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Retro musings on Warhammer and other tabletop games awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com
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For those unfamiliar with Awesome Lies it's a blog where I ramble nostalgically about tabletop games from the 1980s, especially Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Its START HERE page is the best place to find out more.
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START HERE
An introduction to Awesome Lies and some of its most popular posts.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/start-here/
over 1 year ago
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Does anyone else remember this? I think the board game references may have been inspired by D&D.
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Tom Shapira
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There are some great exhibitions on in London right now. Ramses at Battersea Park (a little Disneyfied, but with fantastic artefacts)....
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Not a Dalek. Definitely not a Dalek. It's a "mechanical warrior". (From 'Vengeance of the Lichemaster".)
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Graeme Davis
6 days ago
I've been out of work for seven months now, and I could use your help. Here are six ways you could give me a hand:
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Thanks in advance!
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Zekiel
7 days ago
Just published an interview with John Foody - one of the founding editors of Warpstone, the venerable
#WFRP
fanzine! We discuss the history of the magazine and of
#Warhammer
Fantasy Roleplay.
illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/i...
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Interview with John Foody
I talk to one of the editors for the venerable WFRP fanzine Warpstone.
https://illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/interview-with-john-foody/
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Evan Torner
7 days ago
For those interested in the academic research of role-playing games, we have just released our latest issue of the International Journal of Role-Playing (17!). 221 pages of work, all for advancing knowledge about this medium.
journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...
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No. 17 (2026): International Journal of Role-playing Issue 17 | International Journal of Role-Playing
Published by the Department of Game Design, Uppsala University-Campus Gotland. ISSN (online): 2210-4909 | CC BY 4.0
https://journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/view/143
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Wyrd Science Magazine
7 days ago
I think I've heard of it but oddly never actually read this before but this 1975 article by Tony Bath on incorporating fantasy into wargaming is a wonderful thing & wonderful snapshot of the time & just goes to show how much D&D benefited from first mover advantage
drive.google.com/file/d/1iOQG...
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White Dwarf's first
#WH40K
cover came in WD93 (September 1987).
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White Dwarf's first
#WFRP
cover was WD82 (October 1986).
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To continue a theme, the first White Dwarf covers to feature
#Warhammer
games...
#WFB
's first cover was WD53 (May 1984), though it was a battle set in Middle-earth. For the first cover to feature WFB proper you had to wait until WD89 (May 1987).
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Daily Dwarf
8 days ago
#94 Skirmish on Rynn's World, a Warhammer 40000 scenario by Rick Priestley. It's the classic Space Orks with guns versus techno womble Space Marines.
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Daily Dwarf
8 days ago
#85 On the Road, two atmospheric
#WFRP
encounters by
@graemedavis.bsky.social
for travellers in the Old World. (There was an AD&D scenario - The Black Knight - that was also statted for WFRP in issue #83, but I'm not counting that.)
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Daily Dwarf
8 days ago
#45 Thistlewood, a Warhammer Fantasy Battle scenario by Joe Dever. Opposing forces battle for a magical chalice - on my signal, unleash hell!
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Daily Dwarf
8 days ago
After
@awesomeliesblog.bsky.social
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#WFB
,
#WFRP
and
#WH40K
, I know what you're wondering: what were the first White Dwarf features for those three games? Well...
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The first advert for
#WH40K
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The first advert for
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The very first advert for
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In memoriam Citadel Miniatures b. 28 Dec 1978, d. 6 Mar 2026.
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#Warhammer
is roughly twice as big as
#D&D
. In the year to 1 June 2025, GW made USD 795m of revenue. In the corresponding year to 29 June 2025, WotC made USD 464m ex Magic: The Gathering; this is mostly (but not all) D&D.
11 days ago
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Dave Morris
25 days ago
Some early (circa 1980) reminiscences of
#GamesWorkshop
and
#WhiteDwarf
.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/02/dwar...
