Jon at Handiwork Games
@handiworkgames.bsky.social
Scotland-based #ttrpg developer and publisher of #BEOWULF Age of Heroes, #astaterpg second edition, #Maskwitches, Silver Road, Jon Hodgson Backdrop books, #ColdCity, Hot War, #FiveEvil and more
https://handiwork.games
https://handiwork.games
Two projects collide with the stars of The Burn against the Skies Backdrop Book. Both are available on our web store now if you'd like to level up your "telling the stories of the Wee Folk" or your miniatures or toys photography.
January 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Two projects collide with the stars of The Burn against the Skies Backdrop Book. Both are available on our web store now if you'd like to level up your "telling the stories of the Wee Folk" or your miniatures or toys photography.
Just updated the FiveEvil Glasshouse PDF so the pre-generated characters have their own separate character sheet PDFs for your convenience.
It's a great little horror scenario for FiveEvil. I'm yet to run it myself but I can't wait.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#fiveevil
It's a great little horror scenario for FiveEvil. I'm yet to run it myself but I can't wait.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#fiveevil
January 12, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Just updated the FiveEvil Glasshouse PDF so the pre-generated characters have their own separate character sheet PDFs for your convenience.
It's a great little horror scenario for FiveEvil. I'm yet to run it myself but I can't wait.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#fiveevil
It's a great little horror scenario for FiveEvil. I'm yet to run it myself but I can't wait.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#fiveevil
Did a little animation again. Magic innit, stop motion?
(Character model from The Burn by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social
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(Character model from The Burn by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social
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January 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Did a little animation again. Magic innit, stop motion?
(Character model from The Burn by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social
handiwork.games/home/the-sil...)
(Character model from The Burn by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social
handiwork.games/home/the-sil...)
But these writers don’t look anything like a cider wizard. They all write deeply affecting, absolute hammer blows of novels and yet also look like someone it’d be nice to share a little cuddle with. Might have to wrassle Grampa Cormac shirtless first. But still.
January 11, 2026 at 12:03 PM
But these writers don’t look anything like a cider wizard. They all write deeply affecting, absolute hammer blows of novels and yet also look like someone it’d be nice to share a little cuddle with. Might have to wrassle Grampa Cormac shirtless first. But still.
Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.
January 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.
With that in mind here’s my favourite weird little guy, Gurgi from The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.
January 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM
With that in mind here’s my favourite weird little guy, Gurgi from The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.
Messing about with my latest PDF backdrop for my patrons - which I never ever talk about here, since this is more Handiwork Games stuff. But hey! I have seven years of Patreon posts available right now for a really low price.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Messing about with my latest PDF backdrop for my patrons - which I never ever talk about here, since this is more Handiwork Games stuff. But hey! I have seven years of Patreon posts available right now for a really low price.
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Ok. This skull idea has legs.
Next up: better lighting.
Next up: better lighting.
January 5, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Ok. This skull idea has legs.
Next up: better lighting.
Next up: better lighting.
Parcel packing round 1 completed. Meanwhile: the skull is melting. Bit of an equipment test more than anything else at this stage. I'll blog about this on the temporarily fallow Making Maskwitches at some point. Maybe if we get some useable video. making-maskwitches.ghost.io
January 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Parcel packing round 1 completed. Meanwhile: the skull is melting. Bit of an equipment test more than anything else at this stage. I'll blog about this on the temporarily fallow Making Maskwitches at some point. Maybe if we get some useable video. making-maskwitches.ghost.io
It's a busy first day back at work, packing and dispatching all your Christmas and New Year orders, but our first release of 2026 is our dedicated backdrops catalogue, included with every Backdrop Books order! Including tick boxes to record your collection! #jhbackdrops
January 5, 2026 at 1:50 PM
It's a busy first day back at work, packing and dispatching all your Christmas and New Year orders, but our first release of 2026 is our dedicated backdrops catalogue, included with every Backdrop Books order! Including tick boxes to record your collection! #jhbackdrops
Got a couple of weird logs that I saved from burning that’ll make a nice base or backdrop for the melting.
Now regretting not stuffing the skull moulds with hair. Was thinking pine needles but hair would look great/awful. Still, moulds can be reused you know.
Now regretting not stuffing the skull moulds with hair. Was thinking pine needles but hair would look great/awful. Still, moulds can be reused you know.
January 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Got a couple of weird logs that I saved from burning that’ll make a nice base or backdrop for the melting.
Now regretting not stuffing the skull moulds with hair. Was thinking pine needles but hair would look great/awful. Still, moulds can be reused you know.
Now regretting not stuffing the skull moulds with hair. Was thinking pine needles but hair would look great/awful. Still, moulds can be reused you know.
Back at work tomorrow. So the skulls are in the freezer, ready to be filmed melting. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Back at work tomorrow. So the skulls are in the freezer, ready to be filmed melting. Obviously.
I choose cigarettes…
January 4, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I choose cigarettes…
A tricky day to be happy about things, but this arrived so that was a small good. Following a conversation with @fromthemorgue.bsky.social and remembering my original copy is still on loan elsewhere (what’s a decade between friends?) it was time to revisit this gem. Chris Ware’s Building Stories.
