A prequel to the #BloodSword #gamebooks by lots of talented folks (not me, guv). fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/11/bloo...

"And Then There's Place-Name Studies" -- a new creepy story for Bonfire Night by Binscombe Tales author John Whitbourn. #folkhorror wrong-magazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/and-...

The nice people at ThinkyCon made me a poster! Also, don't forget ThinkyCon starts on Wednesday 5th - I'm on day two.

I have just released QuestWorlds-on-a-page, my attempt to make visual sense of the rules for QuestWorlds, the genre-agnostic narrative RPG from @chaosium.bsky.social. It's Pay-What-You-Want i.e. it is free, unless you want to give me some money to spend on more RPG stuff :-). tiny.cc/qwoap

There is only 24 hours left to back the Pendragon Classic Kickstarter! Don't miss out! Back today to get your copy of Greg Stafford's masterpiece, 40 years on: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

Fear is the thing with tentacles. #Cthulhu2050 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFa...

A reminder that it's safer not to attempt humour on social media...

Some #roleplaying ideas as the nights draw in. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2023/10/hono...

"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants." - Alexander Hamilton

"The Gourmet": an early weird tale from Kazuo Ishiguro, and as a bonus it stars the irreplaceable Charles Gray. wrong-magazine.blogspot.com/2025/10/samh...

"Love of gold fits neatly within the logic of all dictators. For men who fear being forgotten, it promises permanence; for those with fragile egos, it signals power; and for those who dream of being kings, it gleams like a divine right." I know who fits all three... archive.ph/a7gyj

New on History for Atheists: my long awaited and rather long critical review of Alice Roberts' new book *Domination*: historyforatheists.com/2025/10/revi...

Some book recs from @mathewlyons.bsky.social . I actually want all of these. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/ten-books-...

For #Halloween I summoned up "Dealing With Demons". amzn.to/438NQvf

I was one of the first kids in the UK to do trick or treat. In the mid-sixties, that was. Of course, it doesn't work so well if none of the neighbourhood families have ever heard of it. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Five things we know about dark matter. Any MOND advocates care to comment? bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Some of Georges Simenon's best novels are his romans Américains, a baker's dozen surgical dissections of the American way of life in the 1950s -- most of them out of print, two of them never translated into English. neglectedbooks.com/?...

🎃 This time next week it will be #Halloween! 🧛🏻‍♂️ Find out where witches, monsters, ghosts and ghouls go to look their worst for their big night in #MonsterMakeovers, a new picture book by me, Rae Minos & Boxer Books. More info at jonathanemmett.com/monster-makeovers #KidLitUK #HalloweenPictureBooks

#TheThaumaturge was my favourite game of the past year, and this is #DragonWarriors' 40th anniversary, so here are rules for a DW Thaumaturge #RPG campaign set in early 20th century Poland. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-th...

Jackson & Livingstone pioneered #gamebooks with series like #Sorcery, #FabledLands kicked off the #openworld #gamebook genre, and that in turn inspired the digital adaptation of Sorcery. And now @steampowered.com has both series in a special-offer bundle. store.steampowered.com/bundle/61017...

We'll never have Mars colonies because what would be the point? @neildegrassetyson.com explains. (Mining the asteroid belt, though. There could be a business case for that.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wCC...

Sword of Harmony: a #BloodSword prequel adventure. And there's even a companion app for handling character sheet and combat -- we didn't have those 40 years ago. #gamebooks www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

If for any reason you want to write an open-world #gamebook, here's Ruth's handy toolkit. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-to...

Prime Games' round-up of #BloodSword character classes reaches: the Sage. #rpg store.steampowered.com/news/app/364...

Trying to make sense of the first paragraph here. Because I am scared by things that I know are not real all the time. Do you need to believe in ghosts (or demons, or gods, or evil pixies) to be scared by them? I don't think so.

Populism just baffled me. Finally here's an article that explains it. josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-f...

Yes, reductionism can explain everything in the whole Universe If we strip reality down to the fundamental particles and their interactions, and add in boundary conditions and initial conditions, can we explain the whole Universe? Reductionism says yes bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #physics

I did a little chapbook of severed-head creepiness for #Halloween. #ttrpg #horror #bestiary amzn.to/48zA8oK

Coming soon - Ancient Warfare 104 (chk.me/6UVfF7m) deals with commanders and generals in the Ancient World

How did I not know about this marvellous nut until now? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

A toolkit for #openworld #gamebook design. But don't thank me, thank Ruth. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-to...

How do we keep readers gripped? One scene pulls the reader into the next... How to do that. nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/a... #writingcommunity #writingtips #authorcommunity #skywriters

Main takeaway from Madsen's brilliant what-if doc The Visit is that humans are rightly nervous of revealing their worst side (xenophobia, war, racism, injustice, prejudice) to aliens. It's probably too late to keep AIs from seeing right through us, unfortunately. www.imdb.com/title/tt3833...

And the same comic’s back cover featuring The Daleks!

Wouldn't that be a root node problem?

I admit the bits I enjoyed writing most were the bits Mary Shelley skimmed over -- how Clerval's body ends up in Ireland, how Victor and the Creature get to the Arctic, etc. Anyway, great review here by @hjdoom.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAhI...

Cosmic inflation’s biggest criticisms can’t undermine its success There are always lots of arguments to be made against a leading scientific theory. But good ones? Take a close look at the ones against inflation, & see how weak-sauce they are. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #physics #astro

#DeepMind made ~1 billion years' worth of Ph.D work on protein folding available to all for free. You're welcome, humanity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

CRISPR-based tools can’t easily access the DNA in mitochondria, but researchers are finding other ways in go.nature.com/3J94Zhk

Coming soon from Red Ruin Publishing. A prologue to the epic Blood Sword quintet from @davemorris.bsky.social , Oliver Johnson, and Jamie Thomson. Cover art and interiors by @deanspencerart.bsky.social Two hundred entries of adventure from Martin Dangov. #solo #gamebook #bloodsword

Nice to come across this at Orc's Nest... #BloodSword #5e www.orcsnest.com/blurber.asp?...

"Holding rightwing views is associated with strong disgust responses in individuals [...] Populists try to gain power through 'othering', and when they do gain power their first attack is on teachers and education." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"Morris gives an arch nod to #BladeRunner too." More than one, if I remember rightly. #Frankenstein www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-rev...

Great fun at the Oxford Half today - and a good warm-up for the London Marathon. Overwhelmed by the support so many people have given to Teenage Cancer Trust. We're through £7000 now! Thank you. If you fancy chipping in some more, here's the link: www.justgiving.com/page/tim-har...

Plan smart, write fast, finish strong: my guide to writing a novel in 30 days Soon it will be NaNoWriMo time! The official National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) organisation closed earlier this year, but the writing world is still hard wired to Nano in November, come what may. (What’s…

Réédition de la série de #livrejeu "L'Epée de Légende" (@davemorris.bsky.social, Jamie Thomson & Oliver Johnson) par Alkonost : ça se précise ! Traduction corrigée, règles revues & peut-être des illus 🇬🇧 inédites en 🇫🇷 rétablies. Visuel des couvertures de Laurent Centro: fr.ulule.com/livres-jeux-...

"Colossus was the brainchild of a degreeless Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers." In fact Flowers did have a degree in electrical engineering, earned in his early 20s via University of London evening classes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Seems to be the thing now to hoist flags everywhere. Here's the only one I want to see.

"If you go down to the woods today..." As a child that always struck me as a wonderfully sinister song, which is probably the seed that eventually grew into Jewelspider. #ttrpg www.patreon.com/posts/its-in...