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Dr Tomas Rawlings
@tomasrawlings.bsky.social
VP Sumo Digital. Auroch Digital Studio & Bristol Games hub co-founder. Award winning game designer. Co-founder Digital Tabletop Fest, PhD in Software Studies. BAFTA Member. Warhammer & TTRPG fan. Climate advocate.
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Video game developer, game dev also into boardgames/wargames/RPGs & climate
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Three most recent Exploring #Warhammer posts:

1. The most fun, eclectic and prescient Sci-Fi and Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader Limited Editions of Ye Olde Citadel Miniatures exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/the-most-f...
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is worth signing imho - Hold a public inquiry into claims & information made in the EU Exit Referendum petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... #brexit
Petition: Hold a public inquiry into claims & information made in the EU Exit Referendum
We call on the UK Government to establish an independent, public inquiry into the claims and information presented during the EU Exit referendum. Many reports and studies suggest that misleading or ex...
petition.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The most fun, eclectic and prescient Sci-Fi and Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader Limited Editions of Ye Olde Citadel Miniatures exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/the-most-f...

#warhammer #warhammer40K

Image: LE9 - Space Skeleton from sho3box.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
What was the first Games Workshop/Citadel or #Warhammer miniatures you ever purchased? Reply with a picture.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
So in a more recent Exploring #Warhammer post I covered the pre-40K Space Marine released including LE2 and LE10. I'm working on a post that will cover all the LEs or 'Limited Editions'.

Feel free to share any memories or thoughts on them! Thanks.

exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/the-pre-40...
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Proud to be the 1,103rd backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Designers & Dragons: Origins! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
Designers & Dragons: Origins
From the birth of roleplaying to the discovery of the Forgotten Realms, from the rise of Basic D&D to the fall of Mystara, historian Shannon Appelcline brings you the story of OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&...
www.backerkit.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Playing Catopoly (Monopoly but cats) with the kids and my youngest, in order to thwart me completing a set, added a 4th property to the green set; Chicken Cat.
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Wow. Harry the Hammer art may go for £400K!

Via @origoldhammerart.bsky.social - www.threads.com/@originalold...
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Evidence is Clear: Bending the CO2 Curve towards Zero Means Not Just Fighting Climate Chaos - But a Better World Too

climatehopium.substack.com/p/the-eviden...

We are witnessing a technological shift on the scale of the agricultural revolution and this is sparking major change #climatechange
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A Key Document in the History of Warhammer 40,000: White Dwarf 108 - featuring Heresy, Ambulls, Chaplains & Commissars exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/another-ke...

#Warhammer #Warhammer40K #RogueTrader #SpaceMarine
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Reposted by Dr Tomas Rawlings
BREAKING: Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI again, pushing the highly anticipated game from May to November 19, 2026. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026
The release date for the game had previously slipped to May 2026 from fall 2025
www.bloomberg.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Politics aside, this was clearly why he won.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Well played, Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/ghostbuste...
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Reposted by Dr Tomas Rawlings
OK, seriously I'm going to need someone to buy us a PC so we can actually play this ridiculous looking new Warhammer game @aurochdigital.bsky.social (who did the equally frenetic 8bit Boltgun FPS) are bringing out next year with all its, and I quote, "relentless and charming pixel-vomit gameplay"
Warhammer Survivors Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by Auroch Digital
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reposted by Dr Tomas Rawlings
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Introducing: Warhammer Survivors, coming 2026.

The endless night closes around you in the universes of Warhammer. Pick a champion and eviscerate endless swarms of enemies ⚔️

Watch the trailer 👇
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I just backed The King in Yellow - Fine-Press Edition on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/859...
The King in Yellow - Fine-Press Edition
Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow, reborn as a deluxe, slipcased hardcover with edition-exclusive artwork.
www.kickstarter.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Working on thoughts of WD108 as a key document.
November 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
So for no particular reason I decided to collect together all of the ‘dead’ (well, casualty) miniatures that Citadel produced during the Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader period. Here they all are! More info in link. exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/bring-out-...

#Warhammer #Warhammer40K
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Caught My Eye - A few stories about data, Roblox and the emotional rollercoaster that is releasing a game, that caught my attention. If you want to see them and my thoughts, do click and read on!

#GameDev #Roblox #GameDevelopment

exploringgamedevelopment.substack.com/p/caught-my-...
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“It's worth the $10 too”
The meatloaf takes 1 hour plus. Do you have an ETA?
Wait until Tuesday.
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Super-cool White Dwarf 99! From 1988 & editorial re Realm of Chaos notes, “The Realm of Chaos swirls around our feet as we trip over ourselves trying to get this issue out. Malignant forces seem to ooze from the pages, and seep back into the mind of whoever happens to be working on them.” #warhammer
I made a few issues of very tiny White Dwarf magazine so my Imperial Guards have something to read. If you take care of your soldiers they fight better.
October 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A Key Document in the History of Warhammer 40,000: White Dwarf 112 & Terminator Armour

Not the first issue of White Dwarf to feature Terminator Armour but the main expansion of lore/rules - plus some other cool things.

exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/a-key-docu...

#Warhammer #Warhammer40K
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM