My 8yo has been playing The Forest and Band & Twang for the past couple of years and we still crack both out regularly. Great games for the fam. Get them here: handiwork.games/product-cate...

I only didn't post the gender octagon because I went to bed.

New probability just dropped:
There's now a 50% chance of getting a 5 or 6 when rolling a d6.

Oh, what's the Glasgow event? And where?

I wish I could get to more events at The Garrison. This one looks like my kinda jam!

I'll see you on the road! 🎲 🎒 🥾

I would also point out that the modern gamebook sector is healthier and more fun than it's been for decades.

Start with Steam Highwayman or The Ghosts of Craven Manor.

I love how not making anything for public consumption is kinda posed as the downside, when it makes the whole idea even better.

You'd be the first stop on my big tour if so!

If we are fantasy funding this, I'd arrange to travel to game spaces (clubs, larps, cons, labs, etc) all across the world to play games and talk with other nerds.

Japanese fire official suspended for forcing colleagues to play board games while working - The Mainichi INAZAWA, Aichi -- The Inazawa municipal fire department headquarters in Aichi Prefecture announced April 10 that a male fire sergeant in his 40s had b

Remember - even playtesting needs consent!

mainichi.jp/english/arti...

I'm not going to fill this in on the basis of how analysis is being flagged as undertaken.

My GMing style?

"Vampires?"

This year's KP book Seasons of Larp's PDF version is out and it's free. Go check it out: www.nordiclarp.org/wiki/Seasons...

I'm sorry

Should have kept House Ordos 🐍 (but seriously, this is cool af, this should be an actual redux of The Battle for Arrakis).

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Wild how the only US administration prepared to entertain Netanyahu’s dream of an Iran war was the first openly antisemitic one since Nixon.

Whereas for tabletop games it is I who likes the good ones! 😈

Artists, show what built your style!

(A very abbreviated selection! Dave McKean is missing, Simon Bisley should be there for teen me even if I’d hesitate now, Brian Froud, Justin Sweet, Matthias Snygg…)

IWGB Game Jam · Luma Come to Ancient Robot Workshop on the 25th of April and take part in an evening game jam with ex-Rockster Workers! Support ex-Rockstar workers Fighting Fund…

Just one week until this event to supoort the @gameworkers.co.uk! Hope to see you there!

A really good explanation of the disingenuous use by the media of the Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc fallacy

Saga Of The Swamp Thing (Vol1)
Author: Alan Moore
Artist: Stephen R. Bissette
1982

Nationalism is a racist vehicle which ushers in other reactionary ideas. Nationalism is an anti-working class ideology. The reasons you give for your favorite nationalism(s) being an exception are just the same as those given by people supporting the nationalism(s) you oppose.

See, the descriptions which really get me are this and the 80s one. I think my love of tasty nibbles at the gaming table has catapultrd me into a world of VTTs and actual play.

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

I'd suggest avoiding Substack as they are known to be a main revenue stream for neo-nazis and the main site to foster reactionary centerism. There are plenty of other great options for blogging, so perhaps best moving before building the audience?

("you" being the nationalist press here in Scotland, or anywhere else)

Nationalism is a racist vehicle which ushers in other reactionary ideas. Nationalism is an anti-working class ideology. The reasons you give for your favorite nationalism(s) being an exception are just the same as those given by people supporting the nationalism(s) you oppose.