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Where does Mausritter exist? Between Two Cairns recently released an reviewing and around the 41 minute mark, they got stuck on the “human issue” that comes up anytime someone who does...

Toucan’t Blog: Where Does Mausritter Exist?

Brad Kerr famously doesn’t read blogs, so I feel safe quoting him out of context and starting some lighthearted beef

Woah.

How much Merlin content is there?

Big Red Button The workday had run long, and the clock had started staring back when I felt a sensation in the palm of my left hand. It was a feeling which normally resided behind my eyes as a nebulous compulsion…

BIG RED BUTTON. A short body-horror story I wrote a few years ago.

"It pulsed, expanding and contracting, secreting a slick, ruddy brown substance through its pores with each beat"

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Watched The Princess Bride again last night. It made me wonder, has anyone made a Forged In The Dark game which emulates the madcap storybook problem solving of Princess Bride?

Narrator & audience chiming in to pivot the story. "Actually I was fighting with my left hand the whole time" type moments

I've been listening to so many episodes of Between Two Cairns and yet I'm only at Nov 2023.

I like to think it is helping with my Mothership writing.

Like myself, old Ferdynand isn't much use, but does happen to know a little about ghosts. His Storytelling and Research skills were useful for a haphazard exorcism.

Rolled up a new character for the Milk Bar playtest tonight. After my Stalker got bricked by a ghost I was looking forward to playing someone more conventional. Rolled Writer on the background. Well that's within my wheelhouse.

Perfect cover!

Is imagining conversations with the therapist I haven't seen in two years a good or bad sign of how I'm doing?

Those precious ten free hours. Good times.

Weighing up that choice is a constant source of stress for me.

Muppetmeet 2025 poster. Excel Center London - 28th November. An evening of networking and TTRPG industry knowledge-sharing

Muppetmeet 2025 talk schedules split into business track and creative track. Business Track: 6pm - I took this marketing course so you don't have to with Mol Joule from SoulMuppet 7:15pm: Making Games While the world burns: dealing with Tomorrow's Crisis. With Zachary Cox moderating, Kay Lubwika Bartlett from Roll and Play Emmet Byrne from Old Oak Games, and Cat Tobin from Pelgrane Press 8:30pm: What are you r rates? Well... what's your budget? Dancing the dance of Freelancer Rates. With Mol Joule moderating, Helen Gould, Eryk Sawicki and Luke Gearing. Creative Track: 6pm Being a book sicko: a crash course in printing with Zachary Cox 7:15pm Sociall Conscious Games with Eryk Sawicki moderating, George Blandy from Three Sails Studios, David Blandy from Copy/Paste Co-op and Laurie O'Connel from Twelve Pins Press. 8:30pm Our Games on your screens: Designing for APs and APs for Designers. With Aida Branez, co-founder of EUphoria and Nathan Blades, a freelance voice actor and designer.

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Wonderful!

Essential viewing for accidental misanthropes like me. I need to get better, far better, at getting myself, and my work out there. But more importantly, I need and want to talk to people who like the things I like.

It will take some brain re-wiring on my end, but it is worth doing.

Banger.

Rites of Renewal: a neo-pagan folk horror sandbox for Mothership RPG - crowdfunding next week!

Featuring words by @jlcable.bsky.social and hand-made lino art from @pickledpennies.bsky.social. Will you join in the revelries?

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For the Americans who might have missed it earlier 👇

Here's a sneak peek of @pickledpennies.bsky.social making an early print of our cover art...

Even in the depths of a decrepit space station, people yearn for the old ways...

Very happy to be writing Rites of Renewal for Mothership Month! 🍎🍺🌳🌞🦌🔪💀

Ooh also, if you PLAYED in our insane megagame of THE BLOODFIELDS AT BLACKSTAR STATION at Gen Con, hit us up. We'd love to hear more about your experience!

Guilty as charged. A very fair and eloquent review of our book.

NEW: Bob Geldof lets rip over Gaza genocide.

PRESENTER: "Isn’t it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?"

GELDOF: "Stop it Trevor. If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars. Stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border. Let your own army stop you. Shame on you.”

Who wants Johnson² pics?

I've read the module before today, and it looks wonderfully fun. I'd love to get this one up the table. The physical book is really damn pretty and feels good.

Plus, patches! My backpack will be very happy.

They are general bookshops.

If Bob Vylan wants back on the BBC’s good side, they’re gonna need to commit some sex crimes

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads: "Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI" "you might not like it but shareholders love it"

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

If I was going to write a Peregrine Coast Press primer to producing your RPG zine/book, what are the questions you'd love to have answered?

I deal a lot in production: design, productisation, working with retailers and distributors, fulfilment and postage, warehousing. No question is off limits!

The way this government describes dozens of MPs collectively speaking out for their constituents as a “revolt” and not as like. What the point of a fucking house of commons is meant to fucking be

What a day in the studio - Jamila reorganised our storage, we’ve started implementing our new labelling system, we’ve set up a shared inbox for CS, started a stock-take, removed manual steps from a process, and @samtmcnally.bsky.social, @jlcable.bsky.social and I had a call about Mausritter Month 👀