Jimothy, by me.

Feels like a solid skill set. Draw them in, then frighten the b'jesus out of them. Option to fall back on your Favour to fight dirty if it comes to fisticuffs. In your spare time, you know where to find those highly illegal, high stakes bare-knuckle pugilism dens through the cryptic messages.

DISMAL KEEP is now played by 3bn people worldwide. Religions are forming around it. Riots happen because of it

New cryptid

The DISMAL KEEP craze just won't stop. I've been invited to Buckingham Palace to talk to the king about it. I turned ot down because I'll be opening a bowling alley in Leeds

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

I don't care that it was posted 7 months ago. It's cool.

I quested for my copy, but must admit to ending up acquiring a very fine copy from eBay. Well loved, by me and its prior owner(s), it evokes memories of childhood as well as offering up fascinating snippets of myth and legend. Then @spookshow71.bsky.social mentioned a badge... 🙄

Chimneys, turrets, the usual

In an inevitable diversion of purpose, while riding the capitalistic wave, DiSMAL: The Long Night brings Cosmic Horror front and centre in this 1920s supernatural reskin of the runaway success DISMAL KEEP. Kickstarting is inevitable and already busting stretch goals. Thanks @voxparlour.bsky.social

THE BRAKROOMS

You're Christian Merton, sentenced to drowning for your complicity with the Star of Artemis (flattery) and trifling in the heresies of the Rites of Eleusis (organisation) while in questionable employ, in Salisbury, as an Artist (drawing). Favoured with influence to Baffle.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. A hunted vampire from the Sanction genre setup QkSLVa. On the roadmap for writing completion. #SanctionRPG www.sanctionrpg.com

You're Arthur Bulstrode, sentenced to cutting in twain for your pact with the Star of Artemis (archaeology) and trifling in the heresies of the Steganographia (signs) while in edifying employ, in Southamption, as a Doctor (anatomy). Favoured with influence to Overlook.

I'm certain you'll see posts like these dotted everywhere for a little while, but here goes... You can support your local, hard-working tabletop creative types with a summertime Christmas on @drivethrurpg.com 🎁🎅 Up to a 30% discount until the end of July! 🎅🎁 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

Turns out there’s a way to make the commentary on England Argentina tolerable: drown it out with @johnthehedge.bsky.social, @tanewman.bsky.social and @lynneahardy.bsky.social’s excellent actual play, Waters of Leith. It’s set in Edinburgh and using the magic/police procedural RPG, Rivers of London.

Robin and Ramy witness Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation, in all its foreboding majesty second illustration for R. F. Kuang's Babel - illustrated edition, out now from Harper Voyager 40x30cm ink on claybord

Book: We Need Your Art. 🥹

A good day to read or play one of the rpgs in which he features: The Dee Sanction or Magonomia would be my recs ;)

New Netflix series just dropped. Scandi noir. Contains Scandi jeopardy, snow, discussions of death.

I'm saving myself up for the 500th 🤘

Ten acts you’ve seen, female lead singer edition: Tori Amos Regina Spektor Marian Call Cyndi Lauper Um... I haven't seen many live bands. If I could see a few more, I'd add: Band Maid Sleeper The Cardigans Geike Arnaert Skunk Anansie The Audience/Sophie Ellis-Bextor #LiveMusic

I suspect that @autocratik.bsky.social and @runeslinger.bsky.social have an #RPGaDay incoming, because that's the only reason I'd spend a moment recalling the existence of my personal blog at boreders.com, the core purpose of which seems to have been hosting my responses for the past several years.

“It is not immediately obvious where the hand dryer should be.” Are you kidding? I'm right behind Count Binface on this manifesto promise, because where that hand dryer should be is on the opposite wall! Hand drying between an occupied urinal and a sink in use. Argh! metro.co.uk/2026/07/09/v...

It's almost no surprise that Walsingham was tampering with outward missives, as well as those passing inward or across his desk. Naughty man. #DeeSanction #QueenElizabeth www.thetimes.com/article/093f...

Wild Cörk Børd spotted with a creepy Millennium twist. I loved that series while it lasted; I miss Lance Henriksen. The grim profiler investigating violent crimes is a perfect fit for CB.

A superb collection of ready-made adventures with detailed maps, many of which involved a strategically placed remnant of a dead gnome, which is my contribution—as a patron—and represents my long-time Warhammer FRP character, Golchak. @drivethrurpg.com #deal www.drivethrurpg.com//product/286...

You're Frances Tame, sentenced to beheading for your fraternization with the Octagon Society (phrenology) and spreading the heresies of the Munich Manual (camouflage) while in reputable employ, in Brecon, as a Bottler (preservation). Favoured with influence to Choke.

