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!

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.

The original cover art for #Warhammer 's first edition. Yours for £300,000-400,000!

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*

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...

Happy #StrangerThings Day! I'm celebrating with a post from the archive on #DnD 's appearances in the show.

A new post... ...on the typography of 1980s #Warhammer.

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

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 :)

A new post... ... with brief thoughts on the announcement of WFRP5. #WFRP

More on #WFRP 's fifth edition....

#WFRP is getting a new edition.

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 #dnd

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?

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

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...

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...

I haven't posted an instalment in my 'Topos' series for a while, so here's a short new one. #WFRP

Hello, all. Just over five weeks ago, I was laid off. If you've enjoyed my work (list at lnkd.in/gFqcqbGV) and feel like helping me out, you can. 1. Buy Me a Coffee at lnkd.in/gh2SqVtE 2. Join my Monster of the Month Club Patreon at lnkd.in/gziSRCbA Many and heartfelt thanks.

Another post from the archive... ...confronting some cobblers about Kobaloi.

A post from the archive... ...on the conceptual ancestry of #WH40K 's Hive Worlds.

A new post... ...indexing the now-bewildering number of posts I have written on unpublished early material for WFRP and WFB. #Oldhammer #WFRP

I'm possibly late to this, but the Roll to Save Podcast has started reviewing the reissued Enemy Within campaign. #WFRP

A post from the archive... ...with the inside story of the Enemy Within campaign's original finale, including previously unpublished outlines. #WFRP

Il y a trois ans, mon guide non-officiel pour la campagne de L'Ennemi Intérieur a été traduit en français. Les liens vers le site de la traductrice étant rompus, j'ai ajouté les fichiers à ma page de téléchargements, où ils peuvent à nouveau être consultés gratuitement. #WarhammerJDR

Three years ago my unofficial guide to the Enemy Within campaign was translated into French. Since the links to the translator's site have broken, I've added the files to my downloads page, where they can be accessed again for free. #WFRP

A new post... ...on Rick Priestley's unpublished dwarfs supplement for #Warhammmer. #Oldhammer

If you have an interest in #Warhammer and aren't already listening, The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast is well worth your time.

In 2025 Chaosium turns 50, making us the oldest ongoing roleplaying publisher in the industry. We're delighted to have a special display cabinet at #Gen_Con, celebrating the games that have captivated gamers, readers and mythic adventurers worldwide for the past half-century.

A post from the archive... ...on the origins of the Chaos symbol in #Warhammer. #WFRP #WH40K

Games Workshop's new logo. Yes, you hate it, because you have no idea about GW's logos for the first ten years of its existence. Which looked like this:

Blimey, BBC Four, what have we done to deserve this? Next Wednesday 30 July, the late evening schedule is devoted to THREADS and THE WAR GAME, two of the most horrifying and bleakly depressing films ever made. There will be documentaries, too. Get the snacks in!

Last year I wrote a post on the literary origins of demon swords. Today, I discovered that @gonzohistory.bsky.social mostly beat me to it on the Monster Man podcast a few years earlier. I needn't have bothered! :) monsterman.libsyn.com/special-epis...

Ten years ago, I started to record a podcast … thegrognardfiles.com/2015/07/15/i...

“The Old World is dying, the new is full of bloody dinosaurs with clubs” to paraphrase Antonio Gramsci Join us as we explore the jungles of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play’s Lustria with @cubicle7games.bsky.social’s Dave Allen Free to read, you don’t even need to sub, though that would be nice

Ok, because there is no better time to relaunch your newsletter, and launch your entire (half built) brand new website, than a Sunday afternoon when you are on a family holiday that’s exactly what we’ve done… Gazetteer subscribers please check your inboxes/junk mail or like everyone else read here

I'm not entirely sure whether this counts as a new post or an old one, but I've written something revisiting my unofficial companion to the Enemy Within campaign. #WFRP

Poster by Eric Fraser for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings, alongside a preparatory colour piece by EF for the commission.

Following on from my blog post last week, here is a link to my full interview with Paul Vernon from a couple of years back. It took years to get the interview and I think it contains some fascinating background to events in UK roleplaying in the 1980s. Thanks again to Paul for giving up his time.

There is a new Lost Warhammer post today... but it's not by me! @graemedavis.bsky.social has written a post on his blog about two #Warhammer Fantasy Battle supplements he proposed, but which were not taken forward: Regiments of Renown and Heroes for Hire. graemedavis.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/l...

Awesome Lies is now ad-free! So you'll have to go somewhere else to find baldness cures and great opportunities to work from home.... :)

A new post on Awesome Lies... ...telling how the very first #WFRP campaign came never to be published.

Just posted: That Time I Tried to Make Ogres Playable in WFRP 1st Edition. Includea a new skill for Ogres in WFRP 1, 2, 3, and 4. graemedavis.wordpress.com

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A post from the archive... ...trying to construct a Nippon setting in #Warhammer.

After almost nine years, my 'Lost Warhammer' blog posts are still digging into the almost bottomless pit of unpublished #Warhammer games and supplements. If they might be your thing and you haven't read them all already, you can find them here: awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/category/his...

There is a long tradition of these pictures among GW writers. The first one I know of is Richard Halliwell in 1978 (drawn by Bryan Ansell for Reaper). There is also the one from Combat 3001 in 1981. Can anyone name the people in that drawing? #Oldhammer

A new post on Awesome Lies... ...on unpublished tales of ratmen. With thanks to @jameswallis.bsky.social. #WFRP

Just posted: GW Design Studio bingo. How many of these reprobates from Rogue Trader can you name? All of them, if you read this. graemedavis.wordpress.com

A post from the archive... ...on the very first #WFRP adventure in #WhiteDwarf, in which absolutely no-one says "I'll bite your legs off".