I've reviewed an excellent late medieval book with lots of great illustrations depicting Medieval daily life. Art review: Flemish book of hours (1400s) You can check it out here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/01/04/a... Or here; fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/art-review...

Just want people to realize that the USA invading Greenland just became far more plausible scenario today. I just wish the leaders of the EU were less spineless.

We're excited that our award-winning Age of Vikings RPG is going to be one of featured roleplaying game systems in this January's New Gamemaster Month, run by our friends at Monte Cook Games. #newgamemastermonth

My brain rots when I see this picture. The trailer for Nolan's The Odyssey has been released. The good: they have decided the film in locations. The bad: everything else.

Mark Morrison writes, "With all my gaming groups I’ve always tried to run a special themed game as the last one of the year. Naturally, I mark the occasion by trying to kill them all in a special one-night adventure, usually with some variety of homicidal Santa..."

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good

Well this came as a happy surprise to me! Lautapelit fi has just released Kyūshū and Shikoku, the last two games in the same series as Honshu and Hokkaido, by Kalle Malmioja. They've been waiting to be published for years, and now they're out! I knew they were coming, but had no idea when.

Well.. Slava Ukraini!

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

Besides, I had an opportunity to try a "X-card" thing first time. It was a subject that I personally feel very uncomfortable, and you know what? Everybody was totally fine with that! It was a misunderstanding anyway, but the fact was the thing is there for a reason and does not destroy any game.

Played yesterday a homebrew Fiasco Glorantha. It was the first time I have played anything Fiasco, and I enjoyed it immensely. The system was quick to learn and the setting worked perfectly. We started by randomly picking the runes for each character and that was the character creation.

Drawing some busybody adventurers (part 1 of 3).

Chaosium is delighted to announce the appointment of Paul Tobin as Art Director. Paul has had a distinguished career as a Senior Concept Artist at Wētā Workshop, contributing to major projects inc The Hobbit trilogy, Avatar, Bladerunner 2049, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, The Expanse, and Narnia.

I absolutely love how grounded Age of Vikings is. It not always necessary to fight some huge god monster to make an exciting adventure. Very common things can become something that has far reaching consequences. Fantastic free form magic system really supports this kind of games.

BRP is a great system!

RuneQuest. The best fantasy game. Call of Cthulhu. You can run this in every setting. Pendragon. Maybe the best game ever? Age of Vikings. Great magic, great feeling of the historical setting. Yes, I’m a Chaosium fanboy and love BRP, but these games are absolutely great. Try them.

I am often puzzled why RuneQuest is considered too intimidating game to learn when people are ok with D&D.

If you'd like to see a bunch of my old @chaosium.bsky.social work, I've got it up here (for free) on the patreon - absolutely some of my fave work from that period! Nothing I love like bronze age fantasy of any and all types

Our forthcoming Lands of #RuneQuest: Sartar book has a section on Creating Duck Adventurers, with art by Ossi Hiekkala @ossihiekkala.bsky.social. There's also more Duck art coming by Mark Smiley. Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks.

Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as #TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in @chaosium.bsky.social's first edition of #RuneQuest (1978).

hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.

This is brilliant!

Marada 1985 Graphic Novel Cover - John Bolton #comicart #fantasyart

In this week’s newsletter, we delve into legendary territory. The year was 1977…with STORMBRINGER, I completed work on the Elric Saga and received my first World Fantasy Award nomination. theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/1977-year-...

Yesterday the RPG Realms zone of tabletop.me in Dubai 🇦🇪 was packed with players, all day. And it was exciting to see so many newcomers trying #TTRPGs for the first time! Plenty of games to choose: we're running #CallOfCthulhu demos, and there's also more CoC & #Pendragon happening too. Plus D&D etc

One more but without X before it: It is more important to be reliable than to be great. The reliable ones are the ones the clients come back to.

Carol Tierney says let's talk about hólmgang, a very Viking way of settling scores. This is one the most evocative elements you can drop into an Age of Vikings game. #ageofvikings #rpg #ttrpg

Have you ever asked yourself, where do the fantacy characters get their clothes? Everybody is dressed like Caultier or whoever designed their custom clothes. You'd think there were more haute couture tailors and dressmakers than food vendors everywhere.

Test print of this year's Dragonmeet booklet. Cover by @marksmylie.bsky.social, interior art by @katrindirim.bsky.social and Agathe Pitié. #Glorantha

The famous Basket Building here in Ohio. HQ of the Longaberger Basket Company until it went belly up 10 years ago. Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.

I have not remembered to comment about the Chaosium Con EU I took part in last week. Tldr: It was absolutely a blast. Gdansk in Poland was a great place, the venue was great, and the Chaosium tribe was the greatest. I had great games, was in good panels, but really enjoyed talking with the people.

Pendragon gamemasters, gather round! The Companions of Arthur First Anniversary Celebration Bundle of community content ends 7 November. Save 30% on all 8 launch titles. If you already own some of them, you still get the discount on the rest. Adventure awaits! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here. I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜

brain broken

Often whatever I do will see the light only after a year or even years, but these pieces I did only few weeks ago, so it is a pleasure to see them released when they're still hot out of an oven.

Here's pt 2 to my🧵on Western movie gun modifications. In pt 1, I went over the ways Colt Single Action Armys & Winchester '92s were altered to look like earlier gun models This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications

Storyboards for The Wild Bunch (1969) by Tyrus Wong

Hear the call to arms at Essen! Pendragon: The Sauvage King is available in pre-release! Get your copy and take up your sword for Arthur!

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Miksi kauhupelissä on tärkeää puhua turvallisuudesta, ja miten se tehdään käytännössä? Ovatko X-kortti ja muut työkalut vain turhaa hössötystä vai välttämättömiä välineitä onnistuneen ja kaikille miellyttävän pelikokemuksen luomiseksi? #podcastclip #xcard #roolipelit #luolamestari #ttrpg

Skol! Did you notice something special on the shelves at Spiel Essen? The Age of Vikings Gamemaster Screen Pack is available in pre-release at the show! Visit the Chaosium booth to get yours!

Don't tell me you like 70s music if you can't name this band.

Every time a new edition drops, someone always asks, “Why do we need this?” Well, because publishing is a business, not a museum. Games evolve, people get a paycheck, and the bills get paid. That’s how many in the hobby continue to exist.

Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only

And if you think digital art is bad, don't get me started on print! Even when you work using the correct color profiles, color calibrate your screen, provide printers with pantone or other color samples, etc they will still never print exactly as intended. Let go and be free.

Many of my fondest memories from my early gaming years come from playing Shadowrun. Great setting, not so great system, though as I didn’t run it, that didn’t really matter to me.

Tariffs are putting US game companies out of business. (Note this is the US subsidiary of AMIGO, not the whole German company)

RIP Drew Struzan. Masters like him are now an extinct species. The whole movie poster art form is dead.