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What happens when Syd Mead and John Berkey argue about spaceships? It leads to a discussion on plumbing, of course!
Then Harlan Ellison and Arthur C. Clarke show up to throw gas on the fire. Come take sides in the argument!
Free 30-page booklet at grailrunner.com
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A John Wayne movie. A stranger’s name. An irresponsible game of Call of Cthulhu.
How those became rival commanders in our tabletop wargame, and how we built their looks in Daz & Photoshop.
Go behind the scenes + grab a FREE lore card:
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Join Auroch and The Wake for a reunion beneath an abandoned gateway to pocket worlds where unfinished business and a very bad idea make dangerous company.
Read the story and explore the new illustrations here:
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Great lore. Cool art. So why isn’t your game grabbing people?
I share hard-earned lessons from redesigning Salt Mystic’s rulebook and packaging. And curing my addiction to lore-dumps.
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#IndieGameDesign #TabletopGaming
I set out to design a tabletop wargame. Somehow, I ended up growing people’s hair in Blender. 😬
Bad art decisions, before-and-afters, and the Salt Mystic refresh:
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#SaltMystic #IndieGameDev
I wrote an RPG—then spent 18 months afraid to read it.
When I finally opened SALT MYSTIC: BOOK OF LOTS and trusted its oracles, they threw me onto a flying train with a filthy outlaw, a silent Fog Man and cities that walk.
Here’s what happened: grailrunner.com
"Slowly writing a novel when AI could've knocked this out already..."
New article (and musings on the upcoming Mazewater novel) is live now on grailrunner.com
“Let’s talk to Michael Weems: the Dungeon Master building the future of roleplaying with AI”
Our latest interview features Michael Weems, a Dungeon Master experimenting with the frontier where imagination and artificial intelligence meet.
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#TTRPG #DnD
Let's fix a travesty, shall we?
I set out to restore Lord Dunsany’s The Book of Wonder—not just the text, but the original pairing with Sidney Sime’s haunting illustrations that gave it life.
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The Journey to Pen & Ink Mastery — 15 lessons learned from returning to drawing after decades away.
What the masters understand about line, contrast, restraint, and why most drawings fail before the first stroke is finished.
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#PenAndInk #Illustration
It takes me seven years to write a novel.
Not because I’m slow. Because I rewrite while I’m still discovering the story.
I learned from concept art something that might help!
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Do you draft fast or rewrite as you go?
What if classic Dungeon Magazine adventures were a podcast?
We tested it using Google’s NotebookLM—and the results are fascinating.
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#DnD #OSR #DungeonMaster #TabletopRPG
🂡 Before poker ruled the Wild West, there was FARO. 🂡
Fast. Elegant. Ruthless.
The most popular gambling game on the frontier—now almost forgotten.
New post on Grailrunner + free RPG & tabletop resources 👇
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#WildWest #GameHistory #TabletopRPG
The Experimental Concept Art Masterclass 🎨
A free, beautifully illustrated and interactive guide and workbook to ideation techniques in concept art.
🚀 Download Now at grailrunner.com
#ConceptArt #DigitalArt #ArtBook #Worldbuilding #ArtistsOnX #Grailrunner
We streamlined the Salt Mystic landing page!
It’s like we cleaned our room—looks better, still can’t find anything. Take it for a spin and tell us what you think before we break it again.
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Horror + ink collide.
We interviewed Mateusz Lenart—Creative Director of Silent Hill 2 & pen & ink master—about comics roots, Slavic myth, & building fear in black & white.
👉 Read it here: grailrunner.com
#SilentHill2 #PenAndInk #HorrorGames #IndieArt #Grailrunner
Using a 1796 travel diary, a paper map, and a small-town archive, I pinpointed the exact Ohio River shipwreck site from an adventurer's journal—and the earliest footprint of a town's founding. Dive in:
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#History #OhioRiver #Waynesville #LocalHistory
What happens when Tolkien and the Monkey King co-design a naval wargame…with a little help from Admiral Nelson & Hannibal?
Come see for yourself -it's free!
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