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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wolfe’s Book(s) of the New/Long/Short Sun(s), perhaps?
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“This is the Cruiser Shadowfax, seeking permission for docking at the Last Lonely Station”
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OK, so, as a MSDC counterpart to the Hands of the White Wizard for TOR 2e (which I’m having a great time running atm, incidentally!), we have a Scouring of the (Merry)shire where an expy White Wizard is ultimately brought low by a bunch of woodland critters
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can only assume uncovering this conflict will be the first campaign/expansion released for the Merryshire Detective Club
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m a little disappointed that ‘Check back in with that one fox’ isn’t there, though
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy to be the 160th backer 🧝on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The One Ring™ RPG: Bestiary, Gondor Campaign & Updated Rules!
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The One Ring™ RPG: Bestiary, Gondor Campaign & Updated Rules
The award-winning The One Ring tabletop RPG enters a new age with this triple offering – the epic campaign expansion The White Tower and the Hall of Gold, the bestiary Creatures Strange and Foul, and ...
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I can only assume this will involve a dinner party, the reading of a will to discover who inherits the house, and subsequent murder mystery investigation by a noted dog sleuth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Golden retrievers to gather at the breed's ancestral Highland home
The last event held at Guisachan House in the Highlands involved almost 500 dogs.
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No doubt, as a perspicacious peruser of fine librams, you have already availed yourself of these superior tomes, which should prove most efficacious in all manner of blandishments and confabulations. Indeed, for such a trifling consideration, it would appear churlish to neglect the offer
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Strange Studies of Strange Stories @strangestudies.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
17 years (and counting!) of podcasts exploring weird fiction, distilled into a single roleplaying game! Really looking forward to see what @chadfifer.bsky.social and @chrislackey.bsky.social have cooked up here :)
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Our group — the Church Gardens Beautification Committee — had a great time with the playtest for this, can’t wait to see the finished version!
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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
And - a fashionable twenty minutes late - MERRYSHIRE DETECTIVE CLUB is live on backerkit. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
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Merryshire Detective Club
You play amateur detectives in a cosy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...
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Chris Lackey @chrislackey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's live! GO! Be free! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Pleased as punch to be the 104th villager (was the poison in 🥣 or 2nd 🥣?) on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Merryshire Detective Club! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
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Merryshire Detective Club
You play amateur detectives in a cosy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Happy to be the 3rd backer 🧛‍♂️on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Strange Stories: The Roleplaying Game! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...
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Strange Stories: The Roleplaying Game
A one-night, rules-light tabletop RPG that plunges players into the pulps! Inspired by masters of the strange story, including Lovecraft, Rod Serling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Clark Ashton S...
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Thing in Yellow?
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hi! 👋
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ran _Moonlit Shadow_ from Darkened Hill & Dale using Cthulhu Dark last week, and it fit perfectly :)
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
With a similarly comprehensive spin-off game but that lacks any rules dealing with wealth or treasure, in which you will play a bunch of larcenous robots: the Lootful Droids
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Celebrating my wife’s birthday with a lovely evening of storytelling around a few rounds of Border Riding, from @stoutstoat.co.uk
Coffee table, with pens, three 6-sided dice, map and scratch paper with notes, reflect first round of a game of Border Riding (game itself in the foreground)
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Great design and format for the book in general (really appreciate an RPG that can comfortably be held in one hand!)
Contents page of Outgunned Adventure, held out in one hand
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Absolutely love this spread by Daniela Giubellini in _Outgunned Adventure_, showcasing the central matching-d6s mechanic for success under various difficulty conditions - elegant and evocative
The ‘Roll difficulty’ page of the Outgunned: Adventure, showing dice towers of 2 to 5 matching dice, with heroes performing various acts of derring do around them
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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We're over the moon to announce The Tyrant Philosophers Roleplaying Game! Take to the streets of Ilmar in this game of Rebellion and Resistance in @aptshadow.bsky.social's City of Bad Decisions! Find out more and sign up to be notified of the launch here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/han... #ttrpg
An image showing the Tyrant Philosophers RPG book, the logo on a cartouche, and the motto "Rebellion & Resistance in Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Bad Decisions"
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 26/05/2026
Another one of @aptshadow.bsky.social's book series is being adapted for tabletop roleplay. @handiworkgames.bsky.social will turn the The Tyrant Philosophers into a scheming, factional RPG, and the studio talked to us about their goals for the project.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Tyrant Philosophers to be a weird fantasy RPG from Handiwork Games
“He's taking a bit of a risk with us, to be honest, but I think it'll pay off.”
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
_Gallows Corner - A Peasant’s Revolt RPG_ (Three Sails Studios) has just sent out its final PDFs, with physical copies shipping next week (UK). It would be a great one to review, IMHO
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Weaving of the May crowns in progress. Enough sacrificial blood has been spilled in discovering and removing the thorns that the gods of summer should ensure a bountiful harvest
Six in-progress hawthorn crowns, with pink and white blossom, sitting on a garden table, with string to the bottom left.
