Richard August

As everyone is doing it… my first five #TTRPGs: 1) 3e D&D 2) WFRP 3) Star Wars d20 4) 1920s Gangster RPG (first game I ‘designed’) 5) Call of Cthulhu

Great question - but I want more details. Is the change permanent? Can I adopt the melted form at will?

Just coined the term ‘Bank Horrorday’ for the Halloween Bank Holiday. You’re welcome, Ireland.

the entire bioware situation is just another episode of how now, more than ever, YOU are important to the small indie things you enjoy getting somewhere. talk about the things you love. buy it physical if you can. make art. share links. don't just go 'everything i love is dying', that's how it does.

I, a member of the public, do not wish to see my fellow members of the public who teach my children, heal me if I am sick, who administer the state and so on left worse off due to inflation each year.

Or: Pathetic sell-out and shill demands government money.

M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint @willyandbill.bsky.social

Another awesome project from Emmet Byrne, so obviously I’m in.

TTRPGs needs a genuine and discerning critical apparatus. I can’t practice this sort of criticism of TTRPGs. I’m too embedded in the guts of it all to find perspective - I’m glad someone as discerning as @laurieoc.bsky.social and the writers here are leading that work, and I’m happy to support it!

Critically Acclaimed ‘Ted Lasso’ Episode Just Stock Photos Of People Hugging Each Other https://theonion.com/critically-acclaimed-ted-lasso-episode-just-stock-pho-1847547843/

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

loving the new look

80s Japanese game art clearly influenced by Moebius, Druillet, Corben, etc. slaps so hard. This is one of my favorite illustrations ever.

Transphobic AND creatively bankrupt? The new Harry Potter series really is doing some heavy lifting.

Arium is an amazing game/set of tools/gesture of love to creativity!

I’m not entirely sure how I ended up seeing this five times in the cinema, but for one reason or another I did. And I enjoyed it every time.

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Never liked Tom Holland - I dislike his willingness to represent himself as a trained historian when he’s nothing of the sort, and doesn’t seem interested in actual scholarship. But this is a new low…

Wild Pink’s new album out this week, and I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for a release.

My long dreamed of epic about the Ptolemaic Dynasty - incest, war, murder, libraries, religious syncretism, persecution, incredible nicknames… it’s got everything you could possibly want!

Honestly give it up to Gencon this year they finally found a way to make everyone take a fucking shower.

Will Sheff’s latest, Extra Mile, is so good. Takes what made Okkervil River so good, but weds it to a gentler, if no less sardonic, perspective. Last track Ancient Tourist builds to a delirious finale which manages to make the fact we just endlessly repeat patterns of the past sound almost noble.

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Familiar faces of the Gommune

What’s the description from The Call of Cthulhu… ‘a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish’? Turns out, it’s pretty good description. As demonstrated by Orcas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cosmic horror but make it colourful

The World Cup halftime show is like doing ketamine while watching YouTube adverts

Only America could make a World Cup final ceremony even tackier than FIFA

I wrote this a long time ago now, but it’s nice to see it out in the wild. My contribution to the ‘weird London fantasy’ tradition of Machen to Mieville.

For those who don't know... @robbiaburns.bsky.social is a fucking sicko. So good thing we paired them up with fellow sicko @quinnblackwell.bsky.social for an upcoming release of a stand alone stand alone solo game created by Quinn for use with @bastionland.bsky.social's Mythic Bastionland.

You didn't name the game that just for a dumb joke, did you? Me: youtu.be/XOQBu7GN7sU

Bachrooms.

Burden Bird for Vaults of Vaarn 2E

John Blanche’s influence is vast, the touch of his genius visible everywhere you look in modern geek culture. As someone who spent a lot of time in rooms with the same nicotine-stained palate he made such use of, he helped make those places alive, fantastical. Battlegrounds on grandad’s wallpaper.

It’s an interesting choice for Edgar Wright’s Running Man (2025) to cast Glenn Powell as the rugged working class hero - given he looks like white American privilege in a tightly fitted flesh suit.

📸 Roman Vishniac Interior de la estación de Anhalter,Berlín (1929)

The Sopranos Buffy the Vampire Slayer I’m Alan Partridge Hancock 30 Rock It’s Always Sunny True Detective (S1&4) Seinfeld Masterchef: The Professionals Great British Menu Dr Who The Young Ones Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place Taskmaster Peep Show

I am struggling to understand why Breathless isn’t already funded. It’s a very good game, very well made, and incredibly easy to get to the table. So if you haven’t backed it, you should. Be smart like me, and back it.

Do you know that the Hittite kings had the best names in the ancient world, or are you wrong?

TTRPG about me First game: D&D 3e Last game: Five Torches Deep Longest Game: Delta Green Favourite Game: Cthulhu Hack Favourite Mechanics: Night’s Black Agents Favourite Art: Advanced Fighting Fantasy

Brown Horse’s new album, Total Wreck, is phenomenal. That is all.

‘When there was wonder in the world’: why Raiders of the Lost Ark is my feelgood movie