Brian Duguid
@brianduguid.bsky.social
Husband, father, bridge designer, Chair of Net Zero Bridges Group, tabletop gamer, writer for Jonstown Compendium, occasional drone photographer. Interested in modern art, prehistory, weird music, architecture. Reads more non-fiction than fiction. He/him.
What do you mean, you want the rules?
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What do you mean, you want the rules?
Duck character creation rules? At last RuneQuest finally fulfils its early promise. Blackfeather approves!
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Duck character creation rules? At last RuneQuest finally fulfils its early promise. Blackfeather approves!
It was a pleasure to spend a significant part of a talk at a literary festival with the word Fistfuck on screen as well. I'm not sure what the rest of the audience thought ...
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It was a pleasure to spend a significant part of a talk at a literary festival with the word Fistfuck on screen as well. I'm not sure what the rest of the audience thought ...
Ah, Mr Duchamp, we meet again.
This was a pleasant surprise, finding my name in the index to a book I picked up at the Louder Than Words music/book festival in Manchester today.
This was a pleasant surprise, finding my name in the index to a book I picked up at the Louder Than Words music/book festival in Manchester today.
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ah, Mr Duchamp, we meet again.
This was a pleasant surprise, finding my name in the index to a book I picked up at the Louder Than Words music/book festival in Manchester today.
This was a pleasant surprise, finding my name in the index to a book I picked up at the Louder Than Words music/book festival in Manchester today.
It has this, and more ...
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It has this, and more ...
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
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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
This is my first try at my Ygg-worshipping ex-Wolf Pirate character, Svarnar Deepdiver.
September 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This is my first try at my Ygg-worshipping ex-Wolf Pirate character, Svarnar Deepdiver.
This one was just me playing around
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This one was just me playing around
Repost with a game released the year you were born
September 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Repost with a game released the year you were born
Book started: Dice Men, by Ian Livingstone with Steve Jackson. Very enjoyable holiday reading - loving all the archive images. Except for a slightly disturbing photo of @gravesnailyard.bsky.social.
August 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Book started: Dice Men, by Ian Livingstone with Steve Jackson. Very enjoyable holiday reading - loving all the archive images. Except for a slightly disturbing photo of @gravesnailyard.bsky.social.
Wait, did I get this wrong? Is this not a photo of several Mega City One blocks in an early phase of construction? Is there not a posse of Judges on flying Lawmasters just out-of-shot, ready to launch a raid on the Park Hill Stookie Glanding Gang?
August 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Wait, did I get this wrong? Is this not a photo of several Mega City One blocks in an early phase of construction? Is there not a posse of Judges on flying Lawmasters just out-of-shot, ready to launch a raid on the Park Hill Stookie Glanding Gang?
Yeah, Barker's "ducks" are #29 on this picture (Hegléthyal, they live in thatched stilt-huts in swamps). static.wikitide.net/1d6chanwiki/...
July 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Yeah, Barker's "ducks" are #29 on this picture (Hegléthyal, they live in thatched stilt-huts in swamps). static.wikitide.net/1d6chanwiki/...
#5 in a set of posts about Gloranthan art hanging on my walls. This one is Moon Cat, by @katrindirim.bsky.social . I guess that Moon Cat is just something conceived in a moment of whimsy. Like the Gloranthan Lunars? Like cats? Ok, here’s Moon Cat. Note the halo: Moon Cat is a goddess, don’t ya know?
July 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#5 in a set of posts about Gloranthan art hanging on my walls. This one is Moon Cat, by @katrindirim.bsky.social . I guess that Moon Cat is just something conceived in a moment of whimsy. Like the Gloranthan Lunars? Like cats? Ok, here’s Moon Cat. Note the halo: Moon Cat is a goddess, don’t ya know?
Gorgeous pangolin, nature's finest beast, as drawn by @theweeowl.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Gorgeous pangolin, nature's finest beast, as drawn by @theweeowl.bsky.social
Book started (and mostly read): Woman Life Freedom by Marjane Satrapi, and many others. Words and pictures that sometimes form comics, all related to the events before and after the 2022 murder of Mahsa Amini by Iranian "morality" police. Interesting, angry, hopefully not eclipsed by recent events.
July 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Book started (and mostly read): Woman Life Freedom by Marjane Satrapi, and many others. Words and pictures that sometimes form comics, all related to the events before and after the 2022 murder of Mahsa Amini by Iranian "morality" police. Interesting, angry, hopefully not eclipsed by recent events.
Book finished: On Savage Shores, by Caroline Dodds Pennock. It recounts the experiences of indigenous "Americans" who discovered Europe shortly after Europeans discovered them. A thought-provoking perspective, but unfortunately it struggles with the sheer lack of recorded sources.
