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StepDan Hobby Studio @stepdanhobbystudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Look at this jive-ass wizard! Old White Dwarf magazines are so good. @lylelowery.bsky.social had the best run as managing editor, IMHO

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A blast from the past! I loved Grind.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This new desk mat is an instant glow-up for my painting desk! #redgrassgames

Photo of painting desk with new Red Grass Games desk mat.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

For the past few months I have been quietly working on the launch of The Trench Wire, a new Trench Crusade content channel that draws on my experience from White Dwarf and No Quarter. I’m excited to share its first steps with the world today!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Tacta is perfect for a quick filler game!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Nobody sees the Tome Keepers coming.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Just one game day in November. But one that racked up 34 games, including a few plays of one of the stars of Essen Spiel, Echoes of Time.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I completed the 10x10 board game challenge for 2025! Here’s when I hit 10 on each: Fellowship: Feb 13 Scout: April 30 Heat: May 9 A Gentle Rain: May 23 Undaunted: May 24 Sea Salt: June 21 Santorini: July 12 The Crew: August 10 Marvel United: October 11 Sky Team: October 27

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Blood Bowl pitch maintenance is not for the faint of heart!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

October was the first month of the year I played more games with someone other than my wife. Bit of a slow month because it was very busy (including a trip to Spiel), but highlights include playing Sky Team in Düsseldorf Airport.

BG Stats Oct 2025

Plays: 14
H-index: 3
Games: 5
New: 1
Players: 3
Locations: 3
Hours: 6
Days: 6

Sky Team: 5
Santorini: Riddle of the Sphinx: 4
Pandemic: 3
Marvel United: X-Men: 1
SCOUT: 1

8 designers:
Andrea Chiarvesio: 20%
Eric M. Lang: 20%
Francesco Rugerfred Sedda: 20%
James Van Niekerk: 20%
Kei Kajino (梶野桂): 20%.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I’ll be at Spiel Essen next week along with my friend and colleague Stephen Box of Vanguard Tactics! If you or your company are looking for freelance editorial, content or creative services or are interested in the video content offerings of Vanguard Tactics, please drop me a message!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Not sure yet, but probably a mix of things including airbrush, sponge and oil wash.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Your roads look great! I love the weathering. I also went for dark roads and light non-roads. Here’s what they look like after the spray step. Still need to do all the detail and weathering!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I love making a good stencil when I’ve got to paint the same thing over and over again. This t-shaped stencil can handle all three LI road plates: straights, Ts, and crosses.

A photo of a Legions Imperialis road plates, with a spray mask protecting the road from overspray.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Finished the main story of Ghost of Yotei. Absolutely a worthy successor to Ghost of Tsushima, and the pair are two of the best games I’ve ever played. Atsu’s story is now my favorite revenge tale.

Screenshot of Mt Yotei from Ghost of Yotei.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Marvel United looks so good on the table.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Plays were way down in September, BUT it included playing Rome in a Day IN ROME! That’s gotta be worth bonus points!

BG Stats Sep 2025

Plays: 19
H-index: 3
Games: 4
New: 2
Players: 7
Locations: 2
Hours: 10
Days: 8

Marvel United: X-Men: 9
Rome in a Day: 5
Heat: Pedal to the Metal: 3
SCOUT: 2

7 designers:
Andrea Chiarvesio: 25%
Asger Harding Granerud: 25%
Daniel Skjold Pedersen: 25%
Eric M. Lang: 25%
Evgeny Petrov: 25%.

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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I recently got the chance to speak with the last ever White Dwarf editor, Lyle Lowery We spoke about @lylelowery.bsky.social 's career, managing White Dwarf for the past ~7 years, how the magazine is produced, and the role of the editor in the process youtu.be/YwH0B0kG34U #WarhammerCommunity

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I suddenly got really busy with work, so I forgot to share this, but I did maintain my streak and paint Wolverine! That’s four of these fun little models done in four days.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My office for the past few days. It’s been a blast!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I don’t think it’s for me or anyone else really to say what you should do with your hobby, but I certainly don’t mind!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Trying to keep up the pace of painting one a day. This time: Beast!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Recently I posted about my Santorini in Santorini project. Next up is a trip to Rome! So I ask you, what’s a good game to play in Rome? Must be: Very portable Small footprint Two players Quick play time Low complexity Rome theme I’m thinking Rome in a Day. What do you think?

Lyle and wife holding a homemade copy of Santorini on the island of Santorini

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I had so much fun with Sabretooth, I had to keep it going with Cyclops! Another quick and cheerful paint job.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Been in a bit of a painting slump, so to get back on the hobby horse I painted this quick little Sabretooth from Marvel United. It was really fun!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This summer I played Santorini in Santorini! To pull it off, I found and printed a nice little miniature Santorini board and pieces. I designed some nesting, removable trays to accommodate all the pieces some cards. It was a super fun project and a neat thing to tick off the bucket list!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Thanks to an extended visit from some good friends who were really keen on trick-taking games, August was a record month since I started tracking plays at the beginning of the year!

BG Stats Aug 2025

Plays: 190
H-index: 2
Games: 10
New: 4
Players: 6
Locations: 3
Hours: 35
Days: 12

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine: 107
The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game: 72
SCOUT: 2
Onitama: 2
Santorini: Pantheon Edition: 2
Zombicide: White Death – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Timecrash: 1
Heat: Pedal to the Metal: 1
Flip 7: 1
Sky Team: 1

12 designers:
Asger Harding Granerud: 10%
Bryan Bornmueller: 10%
Daniel Skjold Pedersen: 10%
Eric Olsen: 10%
Gord!: 10%

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We had some friends in town for a couple of weeks, and the group got swept up with The Crew. So much fun! We really struggled with Mission 28, far more than any other. It was a huge outlier. Were there any missions you struggled with? Was it just us struggling on 28?

Infographic displaying number of attempts and time elapsed for each mission in The Crew

Graph of time elapsed for each mission in The Crew.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Had a little fun with inDesign and made this mission log graphic of our recent plays of The Crew.

Graphic for The Crew showing wins, losses and time elapsed.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Yesterday was a day to celebrate as I officially became a British citizen!

Me receiving my certificate of citizenship at the citizenship ceremony.

British Citizen coin received at the citizenship ceremony.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

July was a down month for board games, but an H-index of 3 for the month is pretty good!

BG Stats Jul 2025

Plays: 17
H-index: 3
Games: 6
New: 0
Players: 4
Locations: 1

The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game: 5
Santorini: Pantheon Edition: 5
Heat: Pedal to the Metal: 4
Blood Bowl: Second Season Edition: 1
Bohnanza: 1
Undaunted: Stalingrad: 1

7 designers:
Asger Harding Granerud: 16%
Bryan Bornmueller: 16%
Daniel Skjold Pedersen: 16%
David Thompson (I): 16%
Gord!: 16%

BG Stats 2025

Plays: 233
H-index: 7
Games: 39
New: 0
Players: 28
Locations: 14

The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game: 75
SCOUT: 21
Heat: Pedal to the Metal: 18
Santorini: Pantheon Edition: 13
Sea Salt & Paper: 11
Undaunted: Stalingrad: 11
A Gentle Rain: 10
Blood Bowl: Second Season Edition: 6
Final Girl: 5

50 designers:
Gord!: 5%
(Uncredited): 2%
A. J. Porfirio: 2%
Aaron Dill: 2%
Arne Lauwers: 2%.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I posted a longer thread as an image of text precisely because I didn’t want people reading just half of it. It’s silly you have to resort to things like that. Ironically, I’ve learned that the alt-text character limit is 1000 vs the 300 character limit of the post itself…

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Zoë; commissions open! @tankpotzoe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Best editor since Paul Sawyer? I reckon so. Best wishes for what’s next!

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ரமணன் @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca · 23/07/2025

I subscribed again when your run on the magazine got underway! Really liked stuff like the mini campaign settings and the custom chapter stuff. Nice to see more narrative stuff in the magazine. Great work all around.

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GodHammer6 🇨🇦 @godhammer6.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Good sir, this last run of White Dwarf has been unquestionably, undeniably one of the all time best runs of the magazine that it has seen, perhaps as good or better than the early 2000's. I know, I have those ones too. Hold your head high on the way out, you did a great job.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Thank you! I’d be interested, yes!

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I'm sorry to see you go, but I wish the best on your career forward! I consider the era you managed White Dwarf to be its Golden Age, and I'm consistently impressed with the quality of the magazine. I wrote my Master's Thesis on White Dwarf, and I've read a lot of it so when I say this I mean it!

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I was given a frame of epic-scale British infantry from the Battle of Waterloo, and for the first time I’m tempted by Napoleonics.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I printed a tiny travel version of Santorini ahead of our cruise around Greece. 😁🥰

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

There are a few good ones. I use BGG Catalog, but Boardgame Stats is probably the most popular. There’s also a newcomer called Board Games Companion. I haven’t really messed with it much.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I started logging my board game plays at the beginning of 2025, and hitting 150 in just over 4 months is crazy work.

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Lyle Lowery @lylelowery.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Today is the last day to find me at Adepticon for a Tome Keepers lore pack! I’ll be around the halls in a black Tome Keepers shirt. Remember the pass phrase: “The ink is still wet”.

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Rookie Brushes @rookiebrushes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I'll never get bored of these colours. I bloody love painting my Tome Keepers.

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