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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I cannot stress enough how much I’m going to need all 6000 or so of you following us on here to step up and buy this one as I’m only being very slightly hyperbolic to say it’s almost done for me…

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am 100% fully invested in their survival

A close up of a scared looking cartoon triceratops

Another close up of a scared looking cartoon triceratops

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I liked this, instantly made me think of this impractical idea I want to mess with more

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trying to imagine the incredibly bad vibes someone who pulled this out would bring to the table

An advert for a Kickstarter for some insanely naff looking tacticool 5-in-1 dice gizmo, you know the kind, bought direct from like Ali-baba or something for $0.50 and sold to people in America for probably around $100-150

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it is the #DayOfDredd, so as we hurtle, seemingly unstoppably, towards the kind of horrifying future that @2000ad.bsky.social has spent the last 5 decades warning us about, let’s look back at a better, absolutely in no way simpler, time when we weren’t scared of our RPGs having rules

A photo of a page from games workshop’s Judge Dredd rpg showing the absolutely peak 10 phase initiative matrix

A photo of a page from games workshop’s Judge Dredd rpg with rules for how many syllables you can speak in a round

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah there’s a version of the story in the back of my copy, I thought it was familiar

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Famous for being the stars of the first Sidequests section in WS7 (and for some other cool stuff) Castle Rat will play their first ever UK headline show, May 27 next year at the Electric Ballroom in Camden. Tickets go on general sale Friday, 10am www.livenation.co.uk/castle-rat-t...

a gig poster for Castle Rat live in London

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

POV: you're an ancient and magical amber bear

a drunk leering Homer Simpson reaching out to grab a gummi off a babysitters ass

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tfw you have a hit skeet and you’re waiting for it to,somehow magically, translate into sales

Three stills from Narcos of a melancholy looking moustachioed man (drug kingpin Pablo Escobar as it happens) sat in a variety of situations waiting whilst looking despondent and at a loss what to do

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my favourite part of Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of Tolkien. remember he started work on LotR in 1937, at this point it’s 1942, it was finally published in 1954 If he ever does get beatified it will great for writers to finally have a patron saint of procrastinators & pantsers

A photo of a page from a book:

But Stanley Unwin continued to take an interest in the progress of the 'new Hobbit', and in December 1942 he received a letter from Tolkien which reported: It is now approaching completion. I hope to get a little free time this vacation, and might hope to finish it off early next year. It has reached Chapter XXXI and will require at least six more to finish (these are already sketched)’

Yet Chapter XXXI (the original number of Flotsam and Jetsam') was only at the end of what became Book III; and in the event there were to be not six but thirty-one more chapters before the book was complete. Tolkien tried to tackle the story in the months that followed, and he wrote a little more of it. But by the summer of 1943 he had to admit that he was 'dead stuck.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think my emotional support desk Grimlock needs a buddy

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What a day to remember they make a 9” poseable action figure of Grimlock that, for some reason, comes with an apron and drinks tray

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

trying to find some old files and stumbled across an old folder on the hard drive, not quite sure what's making me laugh more the painfully on brand typo or the fact that it's been sat empty for however many years

a series of folders including one titles "Ideas to improve Wyrd Science as a compnay"

the "Ideas to improve Wyrd Science as a compnay" folder containing absolutely nothing

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

here's the booze, find it in select pubs now seriously, whomst must I speak to, to finally get a Wyrd Science branded hot honey or rum based cocktail made?

a photo of the Portcullis Porter in its black and white can

a list of Skipton pubs that the portculLIs porter will be available from (pretty much all Yorkshire ones I'd say).

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

since some people apparently have "lives" & "families" & "friends" and so didn't spend the weekend smearing germs around a little screen & missed it, we've extended our DriveThruRPG flash sale for another 24 hours with all issues, including our latest, 1/2 price www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

a clever person, or at least their disembodied hand holding an iPad that is displaying the bold, bright and rather amazing cover to Wyrd Science issue 8 by Tom J Newell

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

WS8, 50% off all w/e at @drivethrurpg.com! Jam-packed with interviews with John Harper (Blades in the Dark), Gavin Norman (Dolmenwood), Pablo Clark (Old King's Crown), Caesar Ink (Doomsoong), Scott Robinson (Bunnies & Burrows) & Lee Gold (Alarums & Excusrions)! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

a photo of someone holding an iPad reading the pdf version of Wyrd Science issue 8, or at least gawping in amazement at Tom J Newell's awesome cover

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I dunno, buy Wyrd Science or something, it's full of really smart incisive writing on how tabletop games interact with our wider culture, exploring the social, cultural and often esoteric ideas and concepts that underpin our games alongside deep dives into the history of play wyrd.science also

a photo of the pop approaching some kind of green glass orb with an space suit helmet from ALIEN crudely superimposed on top of him

