Wyrd Science Magazine
@wyrdscience.bsky.social
The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons Issue 7 out now! Get in touch [email protected]
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https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
#RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit
some day someone who either works at or developed the DriveThruRPG website is going to actually try using it and they're going to feel bad
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
some day someone who either works at or developed the DriveThruRPG website is going to actually try using it and they're going to feel bad
We must salt the earth, and make the soil that would produce such a sick harvest as this barren for decades to come
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We must salt the earth, and make the soil that would produce such a sick harvest as this barren for decades to come
I am once again asking you to read the gazetteer
Creation Myths
This week, worldbuiding, we love it. We also love Shannon Appelcline's new project exploring the building blocks of Dungeons & Dragons' many worlds and think you will too.
wyrd.science
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I am once again asking you to read the gazetteer
Issue 3 of Secret Passages is about to hit Kickstarter, click below and follow along to get notified when it goes live.
Coming soon: Secret Passages #3: An Old School RPG and Oldhammer Magazine
Packed with interviews and illustrations, this is the third issue of a new zine exploring the RPGs and wargames that raised us.
www.kickstarter.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Issue 3 of Secret Passages is about to hit Kickstarter, click below and follow along to get notified when it goes live.
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2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon
Bet he subscribes to magazines too
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Bet he subscribes to magazines too
2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon
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Dawn has broken, and I’m still cataloging.
@wyrdscience.bsky.social rules! If you have not checked it out yet, you totally should.
As a gaming journalist I can say it has set a benchmark for me to reach for in the modern media conversation.
It’s worth your time.
@wyrdscience.bsky.social rules! If you have not checked it out yet, you totally should.
As a gaming journalist I can say it has set a benchmark for me to reach for in the modern media conversation.
It’s worth your time.
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Dawn has broken, and I’m still cataloging.
@wyrdscience.bsky.social rules! If you have not checked it out yet, you totally should.
As a gaming journalist I can say it has set a benchmark for me to reach for in the modern media conversation.
It’s worth your time.
@wyrdscience.bsky.social rules! If you have not checked it out yet, you totally should.
As a gaming journalist I can say it has set a benchmark for me to reach for in the modern media conversation.
It’s worth your time.
Imagine buying a magazine today? Honestly you’d feel like A BOSS
So, with that in mind i want to give a Saturday shout out to @raremags.bsky.social who not only have our latest issue but also a bewilderingly good selection of other stuff, so let’s have a look & see what I want to read…
1/15
So, with that in mind i want to give a Saturday shout out to @raremags.bsky.social who not only have our latest issue but also a bewilderingly good selection of other stuff, so let’s have a look & see what I want to read…
1/15
Wyrd Science
– Rare Mags
One of those magazines that does exactly what it sets out to do, no messing around, cramming every page full of what they want in the magazine and nothing else. Tabletop gaming, but now with added fil...
raremags.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Imagine buying a magazine today? Honestly you’d feel like A BOSS
So, with that in mind i want to give a Saturday shout out to @raremags.bsky.social who not only have our latest issue but also a bewilderingly good selection of other stuff, so let’s have a look & see what I want to read…
1/15
So, with that in mind i want to give a Saturday shout out to @raremags.bsky.social who not only have our latest issue but also a bewilderingly good selection of other stuff, so let’s have a look & see what I want to read…
1/15
Been thinking about this overnight and I have come to the horrible realisation that I do in fact very much want a lavish in depth book detailing every single ridiculous Dungeons & Dragons toy, colouring book, back of cereal packet hologram, view finder etc
God help me.
God help me.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Been thinking about this overnight and I have come to the horrible realisation that I do in fact very much want a lavish in depth book detailing every single ridiculous Dungeons & Dragons toy, colouring book, back of cereal packet hologram, view finder etc
God help me.
God help me.
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I appreciate John at Wyrd Science giving a shout-out to the Designers & Dragons: Origins Backerkit.
Gazetteer anyone? This week we get excited about where @tinstargames.bsky.social's new book is leading us, marvel at @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's new project exploring TSR's D&D output & we've one of the finest set of links for you to explore at your leisure that I think we've ever assembled.
Creation Myths
This week, worldbuiding, we love it. We also love Shannon Appelcline's new project exploring the building blocks of Dungeons & Dragons' many worlds and think you will too.
wyrd.science
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I appreciate John at Wyrd Science giving a shout-out to the Designers & Dragons: Origins Backerkit.
Wild to think that in January Wyrd Science will celebrate 5 years of having more journalistic integrity than the NY Times. Need to think of a way to celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wild to think that in January Wyrd Science will celebrate 5 years of having more journalistic integrity than the NY Times. Need to think of a way to celebrate.
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I'm interested in fresh perspectives on @certifiedforgot.bsky.social, which is why I'm always excited to open our doors to writers and game designers who love horror just as much as we do.
Do you like your cosmic horror to come with a side of folklore? Then you'll want to check out this week's episode with tabletop designer @byodinsbeardrpg.com about BLACK MOUNTAIN SIDE.
