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Grant Howitt

@gshowitt.bsky.social

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I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.

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@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:50 AM

I’m forty today. Show me your faces.

Photo of Grant, an (exactly) 40 year old white dude in glasses with increasingly grey hair
@rarebodyoils.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:44 PMReposted by @gshowitt.bsky.social

(on my deathbed, releasing the tension from my tired bones and letting the last waves of awareness pass through me and leave beyond me) at least i...always dismissed things. (coughing softly) and was above them

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:04 PM

@minahoneybat.bsky.social is solid!

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:26 PM

they knew what they were getting themselves into when they signed up at the Rivals desk

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:19 PM

As you can see (ought to have posted this myself really) we programmed a horror movie narrative into our injury/trauma results as determined by which archetype you’re playing

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:20 PM

Dead Channel marked my first foray into coming up with custom hit point tracks and death moves for every character. It's rather neat

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:01 PM

Shit that kind of works

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:00 PM

no he’s billy

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:26 PM

One must imagine etc

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:15 PM

hey, new meat clowns just dropped

nine different patterened hams - original billy, bear (total), bear (partial), lion, clown, monkey, fox, *tractor* and a heart in a heart-shaped ham sausage
@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:43 PM

In which I spend the first two thousand words complaining about NDAs, and the second two thousand words and attached PDF outlining a new Magical Girls version of Hollows

www.patreon.com/gshowitt/pos...

Patrons get it a week early!

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:24 AM

Toughpad was the first step in a career I never took any further steps in - a brave new frontier of gonzo tech reportage which a) I was not remotely equipped to handle and b) probably peaked in this, its first outing. But I'm very proud of it. And I stand by the sex piss remark

Jan stops for a second and says there will be a demonstration. He says “With the nice police ladies we are to make some watersports,” and half-laughs, half-smiles awkwardly. He says that onstage in front of the world’s press. He seems to think that is fine. The women come forward and pour water from a jug over a toughbook sat in a perspex case. People take pictures.

[Image of a man using a toughpad and looking contemplative
Caption: This man’s name is Bruce. Bruce is pictured here contemplating what went wrong in his previous relationship and whether his boyfriend would ever take him back]

A man in charge of something important just made a SEX PISS JOKE at the Panasonic Press Conference and that’s all fine. I don’t understand. I don’t understand. Is that fine? Is this just what happens at tech events? I want to have a lie down.
@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:03 PM

this is how we're doing XP/advancement in Salt! It's fun to have a mix of undesirable and desirable outcomes on there, to keep things interesting

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:43 AM

Nice! What game did you adapt?

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 6:56 PM

Let’s see how the midterms pan out

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:04 PM

Middle isn't bad either tbh

mailchi.mp/3bdb9e9c6d64...

YOU’RE HERE TO HAVE A BAD TIME: IT’S OUR TOP FIVE LEAST PLEASANT FREE GAMES
Picture of a highway to Hell. The ground is on fire. I am there, muscular and shirtless and wearing a hat an a stereotypically evil goatee. A sign says "STRANGE AND VILLAINOUS GAMES AHEAD"
Halloween is of course a time of lighthearted spooks and playful ghosties, not genuine nightmares and fear. We’ll get to that type of terror in a bit - for now, please enjoy this collection of horrible things that feel bad to play and offer little in the way of levity or hope.



THE WITCH HOUSE

An entirely unnecessary (and some might say actively detrimental) prequel to THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WITCH HOUSE reveals exactly how a witch creates an intelligent animal familiar - by capturing unwilling people and forcing them into inhuman shapes until their memories wither and they become pliant pets. Can you escape? Probably not. But will you have fun finding out? Again, most likely no. But here we are.
@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 4:54 PM

Probably my favourite intro I've written yet

Shut the windows. Bar the blinds. Drag an oversized mahogany armoire in front of your bedroom door. Lay caltrops on the mezzanine. Scatter salt around yourself in a smooth 360-degree motion and swallow a set of rosary beads whole because it’s SPOOKY SEASON BABY and we’re here to celebrate it.

Drawings of the RRD crew in halloween costumes. I am a clown, Naomi is a witch, Chant is a mummy, Elaine has a bloody knife affixed to a headband, Chris is a ghost, Jim is a bear, Maz is a devil, Mina is a gay cowboy, Jinn is in a bird mask, Alex is a sailor and Matt's wee bird is wearing rabbit ears to imply it has come out of a hat
We’re so ready for halloween we already have our costumes



“But Grant, it’s not Halloween for basically a month yet, and - “

[a picture of the RRD team in halloween costumes]

SILENCE, WHELP. Instant reprisal! I strike you hard with the back of my hand and you collapse immediately into the piles of bones and feathers on the greasy flagstones of my chamber, already blubbering apologetic excuses.
@rowanrookanddecard.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 2:41 PMReposted by @gshowitt.bsky.social

New behind the scenes article from Mina about HEART! Want to get freaky and try multi-classing?

buff.ly/Ueg6rHr

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 9:55 AM

3 if we're going by Christmas Carol rules, but maybe it's a body-mass thing, so you'd need more ferrets overall. Or themed ferrets. Plus do we include the haunted children from the Dickens original? How many ferrets is a child named Want? Much to think about

@gshowitt.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:44 AM

A second attempt fares slightly better, but does conjure up the image of a "one-foot relaxing game" which I DO offer but not in public and certainly not with families around

"The note invites people to find and colour in the drawing, then drop it off at the Rowan Road beard stall for the chance to win a one-foot relaxing game." It adds that the organisers have felt tense lately and are dreaming of a bonus prize or reward."
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