Will Doyle

Congratulations to Jessie Buckley on her Golden Globe win last night for her role in Hamnet! Jessie slayed as Kate in The Devil in Me in 2022, and has been killing it ever since! We're sure a restful hotel stay will be well needed after that win 😜
#JessieBuckley #GoldenGlobes #TheDevilinMe

Draw Steel: Crack the Sun "We watched Cthrion Uroniziir try to reduce the timescape into one singular universe, wiping out reality as we know it. She was defeated, and we see her cage every day."

18 hours left to Draw Steel and Crack the Sun! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

High point of my holidays so far has been playing through Split Fiction with my daughter. The variety is off the charts, just a perfect love letter to gaming.

Anyhow, I’m off to watch the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas. Always a treat. Night night!

Best horror movie was Weapons, without a doubt.

Best RPG I picked up was Through the Hedgerow. Delightful to read, can’t wait to play.

I read loads of books this year but the one I enjoyed most was King Sorrow by Joe Hill. Absolutely bonkers and just so much fun.

Best game that came out this year for me was probably Expedition 33, but the one I played and enjoyed by far the most was older: Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries (full DLC campaign). Literally hundreds of hours spent blowing up heavy metal.

Merry Christmas all! It’s been an interesting year for me - worked really hard on Directive 8020 for Supermassive (due out next year), jumped back in the saddle on a bunch of D&D projects (most also coming next year), read a load of books, played some great games. Here’s a quick roundup.

Through the Hedgerow by Jonathan Rowe was a delight. The short story excerpts running through the book are wonderful.

The game is in good hands! Fantastic news and so well deserved. Congratulations!

Draw Steel: Crack the Sun "We watched Cthrion Uroniziir try to reduce the timescape into one singular universe, wiping out reality as we know it. She was defeated, and we see her cage every day."

I love 4E - it's the edition I cut my teeth on as a writer for D&D. So no surprise, I also love DRAW STEEL, which feels like a spiritual successor to 4E, except with an adamantine skeleton hammered out in a heavy metal forge. So I'm VERY happy to be a part of this: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

My long-running work Tomb of Annihilation campaign finally suffered its first character death tonight. Belchorzh the Unseen claims another victim.

I am Dragonmeeting this afternoon!

A day of ghoulish fun with the Arkham Horror card game followed by orchestral horror movie soundtracks performed by candlelight…

After few weeks of blitzing short things - novellas, short games, comics - I am now diving into this monster. It’s so big I feel faintly ridiculous getting it out of my bag on the bus.

St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall

Alone, together.
#Directive8020

I love the brevity of description in the new D&D starter set. Locations and NPCs are pared down to the bare minimum, without turning things into an ugly list of bullet points. I think we could all learn a lesson from this!

We’re down to the last day! Get your pledges in now, me hearties!

I'm going to be trying out the Draw Steel RPG next month with my old 4E group. They never really clicked with 5E, so I'm hoping this game will be more up their street.

First contact at Gamescom: unsettling...unforgettable.
#Directive8020

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Three titles that I contributed to are available in this Humble RPG Bundle: Durnan's Guild to Tavernkeeping, Lost City of Mezro, and Xanathar's Lost Notes to Everything Else!
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5. The writing team is a heavyweight lineup of RPG champions: you’ll be in the trusted hands of Andy Collins, Erin Roberts, and James Haeck, with me waving them on from the ship’s helm and Shawn Merwin and Joe Raso manning the deck guns. It’s going to be EPIC.

4. It’s classic “High Adventure”. You’ll cross cutlasses on the decks of sinking ships, explore ruined tombs, get sucked down whirlpools, battle more than one moustache-twirling villain, hunt enormous sea monsters, pose as undead, plan an infernal prison break, and even steal a moon from the sky.

This system of exploration is something I’ve been plotting for a long time, and I’m really happy with where we’ve got to with it! It’s essentially mixing very light board game elements into your RPG campaign, while keeping your own stories at its heart.

3. We’re doing some funky things with exploration. At the heart of the campaign is this nonlinear point crawl where you’ll use 'Clue Cards' to guide your journey across a sea map. Your story develops around these cards, at your own pace, and your actions change the makeup of the world in fun ways.

2: It uses the Aetherial Expanse as a "hub" setting. This realm hooked me from the off: an astral sea where rival colonial powers clash over an arcane power source, aetherium. It’s Master and Commander meets Spelljammer meets Arcane meets Pirates of the Caribbean. I love it.

1. It’s a love letter to one of my favourite campaigns of yesteryear, Stormbringer’s ‘Rogue Mistress’ - a madcap heavy metal romp across a bunch of unorthodox worlds, on a magic galleon armed with laser guns. Our campaign has the same drive for big ideas and inventive settings.

Aetherial Expanse: Dreams of the Drowned God Embark on a plane-spanning 5E 2024 adventure full of mystery, war, and cosmic catastrophe.

Ten days left on this kickstarter and we're smashing through those juicy stretch goals! If you’re still on the fence about joining us, let me hit you with some reasons why I think it’s going to great...(cont)

Kickstarter:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Trailer:
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