Dirk the Dice

At the top, an illustration from the cover of Blade's 68 for Blades in the Dark. Various 60s-inspired characters appear in concentric rings of grey, blue, orange, and yellow. This is followed by a manifesto of player advice. HOW TO PLAY HARD AND HAVE FUN IN '68 1. GO IN BOOTS AND ALL. The campaign will be shorter than you think. Make stuff happen now. Don't wait, pull the trigger. 2. DIG THE OTHER CHARACTERS. Dial in on the other player characters, pay attention to their narrative, and get your own character involved. Be their fan, or be their foil. 3. MAKE THE GM SWEAT. Think of the game like a physics toy, and push the levers you have as hard as you can, just to see what happens. Rattle the cage, jump out the window, don't look down. Move so fast the GM can't keep up. 4. SELL THE PUNCHES. Always choose the bigger reaction. Let your character be changed by the world and by other characters. Let them be upset, emotional, irrational. 5. FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT. If your character dies, they can come back as an echo. If they have to retire, you can always make a new character. The crew cannot be stopped. Act first and think later, make bad decisions, let the chips fall where they may. 6. LEARN TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE CONSEQUENCES. Most rolls are going to have consequences. Wouldn't it be boring to succeed all the time? Embrace consequences, and create consequences, then roll them up in a giant ball of chaos and surf on top. Following this manifesto is an illustration in monotone orange, yellow, and black of a muscle car jumping in front of a speeding tractor-trailer. A woman brandishing a pistol leans out the window of the muscle car and fires toward the truck.

Listen, it wouldn't be the radical, swinging 60s if there wasn't a manifesto.
Blades '68.
Get in, buckle up, and lean forward.
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The cover of Citadel Miniatures boxed set showing a warrior with a warhammer smashing a skeleton warrior

Rear of Citadel Miniatures boxed set showing smaller images of all the minatures in it.

The inside of Citadel Miniatures boxed set showing the minatures.

Got a great gift yesterday, a friend who was clearing out an old box of stuff, gave me this!

They also appear in White Dwarf 43, July of '83 where pics of five unpainted miniatures include 'Uthmog Elvenblade' whose pose, armour and helmet bore a strong resemblance to the iconic Harry the Hammer.

An advert for the play-by-mail fantasy game Crasimoff's World, from White Dwarf issue #27. And an excuse for me to make a very weak joke.

#27 It's Crasimoff's World (we only live in it).

The drawing for this (and some other pieces are) up now at: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Also … a dragon with hair

Lukewarm at best

There’s too many takes in ttrpg

How will we know?

Full page from the new Brink story, The Call of the Void, showing Luna Habitat Moltke, a base on the moon, with a ruined Earth in the distance.

Brink is back in the prog!
Dan Abnett and @injculbard.bsky.social at the top of their games.
Let joy be unconfined.

YouTube video by Unconventional GMs Blades '68 : One Shot | The Alluvium Affair | Blades in The Dark | Actual Play

You can see our groovy actual play of Blades '68 over on Unconventional GMs!

It was an absolutely pleasure to chat with Gaz and Chris about Blades '68, you can listen below or in your podcast app of choice!

sign toilet one place one dream

Still working on it 😬

Dirk in a Sopranos Tee at Talking Sopranos at Manchester

Badda bing!

Pretty sure he’s done it already

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

That’s excellent news!

Featuring the brilliant Agents of Excalibur by @sam0vail.bsky.social

John Blanche I think

Aiming for Sunday. Hope all is well!

Goat headed beast man with castle in the background

Chaos in RPGs and beyond with @tomasrawlings.bsky.social - GROGNARD files podcast coming soon …

Allister Heath: Britain is being held hostage by a radical RPG nostalgia cult

Looks like Allister Heath is onto @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social!

The cover of the dungeon book, showing an old-school cutaway diagram of a dungeon, complete with a dragon.

Lo, 'tis THE DUNGEON BOOK cover!

The Jungle Book meets Dungeons and Dragons with a dash of Pan's Labyrinth in this gleefully fun standalone fantasy narrated by a sentient skull, in which a small girl is thrown to a dungeon full of monsters, who decide to raise her rather than eat her.

11th August!

Books

About to enter an evening of Folk Horror in the company of Liam Higginson and Andrew Michael Hurley hosted by Ebb&Flo books in Chorley

Chips and pea wet

Hey #OSR

Interested in watching good and bad fantasy (and adjacent) movies for yor (well 70 & 80's mainly) and sharing your thoughts will the collective?

Once a month a group of us watch the same movie (whenever you can fit it in) and then leave an audio message for @freethrall.bsky.social podcast

This looks amazing and with Marc’s artwork, guaranteed to be high quality

Yes - I was wondering about pacing and using the ‘shifts’ approach from Bladerunner RPG to allow the PCS to do actions and to track their sleep. There’s a lot of plates to spin.

Interesting- the number of NPCs? The plot lines? The undercover ops bit? The weirdness? Or all of it?

Notes being made for the Borellus connection

I’m preparing for Fall of Delta Green tomorrow. Dream sequences. Why does it always have to be dream sequences?