Mollie Russell

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

The Secretive Company Filling Video Game Sites With Gambling And AI After being sold to Clickout Media, sites like GamesHub, The Escapist, Videogamer, and others have added gambling and casino stories and AI content

Grateful to @aftermath.site for giving me the time of day amid the Ongoing Unpleasantness.

Read the article. It's important.

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We ask top designers how to make board games about the worst parts of human history Board game designers Cole Wehrle and Amabel Holland talk about designing distressing historical games - and whether to make them at all.

A long read from me today, about the delicate task of designing respectful historical board games. Massive thanks to @amabel.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social for talking to me about their design approaches. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

Wanted to get a list out of my #Zinetopia picks but that's gonna be hard. So here's a thread of my faves you need to check out before their campaigns end!

The Book of Plagues: Infecting D&D 5E and Pathfinder A short rules supplement offering guidance on how to use communicable diseases in your campaign. Includes entries on 30+ IRL-inspired afflictions to give your PCs more challenges to avoid or overcome.

The Book of Plagues! I've never been fully satisfied with how D&D handles disease, so I'm curious to see if this could improve on that system: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

On Call In On Call, you play as a werewolf who can’t shift during the full moon cycle (night before, during and after the full moon). Instead you and your colleagues are on call - dealing with any issues that...

On Call is a werewolf helpline TTRPG where you help fellow werewolves through the difficult full moon period. It's a whimsical concept that I think has the legs to tackle some really heartwarming narratives: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

Barbabianca - Rumour and silence in a town that is no more A GMless game for 3-4 players set in the deep Italian countryside at the turn of the 20th century. Think Pavese, Calvino, Buzzati. Or imagine the secrets buried beneath the stones of any village where...

It's the last leg of Zine Month! There were many games I wanted to write articles on but didn't find space for, so here's some last hurrah posts.

Firstly, Barbabianca. I am a sucker for any game that makes me burn paper with candles, and this one is profound. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

I don't have the spoons to contribute anything meaningful to Journalism Discourse today. But just to put it out there, Wargamer policy is not to sell review copies that we receive.

Four paper magazines, from left to right: Senet, Fourteen Poems, Under the Radar, Debug

Subscribed to a bunch of print magazines at the start of the year so I can expand my reading.

The copy of Senet that just came through my door is, so far, winning the most stylish award.

Minnesota board game publisher raises thousands of dollars in aid with 'Fork Ice' sale So far, Atlas Games' discounted board games have raised $4,500 to support non-violent resistance of ICE's "terror campaign" in Minnesota.

All month, @atlasgames.bsky.social is raising money for various charities in Minnesota, to help those affected by ICE's presence. John Nephew was kind enough to talk with me about the money raised, where it's going, and why it's so important: www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

This quirky Google Maps tabletop RPG turns your hometown into an urban fantasy setting Fantasy in My Backyard is an indie TTRPG tool that turns real-life maps and randomly-drawn cards into detailed urban fantasy settings.

Monday means more zines! I'm very keen to pick this one up and turn all of Britain's most boring cities into rich fantasy settings. www.wargamer.com/fantasy-in-m...

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I have so many questions about @residentbard.bsky.social 's game. Why an Axolotl? What are the wider narrative implications when your only tool against the robot uprising is violence? Can my axolotl juggle?

So many questions, and I'm willing to pay $10 to find out. www.wargamer.com

A tabletop miniature of a fantasy frog person, seen from behind with its bottom sticking out.

"What are you looking for in a Zine Month project, Mollie?"

FROG. BUM. www.wargamer.com/the-muck-kic...

A tabletop miniature of a fantasy frog, seem from behind with its bottom sticking out.

"What are you looking for in a Zine Month project, Mollie?"

FROG. BUM.

www.wargamer.com/the-muck-kic...

Love seeing Mollie carry a torch for smaller crowdfunding projects during Feb's zine initiatives!

It can be thankless work and poison for news placement algos.

Meet the indie tabletop RPG that fights fascism with f*cking All's Fair is a card-based TTRPG about love, regime, and resistance - all of which you'll explore by screwing each other's brains out.

Another zine (two, in fact) worth looking at: the next pieces published by @moreblueberries.bsky.social look at big concepts: consequences, oppression, and sex! www.wargamer.com/alls-fair/tt...

This new indie tabletop RPG is basically Overcooked with extra demons Food and Evil is a silly, setting-agnostic food truck TTRPG that mixes card-based cooking mechanics with mischief and many, many puns.

Happy Zine Quest month! Hoping to highlight more than a few neat projects over on Wargamer this Feb. First up, the deliciously pun-filled Food and Evil by @goosepoopgames.com www.wargamer.com/food-and-evi...

‘At night, we open
the cellar’s hatch,
to let the shifts of spirits pass.’ 👻

M.S. Evans’s ‘Copper Hill’ from ‘Nights on the Line’, cover art by Kit Boyd. @kitboyd.bsky.social

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A more serious answer:

1. Caravan cleaner
2. Academic mentor
3. Poet
4. Accounting textbook writer
5. Tabletop journalist

5 jobs I've had:

1. Puppet
2. Pauper
3. Piper
4. Poet
5. Pawn*

*And a King

Downsizing – Lisa Kelly Downsizing . . Lisa Kelly’s second collection, The House of the Interpreter (Carcanet), was a PBS Summer 2023 Recommendation. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry for Best Sin…

Downsizing – Lisa Kelly @lisadmkelly.bsky.social

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I'm a woman who's never played Warhammer 40k, and female Custodes make me want to start If you think that adding tiny plastic women to a wargame like Warhammer 40k doesn't make a difference, I assure you, it really, really does.

Got real personal and summed up my feelings about Warhammer's new Custodes models. And then went on a tangent about King Arthur. www.wargamer.com/warhammer-40...

Good luck Ross! Wishing you the best in this next step forward

There's a lot of great writing in this article, but there's one thing I'm especially grateful that it touches upon: why it can be so hard for a woman to walk into a tabletop space in the first place, even if all the men seem nice.

‘Let's Dive In’, one of two poems by @ruralunease.bsky.social, from our December / January issue – now on sale for only £6.95.

For more poetry like this, order the latest issue here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

Moon Colony Bloodbath is an excellent board game about killer robots, and also the evils of capitalism Tim Curry may have fled to space to escape capitalism, but in this biting deck-building board game, capitalism isn't far behind…

First day back at my desk, and I got some good gaming sessions in over Christmas. 2025's Moon Colony Bloodbath gave me a lot to think about. www.wargamer.com/moon-colony-...

My fiance: I reckon that'll be enough boxes for all our belongings

Me: I have already filled every single one with board games

Me: I love physical media! I love having a collection of books, board games, and DVDs that bring me joy!

Me, about to move house: 😭

A Facebook message that says: Happy New Year! Death to Strahd!

D&D party are going into the New Year with a positive mindset

Going into 2026, I'm going to make a lot more effort to share writing that made me smile. Starting with: