James Hoare

Secret Passages is BACK. Inside the mutagen-powered fourth issue, you’ll find #Warhammer40k’s first foray into live-action, the origin of #SLAIndustries, #DND’s first campaign setting, Britain’s 1980s paperback RPG boom, a reappraisal of #Gorkamorka, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

Right gamers, the nights are creeping in and it's time to cuddle up with a warm podcast that loves you and RPGs equally. Back the Ludonarrative Dissidents season 4 Kickstarter and we'll deliver shiny new episodes and livestreams to you in time for Christmas! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

Behind the scenes on the Huargo interview with a side-swipe at the publisher of Terrorizer for the OGs www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

Today’s behind the scenes: Gorkamorka www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

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I just backed Secret Passages #4: A Retro TTRPG and Warhammer Zine on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

My illustration for Julian Callan's article about Irish company Prince August and their Lord of the Rings / Mithril miniatures. You can find it in the upcoming fourth issue of Secret Passages magazine. Crowdfunding now, here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

I once worked for someone who claimed I wasn’t allowed to “undertake any financial transactions outside of work”… what like buy groceries? Pay rent?

I’ve been putting this off because so many of my early games were homebrewed protean affairs and it’s hard to get the chronology right in my head, but I *think* it is: 1. Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2. Star Wars 3. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4. Conspiracy X 5. Vampire: The Masquerade

Ready for the worst? Here's you handy checklist... Bottled water - 9L Tinned food - 3 days worth Hand sanitisers and wet wipes First aid kit Essential medicines Torch Blankets FM radio Batteries Cash Printed IDs Large pile of Wyrd Science back issues and an up to date subscription

The first three issues of Dragon Warriors' Fanzine "Casket of Fays" are now available in print over on @drivethrurpg.com . Also later issues too. More to come in time. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher... #dragonwarriors #bosr

The Game Design Masterclass, my high-energy three-hour crash course in making games, is coming to Eclectic Games in Reading on Saturday 7th November for a special session, part of the #BeingHuman festival. The event is all day, I'll be there in the afternoon www.eclecticgames.co.uk/s/being-huma...

I made a little show as an extra for BBC Radio 4 Extra (pretty much in my own time): it’s being repeated to mark 20 years since the death of Nigel Kneale. This sort of bonus (dare I say it Reithian?) content will not be possible once the station goes in March. Enjoy: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ten days into the Ludonarrative Dissidents s4 Kickstarter and $525 short of our second stretch goal, to open up 3 more episodes and 3 more streams. Loads of rewards still available, though the $750 level for an episode on a game you choose is sadly sold out www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...

The Women’s Rights Network are now attacking the mental health charity Mind for supporting trans people with their mental health during a time of unprecedented attacks on their rights. These are the “legitimate concerns” “worthy of respect in a democratic society” the Labour Party has normalised.

I just backed Secret Passages #4: A Retro TTRPG and Warhammer Zine on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdh...

Visited a familiar courtyard in Nottingham city centre. In 1987 Richard Ellard took a staff photo of the Games Workshop Design Studio team who were based at Enfield Chambers. It’s changed a bit, but not entirely!

Every issue of Secret Passages has been an absolute treat so far and this next one does not look any different!

You should back this. I've got an article in it. Those two sentences may or may not be connected.

I got the first three issues of this recently and they're all excellent. Big recommend from me

I did the Teenage Mutant Warhammer Turtles cover art for upcoming Secret Passages magazine... and it is only get better inside. Support it.

If there’s anything you can do to spread the word, please let me know! This one feels a bit make or break for Secret Passages.

Trying to lock in the Kickstarter rewards and I’m genuinely unsure what I should do? Stick with prints and stickers? Do more t-shirts?

We have tote bags! They’re sustainable! ko-fi.com/s/ed94a89a2c #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #oldhammer #oldhammercommunity

This is gutting news. Osprey made some of my favourite games of the last decade - Brian Boru, Crescent Moon, Undaunted: Stalingrad - and looked like they had plenty of momentum, too. I’ll miss them, as will the pages of @senetmagazine.bsky.social.

In the docky-wock.

The speed with which this has gone from “pffft goes without saying” to “oh, shit, we need to say it” is dizzying and depressing.

Thanks AI, now I have to add a "No AI" clause to all our freelancer contracts. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!

Look what turned up today - Clean clothes! thanks @jdhoare.bsky.social Get your own 'does my geek look big in this?' and more! ko-fi.com/secretpassages

Correct, nobody does this because that would obviously be fucking stupid

🔔 textures, get your textures 🔔

I hope they give an appropriate amount of coverage to debunking the gaggle of fantasists and grifters that have her brain worms.

Had a big old think about it and have come to the conclusion that we should have more followers on here, like 20,000 more perhaps, something like that would be a good start anyway

I’m the MR James of this particular ghost story

IT'S LIVE! The Goodman Games 25th Anniversary crowdfunding is now live! Be sure to get in on the first 48-hour Earlybird Bonus to get your signed autograph plate! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g... #goodmangames #ttrpg #dccrpg #backerkit #25thanniversary