My favourite piece of original art. I love this piece. It's an original one-of-a-kind that I won. This illustration, amongst others, was used to create a deck of cards for the Bristol Comic Convention, somewhere around 2001 or 2002. #JudgeDredd #CarlosEzquerra #OneOfAKind #Illustration #CardArt

I've been trying to thin down the book collection. I've cast out about 100 books in the last week and packed another 100 for storage. In return, I purchase two. Fair? A pretty softcover edition of Ackroyd's "The House of Doctor Dee," which I first read 33 years ago. Plus "The Tower"!

In coffee news, I just took delivery of my Hoffee Coffee—a limited edition mug from @jameshoffmann.bsky.social Nice heft. Thick-walled. Lovely design overall by TensHundredsThousands and Loveramics. I'm looking forward to my first brew in it.

Big news from us about the original 4 Cthulhu Eternal SRDs (Jazz, Modern, Victorian, Cold War). TLDR: til now all our rules have been text only. For these four -- our most downloaded -- we've made illustrated book versions. The PDFs of these are free (!); there is also a softcover print option.

Twin Peaks is the sort of setting and twisted mythology I aspire to create. A nested puzzle box filled with non-Euclidean pieces designed by Escher on acid. Then filled with fascinating, funny and frustrating characters. #DamnedFineCoffee

Did I just write a second Substack article in response to my own? In a moment of self-doubt, I revisit The Morning Routine and ask, "Huh?" #Sanction #TTRPG #TheAgency #CharacterDesign open.substack.com/pub/paulbald...

Writing about Sanction, The Agency, running For A Rainy Day, and the simple spotlight-passing pleasures of the morning routine. #Sanction #TheAgency #TTRPG open.substack.com/pub/paulbald...

The Comae Engine and Trey are great. Clarence Redd creates a very engaging, boiled down version of the Basic Roleplaying system in the Comae Engine. Then joins with Mattias Peterberg to present a compact Oracle-driven engine for solo roleplaying in Trey. Grab 'em. Or support this Spanish edition.

I had never considered the Yorkshire pudding a pancake outlier or, for that matter, a breakfast item.

Five authors I've read at least five books by: Douglas Adams Charles Stross Jeff Noon Mike Herron William Shakespeare Plus: Ben Aaronovitch, Terry Pratchett, Ian Fleming, Charlie Higson, A. E. van Vogt, L. Ron Hubbard, H. P. Lovecraft, Henning Mankell, and Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö.

While set in north-west Wales, there's something suitably Nordic Noir-esque about the dysfunctional investigative team at the heart of Under Salt Marsh on #SkyAtlantic #UnderSaltMarsh #NordicNoir

In a follow-up to "Wall of Books," I've frittered away the whole weekend, but the work is finally (more or less) done. I've also managed to listen to (watch) the whole of The Harry Hill Show on YouTube. Brilliant. Especially the Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar episodes. #TTRPG #Shelfie #HarryHill

This morning in "Wall of Books." I had a shelf issue and a demand to pack some books away, but that's going to take time, and I need a room that isn't wall-to-wall book piles on the floor. So, I had to reshelve stuff before Monday 😂 #TTRPG #Shelfie

I've run 5 new games from 14 sessions this year: Cörk Børd, WONDERxWORLDS, Flabbergasted!, Space: 1999, Cthulhu Eternal: Future (x2) (being the new ones), plus Monty Python, Sanction (The Agency, Dever), The Dee Sanction (x2), Basic Role Playing, Symbaroum, Dread: Dredd.

I've played 21 sessions of which 5 new games, Merryshire Detective Club, Cörk Børd, Dragonfly Motel, The Black Company - which were all playtests, and Swords Without Master.

You're Joyce Frye, sentenced to decapitation for your fraternization with the Druids of the Eternal Grove (folklore) and pursuing the heresies of the Hollow Hills (climbing) while in steady employ, in Manchester, as a Courtier (dance). Favoured with influence to Rot.

Eleven years ago, we made homemade fortune cookies. I made homemade fortunes. We never did it again. 😂

I currently play a regular game zero times a week. I'm engaged in a three-week weekend 1-shot on Sunday mornings, but this will pass. 2023–24, 2024–25: I was running a once-a-week campaign, first of Impossible Landscapes, then The Enemy Within. I am in awe of those engaged in multi-night gaming.

Is there a fan edit of the UFO TV series that removes or smothers the rampant cringe, especially where George Sewell/Colonel Alec Foreman is concerned? I watched the first episode last night and squirmed every time Foreman oozed into the scene. Also, string vests? #UFO #ClassicTV #GerryAnderson

I have been known to be found collapsed in the hallway with a magazine file nearby, skimming through ancient issues of White Dwarf, Adventurer, Carnel or Telegraph Road. So, I was pleased to find a self-deprecating post about the release of Torchbound. [1/4] www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

J'ai commencé la campagne des Encagés hier soir 🔥 (XII Singes, cthulhu hack) Ça commence fort ! Je sens que ça va être un JDR bien prenant y compris entre les sessions, et tant mieux l'enquête a l'air insane !

Please point me to the start-up/crowdfunding offering a fancy GM screen made from four linked, connected reMarkable-type tablets, each face offering the means to display a page of selected material that I can dynamically search, then adjust in and out of game. The GM reference screen of the future!

I enjoy seeing other peoples' notes; especially to see if I feel I could run from the write-up. I guess notes are generally functional to the individual, like comparing an adventure write-up to a published adventure. WONDERxWORLDS was me prepping someone else's adventure. The rest, my creations.