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A perfectly pleasant place to spend a weekend
Evening sun over a field, with trees in middle distance and on a far ridgeSunset through a hedgerowFirepit in centre, surrounded by wicker furniture. In the foreground, a hand rests a tumbler of whiskey on a leg
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Article on the history of roleplaying zines by Shannon Appelcline is a particular highlight, both in terms of content and layout (the latter a lovely homage to the form) @wyrdscience.bsky.social
Cover page of an article from Wyrd Science ex issue 8, on the history of roleplaying zines, by Shannon Appelcline. A outline drawing of a devilish imp shooting a stream of fire.
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Time to indulge in some Wyrd Science!
Cover of Issue 8 of Wyrd Science magazine, feature a psychedelic pink skull with mushrooms growing from the eyes and mouth
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
(The exclamation point is integral)
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Orc Squad Rulez!
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
what if we put issue 8 of Wyrd Science on sale? What if this got more likes & shares than our stupid jokes? featuring Dolmenwood, Blades In The Dark, Doomsong, Kamping Kitbash, Lee Gold, The Old King's Crown, weird fiction, aggro comics, dungeon synth & lots more shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...
the cover to the new issue of Wyrd Science, featuring an illustration of psychedelic mushrooms growing out of a pink skull by tom j newell
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
👀 bsky.app/profile/brit...
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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Ballad Hunters, the GUMSHOE game of folk songs come eerily to life in gritty 1813, is Kickstarting now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pel...
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Ballad Hunters RPG
Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.
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Tristan Zimmerman - Molten Sulfur Press @moltensulfur.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Britain. 1813. Across the island, the folk ballads of the common people are coming to life. The dead walk, dragons rise, lovers betray one another, authorities condemn innocents to die — whatever happens in the song happens in real life. My latest TTRPG is now live on Kickstarter! bit.ly/4sc4MLb
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Ballad Hunters RPG
Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
No Joke 🌲🍄🧙‍♀️
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Rookery Publications @rookeryp.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Ca-caw! We are back #InsideTheRookery with @rosspayton.bsky.social ! We'll be chatting about using locations in scenario building for #TTRPGs! We'll be live 7pm UK / 3pm ET / 12pm PT. PS I hate Daylight Savings Time. www.youtube.com/live/NnuxF7G...
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Where Plots Take Root with Ross Payton (ItR S11:E7 - 178)
YouTube video by Rookery Publications
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Lizardman pirates should be a thing, in only because they would rock an eyepatch
A rough black-and-white pen sketch of a grumpy-looking lizardman with an eyepatch and neckerchief
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
👀
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Even works thematically: Khorne for violence, anger and other base passions provoked by wealth; Tzeentch for financial chicanery; Slaanesh, all of life’s little pleasures come with their costs; and Nurgle, well, currency is passed from grubby hand to grubby hand, the perfect disease vector
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Would the zines comprising Games Omnivorous’ ‘Manifestus Omnivorous’ count? (More about eating than food, perhaps)
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Dandelo must surely be in there in spirit, if somewhat difficult to spot …
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Just backed ‘The Princess and the Dragon’ www.kickstarter.com/projects/out... Princesses! Dragons! Stickers!
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The Princess & The Dragon
An official fantasy adventure for the Perils & Princesses TTRPG
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
They did too! We had to take a break mid-character generation to manage some feelings, but then they were straight back in. My youngest has been asking since when we can play the princesses game again :)
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Spot of Perils & Princesses with my girls today :)
Felt-tip sketch of ‘Princess Sabrina of Jade Springs’, a character created by my daughter for Perils & Princesses
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Ryan Lynch @outridercreative.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Once upon a time, the brave Princesses rescued the innocent dragon from the fearsome knights...the newest adventure for Perils & Princesses by Ennie-winner Destiny Howell is coming soon to kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/out...
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Coming soon: The Princess & The Dragon
An official fantasy adventure for the Perils & Princesses TTRPG
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Kalum 🔜 GrogLaw 2027 @rolistespod.itch.io · 06/01/2026
GM-less, ZERO prep, and delivering a full hero's journey in a couple of hours... ...MAGIC OF INVENTORYING is great as an introduction to TTRPG or for seasoned players looking for an off-the-shelf adventure. 😉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/rol... Declutter your loot and banish encumbrance forever!
Promotional visual for Magic of Inventorying stating "follow us on Kickstarter" and showing a colourful box containing cards with cartoonish DnD adventurers
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Gotta catch ‘em all
Bookshelf, showing all 7 issues of Wyrd Science, nestled among Hellebore, Secret Passages, Perils and Princesses, and the A Thousand Thousand Islands collection
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Settling in, on a wet and wintry evening
A dram of Port Askaig, and a copy of the book ‘Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts’, resting on a cushion cover from Skye Weavers
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Mark McG @mmcgranaghan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Dragonmeet loot!
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