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Brian Duguid
@brianduguid.bsky.social
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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.
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chaosium.bsky.social
Our friends at Slitherine have announced that their turn-based strategy computer game RuneQuest Warlords launches on PC on December 9th.
#RUNEQUEST
RuneQuest Warlords computer game launches on December 9th
Our friends at Slitherine have announced that their turn-based strategy computer game RuneQuest  Warlords launches on PC on December 9th.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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chaosium.bsky.social
Read more about the origin of the Ducks in Chaosium President and head of the Nostalgia Department Rick Meints' Out of the Suitcase post:
Out of the Suitcase #2: Ducks, Ducks, and more Ducks
Over on the RuneQuest Facebook group there's recently been a wonderful, fragmented discussion of the origins of Ducks in Glorantha recently. I thought I'd spend a little free time writing down what I ...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as #TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in @chaosium.bsky.social's first edition of #RuneQuest (1978).
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
brianduguid.bsky.social
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.
A book index including entries for Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, and me.
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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malcolmcraig.bsky.social
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.
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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
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November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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theweeowl.bsky.social
Are you looking for a gift for a nature lover? I have this small original mushroom drawing that will fit nicely into a 5x7" standard frame.
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#FlyAgaric #Mushrooms #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #ChristmasGifts #bsnm
A small colour drawing of everyone's favourite mushrooms. The classic red and white fairy toadstool, Fly agaric. They are in a composition with branches of berries and leaves. The drawing is on warm, peachy toned, beige pastel paper. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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chaosium.bsky.social
There is only 1.5 hours left to back the Pendragon Classic Kickstarter!

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November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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moonbroth.bsky.social
I've just shared some Electrum Bonus Content for our book "Dark Side of the Moon": a mix of apocryphal odds and ends we couldn't quite fit in the first time around, plus our art direction briefs, sketches and chats with cover artist John Sumrow and visionary genius Katrin Dirim.
Katrin Dirim's rough sketch for the ninth of ten Zero Wane illustrations, showing the Old Gods, Elder Races and sundry peoples of Glorantha happily presenting gifts to our glorious Red Goddess after her cosmic triumph at the Battle of Castle Blue. If you want to know who they all are, please see pages 28-29 of the Bonus Content file (plus related art direction chat on pages 32-34).
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I have just released QuestWorlds-on-a-page, my attempt to make visual sense of the rules for QuestWorlds, the genre-agnostic narrative RPG from @chaosium.bsky.social.

It's Pay-What-You-Want i.e. it is free, unless you want to give me some money to spend on more RPG stuff :-).

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QuestWorlds-on-a-Page - Blue Shaboo Press | DriveThruRPG
QuestWorlds-on-a-Page is my attempt to make visual sense of the rules for Chaosium's genre-agnostic narrative roleplaying system, QuestWorlds. It is intended to help make use of the QuestWorlds core r...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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fenrisgames.com
Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys.
Thankyou 💔
me in a red tee (white guy with mohawk, dreads and tattoos) cuddling Oz (black, breindle & white husky-staffie cross sitting on wooden table, leaning against me).
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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thegodlearners.bsky.social
We are back with a long overdue #Glorantha Initiation interview featuring twice the amount of French accents! We talked to Ben (aka Dasfynx), the webmaster of the French #RuneQuest Wiki, and co-host o https://godlearners.com/glorantha-initiation-benjamin-podcasts-wikis-and-looking-for-the-one-truth/
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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thegrognardfiles.bsky.social
I’ve been really enjoying my copy. It looks amazing, the quality of the writing is incredible (love the article by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social) and it SMELLS great (remember getting an annual on Christmas Day?)

Treat yourself and support independent magazines.
Weird Science RPG magazine
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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chaosium.bsky.social
A very nice appreciation of Chaosium founder Greg Stafford, who passed away 7 years ago this month, but whose influence rates him as "one of the best modern fantasists, worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Moorcock, Leiber, McCaffrey, Martin, and others." open.substack.com/pub/someanci...
Meet Greg Stafford, the best modern fantasy author you don’t know
Game designer, shaman, and inspiration.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Today is the birthday one of the most talented creators in TTRPGs, Jennell Jaquays, who passed away last year. Jennell was one of our company's earliest artists, and played an prominent role in Chaosium's success over many years, as an illustrator and writer.
October 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Happy #portfolioday ! I'm Shel, I'm an artist, art director, comicker, and more.

