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Dave Morris

@davemorris.bsky.social

Writer, game designer, omnicurious.

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That pretty much summarizes the whole of social media discussion. I had a guy block me because I agreed with him on the pointlessness of colonizing Mars.

01.12.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dave Morris i PaweΕ‚ Dziemski rozmawiajΔ… o roku 2050 i ich nowej ksiΔ…ΕΌce Szepty Spoza Gwiazd
YouTube video by PaweΕ‚ Dziemski Dave Morris i PaweΕ‚ Dziemski rozmawiajΔ… o roku 2050 i ich nowej ksiΔ…ΕΌce Szepty Spoza Gwiazd

And we did it all over again in Polish: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vvx...

01.12.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dave Morris and Pawel Dziemski talk about 2050 and their new book Whispers Beyond The Stars
YouTube video by PaweΕ‚ Dziemski Dave Morris and Pawel Dziemski talk about 2050 and their new book Whispers Beyond The Stars

Here's me and Pawel talking about our new #gamebook Whispers Beyond The Stars in the #Cthulhu2050 series.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4nT...

01.12.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stolen breaths | Dave Morris Get more from Dave Morris on Patreon

A new #DragonWarriors #ttrpg adventure. Plague, fog on the moors, ghosts, pale horses, cunning folk, eerie sleepwalkers, standing stones, folk horror, deals with the Devil -- yep, that's a Legend scenario all right.

www.patreon.com/posts/stolen...

01.12.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whenever I see this kind of thing I think of old men shouting at clouds.

29.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No, this ruling isn’t β€˜secular indoctrination’ β€” it’s human rights | Andrew Copson The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Religious Education and collective worship in Northern Ireland has understandably ruffled feathers among those accustomed to the privileges of Christianity in pu...

No, this ruling isn’t β€˜secular indoctrination’ β€” it’s human rights | Andrew Copson via @humanists.uk humanists.uk/2025/11/27/n... #HumanRights #religion

27.11.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cthulhu 2050: Whispers Beyond The Stars by OtherWorlds - Gamefound A next generation gamebook where Cyberpunk meets Cosmic Horror. Created by Dave Morris and Pawel Dziemski.

It's the year 2050 and, as if things weren't bad enough already, here's #Cthulhu...
#gamebooks
gamefound.com/en/projects/...

29.11.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blue men of the Minch - Wikipedia

I wonder if the editor of the Wiki page ever played DW...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_me...

29.11.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hungry ghosts and dream-eaters Tetsubo was originally intended to be the β€œfantasy medieval Japan” supplement for Warhammer , but there were personnel changes at Games Work...

Baku and gaki (various kinds) from #Tetsubo (Japan-flavoured #Warhammer) statted up for #DragonWarriors.

fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/11/hung...

29.11.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Mummers' games As later Dragon Warriors books were released and we began to introduce creatures that were less familiar from folklore and fantasy fiction,...

β€˜Oh, they’re terrible bad sorts. Devils, some say, or bad fairies...’

Presenting #ttrpg creatures in story form.
#DragonWarriors #RPG
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/11/mumm...

23.11.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If your elected leader wants to behave like a monarch, show them Magna Carta:

"To no one will we sell, deny, or delay right or justice.”

12.11.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blood Sword - the prequel This may make sense only to our British readers, but Guy Fawkes Night was originally instituted as a day of thanksgiving (with bonfires & s...

A prequel to the #BloodSword #gamebooks by lots of talented folks (not me, guv).

fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/11/bloo...

05.11.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And Then There's Place-Name Studies by John Whitbourn author of the Binscombe Tales series β€˜Ifβ€”strange fancyβ€”he were able to tear himself from his turf prison, rise up from ...

"And Then There's Place-Name Studies"
-- a new creepy story for Bonfire Night by Binscombe Tales author John Whitbourn.
#folkhorror
wrong-magazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/and-...

05.11.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A poster which says "I'm speaking at ThinkyCon 2025 on 6th November. Dom Camus, 'A Journey Into Space'. Watch at thinkygames.com/thinkycon. Discuss on our Discord".