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

on sale this weekend via our exciting new streetwear spinoff

a T-shirt with the legend

Of all
the threats
presented by
uncontrollable
artificial
intelligence,
death by
plague
ranks low!

written across it in computer type

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it is my solemn pledge to you that if 1000 of you buy or subscribe to Wyrd Science within the next 24 hours then me, my horse friend and his wife will spend a chunk of that money reenacting this classic booze ad start the clock! wyrd.science

in a dark wood panelled library, a man, woman and horse are sat behind a table covered with some kind of historical wargame.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

assuming you think it ever is, at what point do you think it's ok, or at least not eyebrow raising, to make a (tabletop) game about a real world conflict? pictured Year Of the Rat - Vietnam 1972 a game released in 1972 about the Vietnam war (which ended in 1975)

the box cover for Year Of the Rat - Vietnam 1972, featuring soldiers in action hiding from incoming fire

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh god. This post will clearly, inexorably lead me to buying an overpriced copy of Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, discovering that it is in fact shit, so destroying another central, if rotten, plank of my youth. Still, too tempting to become a RETVRN guy for this boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31...

The box cover art to Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, a pith helmeted Victorian type looks like he’s about to get his shit wrecked by a t-Rex type lad

Close up pic of a boggle eyed plastic dinosaur from Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs

A gaggle of boggle eyed plastic dinosaurs, anyone know the correct collective noun?

An aerial shot of the Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs game board in play

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Have to say simply going on the pics (that’s journalism!) we’re into the look of @rebellionunplugged.bsky.social’s upcoming Dino Battle! I’ve always wanted someone to redo Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, one of my fave games as a kid, so until that happens this might do gamefound.com/en/projects/...

A product shot of a new hex grid kind of skirmish / battler boardgame with chunky dinosaurs and other anachronistic gubbins

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just casually thinking about what would happen if all 6.3k of our followers on here subscribed to or bought a copy of Wyrd Science

A still from glee of the absolute bastard teacher overlaid with : I AM GOING TO CREATE A MAGAZINE THAT IS EVEN MORE FULL OF AMAZING ORIGINAL ART & WRITING

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New obsession… www.instagram.com/p/Dcn_qfNCDPp/

A photo of the Mai 68 boardgame, where you control cops or protesters in Paris during the, surprise surprise, May 68 protests

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just ten WS x @elkowalczuk.bsky.social tees left (& only M). One off print, once gone, they’re gone and will become grail pieces for WS completists 😉, so this weekend only £15 + free shipping (in the UK) make like Dr Alimantado and be the best dressed rat in town. wyrd.science/collections/...

A charcoal grey t-shirt with a toxic green illustration by Lukasz Kowalczuk of a vile rat man being beaten like a red headed mule by an angry dwarf

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy bank holiday weekend Brits & folks forced to share this island with us! We’re doing free shipping to the UK today/tomorrow, so why not treat yourself to the best tabletop game mags around, such as Secret Passages, Glaive & something called Wyrd Science, as well as a hangover… wyrd.science

A photo of a stack of issues 1-8 of Wyrd Science fanned out on a table

The cover to issue 3 of secret passages with a cartoon wizard looking gnarly

The cover to issue 3 of Glaive featuring a couple of lads in full armour cage fighting

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

so much incredible stuff packed into just one newsletter. much wow

a college of good stuff including Nosferatu, Andrew eldritch, the caves of mud, iron maiden and more

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Look I’ve even made a little graphic for you

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Absolutely going to LABOUR the point here" it should have obviously read in that first post. to make up for this editing lapse here's one last awesome cover

the cover to an old earth mysteries zine, aptly titled EARTH MYSTERIES
black and white, hand drawn title, above a picture of like energy monsters exploding out of a dolmen. pretty badass TBH

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

more amazing weird zine covers! seriously, you could image any of these for an OSR zine and be laughing

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Absolutely going to about the point here but even if you have zero interest in UFOs, folklore, the paranormal or just general high weirdness, this is an astonishing resource for graphic design inspiration god, I love zines...

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Reject sophisticated, balanced board game design. Embrace large plastic centrepieces.

A close of from a vintage toy catalogue showing buckaroo, kerplunk and the jaws hge complete with large plastic shark

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Respect where it’s due, this is a banging set of models. Giant angry ruminants ftw www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

A photo of a new Warhammer AoS gargant witch with her giant angry goats

Close up details of the new gargant witch model

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hmm, trying to think why. The code only applies to one off sales not subscriptions, which are handled on a different platform. So perhaps that’s why it’s not showing, if you’re on our main site then the code should be working, I tested it here & if I have more than one item in my cart when I enter

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

WS8, scientifically proven to be the perfect accompaniment on any weekend escape to a fairy & witch haunted wooded valley Help make this dream become a reality for YOU and your loved ones and get 50% off any second purchase today at wyrd.science

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