I do concept art, pitch package art, style guide development, and more, and I'd love to hear about your next project!

Learn more at www.portablecity.net/shel-kahns-p...
Created for Peculiar Path Inc.; A painting of a cluster of boats and ships in front of an oil rig; the centermost ship is an aircraft carrier; all have been converted into solarpunk living spaces with visible gardening and retrofitted elements. The sea is calm, the sky is blue with big fluffy clouds, it feels peaceful and hopeful and vibrant. Created for Numizmatic Games. A sheet of black and white line and tone drawings of pieces of landforms, ready to beincorporated into a procedural environent kit; all variations on layered desert rock structures; several are fully cleaned up, the rest are a little sketchier. Created for Chaosium. A black and white inked and toned lineup of five Gloranthan adventurers, wearing bronze age outfits and armor inspired by etruscan, scythian and sumerian clothing and technology. There are three men, alla bout the same height, with beards and long hair, and two women, one shorter in scaled maille with a braid, and one taller, in religious dress, with full etruscan hairstyle including crimped curls and a headband. All have tattoos showing gloranthan runes. Created for Hit Point Press. A digital painting of a strange goat-like creature with needles for feet and a visibly bad attitude, leaping towards the viewer, in a landscape of strange precarious stacks of stone. Behind it, a dusk sky with a bright moon, giving it a dramatic rim light.
October 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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orcusdorkus.bsky.social
New episode!🎉

I sit down with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social, author of Designers & Dragons and This Is Free Trader Beowulf, to talk about his 15 year journey chronicling the stories behind the classic D&D modules we love in his upcoming series, Origins. 🤘😊 #TTRPG #DND

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Interview with Shannon Appelcline of Designers & Dragons: Origins
YouTube video by OrcusDorkus' RPG Shenanigans
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October 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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chaosium.bsky.social
Although #RuneQuest focuses on Dragon Pass and Prax, Greg Stafford’s world of #Glorantha includes two whole continents to explore. Many Jonstown Compendium contributors @drivethrurpg.com are devoted to fleshing out these distant exotic corners of the lozenge.
Journey to Jonstown #78: Explore Distant Lands
Although RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha focuses on homelands in Dragon Pass and Prax, Greg Stafford’s world of Glorantha includes two whole continents containing many exotic, far-flung cultures. ...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.
A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name. A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition. A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.
October 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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chaosium.bsky.social
Today, on the seventh anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, Chaosium is pleased to announce William "Bud" Baird as the 2025 Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom winner.
Bud Baird is the 2025 recipient of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom
This month marks the seventh anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, and we are pleased to present the 2025 award to William "Bud" Baird.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Today, October 10th, marks the seventh anniversary of @chaosium.bsky.social company founder Greg Stafford's passing.
October 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Right, now I have some time (and a copy myself!) it's time to share some internal pics from the new issue, my thoughts on the relevant features & perhaps persuade a few more of you to buy a copy (because it's swell)

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So today let's start with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's one, as...
a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one the left hand side is a full page picture of an atom bomb test, on the right the headline Playing Games in the Shadow of the Bomb a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, it shows a still from the film Red Dawn with Russian soldiers posing in front of a McDonalds, the subhead for this section reads The Paranoid Style in American Gaming a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one side is taken up with the cover art for Greg Costikyan's Price of Freedom a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs
October 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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darkandwondrous.bsky.social
As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.
scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).
October 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A riddle for @theguardian.com books page.
p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com
Title: One door leads to freedom, the others to certain death. You may ask one question. Image: Three guards with shields and speard stand in front of three doors. One guard sits at a folding table working at a typewriter, his shield and spear leaning against the wall. Caption: One guard always tells the truth, one always tells lies, and the third always tells an entrancing story that blends reportage with imagination in an attempt to reach a deeper authenticity by moving beyond the narrow categories of fact and fiction.
October 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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chaosium.bsky.social
Mark Morrison says non-human player characters go right back to "why I fell in love with #RuneQuest in the first place", so, with our new Elder Race Adventurers coming out he asked his #Pendragon group if they’d be up for trying RuneQuest for one night...
Table Tales: Coming back to Glorantha
I had a long sleepless night in 1982: I’d just read RuneQuest after playing it with my friend Mark Holsworth and it was a much, much better game than Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. But everyone played A...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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
A digital book cover, with brown grainy background, and in white text: A Greg Stafford Bibliography, by Brian Duguid 2025, and a large white Greg Stafford Rune.
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM