A model Mesolithic shelter under construction

Some “hides” attached to the frame of the model shelter.

The model placed in a set, lit from inside. Various coloured lights are in action as well as the smoke machine.

The image of the model shelter that appears in the Maskwitches book.

It’s amazing the photos you find on your phone. Behind the scenes of an image of a Mesolithic shelter from #Maskwitches. Partly inspired by the Howick House. I visited the site. In the 9600 years since it was there it has turned into a nettle patch. Who knew?

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Art from Maskwitches showing 3 wandering witches.

Art from Maskwitches showing some people camping by a fire

Art from Maskwitches showing some witches about to battle an evil spirit

Art from Maskwitches showing a person from Doggerland

Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland is our storytelling game of the psychedelic Mesolithic. Nommed for an ENnie for Best Art, it features not only an incredibly light but powerful system but also unique art created from sets, models and props. There's not really anything like it. #maskwitches #ttrpg

A behind the scenes photo from the Making Maskwitches blog. Various wooden blocks support lumps of model grass. In front of a large landscape backdrop stands the tar man model - a creepy figure apparently made from pitch.

From the Making Maskwitches Blog, 2 years ago - Making Tar Man

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A 3d printed horse skull in a plain bone white finish.

The horse skull from the previous shot now set up on a post, with a wig and dried flower garland. Flanked by photography lights.

A plain white plastic skull arriving in a cardboard box.

The same skill from the previous shot now wearing a wig, and placed into a rocky set with smoke for photographing.

Behind the scenes stuff is always fun, eh? Here’s a brace of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland glow downs of plastic/3d printed skulls. #maskwitches

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Don’t ask me I just record the transmissions as they arrive.

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Art from Maskwitches showing three witches on a journey through a fen.

Art from Maskwitches showing two witches on a journey through a misty wood.

Art from Maskwitches showing two witches sitting by a fire.

Art from Maskwitches showing three witches at night. The central witch has a mask made from a poppy seed head and this is my favourite image from the book

Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland where they goin

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A painted mask, with teeth in its eye holes

A painted mask, with teeth in its eye holes. One of the eyes is strongly lit from within with an orange light. There is also smoke visible.

A close up on one toothy eye hole. It is lit from within and smoke is leaking from it.

A close up on both toothy eye holes with lots of smoke coming out.

All the masks that the NPCs wear on the BBC version of “The Traitors” use the same base mask as I used for this. Call me back, cowards.

Anyway, goodnight.
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A copy of The Meat Spoiler for Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland. The cover shows a weird pale coloured entity, all tendrils and jiggly looking ectoplasm.

Pages from The Meat Spoiler for Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland. This spread shows art of a settlement on the left hand page, and text on the right.

Pages from The Meat Spoiler for Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland. This spread shows art of two characters on the left hand page, and text on the right.

Pages from The Meat Spoiler for Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland. This spread shows art of some people encountering the Meat Spoiler on the left hand page, and text on the right.

Looks like The Meat Spoiler is back on the menu! A cheeky restock has arrived.

The Meat Spoiler is a story scenario for Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland, and you can grab a copy on our website. Or head straight to DrivethruRPG and get the pdf. #maskwitches #ttrpg

Stay safe. Follow all advice from your local Maskwitches, and help them whenever you can. No one wants a manifestation of a ten thousand year old spirit made from pine tar and dog teeth from the ice.

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#ttrpg #maskwitches

A mask from the Maskwitches Mask Generator web app.

A mask from the Maskwitches Mask Generator web app.

A mask from the Maskwitches Mask Generator web app.

A mask from the Maskwitches Mask Generator web app.

Doing some subtle variations on a theme. Gonna print these out and stick them to card for a game. You can export a pdf and scale them for that, all from the Maskwitches mask generator.

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A pile of Maskwitches hardcovers.

Looks like Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland is back on the menu, boys. Restocked. Gotta start making lighter books. Getting too old for this "moving boxes of books around" business!

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A mask generated by the Maskwitches random mask generator. It is formed of the bottom of an animal skull, has an eye plate made of slate, a gaping toothy mouth and rays of slate framing it.

The first mask you generate at the Maskwiskwitches mask generator app determines your Fridays energy.

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I’m pretty happy with this one. Slate-eyeslot skull-sun mask works for me. Look out Friday, we shall defeat you with the screaming. Again. #ttrpg #maskwitches

An illustration from Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland showing an evil spirit in the forest. The spirit is all arms and insect parts and black tar.

A behind the scenes shot of the model forest, showing loads of sticks and branches in a set.

The behind the scenes story of (one of) the forest from Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland:
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#maskwitches #ttprg #ENnies #rpgart

An image from Maskwitches showing two harpoons, some leather, some other tool hafts, some hazel nuts and smoke and all that good stuff.

How nice to be able to recommend my Maskwitches blog free of... the prior venue.

Read all about making harpoons for (the ENnie award nommed yeeeeeeeeeeeee) Maskwitches...
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Three Maskwitches figures in a golden reed fen landscape.

Absolutely delighted that Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland Redux has been nominated for Best Art in the 2025 ENnies! Amazing. Congrats to all the nominees, and thank you to the judges. Wow.

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A photograph of a mask in the style of a human face, heavily painted and textured with beads on its forehead and teeth in the eye holes making them look like mouths.

Going to make some time for this project before the end of the week. For the next scenario for Maskwitches. It’s gonna have horse ghosts, counting in your fingers and oh wait that’s a spoiler. Also working on a new way to present scenarios for #Maskwitches with even more flex in the group telling.