July 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Book finished: On Savage Shores, by Caroline Dodds Pennock. It recounts the experiences of indigenous "Americans" who discovered Europe shortly after Europeans discovered them. A thought-provoking perspective, but unfortunately it struggles with the sheer lack of recorded sources.
Sunday at Continuum convention. I spent the afternoon playing the 1984 Glorantha / RuneQuest cards-and-dice game Pantheons, in a new version by the original designer, Chester Hendrix. Compare the original version here: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...
July 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Sunday at Continuum convention. I spent the afternoon playing the 1984 Glorantha / RuneQuest cards-and-dice game Pantheons, in a new version by the original designer, Chester Hendrix. Compare the original version here: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...
Convulsion convention Saturday evening RuneQuest game: a trip through the Wastes with the Bison tribe courtesy of @goldenshield88.bsky.social. Dice supervised by @dracowie.bsky.social, of course. Harmony Week, Sea Season, 1626.
July 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Convulsion convention Saturday evening RuneQuest game: a trip through the Wastes with the Bison tribe courtesy of @goldenshield88.bsky.social. Dice supervised by @dracowie.bsky.social, of course. Harmony Week, Sea Season, 1626.
Glorantha: The Gods War, still at an early stage in the game (4 hrs slot and we didn't finish).
July 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Glorantha: The Gods War, still at an early stage in the game (4 hrs slot and we didn't finish).
I'm trying to finish all my packing ready to travel to @continuumconuk.bsky.social tomorrow morning. I'll be bringing this with me, an updated version of Chester Hendrix's 1984 dice-and-card game Pantheons, where deities battle using the Gloranthan Runes to see whose pantheon will come out on top.
July 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm trying to finish all my packing ready to travel to @continuumconuk.bsky.social tomorrow morning. I'll be bringing this with me, an updated version of Chester Hendrix's 1984 dice-and-card game Pantheons, where deities battle using the Gloranthan Runes to see whose pantheon will come out on top.
#4 in a series of threads about Glorantha art hanging on my wall. This is Eserela and the Red Goddess, by @katrindirim.bsky.social.
That’s the Red Goddess kneeling on the right, depicted with red skin and a dress covered in stars, as per tradition. Her lover, Eserela, is on the left, seated.
That’s the Red Goddess kneeling on the right, depicted with red skin and a dress covered in stars, as per tradition. Her lover, Eserela, is on the left, seated.
July 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#4 in a series of threads about Glorantha art hanging on my wall. This is Eserela and the Red Goddess, by @katrindirim.bsky.social.
That’s the Red Goddess kneeling on the right, depicted with red skin and a dress covered in stars, as per tradition. Her lover, Eserela, is on the left, seated.
That’s the Red Goddess kneeling on the right, depicted with red skin and a dress covered in stars, as per tradition. Her lover, Eserela, is on the left, seated.
This is #3 in a series of threads about Gloranthan art hanging on my walls. This one is so good, I bought it twice, first as a commission for my book, The Voralans, and here as the original hand-drawn ink art from @leeoconnor.bsky.social. In the book, this picture is in full colour, added digitally.
July 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is #3 in a series of threads about Gloranthan art hanging on my walls. This one is so good, I bought it twice, first as a commission for my book, The Voralans, and here as the original hand-drawn ink art from @leeoconnor.bsky.social. In the book, this picture is in full colour, added digitally.
Here's some more Gloranthan art from my wall. Gods & Goddesses of Glorantha is another piece of art by @arkat.bsky.social from Wyrms Footprints (1995). It was used as the front page for a section in that book reprinting a serious of articles on pantheons that ran from Wyrms Footnotes #4 to #13.
July 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Here's some more Gloranthan art from my wall. Gods & Goddesses of Glorantha is another piece of art by @arkat.bsky.social from Wyrms Footprints (1995). It was used as the front page for a section in that book reprinting a serious of articles on pantheons that ran from Wyrms Footnotes #4 to #13.
This is (hopefully) the first in a set of short threads about some of the Gloranthan artwork hanging on my walls at home.
This is the original art by @arkat.bsky.social depicting Bina Bang and Lord Lurker in Shadows, drawn in 1984 for the Wyrms Footprints book, which came out the following year.
This is the original art by @arkat.bsky.social depicting Bina Bang and Lord Lurker in Shadows, drawn in 1984 for the Wyrms Footprints book, which came out the following year.
July 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is (hopefully) the first in a set of short threads about some of the Gloranthan artwork hanging on my walls at home.
This is the original art by @arkat.bsky.social depicting Bina Bang and Lord Lurker in Shadows, drawn in 1984 for the Wyrms Footprints book, which came out the following year.
This is the original art by @arkat.bsky.social depicting Bina Bang and Lord Lurker in Shadows, drawn in 1984 for the Wyrms Footprints book, which came out the following year.