It's a bit blowy out there now

I finally got my hands on a copy of Future, the 1966 future-forecasting boardgame released as a business tool by Kaiser Aluminum, and it is a _trip_, including one of the wildest dice you've ever seen. Not played it yet, but here's an unboxing video to give you the gist. youtu.be/V_5tm8p09ks

And next the new single from Caffeinated Velocitaptor

Today I will be running Untitled Telefantasy RPG for first time Assuming I don't get blown off course by the howling wind and find myself in Oz or Nuneaton

Authenticity is a useful tool for creating vibes for a setting which make the fictional bits feel grounded but never as a hammer to stop them enjoying the game (And a lot of the time turns out history more complex and interesting than the version used as a hammer)

🥛smooth🥛 vs 🥜chunky🥜 game design principles, put together as an honest-to-god blogpost as if it were the year 2010: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2025/10/smoo... #gamedev #blogpost #Overzealous

Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

2020 50p piece declaring, correctly, that "Diversity built Britain"

Just got asked if I was a robot before I could check some details of "I Always Do What Teddy Says" by Harry Harrison

Team, help me out by dreaming up cool conceptual opposites for Against Time and Death! I'm after paired concepts that define opposing factions in the Time War. Both should sound intriguing, and neither should be unambiguously bad. Bonus points if they're a lyrical rather than literal. 🔴 🔵

I hope it wasn't with the bathwater, you're not supposed to do that

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

Toying with the supernatural background for unnamed Telefantasy games inexplicable encounters I'm wondering if starting with a list of unpleasant words might be a way to develop things So far I've got seepage, moist, fetid, regurgitate and I need more What words make you feel uncomfortable?

And everything ready (or at least as ready as it will get to be) to run on unnamed Telefantasy RPG on Saturday - 1960s Avengers with a dash of Sapphire and Steel using a crunched up version of What's So Cool About Outer Space or a crunched down Apocalypse Engine is the elevator pitch

Owner of massive Thunderbird 3 space rocket parked outside Humberside Airport allegedly thought he was buying a model. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Need a map for your game tonight, but run out of time/spoons? Roll on this table for a dungeon map, wilderness map, castle map etc. Every point, 1-in-6 chance of an encounter. Dotted lines are secret ways. Every ! generate an encounter. Every $ generate a treasure.

I'd forgotten how good the first few steps of the snowflake method was for getting the scaffold for an adventure written quickly Bit of lunch and I'll come back after lunch and tie all the bits together as lock and key puzzles to get the adventure. Then its just fluff.

I'm trying to work out what calendar Ikea are following - Halloween stuff already vanished and the Christmas shop is in My best guess is its the Julian calendar but all Ikeas are actually time slipped to the 31st century

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

We're up to ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE participants in our upcoming kitbash game jam. You should join them! It costs you nothing and will probably lose me money in the long run. I'm not even 100% sure why I'm doing it. itch.io/jam/one-hund...

into the swamp #digitalart #fantasy #rpg #d&d

A quick trip to the city archives and I now know where the M62 was supposed to run to And found the outline of another motorway and tunnel under the Mersey I'd never seen before

Now this is Content

Having offered to sub for GM next weekend I offered 3 games. One seems to be a straight no. Leaving unnamed Telefantasy project or Mothership. Group was leaning towards Mothership until I said it was likely to be TPK

An audio clip of Sir Keir Starmer supposedly saying that he “hates” Liverpool is re-circulating on social media. However there is absolutely no evidence it’s a real recording and it may have been generated by AI.

An incy wincy spider bot!

Given it's leaf season wondering if a small robot could keep gutters clear rather than having annual clean Ideally solar powered and big enough not to drop into downpipes Yes I'm bored - my train is late

After some interesting but shorter than I'd expected exhibitions at Tate Britain I nipped over to Tate Modern My original plan of not going based on Picasso not being my thing and not being grabbed by the other exhibitions turned out to be a pretty good estimate

Due to planned engineering work, the 200th anniversary of rail travel will be replaced by the 200th anniversary of bus travel.

NOT NOW, RING WITH RARE INSCRIPTION FOUND IN NORTH NORFOLK FIELD

Today is my birthday! I treated myself to covid & flu vaccines this morning and now I'm doing high level edits on all the writing I've been doing all week. If you want to help me celebrate 46 years around the sun then please share the Ex Tenebris kickstarter!

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! On this day one man prevented the apocalypse.

Indie ttrpg folks, where did we come down on GPSR now that the dust has settled a bit? Any leads on good value EU Responsible Persons?

What with hiring Russian stooges, violent criminals and having a sex pest in the family, you'd think Nigel Farage would be considered an utter disgrace that should be kept off all broadcast channels and struck from politics, not championed in any way at all.

Ithell Colquhoun at Tate Britain - artist with connections to various occult organisations who left largest collection of occult materials to National Trust (now held by Tate) - odds of her turning up as an NPC in Telefantasy RPG seems remarkably high

Edward Burra at Tate Britain - lots of NPC inspiration in the earlier part of this one especially for CoC Harlem

Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a classic collection of Japanese ghost stories compiled and translated by Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Tokyo #onthisday in 1904. Read its wonderful stories here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k... #OTD

A repost for the morning crowd. And yes, late pledges for TERMINUS will close next week! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

With the lighter system for Telefantasy RPG I can fit in two organisations for PCs to belong to UNTIL - UN Temporal Incursion Liaison The other is an Avengers / Sapphire and Steel British light touch I've not got a name for

Day trip begins

Rewriting my way too long to publish as a zine Telefantasy inspired game with a significantly lighter system. A bit sad as I rather liked the Darkest Dungeon / Black Hack mash up but it was just too long winded and play testing would have been really complex.

Mushroom, heavy on the Yum Yum sauce

I miss when the reason you avoided someone* who'd done their own research was because they wanted you to play farmers in their RPG campaign set in a small Lincolnshire village from the coronation of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I * probably me

Birthday dinner - 3 new curries from Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Easy Tandoori-style Duck Breast (really nice) Sri Lankan Rice with Fresh Coriander and Lemon Grass (really nice) Swiss Chard with Ginger and Garlic (OK)

24 Sept 1940 // The former 74-gun HMS Wellesley, built 1815 and latterly (as TS Cornwall) a training ship for Wellesley Nautical School at Gravesend, was bombed and sunk at her moorings during a German air raid, the last #RoyalNavy ship of the line to be lost to enemy action. #NavalHistory

Unplanned Birthday treat trip to Walker Art Gallery for John Moors Prize exhibition Because some idiot* forgot to get all ingredients for curry * Me

I really hope Daisy's doing well after she divorced Tim over Gamergate.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."