This is a fundraiser supporting displaced families in Beirut, recommended by Lebanese friends working in Beirut: chuffed.org/project/1778...

My Vaesen mystery, The Man Who Was Too Lucky is in the @drivethrurpg.com Christmas in July sale... The Society is contacted by a young businessman who is suspicious that everything is his life is going so well... tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...

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This movie rules

I'm visiting the Isle of Mull this week, hosted by the brilliant @atandmt.bsky.social, researching for my Thin Places project. I'm sharing some stories from the show on Wednesday afternoon: www.antobarandmulltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/0zb...

I'm looking forward to talking about playable theatre and my make-a-show-in-a-day devising kit/game, The Investigations, at the Digital Innovation & Storytelling Network conference in Leeds this week. It's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-st...?

National reviews of healthcare for trans children have been conducted by Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Japan, Holland and the state of Utah. None of them have concluded that gender-affirming healthcare should be banned. Cass is a total outlier.

I'm looking forward to talking about playable theatre and my make-a-show-in-a-day devising kit/game, The Investigations, at the Digital Innovation & Storytelling Network conference in Leeds this week. It's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-st...?

Can you help a brother out? UK TTRPG fandom: I‘m looking to get in touch with the makers of „Tortured Souls“ magazine for a gaming history project. Any help or signal boost much appreciated. 🙏 @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social @wyrdscience.bsky.social @dailydwarf.eurosky.social

What John said.

Some interesting questions for the EHRC… translucent.org.uk/translucent-...

See also: direct young people’s theatre and move on to ‘professional’ theatre. When you can deliver a professionally made show, on time, with a cast of 60, rehearsing for 2 hours a week you can DEFINITELY rehearse with circa 4 paid actors, full time, for 4 weeks with a full time production team 🤦🏻‍♀️

I'll be talking about my Thin Places project at Between Now & Then: Performing Archives at @rxtheatre.bsky.social in Manchester, next Tuesday. It's free to attend, and a great range of talks, presentations and performances: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...

The prize for being the richest person in the world at the end of each calendar year should be 100% confiscation of all assets and living out the rest of your life in a dungeon. Good healthy reverse-incentive.

Anyway if you want to read the full statement without the bigotry in the comments section, its here - www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Some of this week’s work: three Scottish thin places marked on the map.

I’m in residency at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social this week, developing my new project The Thin Places. I brought some of my research reading pile in with me…

3. Art is process, not product. You never stop acquiring technique, and you never stop deriving new ideas from new skill. Experienced artists are a living library, a resource of embodied know-how. If they have to stop working & teaching, that knowledge is lost, to the hobbyist as well as the pro.

I have a big announcement: I'm leaving my corpo job to work full time on TTRPGs. A scary step but one I think will be worth it. So, from August I'm available to hire as a writer, editor, or marketing consultant (15 years in marketing). Here's how you can help...

More dystopia www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Over 80 clinicians have signed a letter raising "serious concerns" about NHS England's recent evidence reviews of gender-affirming hormone therapy for trans youth. www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

I'm hosting a selection of horrible/weird games by other creators! Including: @whodo.bsky.social @planesailinggames.com @michellicopter.bsky.social @ratinasuit.bsky.social @rolistespod.itch.io @comradebubbles.bsky.social @rosspayton.bsky.social @lymerpg.bsky.social Grab your copies at stand 4-912!

We've been so busy that I haven't had a chance to post, but I'm at the UK Games Expo! Come visit me on stand 4-912 (in hall 4, between Games Workshop and the ice cream van)! I've got TERMINUS, Darkened Hill & Dale, artwork, plus a bunch of the original TERMINUS artwork on display! Also...

I wish more people understood the nature of our current dilemma and that the conversation around the situation we’re facing was framed in the context that @sarahkendzior.bsky.social outlines here

God if everyone had just listened to Sarah in 2015, 2016, 2017, and especially 2021, we would not be in this mess. Things she described ten years ago are occurring regularly now.

