#Dice Men

[vintagerpg]

Ahhh, Dice Men (2022). This is billed as the origin story of Games Workshop, and primarily covers the period from the company’s founding to the point in 1985 when Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson passed leadership over to Bryan Ansell (though they retained shares in the company until 1991). There’s a little bit about WFRP and Rogue Trader, but that is really a nod rather than anything in-depth. And while there is a good deal of business history here that is interesting, I caution readers from expecting a no-holds bar accounting; this is very much a celebration of a much-loved period of the company’s history and there is little here that is controversial or even a little bit prickly, even. That’s fine! I’m hear for the visual history, honest!

It’s rich! The book starts briefly with the manufacture of board game bits and gets right into the Owl and Weasel newsletter, showing all 25 covers, which is a treat (the version I crowdfunded came with a replica of #1, even)! There’s a lot of material on the import of D&D, as well as big chapters on White Dwarf magazine, Citadel Miniatures, Warhammer and Fighting Fantasy. All full of art and covers and photos of ephemera and even a too-brief catalog of painted miniatures.

The rest concerns business stuff, which has its own charm. Lots of vintage photos of warehouses and offices and folks painting miniatures and folks gathered at the storefronts. It’s all rather cozy, actually.

Highly recommended for GW aficionados, particularly those, like me, who appreciate the early period above all else. My interest whithers pretty much completely after 1991 or so (the Realm of Chaos books are the last to grab me), and this basically gives me everything I want. I’m keen to see what the publisher does with the forthcoming Fighting Fantasy art book (update: it’s fucking amazing), and how this account pairs with Grimdark: A Very British Hell.

[headlessgrasshopper]

Just some doodles of my favourite elderly couple

[cryinganabell]

porple

[veryberrybad]

wanted to try my hand at a vintage vox design! i was REALLY inspired by 2013 baby vox and his black and white screen (and by vox in @mothballmilkshake ‘s Competing Frequencies, just write that fic on my tombstone at this point)

so here’s vox in his debut!! an upstart who’s a bit less confident but a bit more passionate

and more orange!

i wonder where the orange went

base lineart of the sketches !

[chupkachurch]

Yaoi 1930s

[sunmisbf]

how it feels to be a misandrist n hate on men for everything they do

[pikminvera]

i late, but HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!!💓💓💓💓💓🥺🥺🥺😉😉😉🤭🤭🤭🤭

[cutiepieautistic]

Caregiver! Remy lebeau stimboard

×/×/× ×/× ×/×/×

[akkivee]

some of that nilgiri tea that the birthday girl likes and a pastry i had on hand lol

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OTOME!!!!!!

[mitski-boy]

My two favorite husbands 🤍

[p0psic1le]

I’d rub his pips if he’d let me

[headlessgrasshopper]

Just a silly quick thing for my silly old men. I can’t stop drawing them!!!

[adhd3m0n91]

Just went to a place full of nerdy stuff with my mom and I got a doctor who button, an adventure time comic, three random packs of pokemon, and three sets of dice! For twenty dollars

My mom's reading her X-Men comics now :] she has a bunch from today and last free comic day (she got a bunch on free comic book day for two years in a row now). She also got herself a button with Rogue and Gambit and a button with Martha and the Tenth Doctor! And mini LOTR Funko pops!

If I go back to the place where we got the stuff from they can even make a custom button with my art! For 1 dollar!

AND I GOT DINO NUGGIEESSSSSSS

And there's this snake thing

@w3r1d0 the stuffs :3

[spaceloverjelly]

tried drawing the pines family in my style instead of in the show's style (sigh i'm still forced to draw old twinks send help)

you cannot tell me the pines curls is not real

materials: pencil, micro inks, and one old index card from god knows where

[osi-inn]

Alright given the thought of dnd and xmen.

Magneto choices to only use fairy dice. Metal or plastic. He finds them interesting, so he only uses the small dice.

[atrociousgremlin]

How many letters in king dice