2025 Reading Challenge 13 The Screaming Staircase
For the record, I loved the Netflix series Lockwood & Co., and it was only after getting into it that I realised it was also a series of books. A deep shame...
2025 Reading Challenge 12 Plague Ship
Thanks to Ian Cooper, the design lead for Questworlds who ran a brilliant playtest of Pioneer Space, his Rocket Punk genre pack, and introduced me to Andrew...
2025 Reading Challenge 11 Ancillary Sword
I was looking forward to coming back to the Imperial Radch universe having read Ancillary Justice when it came out and enjoying a unique and thought-...
2025 Reading Challenge 10 Down and Out in Paris and London
I’ve got a few George Orwell books on my reading list. Still, this one is new to me. I’ve often been fascinated and appalled by how society treats the lowest...
2025 Reading Challenge 09 Generation X
I picked up and first read Generation X as a disaffected youth looking for a job. I'd left university and was taking on various McJobs, whilst trying to find...
2025 Reading Challenge 08 The Wasp Factory
A writer who is still close to my heart, Iain Banks with or without the M left us on 9 June 2013. A massive gap in British literature and a small one in my...
Feb 25, Why is a Raven like a writing desk?
So more goodies coming out from The Raspy Raven members. Active Campaigns Nothing this month but congratulations to Jerod and Craig for successful campaigns...
2025 Reading Challenge 07 Berlin Game
Not exactly hitting “The Wall” but Berling Game was a struggle, I’d envisioned a slightly more modern and action-packed version of The Human Factor, but it...
2025 Reading Challenge 06 The Day of the Triffids
I’m convinced I’ve read this book before, the John Wyndham classic is ingrained in us, or is it? I found myself discovering a fairly new story of grim post-...
Jan 25, Why is a Raven like a writing desk?
Each month I’ll share the goings-on of various members of my Tabletop Roleplaying Game Discord, The Raspy Raven. The majority of these folks are solo RPG...
The Mean Arena
A play report for a very special Forged in the Dark game, based on the 2000AD strip, The Mean Arena, this time the game is in Watford, Hertfordshire, where...
2025 Reading Challenge 05 The Human Chord
Not The Human Torch, as my wife called it, this is a blast from the past, 1910. Written by Algernon Blackwood, he of The Wendigo. The Human Chord by Algernon...
2025 Reading Challenge 04 The Human Factor
The Human Factor is a cold war spy novel by Graham Greene. It concerns a leak in M16’s Africa section. Things are quickly complicated by love, loyalty and an...
2025 Reading Challenge 03 The King in Yellow
Robert W Chambers described The King in Yellow as “…a work of cosmic horror fantasy that explores the sinister nature of human curiosity.” The King in Yellow...
2025 Reading Challenge 02 Zona
Book two. I’m not 100% sure what exactly it is, it feels at its heart like a love letter to the film Stalker. It’s entertaining, heart-wrenching, insightful...
2025 Reading Challenge 01 The Honjin Murders
I’m reading a book a week in 2025, there are no rules apart from finishing it and it also has to be a physical book. This is mainly a TTRPG blog, so I’ll...
Let me tell you a story part two
Scene Five They come. The cops. Nasty and Nastier. They saying nothing grab Leigh, leaving Donnie on the floor. Marched to a hole in the stone floor, bricks...
Let me tell you a story Part One
Our Discord has recently started a new community area - Story Games. The first of these is Lovecraftesque from Black Armada Games, by Becky Annison and Josh...
Project Cassandra
The first game of Cold War season on The Raspy Raven, what better way to kick off than psychics in 1960s Berlin. Project Cassandra A bit of background, it...
Heroes are made by the paths they choose...
A few months into my attempt to run five players through a play-by-post game of Alteregomania, the Gumshoe One-2-One adventure that shows Super Heroes in...