I was considering player Agent actions and motivation at the start of an investigation. They're drilled to communicate, invocate, then initiate—making Dee aware of the situation, seeking the Lord's forgiveness, and then set to the task at hand. Simply put: Dee It Dei It Do It #DeeSanction

How do you read TTRPGs? There's at least a dozen ways (and nobody reads front to back page by page do they? That's WEIRD, right? ) - here's three of them I tend to do: burnafterrunningrpg.com/2026/02/12/t...

101 years since the first recorded dreams. Some nightmares don’t fade—they call out from beyond. Mark the anniversary of Wilcox’s dream-visions from The Call of Cthulhu with 40% OFF the Cthulhu Hack (soft & hardback). www.allrolledup.co.uk?s=Cthulhu+Ha... #TTRPG #HorrorRPG #CthulhuHack #IndieRPG

Table #63: Riddle me this, Sphinx… #RandomTables #TablePerDay2024

This is what (neat) panic prep for GMing looks like, for me. I worried about Flabbergasted! improv play, but I didn't need to worry quite this much 😂 Still, there are some tables I can use another time. #TTRPG #GMTools #RandomTables

I ran games of Flabbergasted! and WONDERxWORLDS today, at Revelation in Sheffield—a day of gaming in the vein of #PbtA and #FitD with wiggle room for outliers, like these very games. Great sessions morning and afternoon, and I was reminded what great stories a fine group of players can conjure up.

I could do with a job where everything isn't a code-red priority, every task isn't overdue before I see it, and every ask doesn't make me feel like I'm going to need to work double hours just to have a chance. I don't mind work, but prefer that it doesn't resemble a panic attack from the outset.

Apparently, Hot Streak is a game of betting, racing and SCREAMING. Sounds like my game of Empire Builder from last weekend, but there were more trains and fewer chunky off-brand mascots. Anyway—@allrolledup.bsky.social has imminent stock! #boardgame #strategy www.allrolledup.co.uk/product/hot-...

This month marks 101 years since the dreams of H. A. Wilcox first troubled the waking world in The Call of Cthulhu. Celebrate with 40% off the Cthulhu Hack Core Rules—soft & hardcover—because some dreams demand investigation. www.allrolledup.co.uk?s=Cthulhu+Ha... #CthulhuHack #Lovecraftian #TTRPG

As villagers whose home is threatened by a creature of war, what can you do to protect your home and those you love? Where Fields Grow Fallow. Produced by @empathchamber.bsky.social and arriving just before my next con, Revelation—a PbtA-themed event—for which it would have been perfect. D'oh!

I'm really impressed by the ideas and presentation of Survivors of the Core Wars for #Mothership. Fifty NPC cards with a picture on one side, stats on the other. Silver-edged and sturdy. Each is available as a mercenary hire or a connection, with a Disposition modifier based on who fought for whom.

Fantastic art in pin form. I love 😍 PhaseMoth art.

Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent

And now I want eggs and sourdough toast...

Age verification? I could buy a BIG bag of loose sweets, or maybe a Double Decker, out of the change from buying the latest copy of White Dwarf, paid with a pound note.

Cthulhu Hack was designed with this idea in mind—running games from other systems with no conversion required. Part of my playtesting did precisely this. Non-combat skill checks are almost universally a call to hand over some information or a clue, followed by a Resource check, for personal impact.

You're Priscilla Epworth, sentenced to crushing for your fraternization with the Pythagorean Brotherhood (numerology) and spreading the heresies of the Liber Salomonis (detect lies) while in gainless employ, in Dover, as a Craftsperson (barter). Favoured with influence to Glower.

I wish everyone ran their Kickstarter like @paulbaldowski.bsky.social. Constant communications, honesty and you just know it'll be worth the wait.

The Leshen~💀 This’ll be a mini gold foil print! Drawn using procreate~ #darkart #cryptids #illustration

Watching Space: 1999 episode 'The Space Brain' today, and looking at the conference table in that story they had printed reports in different coloured plastic folders. It occurred to me that divisional reports might be held in wallets of a colour matching the left arm sleeves of their uniforms.

When Citadel Miniature box sets were almost a work of art in their own right. The glorious John Blanche. #GamesWorkshop #Warhammer #Wargame #RegimentsOfRenown

Mark the 101st anniversary of Wilcox’s dream-visions from The Call of Cthulhu with 40% off the Cthulhu Hack core book - in both soft and hard cover - at @allrolledup.bsky.social Fast investigations. Slow dread. www.allrolledup.co.uk?s=Cthulhu+Ha... #TTRPG #CthulhuMythos #CthulhuHack #Lovecraft

I backed The Thunder Perfect Mind. What's taking you so long? (I was holding off until Friday so I could focus on the options. It's been a busy couple of weeks.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...

Mark the 101st anniversary of Wilcox’s dream-visions from The Call of Cthulhu with 40% off the Cthulhu Hack core book - in both soft and hard cover - at @allrolledup.bsky.social Fast investigations. Slow dread. www.allrolledup.co.uk?s=Cthulhu+Ha... #TTRPG #CthulhuMythos

Vous devriez jeter un oeil à Cthulhu Hack si vous ne connaissez pas.

I posted it as part of a response on a discussion about Iron Crown's creative decisions with #MERP, but I wanted to repost it separately. A part of my collection, treasured, loved and often scribbled in. My first game, my first campaign, and first stint as a GM. #FirstLove #TTRPG ❤️

(RPG PDF Spotlight) Swarm, Cthulhu Hack Scenario by Les XII Singes France, 1921. WWI veterans are suddenly behaving strangely. While investigating the disppearance of former corporal Jean Simonin, the players soon understand that all the remaining survivors... angusabranson.com/2026/02/03/r...