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James Wallis

@jameswallis.bsky.social

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Game designer, publisher, teacher, critic, writer, evangelist, FRSA. Wrote Everybody Wins, runs http://www.gamedesignmasterclass.com, co-host of RPG podcast http://www.ludonarrativedissidents.com, & setting up www.bigtable.games, a trade body for the UK&I.

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello! I'm best known for running Hogshead Publishing in the 1990s, but these days I'm setting up Big Table, a trade body for the UK tabletop industry. Follow us: @bigtable.bsky.social

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 3h

Jelly takes its name from gelatin. If there's no gelatin in it, it's not jelly.

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 5h

Hope you enjoy it!

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 5h

Today marked the beginning of Christmas, because the Bonne Maman 2025 Jam Advent Calendar of Jam was delivered. I recorded a video of me opening it and talking about it. It's quite short. Enjoy. youtu.be/XS7Q86dHKzs

Bonne Maman 2025 Jam Advent Calendar - unboxing

YouTube video by James Wallis

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 5h

'Flaqship'?

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 6h

I had no idea, and am fascinated by the link to Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass.

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, okay, I've found one page that knows about it, because the pagewriter was playing through the adventure with some friends one evening in 1980, when the local radio station started broadcasting the play. 1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/C2:_The...

C2: The Ghost Tower of Inverness - 1d6chan

The Ghost Tower of Inverness is an adventure module for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition. It is part of the "C Series", a line of six modules originally released...

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 6h

It's not mentioned in their forthcoming book, so I dropped them a line with links to the wikipedia page for the play.

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 7h

Ask me how I, a person who was very young and in a different country when Fourth Tower of Inverness was broadcast, know this, and I honestly couldn't tell you.

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 7h

Tiny piece of AD&D trivia: absolutely none of the histories of the module C2: Ghost Tower of Inverness mention that it was inspired by the 1972 ZBS radio drama Fourth Tower of Inverness.

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 8h

Leslie Scott. She was at Dragonmeet... 2023?

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 11h

They do. I still get royalties on the novels I wrote for the Black Library 20+ years ago. But if you're on staff then the work you do while employed belongs to the company, and that's been true at every company I've ever worked for.

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 12h

Not GW.

I mean, yes, Graeme was laid off by Games Workshop, but that was in 1990.

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 19h

I believe so

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

So simple, even an easily distracted person can do it!

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1d

OK, who has written about H.G. Wells’ assertion at the very start of LITTLE WARS that Tristram Shandy’s Uncle Toby is wargaming?

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/jame...

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

Windows 10 users in the EU and UK, you can get free Extended Security Updates for a year just by:
> Settings > Windows Update > Check for updates. Click.
Scroll down to Enrol in Extended Security Updates (or similar wording).
Click on it.
Follow prompts.
Bingo, you're good for a year.

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

Catching up on this... it looks like it wouldn't be too much work to update, do the sliders as chits on a track, modernise the gameplay to make it more C21st... could be a fun project. (Puts it on pile with 10000 other fun projects.)

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

This is also true of life.

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

> TROFF

James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Hannah! Can you DM me?

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 1d

Asking the American TTRPG crowd because they're informed on such things

Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 2d

is there anything like the wayfinder experience for kids in the uk? my kid is bursting at the seams for storytelling and teamwork and anything that helps her grow her story/social chops without needing to do actual writing or be confined in a classroom

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 12d

BORN TO PLAY
HOBBY IS A FUCK
Back Em All 1989
I am raccoon mask
410,757,864,530 UNPLAYED GAMES

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 2d

I have checked all the links and they work again!

Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have 11 books about games out as author or editor. Ten of them are available as free pdfs. Check out the full list here: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/books/

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 3d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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