James Kemp

If you play games at all, you are a gamer. Not necessarily a Gamer, but you are a gamer. Play wordle every day? Gamer. Play candy crush? Gamer. Cookie clicker? Gamer.

Crossing the Tay southbound for a week in Oxford.

I think it is underrated that the magic glass boxes we carry in our pockets can be recharged by sticking them to a magnet for a while.

Just after midnight local time, and it's still full on daylight.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!”

Wrote the blurb explaining Lit By Another Sun, the #SciFi #megagame I'm running in Edinburgh on 22 November.

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A sign written on a bed sheet hanging off a bridge above a busy ring-road in Dundee, Scotland. It reads "Deborah my queen I'm sorry your donut"

Some #EnvironmentalStorytelling that's been causing a stir in our local area.

Donut, what did you do?

My favourite kind of Dredd stories are the wackier, funnier ones that are basically Dirty Harry having to put up with living in Idiocracy.

is good book, you buy!

Fierce, my fantasy novel with a relatable female lead, is £0.99 this weekend

Photograph of braille d4, d6, d8, and d10 with text overlay. Text: DOTS RPG Project logo, RPGs for Accessible Gaming. Itch Charity Bundle.

RPGs for Accessible Gaming charity bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 240+ RPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to @dotsrpg.bsky.social

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Shipwreck, text version 2.0 - text currently incomplete - not for comment 19/02/25 A Game of Shipwreck Stories For 3 or more players, aged 12+ From an original idea developed whilst walking along the canal by Malcolm Craig and Jonny Hodgson

15 years ago, @handiworkgames.bsky.social & I were walking along the Union Canal between Polmont & Linlithgow, discussing our liking for shipwreck stories. Out of that came a lightweight game called (imaginatively) Shipwreck. It never saw the light of day and has lain untouched. Until now.

It's so orange! And has planets and crashed spaceships and stuff and junk!

And now, the UK cover to The Shattering Peace, which is pretty darn cool.

Can't wait for April 5th!! 😃💃

If you fancy coming along, you can get tickets here:

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Check this out! I did the layout for it and absolutely vibe with the Arcane aesthetic!

Dry Hook has expanded onto some of the nearby islands. Their prosperity has meant they've brought stone in for forts on the corners of triangle island. There's a bridge to the two long islands that have been joined by infill. These are now the West Dock and the East Dock. There's a continuous barrier on the eastern end, made by dredging the deep channel and putting the spoil, along with imported gravel, onto the islands (now joined by the Tree Dam to the south bank of the River Wackle). These are known as (south to north), Willow Bank, New Dam, East Bank, Oyster Fence. The western part of triangle island is fields, mostly with cows in them,

Fast forward a few centuries and we get a trading hub that's put a few more dams in to control the flow, built defences to stop raiders, and it's now a large town.

This is the left hand side of the previous area. The village of Dry Hook is on the delta side of triangle island. The villagers have made a fence with baskets filled with oyster shells to let them harvest oysters. Further down they've made the 'Tree Dam' from felled trees and brushwood to slow the flow of the water through their chosen area. This helps the oysters and partially mitigates flooding. The people of Dry Hook are a combination of fishing folk and artisans that make jewellery for trade with the pearls.

I traced the original to place the early settlement, and then worked out how they might adapt the environment for food and to mitigate flooding. This is based on how iron age people did things.

A pencil sketch in a paper notebook of a river delta with lots of channels and islands. A note on the bottom left of the sketch says "triangle island (labelled top left) is naturally about 5m above sea level and is mostly flat. Most of the delta is salt marsh. The land either side is v. Flat and not only floods regularly, but the river changes course often after heavy storms/flooding.

Need to build a city for the next part of a story. So I started by drawing the river delta that it's located on. Here's the Wackle Mouth.

We're still working on Issue 3 of Peasant Magazine.

Unfortunately due to life getting in the way (5 trips to the hospital in the past week) the release has been moved back to March 1st.

In the meantime if you enjoy historical fiction and fantasy short stories please check out Issues 1 and 2.

Extremely brave, to jump into enemy territory. R.I.P. (#OTD in 1945, SOE agents Violette Szabó, Cecily Lefort, Denise Bloch were killed by firing squad in concentration camp Ravensbrück. SOE agent Lilian Rolfe was gassed. #WW2 #HISTORY)

Look, I quote posted this earlier, and I am not dragging OP, but it’s really important, if anyone is going to survive the deepening of the onslaught, to understand the US is an explicitly eugenicist country.

I have seen a staggering naïveté about this, and a complicity. Short 🧵

Rapid fire, arm-waving chitchat. Including mention of playtesting #coldcity 2nd edition with some of my @ljmuhistory.bsky.social 1st year students!

I may have written the intro scene for a sequel to Fierce on the train to Glasgow this morning.

363 words down, about 99,637 to go (plus or minus a few thousand).

This looks like a great read @timmyelf.bsky.social

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Mum Chums A slice of life RPG about the people who care for kids

Mum Chums, my slice of life #ttRPG about the people who care for kids, is now live on Kickstarter. If you like your gaming with a strong emotional core, back it today!

Alexander Grant of McVitie's donated £100,000 (c. £5M in 2023) towards establishing the NLS by handing over a blank cheque to the committee to be filled in as it saw fit. He told his banker it was to be paid without question. A further £100,000 followed to fund construction of the building 🍪🏗️📚