Dave Morris

Say it with style, sass, panache. @davemorris.bsky.social is talking about dialogue realdavemorris.substack.com/p/yakety-yak...? #writingtips #writingcommunity #writingq #skywriters

Travel in open-world #gamebooks. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-r...

#Bloodsword is coming... fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/09/bloo...

Old guy uses spoon to cut steak, concludes that spoons are useless. substack.com/home/post/p-...

"Britain will need brilliant engineers, electricians and cybersecurity experts more than ever before." Burnham surely means electrical engineers, not electricians, but we're in the District 9 future now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Want a free few million quid at the expense of rich twits? Just pitch a cold fusion project. It's the apple cider vinegar of tech startups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vifp...

I fixed that headline for the Pope: "5 ways AI could warp humanity *more than it already is*" www.axios.com/2026/05/25/p...

Direction of movement in comics/movies -- like most things on the internet, not as cut-&-dried as you've been led to believe. (TL;DR the viewer may come with prior assumptions, but those are quickly reset by the director's chosen image system.) mirabilis-yearofwonders.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-li...

In my headcanon version of The Boroughs, "Sam Cooper" is a pseudonym and we're actually watching how Otto Octavius spends his retirement years.

Maybe the solution is to change the exams, then, if they're that easy to beat. "How do we dragon-proof our fortress?" "Well, we could ban dragons..."

Oliver Johnson and I worked on Questworld (a non-Glorantha #RuneQuest book) for Games Workshop at the start of the '80s. Here's one scenario and some of the world background, converted to #DragonWarriors #TTRPG, and less than half a century late. amzn.to/4nKJ8wR

All the ways into the underworld in Fabled Lands. Unless I missed one. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/05/pit-...

Heads up! The Ludonarrative Dissidents monthly livestream is in a few hours (22:00 UK, 5pm Eastern, 4pm Central), where we'll be discussing all manner of RPG malarky, and we'd be delighted if you can join us. It's on Twitch, so only a click away. www.twitch.tv/rosspaytonrppr

A complete #TTRPG conceived, written and illustrated by Codex #AI -- and even the bits it misjudges are misjudged in interesting ways. (The brainwave was Ethan Mollick's.) drive.google.com/file/d/10QKn...

In fifty years, will anybody remember that the term "trumped-up charges" long predated POTUS's spurious lawsuits against all the people he dislikes?

The most interesting characters in fiction aren't the ones with the combat skills. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/punc...

Come, friendly bombs... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder if @anthropic.com's Claude Mythos could suggest ways to defend human minds from the kind of exploit being used here. www.economist.com/culture/2026...

Before #AI art, most indie creators of #gamebooks & #ttrpgs had to use public domain illustrations or else their own drawings. Tiny, self-funded projects don't have the money to hire any of these pro artists who are supposedly being put out of work by AI. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2024/07/here...

"Horse riding must be great for creative work," people say. "Like staring through a train window." Not if you’re riding a prey animal who hears every rustle. Here I’m reflecting on Planet Val, the physics of bell towers, and the mindsets for writing memoir and fiction. mailchi.mp/0d2fab1da872...

This post is good for both memoir and fiction: how to understand your main character. @JessicaHandler at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/m... #writingcommunity #writingtips #authorlife #memoir

For investigators who don't want to use the #DragonWarriors rules, I've included #CallofCthulhu stats for this Depression-era #Cthulhu adventure. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/abno...

A traveller's guide to the #Vulcanverse, one companion at a time. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/fell...

What Gene Colan had that other comics artists lacked: they’d dress a scene wonderfully, like a movie set, but Colan clothed it in reality. mirabilis-yearofwonders.blogspot.com/2011/06/fare...

My first title is now live on DriveThruRPG! Last Dance in Shoreditch is a modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario set in London, where a missing friend, the city’s nightlife, and something far worse collide after dark. Very excited to finally put this out there. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) synchronize thousands of abdomens in a wave to repel hornets from their nest

I forgot to include the link to the German review! Here it is maricopa1.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/m...

Humans are going to enjoy the jobs they can hold onto in the era of AI. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Scholar -- a new profession for the #Cthulhu variant of #DragonWarriors #TTRPG. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/thin...

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NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

Victor Frankenstein crée la vie – avec votre aide. #ldvelh (Mais... le héros? Peut-être pas.) dogsandmunsters.github.io/Moi-Frankens...

Recently came across the very first planning map I drew 34 years ago for the Virtual Reality #gamebook series (now Critical IF). Nothing's forgotten. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/x-ma...

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

New Jewelspider post on faerie servants. This one is free to view, as long as you ask the fays properly. www.patreon.com/posts/fairy-...

Cold City Hot War backers check your email - there's a new campaign update live AND you should have a coupon for the Cold City Hot War Digital Pack, containing The Bunker Game and a load of new Starting Situations. We'll be adding more to this Digital Pack as we go! #coldcity

#Gamebook readers prefer physical books to ebooks by a ration of around 9:1. So we wondered why that is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pKA...

Oh, Moby. Disappointed in you, lad. That's just Kink-shaming. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Textual analysis suggests Dickens may have written Barnaby Rudge with the help of the Analytic Engine.

Here's the flowchart for Down Among The Dead Men. Not the original (it was 35 years ago, I hand-wrote it on A3 sheets of paper) but a reconstruction whipped up by Claude Code so that we humans could focus on the fun task of converting the book into an app. #gamebook stormweavers.com/shop/

I feel like a lemming that's just caught sight of the cliff edge.

1930. Prohibition. The Great Depression. And in a small town, a tragedy small in scale but devastating to those involved... #Cthulhu #TTRPG fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/abno...

Down Among The Dead Men -- now available as an app. I love the sound effects! #pirate #gamebook stormweavers.com/shop/

A quirk of relativity is the closest thing to achieving immortality Even relativity, with all the power of time dilation, won't increase the span of your lived life. But it can take you far into the future, and even to the ends of the Universe. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #physics #astro

This is hilarious, and reminds me of the Victoria Wood scene where her friend is borrowing a book from the library for her mother, which has to have “no alcohol, no sex and no reference to men whatsoever.” “What did you get?” “The Wincey Willis Book of Wholemeal Pasta.”