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Dwarf days
I first visited the White Dwarf offices in early 1980. I say “offices”, but it was a single room crammed with desks and a paste-up area, ro...
https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/02/dwarf-days.html
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A new post... ...with an update on 'The WFRP Story'.
#WFRP
#Warhammer
#Oldhammer
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A TALE THAT GREW IN THE TELLING
HISTORY. The history of early Warhammer.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/a-tale-that-grew-in-the-telling/
about 1 month ago
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A new post... ...with an update on 'The WFRP Story'.
#WFRP
#Warhammer
#Oldhammer
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A TALE THAT GREW IN THE TELLING
HISTORY. The history of early Warhammer.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/a-tale-that-grew-in-the-telling/
about 1 month ago
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My typing's no better this weekend: I keep writing about Khrone.... 😄
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about 1 month ago
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If my typing were to be believed, GW once produced a book called Salves to Darkness, evidently a treatise on poultices and ointments. It probably sits on the shelf next to Rouge Trader....
about 2 months ago
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With words of wisdom from
@jordansorcery.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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A new post for the New Year... ...with some scribblings on how to write (not design) role-playing adventures.
#TTRPG
#WFRP
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WORD PERFECT
THOUGHTPIECES. The art of writing, not merely designing, adventures.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/word-perfect/
3 months ago
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A new post for the New Year... ...with some scribblings on how to write (not design) role-playing adventures.
#TTRPG
#WFRP
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WORD PERFECT
THOUGHTPIECES. The art of writing, not merely designing, adventures.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/word-perfect/
3 months ago
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Happy Christmas.
3 months ago
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Can I Pod With Madness
3 months ago
I finally uploaded my Mr Benn/Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion pic to Redbubble so here's some ideal Christmas gifts for the Gen X Fantasy Nerd in your life
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1769...
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Happy birthday to me! Awesome Lies is nine years old today.
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NINE YEARS
MISCELLANEOUS. Another year goes by.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/nine-years/
3 months ago
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Most of Dave Morris and Jame Thompson's Tetsubo supplement on Nippon for WFRP1 is no longer available, but there's a tiny snippet to download buried in the post below.
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4 months ago
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Wyrd Science Magazine
4 months ago
Just noticed I must have ticked a box as our new issue is currently discounted on DriveThruRPG & only around £2 there RPGs vs the Cold War! Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer! Triangle Agency gets weird! Castle Rat unleash the beasts! Undaunted's war stories! & lots more!
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Wyrd Science (Vol.1, Issue 7) - Wyrd Science | DriveThruRPG
The award winning Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games... In this issue... Roleplaying Games & the Cold War! What can they tell us ...
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/540655
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Graeme Davis
4 months ago
Just posted on
graemedavis.wordpress.com
- more GW memories from the 80s. This time, the Frankenstein boardgame that never happened. Also, please support my work by joining my Patreon or buying me a coffee. Links are at the end of the post.
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Graeme Davis
Writer - Worldbuilder - Game Designer - Myth and Folklore Geek
https://graemedavis.wordpress.com/
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The original cover art for
#Warhammer
's first edition. Yours for £300,000-400,000!
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4 months ago
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Wyrd Science Magazine
4 months ago
it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
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Zekiel
4 months ago
Just published: my review of the Empire in Ruins Companion - the final volume of the
#WFRP
4e Enemy Within campaign by
@cubicle7games.bsky.social
illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/r...
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Review: Empire in Ruins Companion (WFRP 4e)
The end of an epic! I review the final book in the Enemy Within campaign.
https://illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/review-empire-in-ruins-companion-wfrp-4e
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Happy
#StrangerThings
Day! I'm celebrating with a post from the archive on
#DnD
's appearances in the show.
