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Publisher at @unwinnable.com | TTRPG history at VintageRPG.com | Co-host of Games People Play on @wfmu.bsky.social | New book with @strangeattractor.bsky.social in 2025 | Links: https://linktr.ee/vintagerpg

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · Jul 7

Do you enjoy cool old nerd stuff?Join my weekly newsletter about RPGs and other related topics, like gamebooks, toys, monsters, the occult and other stuff you might find in your local weirdo bookstore circa 1985!

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 3h

We would definitely tweak the rules if we played again, but I think the real charm is yea, you're playing six Jessica Fletcher clones, one of which has gone bad.

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 3h

Maybe if these people were glass windows in corporate offices the cops'd care.

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 7h

Honestly pretty good and way better than any expectation. Kind of a mix of Clue and Sid Sackson's Sleuth.

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 7h

My board game night is cooler than yours.

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 7h

Hahahahaha truest of truths.

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 1d

Well, if I can help, I am willing! Mainly from a US perspective but can maybe put you in touch with colleagues in Brazil too.

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 1d

Oooh, are we gonna talk about international vampire courts?!

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 1d

The Octogon of Chaos (1986)

A shocking upgrade in production value. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/10/the-octogon-of-chaos-1986/ #TTRPG

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 2d

The kid has been putting this sign in random places around the house for the last couple weeks.

Sign that reads "Not a Trap" accompanied by an arrow, currently pointed by a wooden duck decoy.

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 2d

Glozel est Authentique! (1984)

It may be authentic, but is it _good_? Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/10/glozel-est-authentique-1984/ #TTRPG

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 3d

Finished writing 2026's daily posts for VintageRPG.com last night. Counting that 85,000 words, the total number of words on the site will be 760,000. Adding in Monsters Aliens and Holes in the Ground and the forthcoming Down Down Down, that makes ONE MILLION WORDS on RPGs.

Vintage RPG

The Art & History of Tabletop RPGs

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 3d

Whispers from the Abyss (1984)

Not a single abyss to be found within. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/10/whispers-from-the-abyss-1984/ #TTRPG

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Derek Kın̈sman @derekkinsman.com · 3d

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 3d

I'm not really kidding.
youtu.be/6Kcsnp2-_0A?...

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 4d

Men Without Hats is like an upbeat Sisters of Mercy.

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 4d

They're certainly...special.

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 4d

Death in Dunwich (1983)

Truly the closest an RPG product has come to being worthy of _Mystery Science
Theater 3000_. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/10/death-in-dunwich-1983/ #TTRPG

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Goblins and Gardens @goblinsandgardens.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly $14 for this is insane. It’s such a good deal. PLLLEEAAASE if you have any interest in nerdy shit I urge you to pick up a copy of this and help support physical media! It’s really important 💜

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Wyrd Science Vol.1 / Issue 7 [Print]

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 5d

Arkham Evil (1983)

I want to be clear: I love TOME's Call of Cthulhu products. Even if it sounds
like I don't. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/10/arkham-evil-1983/ #TTRPG

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 5d

The Stars are Right!

The end was nigh! Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/10/the-stars-are-right/ #TTRPG

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 7d

I say basically the same thing about my whole house, and myself.

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 7d

I'm jealous. I put up the biggest cork board I could find, but it never occurred to me to just do the whole wall in cork.

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 7d

Is that a full wall corkboard?

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 8d

The Gaunt Man Returns (1992)

Can't keep a good interdimensional conqueror down. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/10/the-gaunt-man-returns-1992/ #TTRPG

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Highland Paranormal Society @n8hps.bsky.social · 8d

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Sign was painted, said, "Private Property"
But on the back side, it didn't say nothing
This land was made for you and me

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