A poster which says "I'm speaking at ThinkyCon 2025 on 6th November. Dom Camus, 'A Journey Into Space'. Watch at thinkygames.com/thinkycon. Discuss on our Discord".

The nice people at ThinkyCon made me a poster! Also, don't forget ThinkyCon starts on Wednesday 5th - I'm on day two.

03.11.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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QuestWorlds-on-a-Page - Blue Shaboo Press | DriveThruRPG QuestWorlds-on-a-Page is my attempt to make visual sense of the rules for Chaosium's genre-agnostic narrative roleplaying system, QuestWorlds. It is intended toΒ help make use of the QuestWorlds core r...

I have just released QuestWorlds-on-a-page, my attempt to make visual sense of the rules for QuestWorlds, the genre-agnostic narrative RPG from @chaosium.bsky.social.

It's Pay-What-You-Want i.e. it is free, unless you want to give me some money to spend on more RPG stuff :-).

tiny.cc/qwoap

03.11.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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There is only 24 hours left to back the Pendragon Classic Kickstarter!

Don't miss out!

Back today to get your copy of Greg Stafford's masterpiece, 40 years on: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

03.11.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Whispers Beyond The Stars - Official Teaser
YouTube video by Other Worlds Whispers Beyond The Stars - Official Teaser

Fear is the thing with tentacles. #Cthulhu2050

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFa...

03.11.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A reminder that it's safer not to attempt humour on social media...

01.11.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Honour the dead To get us into the Samhain mood, here's another of my occasional reposts from my Jewelspider page on Patreon. You're welcome to join us over...

Some #roleplaying ideas as the nights draw in.

fabledlands.blogspot.com/2023/10/hono...

01.11.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants." - Alexander Hamilton

01.11.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Samhain delicacy The darker half of the year begins here, and to mark it try "The Gourmet" by Kazuo Ishiguro. And in a few days' time, on November 5th, there...

"The Gourmet": an early weird tale from Kazuo Ishiguro, and as a bonus it stars the irreplaceable Charles Gray.

wrong-magazine.blogspot.com/2025/10/samh...

01.11.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Love of gold fits neatly within the logic of all dictators. For men who fear being forgotten, it promises permanence; for those with fragile egos, it signals power; and for those who dream of being kings, it gleams like a divine right."

I know who fits all three...

archive.ph/a7gyj

01.11.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New on History for Atheists: my long awaited and rather long critical review of Alice Roberts' new book *Domination*:
historyforatheists.com/2025/10/revi...

30.10.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 6
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Ten books to look out for in October Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye

Some book recs from @mathewlyons.bsky.social . I actually want all of these.
mathewlyons.substack.com/p/ten-books-...

31.10.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Page from White Dwarf magazine in 1983

Page from White Dwarf magazine in 1983

For #Halloween I summoned up "Dealing With Demons".
amzn.to/438NQvf

31.10.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The darkening land A poem today to summon the spirit of Halloween. This is by Thomas Hardy : Tree-leaves labour up and down, And through them the fainting lig...

I was one of the first kids in the UK to do trick or treat. In the mid-sixties, that was. Of course, it doesn't work so well if none of the neighbourhood families have ever heard of it.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

31.10.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here's what to know.

Five things we know about dark matter.

Any MOND advocates care to comment?

bigthink.com/starts-with-...

24.10.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some of Georges Simenon's best novels are his romans AmΓ©ricains, a baker's dozen surgical dissections of the American way of life in the 1950s -- most of them out of print, two of them never translated into English.

neglectedbooks.com/?...

24.10.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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πŸŽƒ This time next week it will be #Halloween!

πŸ§›πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Find out where witches, monsters, ghosts and ghouls go to look their worst for their big night in #MonsterMakeovers, a new picture book by me, Rae Minos & Boxer Books.

More info at jonathanemmett.com/monster-makeovers

#KidLitUK #HalloweenPictureBooks

24.10.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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