Podcast: Colin Le Sueur on 'Black Mountain Side'
Tabletop designer Colin Le Sueur talks cosmic horror in game design and his love of Nick Szostakiwskyj's 'Black Mountain Side.'
certifiedforgotten.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm interested in fresh perspectives on @certifiedforgot.bsky.social, which is why I'm always excited to open our doors to writers and game designers who love horror just as much as we do.
Gazetteer anyone? This week we get excited about where @tinstargames.bsky.social's new book is leading us, marvel at @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's new project exploring TSR's D&D output & we've one of the finest set of links for you to explore at your leisure that I think we've ever assembled.
Creation Myths
This week, worldbuiding, we love it. We also love Shannon Appelcline's new project exploring the building blocks of Dungeons & Dragons' many worlds and think you will too.
wyrd.science
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Gazetteer anyone? This week we get excited about where @tinstargames.bsky.social's new book is leading us, marvel at @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's new project exploring TSR's D&D output & we've one of the finest set of links for you to explore at your leisure that I think we've ever assembled.
whilst looking for something else in my collection and stumbled across this banger from 2020. the soundtrack to hobbits going magic mushroom picking and hallucinating Nazgûl
Mystery Mountain Hop, by Fulacht Fiadh
4 track album
fulachtfiadh.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
whilst looking for something else in my collection and stumbled across this banger from 2020. the soundtrack to hobbits going magic mushroom picking and hallucinating Nazgûl
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Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces | Journal of American Studie...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
ok, serious Q here, anyone have a spare half a million?
there's an auction at Christie's next month with both J.R.R. Tolkien's desk AND the original John Blanche artwork for the 1st edition of Warhammer & I promise you we would be wonderful stewards of these items
www.christies.com/auction/auct...
there's an auction at Christie's next month with both J.R.R. Tolkien's desk AND the original John Blanche artwork for the 1st edition of Warhammer & I promise you we would be wonderful stewards of these items
www.christies.com/auction/auct...
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
ok, serious Q here, anyone have a spare half a million?
there's an auction at Christie's next month with both J.R.R. Tolkien's desk AND the original John Blanche artwork for the 1st edition of Warhammer & I promise you we would be wonderful stewards of these items
www.christies.com/auction/auct...
there's an auction at Christie's next month with both J.R.R. Tolkien's desk AND the original John Blanche artwork for the 1st edition of Warhammer & I promise you we would be wonderful stewards of these items
www.christies.com/auction/auct...
After a break Black Lodge Press have just reopened their store with a whole load of new prints, tees, calendars, zines etc for those, like us, who like their work
blacklodgepress.bigcartel.com
blacklodgepress.bigcartel.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
After a break Black Lodge Press have just reopened their store with a whole load of new prints, tees, calendars, zines etc for those, like us, who like their work
blacklodgepress.bigcartel.com
blacklodgepress.bigcartel.com
Comics enjoyers eat so well in Europe, even the mags about them are beautifully produced
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Comics enjoyers eat so well in Europe, even the mags about them are beautifully produced
The wonderful @helleborezine.bsky.social scaring the faithful with the old ways, seriously if any of our readers want to magic up some free international media coverage for us by wearing one of our tees to a Cliff Richard gig or something please do
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The wonderful @helleborezine.bsky.social scaring the faithful with the old ways, seriously if any of our readers want to magic up some free international media coverage for us by wearing one of our tees to a Cliff Richard gig or something please do
Look, say what you like* about the rest of the article but I killed it with that standfirst
*actually please don’t if it’s mean
🥺
👉👈
*actually please don’t if it’s mean
🥺
👉👈
It’s 2025, Rick Priestley is retired.
Only one game stands before him.
Galaxies are now battlefields.
Only one game stands before him.
Galaxies are now battlefields.
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Look, say what you like* about the rest of the article but I killed it with that standfirst
*actually please don’t if it’s mean
🥺
👉👈
*actually please don’t if it’s mean
🥺
👉👈
would be remarkably easy to reboot the Bioshock series as being set in a underwater nonce retreat for the mega rich
Rich pedophile guys leave so many emails so that immersive sim protagonists can read them and find out about their global pedophile ring
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
would be remarkably easy to reboot the Bioshock series as being set in a underwater nonce retreat for the mega rich
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November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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More @fightingfantasy.bsky.social fresh on the Haunted Generation website... my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of Ian Livingstone and Jonathan Green's beautiful anthology of artwork:
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
Magic Realms: The Art Of Fighting Fantasy
It’s the tongue you notice first. Spiky, lolling, somehow inherently malevolent, it protrudes between the Shape Changer’s jagged teeth as he picks his way across a sun-dappled forest glade. Painted…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
More @fightingfantasy.bsky.social fresh on the Haunted Generation website... my @forteantimes.bsky.social review of Ian Livingstone and Jonathan Green's beautiful anthology of artwork:
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...