Calvin & Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic strips of all time and I feel like we STILL underrate it.

Old message from my friend Simon: “Promised you a list of names of poisonous British mushrooms. I realise now that it reads like a list of rejected Cocteau Twins song titles.”

History for beginners! "Focusing on whos and hows, rather than straightforward facts and dates, this invaluable guide invites 8 or 9+ readers to consider what history is and how it’s created, weighing evidence and developing habits of critical thinking" Thanks Imogen. I'm so proud of this book!

Lovely London

Great time to remind everyone to check out Arne's PSG art tutorial. It covers a lot of topics quickly and applies to all art, including #gameart. Especially good for #handpainted texturing too! https://buff.ly/3UUmo0b

🔥 This week's Arsenal long-read is up. Some scattered rants to start. Then, drawing on @carloncarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant research, I talk about Kai's deployment and argue for one way to improve in open play: increased presence, volume of runners, and lower-percentage risk-taking in the box.

I feel this is more true every day. It's very cool. You are the stories you tell yourself

One well known challenge in writing RPGs is that the rulebook needs to serve multiple purposes. It needs to convey information about the game fiction/setting, instruct the reader how to play AND serve as a reference for the rules once play begins. That's a tall order.

Someone once defined “charm” in art as successful ends achieved by seemingly inadequate means. Here's Alex Toth depicting a rogue pilot's last hurrah as he gives up trying to land his burning biplane, and instead roars into the air, loops, & smashes into the ground.

Really excited about this game, the first was my fave RPG for years.

We did it, guys. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/12/crow...

Designing a big cutaway spread for the moon comic. These are always the best.

I love this spread from History for Beginners. (Available now! A must read for all truth-seekers!) Meaning, message and form marry pleasingly. Like all good ideas, the design came to me, fully-formed, while in the shower.

Had anyone got some suggestions for good comics for a thirteen year old boy? He prefers adventure to drama, I'd say.

Have invented a new low gravity sport. MOONBALL will be the most popular game in the solar system in forty years.

Really excited about the rough design of this picture puzzle. Can't wait to see what the artist does with it.

These are one of my favourite book series! Very excited for this History one to arrive at my library!! ✨️📚🖤

London ain't so bad

One of my favorite parts of working in the game industry is finding ways to share our files with anyone whose ever wanted to try there hand at making something. Today, I'm delighted to be able to share with you the official development kit for Arcs. Have fun! boardgamegeek.com/thread/34126...

New Quinn's Quest video! Hopefully Quinns kickflips through a portal onto Bluesky soon. youtu.be/kHIcXnfdv94?...

Can confirm!

This is superb

My new book HISTORY FOR BEGINNERS is now available in all bookshops! I'm really proud of it because it's trying to do something different: to show how history is made and why it is a story. It's also an incredibly beautiful book. Paul Boston, the illustrator did a fantastic job.

On the subject of adults reading kids books, Aimed at top of KS2, Goblins Revenge by @andy-p.bsky.social swipes off Tolkien, a downtrodden goblin makes good with evocative imagery, cool escape room picture puzzles, tactical combat, impactful decision making.

A simplified overview of brain functions #neuroscience

Space citizens

Here's an NPC that will fit in almost any RPG... MR PICKLE Has anyone in the history of the universe loved pickles this purely? Is it good to always be cheerful? Does he ever take off his suit? Or is Mr Pickle hiding something?

Day 8: rotte - 2m high lice with explosive pop. Thank you random tables.

Day 5: SAP: (aka sticky, hotjam, the old murder-juice) a dangerous substance commonly found in upper reaches of Tor where veins of the Great Tree are less encrusted by countless millennia's crufty accumulation of tortured brick and stone. Some fools will smoke it. Powerfully addictive mutagen.

So much good stuff here

Jewel tats / by Kritoo Yam Day 4: #dungeon24 a new item and maker. Inside a rotting cistern a tiny hominid crafts exquisite designs with skin and needle and glowing gem inks.

just got my hands on the Epstein list and I’m shook

My Death Star is operational.

TIME DIAMONDS - clusters of sentient crystals that are growing backwards in time. Can be used to learn about future but visions are not reliable. #ttrpg #thetor #dungeon24

Day 2: a new faction for the Tor megadungeon. Metallic, circular robo-owls. Known as BOWLS. Linked to terrorist acts. Riven by internal faction. Persecuted. #osr #dungeon24 #megadungeon #ttrpg

@davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social hello!! May 2024 be a blessed year! X

Getting a start early on worldbuilding. Building off of dungeon23 work, I'm going to use the generators I made last year to make something for my megadungeon every day this year. Today, a post office staffed by the indefatigable duck Lobeer. "We'll deliver anywhere, chum. Yes even level 6, no fret."