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STRANGER THINGS
MISCELLANEOUS. A D&D spotter’s guide.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/stranger-things/
4 months ago
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A new post... ...on the typography of 1980s
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FONT OF KNOWLEDGE
ARTWORK. An almost complete guide to the typography of Warhammer in the 1980s.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/font-of-knowledge/
5 months ago
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Marc G
5 months ago
RIP artist and mate Pete Knifton. From swanning around the pages of New Worlds dressed as Pierrot, through his range of fantasy art and distinctive comic-style illos for GW's Blood Bowl, he cut a dash through all our lives. Be seeing you, madman.
@scifiart.bsky.social
@joebankswriter.bsky.social
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Felipe Pepe
5 months ago
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers:
crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...
It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)
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The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/the-video-game-history-expansion-pack-pitch-your-story/
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A new post... ... with brief thoughts on the announcement of WFRP5.
#WFRP
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HIGH FIVE
MISCELLANEOUS. A new edition of WFRP is on the way.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/high-five/
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More on
#WFRP
's fifth edition....
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#WFRP
is getting a new edition.
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Exclusive: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay announces new fifth edition
As WFRP approaches its 40th anniversary, Cubicle 7 shares its schemes for the next edition of the grim and perilous RPG with Wargamer.
https://www.wargamer.com/warhammer-fantasy-roleplay/fifth-edition-announced
5 months ago
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Jon Peterson
5 months ago
At Gamehole this week? Feel free to drop by on Friday at 11AM for my talk "Playing at the World - the Teenage Years." PatW is now 13 years old as it enters its second edition. Let's talk about what it did not solve, and what historical work remains.
www.gameholecon.com/events/event...
#rpg
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Gamehole Con - Event Details - Playing at the World - the Teenage Years
Featuring role-playing games, board games, fantasy and historical miniature gaming, and collectible card games, Gamehole Con is for the fantasy and adventure tabletop gaming enthusiast.
https://www.gameholecon.com/events/event/25675
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Graeme Davis
5 months ago
This is the copy of the WFRP 4th edition rulebook that I used while writing the Enemy Within Director's Cut. I put a notarized statement to that effect in the front, vaguely intending to auction it for charity. Since I was laid off, I now need the money for rent and food. Would anyone bid on this?
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Jim Rossignol
5 months ago
New (and old) on Old Men: We talked to
@johnpower.bsky.social
, the man behind
@wyrdscience.bsky.social
, about the latest issue. (We also reposted a much longer interview about how he came to hold this particular chalice, and the games that made him into the Magazine Wizard he is today.)
#ttrpg
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What Powers The Man Behind Wyrd Science? - Old Men Running The World
There is some superb coverage of tabletop in the nowadays, and some of our favourite stuff comes from Mr John Power Jr. If you have encountered Wyrd Science
https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/what-powers-the-man-behind-wyrd-science/
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Zekiel
6 months ago
My review of Empire in Ruins concludes. Does it provide a satisfying end to the new version of the Enemy Within campaign? Read on to find out.
#WFRP
#Warhammer
illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/r...
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Review: Empire in Ruins – Part 2 (WFRP 4e)
I conclude my extensive review of the final adventure in the 4e version of the Enemy Within campaign.
https://illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/review-empire-in-ruins-part-2-wfrp-4e/#8ac9db68-72fb-46da-91f2-301b4c99d80c-link
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Zekiel
6 months ago
Finally… I embark on an epic review of Empire in Ruins, the epic final adventure in the Enemy Within campaign for
#WFRP
4E. Featuring political intrigue, a wedding, Chaos machinations and an appearance by Big Karl-Franz himself!
illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/r...
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Review: Empire in Ruins – Part 1 (WFRP 4e)
I embark on the final epic review of the final epic adventure in the Director’s Cut of the Enemy Within Campaign.
https://illmetbymorrslieb.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/review-empire-in-ruins-part-1-wfrp-4e/
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I haven't posted an instalment in my 'Topos' series for a while, so here's a short new one.
#WFRP
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TOPOS: THE PURPLE PALM
MISCELLANEOUS. Secret signs a hundred years apart.
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/topos-the-purple-palm/
6 months ago
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