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Making the cover for the new all-human art Redux Edition of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland has taken a lot of thought. The cover of the first edition was a startling image, and we were used to it raising gasps. We’ve been through many iterations before settling on this as our new cover:

It is strongly reminiscent of the previous cover, taking the best human-derived parts of that image, but it’s leaner, cleaner and makes use of painting and model photography to good effect.

Jon has started a blog dedicated solely to Maskwitches, since there’s a lot to talk about around the making of the new edition. We think its shaping up into something truly unique.

In this Fifteenth Digital Pack of bonus content for BEOWULF: Age of Heroes, we bring you a Trolls special!:

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We’re hard at work (amongst other things) making a new edition of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland. The Redux Edition will contain all human art throughout.

You can once again download the free preview of The Naming of Spirits at DrivethruRPG, or read it right here:

“The Naming of Spirits” is a preview of some of the tools found in Maskwitches. In this instance all about naming Spirits for your games.

Please be aware that:

The Spirits found in Maskwitches are meant to be terrifying 10,000 year-old spirits from a largely alien world, of which the human beings of The Land are extremely frightened. But forewarned is forearmed:

• there is a reference to child mortality early in the text.

• there are some anatomical words in there, which can make some frightening combinations.

We launch at 5pm UK time on Tuesday the 30th of January. At the time of posting that’s under 2 hours away!

It’s Burns Night tonight! In celebration of the Bard’s contribution to literature and song we present you our free Scots portent tables. 

Scots shares a root with the more commonly spoken English but recognised as its own language. It’s often mistaken for a dialect or accent, but this is not the case. 

UNESCO recognises Scots as a vulnerable language, and in gratitude for the home Handiwork Games has found in Scotland we’re happy to raise awareness of this much-misunderstood branch of language. 

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Jon unboxes his backer rewards from Bad Squiddo Games Ghouls Kickstarter. There’s some chat about how we’re heading back to Kickstarter on January 30th to raise funds for two new backdrops books, plus A3 versions of the original two books!

Backdrops 2 cliffs notes:
At launch there will be 2 new A4 books:
• Fantasy Ruins and Tunnels
• Scifi Ruins and Interiors

Plus
A3 versions of the books from the first campaign:
• Backdrops Book One (fantasy)
• Sci-fi Backdrops

You can sign up for that campaign here:

New backdrop books are coming!

The miniature shown here is a the fabulous Lady MacBeth figure from the sublime Bad Squiddo. Will we unlock the winter book? Who knows?!!?!

You’ll soon be able to sign up for the week long quickstarter.