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Those covers were worth the asking price on their own.

A new post...

...on Rick Priestley's unpublished dwarfs supplement for #Warhammmer.

#Oldhammer

If you have an interest in #Warhammer and aren't already listening, The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast is well worth your time.

Congratulations. I've greatly enjoyed listening to your podcast. I hope there are many more episodes to come.

And that some of them involve Beasts in Velvet.... ;)

In 2025 Chaosium turns 50, making us the oldest ongoing roleplaying publisher in the industry. We're delighted to have a special display cabinet at #Gen_Con, celebrating the games that have captivated gamers, readers and mythic adventurers worldwide for the past half-century.

Welcome back.

THE SIGN OF CHAOS MISCELLANEOUS. The history of the Chaos rune.

A post from the archive...

...on the origins of the Chaos symbol in #Warhammer.

#WFRP #WH40K

The first Games Workshop logo. A dour-faced cartoon dog-man looks out of a black circle at the viewer. Letters above his head read GAMES WORKSHOP PRESENTS

A business card for Games Workshop partner Ian Livingstone from the early 1980s.

A Games Workshop logo from the early 1980s: a stippled six-sided die bulges out of a circle towards the viewer, showing sides 4 and 6. Text below reads GAMES WORKSHOP

A Games Workshop logo from the early 1980s. In a light-grey five-pointed star are the words GAMES WORKSHOP

Games Workshop's new logo. Yes, you hate it, because you have no idea about GW's logos for the first ten years of its existence. Which looked like this:

Blimey, BBC Four, what have we done to deserve this? Next Wednesday 30 July, the late evening schedule is devoted to THREADS and THE WAR GAME, two of the most horrifying and bleakly depressing films ever made. There will be documentaries, too. Get the snacks in!

Thanks!

TOPOS: DEMON SWORDS MISCELLANEOUS. A long tradition of black swords.

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Monster Man: Special Episode: Intelligent weapons Patreon backer David brings you this special episode all about what happens when the real monster ... is man. No, wait! Swords. The real monster is swords.   If you're enjoying the show, why not...

Last year I wrote a post on the literary origins of demon swords. Today, I discovered that @gonzohistory.bsky.social mostly beat me to it on the Monster Man podcast a few years earlier. I needn't have bothered! :)

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A laptop on a messy desk featuring RuneQuest Cults of Terror

Ten years ago, I started to record a podcast …

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Now Is The Time of Monsters After 40 years of Old World mud & blood, Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play‘s heading off in search of new, if equally horrible, climes. John Power Jr speaks to the game’s producer Dave Allen to see what hor...

“The Old World is dying, the new is full of bloody dinosaurs with clubs” to paraphrase Antonio Gramsci

Join us as we explore the jungles of Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play’s Lustria with @cubicle7games.bsky.social’s Dave Allen

Free to read, you don’t even need to sub, though that would be nice

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Don't Call It A Comeback... Yes, we are finally back with a new newsletter AND a brand new website... What a Sunday this is turning out to be.

Ok, because there is no better time to relaunch your newsletter, and launch your entire (half built) brand new website, than a Sunday afternoon when you are on a family holiday that’s exactly what we’ve done…

Gazetteer subscribers please check your inboxes/junk mail or like everyone else read here

THE ENEMY WITHIN: A COMPANION ADVENTURES. More than a decade of fixing The Enemy Within.

I'm not entirely sure whether this counts as a new post or an old one, but I've written something revisiting my unofficial companion to the Enemy Within campaign. #WFRP

There are earlier mentions, not least in WFB2 itself.

My Warhammer history project will be returning in a greatly revised and expanded form. I'm hard at work at it.

Bored White Dwarf editors?

Soviet spies?

An esoteric PBM game?

Or to give it its full name: Whizzer and Chips and Knockout and Krazy and Whoopee! and Cheeky and Shiver and Shake and Wow!

Poster by Eric Fraser for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings, alongside a preparatory colour piece by EF for the commission.

INTERVIEW WITH PAUL VERNON, PART ONE INTERVIEWS. One of White Dwarf’s early writers talks about ‘The Town Planner’, Starstone, Fatemaster and more.

Following on from my blog post last week, here is a link to my full interview with Paul Vernon from a couple of years back. It took years to get the interview and I think it contains some fascinating background to events in UK roleplaying in the 1980s.

Thanks again to Paul for giving up his time.

There is a new Lost Warhammer post today... but it's not by me! @graemedavis.bsky.social has written a post on his blog about two #Warhammer Fantasy Battle supplements he proposed, but which were not taken forward: Regiments of Renown and Heroes for Hire.

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Yes, I find audio and video frustrating media.

I think about it a lot, especially in respect of the blogs and suchlike that I quote.

I was amused to read someone suggest that modern gaming history would be better preserved than in the past, because of wikis and other online content. My experience is online material is the most ephemeral.

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So you'll have to go somewhere else to find baldness cures and great opportunities to work from home.... :)

I've reconstructed the dates and events around this in detail. I'll dig them out of my notes when I get a chance, and see if I can shed light on your question.

LOST WARHAMMER: STARSTONE HISTORY. Starstone and the mystery of the very first WFRP campaign.

A new post on Awesome Lies...

...telling how the very first #WFRP campaign came never to be published.

Just posted: That Time I Tried to Make Ogres Playable in WFRP 1st Edition. Includea a new skill for Ogres in WFRP 1, 2, 3, and 4.
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