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Brian Duguid

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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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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 7d

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).

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 3d

That was pretty much my first thought. It doesn't need to be an "atrocity". Just a reprisal attack for seeing the Lunars' original peaceful intrusion met by people for whom "violence is always an option". And having mixed motives within the "enemy" group gives multiple options for resolution.

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 5d

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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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 7d

Genius!

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 7d

Literally everyone who is a long-time Glorantha lorehound today started playing in the setting with little or no knowledge about it, and generally without caring if they were getting it "right".

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, I want to find a space in one of my games for them now :-)

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 8d

Ah, the "Rambo Wave", as the French call it.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 8d

Tagging @wyrdscience.bsky.social for their important contribution to research :-)

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 8d

This is my first try at my Ygg-worshipping ex-Wolf Pirate character, Svarnar Deepdiver.

A portrait illustration of a Gloranthan character, a blonde bearded man, wearing a thick woolen cloak and holding a spear.

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 8d

This one was just me playing around

A portrait illustration of a Gloranthan character, possibly a shaman, with pale hair, brown skin, and a ritual mace held in one hand. Their eyes are closed and they look contemplative and happy.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 8d

This is fabulous, a really useful and creative tool for #RuneQuest #Glorantha fans!

Katrin Dirim @katrindirim.bsky.social · 8d

I thought I was prepared for how long this would take. I was wrong.

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Gloranthan Character Maker

Based on Gred Staffords Glorantha. Marked as sensitive just in case since it includes a bit of eyeball jewellery. Find me on Bluesky/Instagram/Tumblr under @katrindirim or @kleioscanvas Free for pe...

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martinhelsdon.bsky.social @martinhelsdon.bsky.social · 8d

As a special addition to the RuneQuest Adventure Tokens, @katrindirim.bsky.social has kindly drawn a Moon Cat! Feel free to use this feline in your games.

#Glorantha

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Carl Benz has an idea

[Scene is a 19th century drawing room with a sign outside saying TRANSPORT INVENTORS CLUB. Inside, the German Engineer KARL BENZ is addressing a meeting of gentlemen about his new transport idea]

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KARL BENZ:
OK guys - you’re gonna love this

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KARL BENZ:
So it’s like, a box made of metal that goes at up to 120 miles an hour, yeah?

[Karl shows them a diagram of a car]

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KARL BENZ:
And your drive it down one side of the road, and the boxes going the other way go on the opposite side, so we don’t need to build two roads!

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OTHER GUY:
What’s down the middle?

KARL BENZ:
A white line.

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OTHER GUY:
So like, a white barrier…

KARL BENZ:
No a white line. Drawn on the floor.

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OTHER GUY:
And who’s piloting these machines?

KARL BENZ:
I was thinking: random members of the public.

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[Pause, the other guys all look with concern at Karl]

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OTHER GUY:
Karl are you OK

KARL BENZ:
No listen it’s fine

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OTHER GUY:
You know we’re worried about you, don’t you?

KARL BENZ:
No really it’ll work -

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KARL BENZ:
Once hundreds of millions of people have died and the world’s started ending because of the fumes it’ll all be normal.

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OTHER GUY:
Is that normal like the ‘commuter travel device’ you brought in last week which was just…

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OTHER GUY:
…an iron maiden fired from a catapult?

[The other guy displays a diagram of an iron maiden being fired from a catapult]

KARL BENZ:
THAT WOULD’VE WORKED!

[ends]

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 11d

Repost with a game released the year you were born

Screenshot from the very early video game Lunar Lander

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 12d

My PC is in Fay Jee right now!

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 12d

Serious question: is this the best Gloranthan campaign ever published? In any case: these are a fabulous resource and it's great to see them available again!

Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 12d

Returning as QuestWorlds publications! The Coming Storm and The Eleven Lights were originally HeroQuest titles, but have been rebadged. Together, these two books form a truly epic Gloranthan #TTRPG campaign.

The Coming Storm and The Eleven Lights, epic two volume Gloranthan campaign now redbadged for QuestWorlds and available again, in print and PDF

Returning as QuestWorlds publications! The Coming Storm and The Eleven Lights were originally released as HeroQuest titles, but have been rebadged. Together, these two books form a truly epic Glo...

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 13d

She has at least installed OneDrive on the iPad, so assuming she has got it correctly set up in the Apple Files app, at least she shouldn't have to worry about copying files between multiple cloud accounts. But why does everything have to be so *difficult* !

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 13d

My daughter bought an iPad on Saturday. First Apple device we have allowed into our house (she's leaving in two days time, so it's ok). Seeing what they charge for a keyboard ... and the shoddiness of 3rd party ones ... I'll stick with the more open PC ecosystem thanks very much.

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 13d

I used the TMB App on my phone when I was last there a year or two ago. From memory, you can either buy tickets from machines, or load credits onto the app. But we were battling with our very limited Spanish :-).

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 13d

#ttrpg game submissions are underway for next year's AireCon in Harrogate. We have 21 tables over 8 slots from Friday to Sunday 13-15 March 2026.

Join me for some RPG action! Run some amazing games there. 😄

www.airecon.co.uk/gms

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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 15d

It isn't really the right word for what I was reaching for, but I went largely by feeling :-)

Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 16d

You'll go into this podcast expecting a discussion of six Cults of RuneQuest books and come out the other side having experienced a short but mind-opening introduction to the epistomology of myth. Enjoy!

Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 16d

Cults of RuneQuest

Blurring the line between mythology and roleplaying games. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/09/cults-of-runequest/ #TTRPG

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