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Malcolm and the Burn

You may have seen that we recently released The Burn, a charmingly unique setting for The Silver Road.

Penned by Scottish RPG design legend Malcolm Craig (a|state, Cold City, Hot War), The Burn is all about childhood memory and folklore, specifically local to Malcom as he was growing up in Polmont, Scotland. It just so happens that the Handiwork HQ is in the very same district of Falkirk, so Jon was able to shoot all the photographs that illustrate the game in the very same locations that “Wee Malcolm” haunted as a child.

Not so long ago Malcolm was in the area, and we took a tour of some of those sites, book in hand, and here we present the photo story of heading back to The Burn.

We also discussed The Burn as part of our latest History in Games, Games in History podcast:

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Out Now in PDF: The Meat Spoiler for Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland!

If you’re looking for a scenario for Maskwitches Redux you can now get The Meat Spoiler Redux in PDF!

GET IT


Disharmony in a lake-side community has caused the appearance of a meat-spoiling spirit. With winter approaching, and food stores dwindling, can the Maskwitches drive off this malevolent presence and heal the divisions within the community? 

Featuring the same unique combination of props, sets, in camera effects and digital painting, The Meat Spoiler builds on the unique look of Maskwitches.


The PDF is also available for free when you pre-order the print edition here:

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Maskwitches is out now in PDF!

Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland is out now in PDF!

The even more discerning reader can also now get the black and white coffee table book version, Pine Pitch Black which also released today.


Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland is a unique experiment in graphic approach and unique mechanics. Find out more at the dedicated Maskwitches page.

“Maskwitches was one of the most immersive, emotional and dramatic games I ever ran.” 
– Royston Harwood, Maskwitches playtester

“A game that feels like a conjuring – a curious and compelling artefact. It is strange in the best possible way, a genuine work of art from the prose to the mechanics to art.”
– Gareth Hanrahan, author of The Black Iron Legacy Series, The Lands Of The Firstborn Trilogy, The Eyes Of The Stone Thief, The Darkening Of Mirkwood.

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Maskwitches PDFs releasing June 11th!

This Tuesday, June the 11th, we will release the PDF version of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland, along with the Pine Pitch Black version!

You can get the PDF right now for free with a pre-order of a print book at our web store, but if you want just the PDF the wait will soon be over!

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Very first Maskwitches hardcovers arrive!

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BEOWULF Digital Pack 16 is out now!

BEOWULF Digital Pack 16 is out right now exclusively at DriveThruRPG.com!

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

• New Follower Gifts by Jacob Rodgers

• A guide to Followers with new adversary gifts and advice for GMs by Jon Hodgson

• 6 VTT tokens for your NPCs or Followers

• 3 Battle maps: two cliff locations and a cave leading off from the cliffs, in VTT, PDF poster and sliced up home print versions!

Get Digital Pack 16 at DrivethruRPG now!
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History in Games, Games in History 4: Personal History

They’re back! In this episode of History in Games, Games in History, actual Dr Malcolm Craig and absolutely-not-a-Dr, Jon Hodgson discuss personal history and memory. For about 5 minutes before heading into the weeds really hard as usual.

Both Malcolm and Jon with be at UK Games Expo this coming weekend! Swing by Hall One, Booth 1-122. Malcolm will be there on Saturday, Jon is there all three days.

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New Backdrops Books Progress

Welcome to Friday! Progress is constantly happening as we close in on going to print with the next wave of Jon Hodgson Backdrop Books. In the latest monthly kickstarter update we shared a montage of the completed Fantasy Ruins and Tunnels book. Check it out, along with some sample shots with some of the new backdrops, and a cool Bad Squiddo Shieldmaiden figure.

There’s still time to place your pre-order for any of the new backdrop books here.

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The Meatspoiler Arrives in Print

We were very pleased to recently take delivery of the new edition of The Meat Spoiler for Maskwitches. We’ll be holding these until we have the print run of the main Maskwitches corebook on hand, and we’re waiting on the kickstarter funds to print those. In the meantime you can secure a copy with a pre-order here.



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UK Games Expo Special Edition 1: Maskwitches

To celebrate the release of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland Redux Edition we will be bringing a very small number of special UK Games Expo Variant cover editions to… UK Games Expo at the end of the month.

As detailed on the campaign page (It’s right at the end if you missed it, but it is there!) we want to celebrate the new edition at the UK’s largest weekend gaming event with some advanced special copies. The “print run” (it’s a very small number to term “a run”!) arrived today and they look great.

Find us in Hall One at stand 1-122, with our friends at Nightfall Games and Hansor Publishing.

If you’re really hurting to get one of these advance copies, we will reserve some for folks who can’t get to UK Games Expo. Just drop us a line via email and we can sort out putting one by for you .

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