Gordon Ramsey eat your heart out! Hear a little about 'Serving Up Disaster' by Molomoot.

Come and read about Sirens’ Oath, an eco-fantasy adventure inspired by mermaid lore!

Constantinople - monster hunters in the Byzantine era!

Learn about politics in space with Vesta Mandate!

Find out about Alpengard, the fulfilment of a lifelong dream!

Vampires and Consent. Two words that don’t often go together! Why not take a read of what Josh is planning to do in this area...

Authentic Irish mythology with hexcrawl survival and secrets? Count me in!

Chris is working on a solo game of murder and its consequences. As if academia wasn’t hard enough!

Mikhail is arranging a prison break for you!

Josh finds Sci-Fi settings mysterious and exciting, and is adding an investigative Sci-Fi game to his game lineup!

Tanya loves creating games which evoke specific emotions or moods. Currently working on Mum Chums!

Daniel is an emerging designer in the UK, with two full games out and several more in development. Read to find out more!

Tejas is in on the journey of bringing his home game to a wider market, with a feel unlike any other. Would you believe platypus people?

Craig has a special interest in Cold War and sci-fi genres, and is wonderfully open about his experiences with exhibiting at conventions.

Josh is an illustrator and game designer from the Midlands who is keen that art communicates ideas and produces culture. And games are art!

Lyme is my first interviewee from the USA, and he enjoys creating and running horror games

Kalum is a Londoner with a broad range of TTRPG tastes and several projects on the go!

Kayla was a stand up comedian and pro wrestler before turning to full time TTRPG writing and publishing!

Sam is working on a PBTA game of Sad Dead Sailors, and their struggle to grow and move on to the afterlife.

Luke is half of Murkdice, and is keen on supporting GM-centric design. His Factions Handbook sounds like it is worth looking out for!

Stoo is a programmer, game designer and musician. He works on his own and collaborates with others on games and supplements.

Rich is a UK designer with a passion for engaging with an upcoming generation.

Chris is a UK designer with a range of serious and comic games under his belt and more to come.

James Wallis has been influencing the RPG industry in a positive way for many years. And he's got big plans for the future...

David F Chapman has been playing games for over 40 years and developing RPGs for nearly 25. Find out a little about his dreams for dreamscapes in WILD...

A dream of knights and faeries and what mischief and feelings might arise between them.

A solo game of sci-fi body horror

A GMless role playing game of duty and desire. (Playtest version)

An RPG which captures the feel of the Alien/Aliens films beautifully.

A card-based epistolary game about fading communication and saying goodbye.

A diceless, card-based story game about labour rights and the Battle of Blair Mountain.

A diceless, card-based story game about a detective and his hat. Perfect noir feel.

A deeply atmospheric game of people with dark secrets hunting monsters in Victorian London.

Do you remember Happy Days, with Fonzie, Richie Cunningham and all their pals in a nostalgic situation comedy back in the 1970’s? It was fun, exciting and spawned a whole generation of people who knew how to say “Heyyyyy” while showing two thumbs up. But one day it jumped the shark.

During the last year of COVID I’ve had the great delight of enjoying some regular Sunday night games with friends from America. We’ve played a wide range of one-shot games and playtests. Today I’d like to focus on the one-shot games which we have played which were written by Grant Howitt - well known for Honey Heist, but actually the purveyor of a very wide range of fine one-page games. These are presented in the order in which I played them.

Why I think Blades in the Dark is an important new design in tabletop RPG’s

Description and mechanics brought together beautifully through the rules for 'Aspects'

Time travel as an RPG genre is one with infinite possibilities, but really hard to do right. For my money, Timewatch is the best example out there today, and I’m going to tell you why.

I had always wanted to try a 'story game', but was afraid to try. I didn't think I'd have the creative wits to be any good at it, let alone enjoy it. So it was my great good fortune that my first exposure was via the amazing Grey Ranks.

I have come to understand that some of the very best games have mechanics which support the theme of the game in some way. For me the outstanding example of this is Ten Candles by Cavalry Games.

What is a good choice for an eCommerce solution for a small ttrpg publisher?

Digital notepads are some of my favourite apps for the ‘noodling around’ stage of game design

The choice of software for writing is as individual a choice as anyone is likely to make. I’ve shifted over time from one to another, and at the moment my preferred choice is iA Writer.

Move over indesign, there is a new kid on the block and Affinity Publisher is better for indie game designers than you!

Continuing playing The Between. In which questions about Figgs specialist pork pies are asked, work is suspended on the St Jame’s Street Ghost, and more clues are gathered about the Whatley Camera.

Continuing playing The Between. In which the mystery of the St James's Street Ghost starts, while Sally No-Face draws towards a close.

An account of stories told when playing The Between. In celebration of the successful crowdfunding just taking place.

In which Dragonmeet is followed by Muppetmeet, and I take on too much! But had a great time nonetheless.

Metatopia continues to be a brilliant convention for game designers who want to alpha- and beta- test their game designs with smart, capable people from the design and playtest community

Metatopia has run again as an in person event for the first time since the start of covid. This was smaller than before, fully masked and vaccinated, and absolutely excellent!

Metatopia is the game design festival run by Double Exposure which I attended again in 2019

What does a tiny game design company do in order to get high quality feedback on a new game they are developing? Why, go to Metatopia of course!

John Wyndham was a master of writing dystopia science fiction from the point of view of ordinary people. I think this is one of his finest, with elements which are directly applicable to our international response to climate change.

In these days of instant messaging, WhatsApp and texts, the pleasure of writing and receiving letters is perhaps in danger of being forgotten.

Leo Marks was the principal code-maker for the SOE during the war. This book which is filled with wry humour and bureaucratic frustration covers his war from 1942-45. He was considered the “one who got away” from Bletchley Park, and has amazing insights into the secret war of the SOE.

This is the true stories of seven of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France. The author has taken a chronological view of events from the rise of Hitler in 1933 to the end of the war. Structurally the book has a good table of contents and index, and contains black and white photographs and maps. There is a bibliography of over one hundred books which have been used as sources.

So I decided to re-read 1984. I first read it about thirty years ago as a teenager, and I remember it being dreary and with a bit of horror at the end. Reading it now, I see it somewhat differently…