January 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM
A tricky day to be happy about things, but this arrived so that was a small good. Following a conversation with @fromthemorgue.bsky.social and remembering my original copy is still on loan elsewhere (what’s a decade between friends?) it was time to revisit this gem. Chris Ware’s Building Stories.
I found a photo on my phone of one of the big ones. Maybe someone somewhere has some to sell? (That’s a footsore shield maiden there too)
December 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I found a photo on my phone of one of the big ones. Maybe someone somewhere has some to sell? (That’s a footsore shield maiden there too)
I had big plans to mark the end of the year with a big post etc but I’m done in! It‘ll keep.
Thank you for keeping us so busy with orders for backdrop books this month. Clearly the premium Xmas gift of 2025!
A few things yet to do but ending my year as I mean to start the next.
Thank you for keeping us so busy with orders for backdrop books this month. Clearly the premium Xmas gift of 2025!
A few things yet to do but ending my year as I mean to start the next.
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I had big plans to mark the end of the year with a big post etc but I’m done in! It‘ll keep.
Thank you for keeping us so busy with orders for backdrop books this month. Clearly the premium Xmas gift of 2025!
A few things yet to do but ending my year as I mean to start the next.
Thank you for keeping us so busy with orders for backdrop books this month. Clearly the premium Xmas gift of 2025!
A few things yet to do but ending my year as I mean to start the next.
Behind the scenes!
December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Behind the scenes!
It's only blinking Officer Peach from @peachytips.bsky.social, who is almost finished enough to look good in the right lighting. But here he is against the World War Ruins Backdrop book, and I guess this is Officer Peach's one dream where he makes it to the ruins of Paris? #jhbackdrops
December 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's only blinking Officer Peach from @peachytips.bsky.social, who is almost finished enough to look good in the right lighting. But here he is against the World War Ruins Backdrop book, and I guess this is Officer Peach's one dream where he makes it to the ruins of Paris? #jhbackdrops
Weird little guys hanging out.
From The Burn, by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social. It’s a standalone title about being a weird little guy that uses The Silver Road story telling game. #ttrpgs
From The Burn, by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social. It’s a standalone title about being a weird little guy that uses The Silver Road story telling game. #ttrpgs
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weird little guys hanging out.
From The Burn, by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social. It’s a standalone title about being a weird little guy that uses The Silver Road story telling game. #ttrpgs
From The Burn, by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social. It’s a standalone title about being a weird little guy that uses The Silver Road story telling game. #ttrpgs
Naturally, self praise is no praise at all but on this one I’m gonna go put on a limb and declare, in hindsight, “mission accomplished”. What a strange thing we made.
I don’t think there’s *many* other RPGs that look like this? (It’s the monochrome version of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland)
I don’t think there’s *many* other RPGs that look like this? (It’s the monochrome version of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland)
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Naturally, self praise is no praise at all but on this one I’m gonna go put on a limb and declare, in hindsight, “mission accomplished”. What a strange thing we made.
I don’t think there’s *many* other RPGs that look like this? (It’s the monochrome version of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland)
I don’t think there’s *many* other RPGs that look like this? (It’s the monochrome version of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland)
About this time of night I like to have a poke around in my random, automatically-created phone folders. This one from Pine Pitch Black caught me unawares.
Doing things is weird. Because later you can look back at the things and go “Woah. Weird” because past you is different to now you.
Doing things is weird. Because later you can look back at the things and go “Woah. Weird” because past you is different to now you.
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
About this time of night I like to have a poke around in my random, automatically-created phone folders. This one from Pine Pitch Black caught me unawares.
Doing things is weird. Because later you can look back at the things and go “Woah. Weird” because past you is different to now you.
Doing things is weird. Because later you can look back at the things and go “Woah. Weird” because past you is different to now you.
Official Trench Crusade Backdrop Books are almost done! There's still time to make a late pledge for either or both of the two books of Backdrops here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/han...
#trenchcrusade #jhbackdrops
#trenchcrusade #jhbackdrops
December 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Official Trench Crusade Backdrop Books are almost done! There's still time to make a late pledge for either or both of the two books of Backdrops here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/han...
#trenchcrusade #jhbackdrops
#trenchcrusade #jhbackdrops
That's BEOWULF Age of Poems updated for our ever-patient KING BEOWULF backers. It'll be available to preorder as a print book, and out in PDF soon! The book collects together the specially commissioned poems by Dave Oliver from BEOWULF Age of Heroes, Trials of the Twin Seas and KING BEOWULF.
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
That's BEOWULF Age of Poems updated for our ever-patient KING BEOWULF backers. It'll be available to preorder as a print book, and out in PDF soon! The book collects together the specially commissioned poems by Dave Oliver from BEOWULF Age of Heroes, Trials of the Twin Seas and KING BEOWULF.
Getting tight for Christmas delivery if you're outside of the UK, but we just launched a range of gift cards (Been meaning to add this to our store forever!) so you can let them choose their own thing and the gift card will be emailed on the day of your choosing.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Getting tight for Christmas delivery if you're outside of the UK, but we just launched a range of gift cards (Been meaning to add this to our store forever!) so you can let them choose their own thing and the gift card will be emailed on the day of your choosing.
handiwork.games/product-cate...
handiwork.games/product-cate...