castle Grayskull to live in. Somewhere atop a semi-remote hill or mountain here in Alaska. With a Batcave underneath, with one replica each of all the Batmobiles. Buy all the land for miles and miles around, so it stays wild. Host amazing invite-only games conventions in it.

Boy it feels great to write 1000 good words first thing in the morning. Progress!!!

Quote with some femme Fatale art. Aleta, spearwoman - sculpted by Kev White for my Azor, Lost World range, and painted by Rob Wheeler.

And that's assuming that the technology can do the work of a junior at the quality of a junior. If it can't, that only speeds up the destruction because now seniors have to babysit the sabotage machine, reducing the amount of senior-level work getting done. Gen AI can't do junior work.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

There has been a murder. The killer displays no remorse.

Art by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social !

Tonight’s roguish adventurers! Miniatures by Crocodile Games, Lucid Eye Publications and @forgeofice.bsky.social , ready to be unleashed!

I’m going to get my money’s worth out of these little plastic stands! I’m running my scenario “The Twin Heads of Avarice” tonight at Sprinkles Cafe & Bake Shop. I hope 🤞 so, at any rate, depending on attendance. Having a stand of autographed copies for sale might be futile but maybe eye-catching.

the Hanging Gardens set via @forgeofice.bsky.social gets cornered

Brass Rank Goblin Mob AND archers painted by Morine_Emporium on IG! Look at those lil guys!

Brutal and cunnin’. Or p’raps cunnin’ and brutal.

Just finished reading @scalzi.com ‘s excellent Kaiju Preservation Society. Great light fun, a pop song, the author calls it. I want 6” monster action figures & a movie. Also just saw Shin Godzilla in the theater - holy crap a movie about effective bureaucracy shouldn’t be that gripping, but it is!

I don’t know much about Gov. Pritzker, but I’d like to see more of this, and loudly, from every non-fascist, non-quisling, and non-grifter in office.

SOLVED! “Lair of the Killer Clowns”. It was so SO bad. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, and I do not say that lightly. I need to watch it again.

I need some identifying a horror movie. I accidentally fell asleep on the couch the other day with Tubi playing in the background, and I somehow ended up on a very recent movie (I’m guessing 2023 or newer) about demonic or ghostly clowns that inhabited a remote building in a desert.

A bucket list book for me.

There’s a big mushroom in my yard, so I had to take advantage. Currently resisting the urge to get back out there with a ring light and a camping mat or towel or something so I don’t have to lay down in the mud…

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Probably Clerks. Not just for the content of the film, but for everything around it. A guy who seemed a little bit like me (loves comics, maybe talks too much) just up & made a movie because he wanted to, and he filled it with conversations that felt SO familiar.

And, off they go! The last three Beasts are now on the shelf at Fantastic Realmz, a wonderful little cards & games store here in Fairbanks, Alaska. There will very likely never, ever, be any more of these kits made, so give them a shout if you want one - they can do mail order.

I’d like to go on the record and state very clearly that I, too, think that fighting fascists is a very good thing. You’re weird (and also probably stupid, cruel, and a bully) if you don’t think that.

The birds are flying south for the winter! I guess it’s that time again.

Big meeting with our fabulous metal casters today, scheduling the next year of releases and kickstarters - not just a whole raft of Otherworld models, new stuff and remasters but also these fantastic Patrick Keith sculpts from our partnership with @forgeofice.bsky.social for the first time in UK

If you’re in the Buffalo / Niagara Falls area, check this out! A rare opportunity to play this awesome adventure with the author!

OK, Alaska, you win for coolest dressing room of the tour.

Well, dang - I like the looks of this!