Rivers of London: Underground, Overground Delivers Four New Supernatural Case Files - @chaosium.bsky.social #RiversofLondonRPG #TTRPGs thegaminggang.com/game-news/ri...

Hrm. Right now? Right this second as I sit in this overly hot service station concourse under endless blue sky? F - Wildsea R - Court of Blades SF - Triangle Agency M/C - Cork Bord H - Public Access

@shadowlands.bsky.social nos envió material para jugar JUEGAZOS con The dee sanction, El rastro de Cthulhu, Fear Itself. También aventuras para Agentes de la noche con “Los archivos Edom” e información valiosísima para jugar a rol con “técnicas, consejos y trucos para jugar a rol”

More random stuff found while clearing up and packing: Homemade token creatures for Magic: The Gathering.

The GM pitches a new campaign to the table. What have you got to lose?

Serendipity strikes. Yesterday, we were clearing the attic and among the bags and boxes we found a typewriter. Which reminded me that once we had the pleasure of meeting and hosting talented Alaskan filk legend @mariancall.bsky.social in Manchester, who “played” the typewriter 🎼 #LiveMusic [1/2]

Packing Find of the Day: The original scratch map used for Beneath Market Pryce's and, later, Ex Libris for The Dee Sanction. Random piece of green gridded paper. Drawn in ink. Utterly at odds with the grid provided 😂 #TTRPG #Cartography #Maps

I have been thinking about: (1) Running a play-by-mail game, cost of stamps be damned! (2) Re-opening my Patreon to drive random game development (3) Getting my reading for the year back on track (I'm falling behind) (4) Sorting out somewhere to live (should be the No 1 priority) #priorities

Did everyone watch the new Silo yet? Between that and my Backrooms fascination, I need to get Lost in The Fold to the table. In the interests of someone doing that, too, the Sanction Genre Bundle is just $20! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... (Pipework image taken by Just a Couple Photos)

A queue has formed outside a sealed pressure door. Nobody knows why they're waiting, but nobody will leave. Indeed, pushing anyone to do so causes catastrophic incidents. The people at the front have been standing there for days. The Authority needs to know what's going on. #LostInTheFold

For those picking up and playing Font of All Evil, then questioning the nature and dimensions of the murder site in West Ealing. Well, it was based on something far worse. It was almost like entering some portion of the Backrooms. Here are some pictures of the place it's based on. #RiversofLondon

One for @lynneahardy.bsky.social and @paulbaldowski.bsky.social in light of the latest Rivers of London ttrpg publication

What name is that on the cover? How did that get there? Released into the wild with new material, art, plus short fiction by Ben. In the liminal space of a West Eating bedsit there's been a murder most horrid. It's the Font of All Evil. Grab a copy of Underground, Overground now!

My trip down to Bristol and back has offered me the chance to meander to the halfway point of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. I'm reserving judgement until i'm finished, but it hasn't thoroughly sold me. It's awards and recommendations aside, I think I had expected more of something. #Vampires

Attention à ne pas vous perdre dans l'espace et le temps. Yog-Sothtoh est là. Retrouvez la critique du Volume 2 du Libri Deorum pour #Cthulhu hack. youtu.be/touEUXtYfn0 #jdr #lovecraft

Down in Bristol for a moment, and passed through a church yard and an almost pavementless half-village to get to work this morning. Pleasant and somewhat odd.

Female horse-flies are savage little blighters. I realise that it's an instinctual drive, but I'd rather they didn't. I was just stepping through the garden, felt something alight on my foot, and by the time I shooed it away, a little globlet of blood formed on my ankle. No request. No thanks. 🙄

A moments reprieve from the heat—a relief as I have two days of multi-hour meetings incoming. I believe it will be back soon. While I might have been wilting, the orchids have been doing rather well.

This weekend, the packdown continues and there's a house, perhaps, in prospect. There's no gaming for me, but that doesn't mean that none are afoot. It's great to see @handiworkgames.bsky.social a|state at LongCon. And a poster-sized Mire End map, by me. Jealous. @malcolmcraig.bsky.social

I posted it somewhere else, so will also post here. If you haven't already, head out and pick up a copy of @byodinsbeardrpg.com Midnight of the Century. It was one of the shopping list pickups from UK Games Expo because this is so in my wheelhouse at the moment. Recommended.

It's Patch Day. Today, The Authority pushes system updates. But this cycle, half the lights flicker purple, service drones stutter mid-task, and everyone in the Archive has fallen into a silent, vacant trance. You've been asked to activate a manual reset, across the Threshold. #LostinTheFold

Every cycle, four bells chime at regular intervals through the pipes, signalling key phases of the day. But today, there was a fifth bell. Low, discordant, and followed by a strangely disquieting silence. The Authority demands that you track the source of this... malfunction. #LostinTheFold