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12th March 20191st June 2021

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 of new Forest Dragon fans!

We also got to chat to folks about our RPG plans for Beowulf and Hellenistika, and were pleasantly surprised by how many people have heard about what we’re up to!

Jon gave his talk to an unexpectedly full seminar room, and it seems to have been well received! With lots of experience there were three sets of slide on hand depending on what people wanted to hear about – games design and publishing, art direction or art creation. Jon delivered a bit of a mix, and thank you if you came along. We hope it was useful!

We also got a chance to catch up with our friends Wotan Games, All Rolled Up, artist Ralph Horsley, rpg writer Steve Emmott, gamer and TV presenter Marty Jopson, baker extraordinaire Kim-Joy, our friends from Yog-Sothoth and meet fellow designers from just down the road in Scotland, One Free Elephant.

As ever there wasn’t time to catch up with everyone we saw in passing or in the distance! Sorry if we missed you!

The show has a really wonderful family atmosphere and we enjoyed gaming late into the night. If you can get to Harrogate then Airecon is well worth the trip!

Thanks to Ben and Mark for inviting us down!

If you weren’t able to get to Airecon, you’ll soon be able to find Forest Dragon by Rory Age 9 and Bang & Twang in Travelling Man stores.

And if you can’t get to a store, then you can mail order copies from our shop right now.

28th February 20191st June 2021

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 for all ages from tabletop and live-action role-playing games to card games, miniature war games and board games. In addition to tournaments and other gaming related programs Ropecon also features lectures, panel discussions and workshops on a wide variety of topics.”

Find out more here: https://2019.ropecon.fi/eng/

14th February 20191st June 2021

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 more about Airecon here: https://airecon.uk

23rd January 20191st June 2021

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 Glorantha as an artist, and now stepping up to help with art direction feels really positive. Chaosium are proving to be a leading company in tabletop games right now, with a truly dynamic approach. The new Runequest is a stunning benchmark in visual design, and I can’t wait to see what we make together!”

We’ll be working with the established Runequest art team, as well as bringing in some fresh faces.

Here at Handiwork Games, as well as producing our own gaming titles, we’re also working with a highly select group of fellow publishers as part of our Handiwork Studio programme. You can find out more about what we do here: handiwork.games/studio

You can find out more about Runequesthere: www.chaosium.com

21st January 20191st June 2021

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 there! Find out more at the Tabletop Scotland website here.

17th January 20191st June 2021

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!