Thorns is such an interesting and prescient book.

I can't wait to see it! (also, I was re-reading book one on the website earlier this morning and noticed that the Next Chapter button at the end of chapter 8 redirects to the wrong place)

A William Gibson novel from 2014 referred to the general early 21st century omni-crisis as "the Jackpot" and I quite like that. (to be fair, with a short gap in the 1990s, almost all science fiction since the mid-1970s has assumed that the first decades of the 21st century will be terrible...)

I finally saw the 1982 Conan movie. I have to say, I wasn't expecting the movie to be so ...for lack of a better phrase... art house!

A picture of a comic strip called The Adventures of Two Gun Bob by Jim and Ruth Keegan, which appeared in the letter pages of Dark Horse Comics' Conan series. This particular image is from Conan and the Demons of Khitai issue 1, and depicts Robert Howard washing his car, while yelling a Conan story to himself. Unfortunately he doesn't see his mother's friend behind him, to hear him yelling "Fool! Dog of Hell! DIE!"

Has there ever been a collection or compilation of the Adventures of Two Gun Bob comic strip (by Jim and Ruth Kelly) that used to appear in the back of Dark Horse's #Conan issues? It's such a humane and interesting series, honestly one of my favourite comics.

RIP John Varley. The Ophiuchi Hotline is one of the all time great genre-shifting SF novels, really ahead of its time.

Ever since I heard an interview with RA Salvatore I had imagined everyone in the Forgotten Realms /Baldur’s Gate talking in a Boston accent and was a little disappointed when they weren’t.

There wasn't much I didn't recognise this year, which took me by surprise because I'm feeling very out of the RPG loop ATM. Lots and lots (and lots and lots and lots) of horror, and some interesting near future sci fi, and it was nice to see Shadowdark and Break with a big presence.

Big pile of small press RPG books, aesthetically arranged on a blanket. Shadowdark and Lost Pages books and Mythic Bastionland

Fun day at #dragonmeet this year. A friend recommended Mythic Bastionland by saying "it's for your DM style. It works really well with someone who goes with the flow and makes up any old shit as things happen." With a recommendation like that, I obviously had to pick it up 😅

I was so surprised and happy to see such a big presence for the game at the con 🥰

28mm ghosts and ghouls caper in a cardboard graveyard

Mordheim is such a fun game. It's so fast, me and my mate got two games into three hours.

I’m reading a book from 1940 about con-artists, exposing their hep 1940s con-artist lingo…

Now that I've had a chance to listen, I'm also really excited for you to read Karl Edward Wagner. Night Winds and Dark Crusade are real favourites of mine - those books are really formulaic, but they're really formulaic to their own unique, great formula that no-one else does (if that makes sense)

Oh, neat, I read that last year. And spent a lot of time wondering where all the aristocratic satanists find their interior designers. Is there just one guy who specialises in phallic mantlepieces or a cottage industry?

Listening to you talk about the Elusive Shift is really interesting! What order would you recommend reading Jon Peterson's RPG history books?

If I'm honest I prefer the brightly coloured hippy thing to washed out brown of a lot of historical epics and S&S on film! I like fantasy to have colour in it!

I watched a few episodes of Xena for the first time and I'm fascinated by the very specific aesthetics of the villages she visits. It's a very 1990s, bucolic "stacked vegetables and dreamcatchers" culturally non-specific hippy thing. And the tie-dyed arcadian villager costumes are very 90s Star Trek

“Knight of the Thimble” sounds like a euphemism for a type of alcoholism I can’t even begin to imagine.

I love that blue!

I finally played Battletech after 20 years of owning it. Playing a wargame with such restricted movement options is a really interesting experience. (I still managed to get completely envelope by the enemy lance and only won through some lucky engine criticals…)

If there are two games that most require and reward you for spending hours alone before the game planning a build on a sheet of paper, it’s Pathfinder 1e and 40k…

I’m not surprised that Chaos supporters are NAFO when the Ukrainian army literally has a “Khorne Group” on the frontlines.

I have fantasied a lot over the years about running an RPG about aristocratic mechwarriors taking tea in the parlour before fighting the Capellan Confederation.

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Yeah! As soon as I saw the artwork I thought Morrowind! and I Have to Have That! 😅

A D&D boss fight that's been building for half a decade, built around the weirdest collection of figures!

I love the name!

I’d honestly be most excited to see your take on Tzaangors. They’d benefit from a vibrant explosion of glorious technicolour.

I love that old school Cadian one. How did you get that green?

I had a pretty restrained day at #Dragonmeet2024 yesterday but I’m really pleased with that WFRP find. I’ve been running that campaign with the updated 4e version for a year now!