We took the show on the road again this weekend, attending Conpulsion in Edinburgh. Conpulsion is a games convention run by the Edinburgh University games club. It’s usually of a modest size, but has a really unique feel. As one of our local shows we’re keen to show Conpulsion some support. This time out it […]
Author archives: Jon Hodgson
Airecon Report
We had a great time at Airecon! Jon headed down from Scotland to Harrogate in Yorkshire for two days this weekend. Our kind hosts were our old friends Travelling Man, and we demoed dozens of games of Bang & Twang and The Forest Dragon on their booth. It looks like we have a good number […]
Ropecon 2019 Guest of Honour
We’re delighted to share that Jon will be a guest of honour at this year’s Ropecon in Helsinki.https://2019.ropecon.fi/eng/program/guests/ Ropecon is a really well thought-of convention and we’re excited to be involved – from the Ropecon website: “Ropecon is the largest non-commercial role-playing convention in Europe. The three day event offers a diverse program schedule suitable […]
Airecon 8th to 10th March
Jon will be appearing as a guest at Airecon in Harrogate, UK, 8th to 10th March 2019! You can check out his seminar on Saturday morning, and then try a game of Forest Dragon by Rory Age 9, and The Forest Dragon Bang & Twang at the stand of our kind hosts Travelling Man! Find out […]
Runequest Art Direction
We’re absolutely delighted to be helping Chaosium with art direction, on Greg Stafford’s classic roleplaying game Runequest! Jon Hodgson, owner at Handiwork, has a long history of working on Runequest Gloranthan art, having provided cover art for the award-winning Guide to Glorantha, as well as Heroquest, Sartar and Sartar Companion, and more! Jon: “I’ve really enjoyed exploring […]
We’re sponsoring Tabletop Scotland 2019
We’re delighted to be not only attending Tabletop Scotland for the first time, but to be one of the show sponsors! Tabletop Scotland is a fantastically well organised games convention, and we’re honoured to be a part of it! The show takes place in August in Perth, Scotland, and we’re really looking forward to seeing you […]
The Forest Dragon Bang & Twang heads to print!
We’re delighted to be bringing The Forest Dragon card games to print! “Bang & Twang” a fast and fun game of keeping up with the tune is off to print today! Once Kickstarter copies have been dispatched we’ll have it in our store for purchase!
Beowulf Designer Diary 1
We’ve seen a lot of excitement around our upcoming RPG projects – Ken Hite’s Hellenistika and BEOWULF. Today we present our first designer diary for BEOWULF! Our designer diaries will be irregular updates on how things are progressing behind the scenes, what we’re working on, the challenges we’re facing and so on. BEOWULF DESIGNER DIARY […]
Scarred Lands 5e
Rich Thomas of Onyx Path Publishing has announced the Scarred Lands Creature Collection for 5e will be made in collaboration with Handiwork Games! Rich Thomas: “Last year, when we were planning just how to take the efforts that Stewart Wieck had started and run with them, we knew that a new version of the legendary […]