Dave Morris
@davemorris.bsky.social
Writer, game designer, omnicurious.
This may sound like someone we all know, but it's from a Fitz-James O'Brien story written 170 years ago.
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January 15, 2026 at 1:26 PM
This may sound like someone we all know, but it's from a Fitz-James O'Brien story written 170 years ago.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
A pre-launch review of Whispers Beyond The Stars:
"Modern #Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama [...] Every decision feels messy, weighty, and uncomfortably human."
I'll take that.
#Cthulhu #gamebook
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"Modern #Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama [...] Every decision feels messy, weighty, and uncomfortably human."
I'll take that.
#Cthulhu #gamebook
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A pre-launch review of Whispers Beyond The Stars:
"Modern #Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama [...] Every decision feels messy, weighty, and uncomfortably human."
I'll take that.
#Cthulhu #gamebook
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
"Modern #Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama [...] Every decision feels messy, weighty, and uncomfortably human."
I'll take that.
#Cthulhu #gamebook
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Whenever I see this kind of thing I think of old men shouting at clouds.
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Whenever I see this kind of thing I think of old men shouting at clouds.
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Seems to be the thing now to hoist flags everywhere. Here's the only one I want to see.
October 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Seems to be the thing now to hoist flags everywhere. Here's the only one I want to see.
REH's "The God in the Bowl" as a #DragonWarriors #ttrpg scenario for the game's 40th anniversary.
As to setting, take your pick between Nemedia or Legend.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
As to setting, take your pick between Nemedia or Legend.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
October 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
REH's "The God in the Bowl" as a #DragonWarriors #ttrpg scenario for the game's 40th anniversary.
As to setting, take your pick between Nemedia or Legend.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
As to setting, take your pick between Nemedia or Legend.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
"Afraid of what might be
Hiding in the dark, hiding in the street
And of what was following me."
A song there for the Hounds of... er, Tindalos, #DragonWarriors #TTRPG style.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
Hiding in the dark, hiding in the street
And of what was following me."
A song there for the Hounds of... er, Tindalos, #DragonWarriors #TTRPG style.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
September 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Afraid of what might be
Hiding in the dark, hiding in the street
And of what was following me."
A song there for the Hounds of... er, Tindalos, #DragonWarriors #TTRPG style.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
Hiding in the dark, hiding in the street
And of what was following me."
A song there for the Hounds of... er, Tindalos, #DragonWarriors #TTRPG style.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
LORDS OF THE RISING SUN is currently on sale for two of your English pounds. I don't know how Amazon UK can afford to do it, but if you want to try #FabledLands, now is the perfect time.
www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-Rising...
www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-Rising...
September 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
LORDS OF THE RISING SUN is currently on sale for two of your English pounds. I don't know how Amazon UK can afford to do it, but if you want to try #FabledLands, now is the perfect time.
www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-Rising...
www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-Rising...
A slight tweak to those #CthulhuMythos #DragonWarriors rules: I nerfed the scout a bit as DW assassins are hampered by lack of armor, and in 1920s America none of the characters are in armor anyhow.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
August 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A slight tweak to those #CthulhuMythos #DragonWarriors rules: I nerfed the scout a bit as DW assassins are hampered by lack of armor, and in 1920s America none of the characters are in armor anyhow.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
The oddest thing about looking at Can You Brexit? nearly ten years on is that even the parody versions of 2016's rightwing politicians seem a lot less crazy than most real-world examples today.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1909905917
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1909905917
August 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The oddest thing about looking at Can You Brexit? nearly ten years on is that even the parody versions of 2016's rightwing politicians seem a lot less crazy than most real-world examples today.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1909905917
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1909905917
This from The Economist, which used to employ subs.
August 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This from The Economist, which used to employ subs.
This year is the 40th anniversary of #DragonWarriors #RPG. Must say that back in 1985 I imagined a very much brighter & more inclusive 21st century than the one we've now got, but that being the case here's some 100-year-old darkness. (The fun kind.)
