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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 1d

A very nice appreciation of Chaosium founder Greg Stafford, who passed away 7 years ago this month, but whose influence rates him as "one of the best modern fantasists, worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Moorcock, Leiber, McCaffrey, Martin, and others." open.substack.com/pub/someanci...

Meet Greg Stafford, the best modern fantasy author you don’t know

Game designer, shaman, and inspiration.

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the birthday one of the most talented creators in TTRPGs, Jennell Jaquays, who passed away last year. Jennell was one of our company's earliest artists, and played an prominent role in Chaosium's success over many years, as an illustrator and writer.

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shel's gone @portablecity.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #portfolioday ! I'm Shel, I'm an artist, art director, comicker, and more.

I do concept art, pitch package art, style guide development, and more, and I'd love to hear about your next project!

Learn more at www.portablecity.net/shel-kahns-p...

Created for Peculiar Path Inc.; A painting of a cluster of boats and ships in front of an oil rig; the centermost ship is an aircraft carrier; all have been converted into solarpunk living spaces with visible gardening and retrofitted elements. The sea is calm, the sky is blue with big fluffy clouds, it feels peaceful and hopeful and vibrant.

Created for Numizmatic Games. A sheet of black and white line and tone drawings of pieces of landforms, ready to beincorporated into a procedural environent kit; all variations on layered desert rock structures; several are fully cleaned up, the rest are a little sketchier.

Created for Chaosium. A black and white inked and toned lineup of five Gloranthan adventurers, wearing bronze age outfits and armor inspired by etruscan, scythian and sumerian clothing and technology. There are three men, alla bout the same height, with beards and long hair, and two women, one shorter in scaled maille with a braid, and one taller, in religious dress, with full etruscan hairstyle including crimped curls and a headband. All have tattoos showing gloranthan runes.

Created for Hit Point Press. A digital painting of a strange goat-like creature with needles for feet and a visibly bad attitude, leaping towards the viewer, in a landscape of strange precarious stacks of stone. Behind it, a dusk sky with a bright moon, giving it a dramatic rim light.

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Orcusdorkus - Prepping Impossible Landscapes @orcusdorkus.bsky.social · 4d

New episode!🎉

I sit down with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social, author of Designers & Dragons and This Is Free Trader Beowulf, to talk about his 15 year journey chronicling the stories behind the classic D&D modules we love in his upcoming series, Origins. 🤘😊 #TTRPG #DND

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Interview with Shannon Appelcline of Designers & Dragons: Origins

YouTube video by OrcusDorkus' RPG Shenanigans

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 3d

Although #RuneQuest focuses on Dragon Pass and Prax, Greg Stafford’s world of #Glorantha includes two whole continents to explore. Many Jonstown Compendium contributors @drivethrurpg.com are devoted to fleshing out these distant exotic corners of the lozenge.

Journey to Jonstown #78: Explore Distant Lands

Although RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha focuses on homelands in Dragon Pass and Prax, Greg Stafford’s world of Glorantha includes two whole continents containing many exotic, far-flung cultures. ...

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 6d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 6d

Today, on the seventh anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, Chaosium is pleased to announce William "Bud" Baird as the 2025 Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom winner.

Bud Baird is the 2025 recipient of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom

This month marks the seventh anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, and we are pleased to present the 2025 award to William "Bud" Baird.

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 6d

Today, October 10th, marks the seventh anniversary of @chaosium.bsky.social company founder Greg Stafford's passing.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 8d

Right, now I have some time (and a copy myself!) it's time to share some internal pics from the new issue, my thoughts on the relevant features & perhaps persuade a few more of you to buy a copy (because it's swell)

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So today let's start with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's one, as...

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one the left hand side is a full page picture of an atom bomb test, on the right the headline Playing Games in the Shadow of the Bomb

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, it shows a still from the film Red Dawn with Russian soldiers posing in front of a McDonalds, the subhead for this section reads The Paranoid Style in American Gaming

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one side is taken up with the cover art for Greg Costikyan's Price of Freedom

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 15d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10d

A riddle for @theguardian.com books page.
p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com

Title: One door leads to freedom, the others to certain death. You may ask one question.

Image: Three guards with shields and speard stand in front of three doors. One guard sits at a folding table working at a typewriter, his shield and spear leaning against the wall.

Caption: One guard always tells the truth, one always tells lies, and the third always tells an entrancing story that blends reportage with imagination in an attempt to reach a deeper authenticity by moving beyond the narrow categories of fact and fiction.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 11d

That was pretty much my first thought. It doesn't need to be an "atrocity". Just a reprisal attack for seeing the Lunars' original peaceful intrusion met by people for whom "violence is always an option". And having mixed motives within the "enemy" group gives multiple options for resolution.

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 13d

Mark Morrison says non-human player characters go right back to "why I fell in love with #RuneQuest in the first place", so, with our new Elder Race Adventurers coming out he asked his #Pendragon group if they’d be up for trying RuneQuest for one night...

Table Tales: Coming back to Glorantha

I had a long sleepless night in 1982: I’d just read RuneQuest after playing it with my friend Mark Holsworth and it was a much, much better game than Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. But everyone played A...

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 14d

I dived into a deep rabbit hole recently, and ended up putting together and sharing a 30-page bibliography of writings by (and about) Greg Stafford over at basicroleplaying.org/topic/26176-.... Maybe it's of interest to a few others? I'll be adding more to it soon. #Glorantha #Pendragon #ttrpg

A digital book cover, with brown grainy background, and in white text: A Greg Stafford Bibliography, by Brian Duguid 2025, and a large white Greg Stafford Rune.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 15d

Genius!

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 15d

Literally everyone who is a long-time Glorantha lorehound today started playing in the setting with little or no knowledge about it, and generally without caring if they were getting it "right".

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 16d

Yes, I want to find a space in one of my games for them now :-)

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 16d

Ah, the "Rambo Wave", as the French call it.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 16d

Tagging @wyrdscience.bsky.social for their important contribution to research :-)

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 16d

This is my first try at my Ygg-worshipping ex-Wolf Pirate character, Svarnar Deepdiver.

A portrait illustration of a Gloranthan character, a blonde bearded man, wearing a thick woolen cloak and holding a spear.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 16d

This one was just me playing around

A portrait illustration of a Gloranthan character, possibly a shaman, with pale hair, brown skin, and a ritual mace held in one hand. Their eyes are closed and they look contemplative and happy.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 16d

This is fabulous, a really useful and creative tool for #RuneQuest #Glorantha fans!

Katrin Dirim @katrindirim.bsky.social · 16d

I thought I was prepared for how long this would take. I was wrong.

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Gloranthan Character Maker

Based on Gred Staffords Glorantha. Marked as sensitive just in case since it includes a bit of eyeball jewellery. Find me on Bluesky/Instagram/Tumblr under @katrindirim or @kleioscanvas Free for pe...

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martinhelsdon.bsky.social @martinhelsdon.bsky.social · 16d

As a special addition to the RuneQuest Adventure Tokens, @katrindirim.bsky.social has kindly drawn a Moon Cat! Feel free to use this feline in your games.

#Glorantha

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17d

Carl Benz has an idea

[Scene is a 19th century drawing room with a sign outside saying TRANSPORT INVENTORS CLUB. Inside, the German Engineer KARL BENZ is addressing a meeting of gentlemen about his new transport idea]

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KARL BENZ:
OK guys - you’re gonna love this

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KARL BENZ:
So it’s like, a box made of metal that goes at up to 120 miles an hour, yeah?

[Karl shows them a diagram of a car]

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KARL BENZ:
And your drive it down one side of the road, and the boxes going the other way go on the opposite side, so we don’t need to build two roads!

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OTHER GUY:
What’s down the middle?

KARL BENZ:
A white line.

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OTHER GUY:
So like, a white barrier…

KARL BENZ:
No a white line. Drawn on the floor.

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OTHER GUY:
And who’s piloting these machines?

KARL BENZ:
I was thinking: random members of the public.

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[Pause, the other guys all look with concern at Karl]

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OTHER GUY:
Karl are you OK

KARL BENZ:
No listen it’s fine

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OTHER GUY:
You know we’re worried about you, don’t you?

KARL BENZ:
No really it’ll work -

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KARL BENZ:
Once hundreds of millions of people have died and the world’s started ending because of the fumes it’ll all be normal.

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OTHER GUY:
Is that normal like the ‘commuter travel device’ you brought in last week which was just…

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OTHER GUY:
…an iron maiden fired from a catapult?

[The other guy displays a diagram of an iron maiden being fired from a catapult]

KARL BENZ:
THAT WOULD’VE WORKED!

[ends]

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 19d

Repost with a game released the year you were born

Screenshot from the very early video game Lunar Lander

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