An evil spirit from Maskwitches, in one of the illustrations from the book. It’s a horrible spiny long limbed creature in a misty woodland.

An evil spirit from Maskwitches, in one of the illustrations from the book. It’s a horrible spiny long limbed creature in a misty woodland.

An evil spirit from Maskwitches, in one of the illustrations from the book. It’s a horrible spiny long limbed creature in a misty woodland.

Here’s some of the Maskwitches evil spirits from the previous thread hanging out in their natural environment. #maskwitches

Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland is a psychedelic Mesolithic storytelling game. This standalone book brings your stories to Forgotten Doggerland – the land that lies drowned beneath the North Se…

I’ll stop doing a thread cos it’s a big old dump and I have lots more pictures for maybe another time. Nice to see those horrible creatures again though.

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A photo of a trio of models of evil spirits from Maskwitches. They’re made of glue and fake fur.

Oh I always enjoy stumbling across these photos. Evil spirits from #Maskwitches. In the game these are spawned when things go wrong for the community, so the Maskwitches try to prevent that, and battle the spirits if they don’t manage to keep them at bay. The models were challenging to make 1/?

Heheh I forgot I made this. And as ever had plans to do a lot more. But all the things keep happening. #maskwitches

A photo of the Maskwitches range, showing the standalone core book, the Meatspoiler scenario, the To the Ice Caves supplement, the predestined event tokens, Knap tokens and a Maskwitches dice tray.

When things go wrong in the community evil spirits can arise! As the #Maskwitches you must either prevent that happening or fight them off in the psychedelic world of Forgotten Doggerland.

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Episode7: Running A Marathon Total Playtime · Episode

#Maskwitches gets a welcome mention in the latest episode of @totalplaytime.com "Stone Age Ghostbusters... fucking brilliant stuff" Thanks for the shout out! And hope you get to grips with it and get it to a table! open.spotify.com/episode/5qou...

A photo of the unique Maskwitches book showing a witch in profile.

A photo of the back of the unique Maskwitches book showing an evil spirit in profile.

Pausing the @conpulsion.bsky.social packing to grab some snaps of this absolutely one-off, unique copy of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland for the charity auction. It arrived in time! #maskwitches #conpulsion

A photo showing smoke machine use in Maskwitches. This one has loads of smoke through which we dimly see figures of Maskwitches.

A photo showing smoke machine use in Maskwitches. This one has some smoke around the feet and behind an evil spirt made of stones.

A photo showing smoke machine use in Maskwitches. This one has some light smoke around some mushrooms.

A photo showing smoke machine use in Maskwitches. This one has really sinuous smoke around a nastily looking beaked evil snake spirit thing.

Here’s some of the results of the smoke machine tools. #maskwitches

A photo of the end of a cardboard tube, specially shaped to direct smoke machine smoke.

A photo of a narrower cardboard tube connected to a wider one, in order to funnel smoke machine smoke and make it more wispy.

A photo of a rather rustic looking homemade adapter to attach a silicone hose to the nozzle of a smoke machine. Since the nozzle gets very hot I do not recommend doing this.

A photo of the collection of three special smoke machine tools made from cardboard tubes, parcel tape and silicone hose.

Ah a rare find of #Maskwitches smoke machine tools. Handcrafted in various “ingenious” ways to direct and control the flow of smoke.

A random mask from the Maskwitches mask generator. This one is made of seed pods and stones.

A random mask from the Maskwitches mask generator. This one is made from tree roots and beads.

A random mask from the Maskwitches mask generator. This one has a stone face and reeds for hair.

A random mask from the Maskwitches mask generator. This one is made of bone and shells.

This evening’s crop of masks from the #Maskwitches from the Maskwitches Mask generator app.

It’s entirely free to use to make your own, and you can go as sinister/whimsical as you like!

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A digital montage showing a hardcover Maskwitches book featuring a witch in profile, set in front of a blurred out photo of some kind of weird monster dude.

Ooooh it's a digital mockup of the special one-of-a-kind copy of Maskwitches with a unique cover we're making for the @conpulsion.bsky.social charity auction! #maskwitches #ttrpg #conpulsion

A screenshot that reads: Best Art Maskwitches Of Forgotten Doggerland – Jon Hodgson (Writer, designer, artist), Paul Bourne (Layout) May You Fish In Interesting Times – Carol Wu (illustration), W.H. Arthur (game design, writing and layout) Revolt! – Jason Price (Writing & Game Design), Juan Ochoa (Artwork), Chaim Holtjer (Cartography), Vee Hendro (Layout & Graphic Design), Will Jobst (Editing) Doomsong – Jack Cæsar (Game Design), Morgan Finley (Writing), Chris Cæsar (Graphic Design), Moritz Krebs & Chris Cæsar (Art) Forgery – Banana Chan (Designer)

The cover to Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland hardcover, on some planks with some hazelnuts, some dried berries and seedbeds and some deer jawbones. The cover shows a rather frightening looking character with a dog skull mask and long black hair.

Oh hey! #Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland has been nominated for Best Art in the @igdn-official.bsky.social Indie Groundbreaker Awards! Wow! There's some amazing fellow nominees too! www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

Packing up some #Maskwitches hardcovers for the ENnie Awards. A video!

Some clay-like crafts stuff molded over tinfoil mask curing in sauna.

I have no confidence of this crafts stuff to hold. But if it doesn’t it can become a broken mask?

#maskwitchesofforgottwndoggerland #maskwitches #farcryprimal #izila #craftsmask