Later this year I'll be offering affordable 1-1 video consultancy for ttrpg design. Whether you need to brainstorm new ideas, figure out mechanics or need help getting it seen at launch. If you would like to register your interest DM me 💌

The mighty @arabstrap.scot have just released new single “You You You”, and it’s an absolute belter! 🫵🏼🩵 Thanks to @huwstephensdj.bsky.social for premiering the track on @bbc6music.bsky.social. Listen/stream/watch: arabstrap.os.fan/yyy @aidanjohnmoffat.bsky.social Video directed by Luke Bovill

Pals, I've just had an essay/talk published: DOLPHIN PHILOSOPHY is in Theatre About Science Vol 2, and is about futurology, invention, technology, games, hauntology, and endings. It's free to read, with loads of other great stuff, here: monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/... #theatre #science #sciart

Genuinely dystopian.

Pals, I've just had an essay/talk published: DOLPHIN PHILOSOPHY is in Theatre About Science Vol 2, and is about futurology, invention, technology, games, hauntology, and endings. It's free to read, with loads of other great stuff, here: monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/... #theatre #science #sciart

BTW the Peakrill store – peakrill.com – is still open for business and books and zines are being posted out. Any sales would be exceptionally welcome right now!

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

It's #gothic writing season on The Raspy Raven (see link in bio). We've been tasked by @groewe.bsky.social to write a #TTRPG game or scenario by 31/Aug. But what is Gothic? What are the key tropes? How do you make it gameable? What system? What genre? Any thoughts? Please share this post 🙏

London 2012 Paralympics teaser trailer. Still one of the greatest Olympic adverts of all time, I think. Sound up!

Just had a baller one-shot recorded session of Honorbound with the @apintofcthulhu.bsky.social crew! Love what you hear? Support them here: www.patreon.com/cw/APintOfCt... Buy the game here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... Slide into my DMs if you too would like an interview or actual play!

This. News outlets keep failing to mention the people who have been killed in Lebanon and Iran, just to get back to worse than where we started.

HABITATION is a sequence of poems by Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, and Fay Musselwhite Come hear us read at The Harlequin, Sheffield Tuesday 21st April at 7.30pm entry 7pm onwards Free to attend All welcome Booking at – www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation...

I loved playing a campaign of this last year - a great take on the myths and folklore of Britain.

Merlin's Miscellany, a new rules supplement for Romance of the Perilous Land, is now available on itch and dtrpg trollish-delver-games.itch.io/merlins-misc...

This was a very fun game from the start, but it's been honed and tuned to a glowing gem. The elevator pitch a science fiction riff on the 3 musketeers. But that doesn't tell you about the ton of world building and vision that is packed into it. Go treat yourself.

Unconscionable that Lebanon is barely even a footnote in British journalism about US and Israeli aggression in the Middle East.

There's a week to go on the Kickstarter for Play Unsafe, my book about how to play TTRPGs. This is a really good time to give it a boost, so please repost this, talk about it in your own channels, etc etc. Thanks so much. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg

This is brilliant.

“Barbrook I” stone circle at the Spring Equinox. A thin place.

We are LIVE! Time to delve into tunnels and hope you don't run into any trolls. Get in on the ground floor for Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...

Wes Streeting is planning a Cass review for neurodivergency. We are the latest group targeted for public punishment in Labour's vain quest for rightwing support. Lives will be ruined and lives will be lost if they get their way. Please sign this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Amongst all the chatter and analysis, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is exceptional. Detailed, thorough, meticulously researched, and depressingly accurate. But there is also this: "original writing & photography. I don’t use AI. I try to create beauty out of the ugliness of this world." She succeeds.

If you hate that thing where creators say "Follow this Kickstarter and let's get to [a round number] of followers"... ...this is a really good time to follow the Play Unsafe Kickstarter, because it's nowhere near a round number of followers. #kickstarter #ttrpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️ The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...