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
August 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This year is the 40th anniversary of #DragonWarriors #RPG. Must say that back in 1985 I imagined a very much brighter & more inclusive 21st century than the one we've now got, but that being the case here's some 100-year-old darkness. (The fun kind.)
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...
“We were playing a fifty foot jet up the face of a tall City warehouse and thinking of nothing at all. You don’t think of anything after the first few hours. You just watch the white pole of water lose itself in the fire.” - William Sansom
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July 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“We were playing a fifty foot jet up the face of a tall City warehouse and thinking of nothing at all. You don’t think of anything after the first few hours. You just watch the white pole of water lose itself in the fire.” - William Sansom
www.english.cam.ac.uk/bbcshortstor...
www.english.cam.ac.uk/bbcshortstor...
Two pictures worth all the words.
July 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Two pictures worth all the words.
#REH's "The God in the Bowl" as a #DragonWarriors #RPG adventure.
#Conan
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
#Conan
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
July 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#REH's "The God in the Bowl" as a #DragonWarriors #RPG adventure.
#Conan
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
#Conan
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
Having all five Vulcanverse gamebooks available in hyperlinked Kindle and PDF editions at a total price of one paperback still isn't good enough for some folks!
July 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Having all five Vulcanverse gamebooks available in hyperlinked Kindle and PDF editions at a total price of one paperback still isn't good enough for some folks!
Re-reading Rendezvous With Rama after a gap of 52 years, I'm struck at how there are now two very alien worlds there -- Rama itself, and the 1970s' idea of the early 22nd century.
May 31, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Re-reading Rendezvous With Rama after a gap of 52 years, I'm struck at how there are now two very alien worlds there -- Rama itself, and the 1970s' idea of the early 22nd century.
Mary Anne Evans writing in 1860 might not have been surprised by cancel culture.
May 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Mary Anne Evans writing in 1860 might not have been surprised by cancel culture.
"Cardinal Scriberi Nascosto in Selentium sent the bowl to Great Schema Kalanthes in Tamor, rivalries across the schism of the Church being much more heartfelt than between wholly different religions."
A No-Prize if you identify where the floor plan is from.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
A No-Prize if you identify where the floor plan is from.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
May 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"Cardinal Scriberi Nascosto in Selentium sent the bowl to Great Schema Kalanthes in Tamor, rivalries across the schism of the Church being much more heartfelt than between wholly different religions."
A No-Prize if you identify where the floor plan is from.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
A No-Prize if you identify where the floor plan is from.
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
“It is a grisly thing. Too ancient to be holy."
REH's "The God in the Bowl" as a #ttrpg one-shot.
(I would have read the original story when I was about 12, the Marvel comics version when I'd just turned 14. Too ancient to be holy, that's me.)
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
REH's "The God in the Bowl" as a #ttrpg one-shot.
(I would have read the original story when I was about 12, the Marvel comics version when I'd just turned 14. Too ancient to be holy, that's me.)
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
May 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“It is a grisly thing. Too ancient to be holy."
REH's "The God in the Bowl" as a #ttrpg one-shot.
(I would have read the original story when I was about 12, the Marvel comics version when I'd just turned 14. Too ancient to be holy, that's me.)
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
REH's "The God in the Bowl" as a #ttrpg one-shot.
(I would have read the original story when I was about 12, the Marvel comics version when I'd just turned 14. Too ancient to be holy, that's me.)
fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
In questionable taste? I thought so, but it may be as my wife said: "The Japanese are made of sterner stuff than we are."
May 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
In questionable taste? I thought so, but it may be as my wife said: "The Japanese are made of sterner stuff than we are."
These are the words of the most powerful man on the planet. I think we should stop worrying about the #AI alignment problem, as we clearly haven't licked it in humans.
May 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
These are the words of the most powerful man on the planet. I think we should stop worrying about the #AI alignment problem, as we clearly haven't licked it in humans.
Gemini 2.5 is multilingual and wants me to know it.
May 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Gemini 2.5 is multilingual and wants me to know it.