Gareth Hanrahan

Gar's novels - a thread. First, we've got the Black Iron Legacy series, starting with THE GUTTER PRAYER. Three thieves - runaway Carillon Thay, slowly petrifying Spar, and corpse-eating ghoul-monster Rat - get embroiled in a web of intrigue and sorcery. Crazed gods, alchemy-punk, high weirdness.

For the majestic #walterkoenig

This is why I say I am a descriptor not a predictor. Didn’t see this coming. And right how as a descriptor I do not have enough caffeine to process. Live at the time of my posting.

One advantage of writing an adventure that retraces the history of the gaming hobby is that I get to be *extremely* petty about very obscure things that have annoyed me for thirty-something years.

Saw a great quote from a Brazilian (ironically on a site which tried to steer the election for the fascists). “The streets have no algorithm!”

I see the excellent Once Was Willem by MR Carey won the World Fantasy Award I strongly recomend it www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/3/...

Bolsanaro

Also, YouTube somehow detected that after 5 years I FINALLY had the gloriously stupid and amazing Sardaukar "Hamburger Cheeseburger" chant out of my head and decided to correct that. This video could go on for another 5 minutes and I'd be perfectly happy with that youtu.be/MPd3_nUnKK8?...

read all your "jokes" about the clocks changing, that's an hour of my life I will get back

Just finished The Dungeon Book by @mytholder.bsky.social. Loved it, strongly recommended. I especially enjoyed the deep-cut D&D and Jack Vance references!

First five rpgs. 1. MERP 2. Red Box D&D 3. Fighting Fantasy 4. Probably some home-brew Aliens thing 5. Probably WHFRP (Order of the last two very hazy). Then at Warpcon IV - Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia.

Hearing about Hollows for the first time? Not sure what the vibe is? Don't want cool teens to laugh at you and blow bubblegum vape in your face about it? Let the WRETCH lay it out for you

Lincoln in the Bardo II: Manifesting Destiny.

Well, given #ttrpg players are all feckless ingrates who just turn up and spend three hours doing little dances they expect to be rewarded with marshmallow fairy cakes, while the GM does all the *actual* work, I'm surprised more GM guides aren't like 400 pages long and spattered with dried blood.

This is brilliant

Every gothic horror:

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

The Yellow King RPG Bundle is live on Bundle of Holding! Get the complete four-volume Yellow King RPG, music, fiction, handouts, and more Carcosan strangeness in one bundle. bit.ly/4zCBt8g #YellowKingRPG #GUMSHOE #TTRPG

Oh, the days of buying a new Bioware game and blitzing through it in a sleepless weekend. I vividly remember the first fight with Saren. Baldur's Gate. Fuck's sake.

Happy to see THE DUNGEON BOOK sneak on Waterstone's Best Fantasy of the Year list.... www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

I have terrible insomnia, but on the plus side, only 5 more sleeps ‘til Christmas

Oh my DAYS

Lads… #speirgorm

if you remember none pizza with left beef, it's time to start taking a daily multivitamin

🚨Hollows Game Jam is LIVE🚨 Remake your favourite monster, for Hollows. We accept everything from: 🔧3 kobolds in a trenchcoat 🔧ancient red dragons 🔧your own personal sleep paralysis demon (we love that guy) buff.ly/E3IFbio

@kevinkulp.bsky.social recommended “The Dungeon Book” by @mytholder.bsky.social so I picked it up and can report that Kevin did steer me wrong. An utter delight from start to finish. Clever, tongue-in-cheek and heartfelt. Goes in directions I did not expect and loved it for that. A++

Q: What did you do this morning, Gareth, as part of a paying job for a grown-up? As, in fact, a work of art? A: Statted the Trivial Pursuit wheel as a giant monster.

Good morning.

Guy whose life depends upon people buying more magazines reading this thread: Getting a lot of 'people should buy more magazines' vibes from this...

The box for this game is EXACTLY 12-inches long. You know what that means, don't you? The game is a foot.

I was on the Ludonarrative Dissidents livestream on Friday, babbling about Merryshire, the One Ring and other stuff. The kickstarter for Season 4 is at www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEVr...

A very Merry (and Pippin) #TOLKTOBER to all who celebrate

And it’s finally announced! This is a weird one - basically AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS meets PIRANESI in Spaaaaaaaace.

Just to make subtext into text - everyone who saw the flying Tesla demo knows that thing is balsawood and styrofoam, right?

Uncooked novel.

The closest Troubleshooter team has been notified, and will rendezvous with you shortly.

oh, that's clever.

This is fantastic

NEWSFLASH: Trump appoints Liz Truss as new White House Press Secretary.

If you haven't had a chance to listen to the livestream we did on Tuesday with Meg and Vincent Baker, here's an excerpt about the secret history of RPGs that should explain what you're missing. We're streaming again tonight, with @mytholder.bsky.social and @lamemage.com, at 22:00 UK/5pm Eastern

Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin’s sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Overtime had ended at last.