The weekend after Lasagnacon, we'll be at Sequential Scotland, Glasgow's indie- and smallpress-focused comic convention. It's our first year, and we are very looking forward to participate.
And after four weeks, we'll be again in Edinburgh for Tabletop Scotland. We love TTS, it will be our fifth year attending, and we'll have an absolute unit of a table, our biggest ever. We'll share it with our friends Merry Mushmen (of Knock! fame) and Hollow Press (they made Vermis and other amazing books).
Here's a video of the latest proofs we received for Pergamino Barocco. We are about to go to press, and preorders are available here.
We we also have available two amazing Ennies nominees: George Philbrick's Thieves of the Tome and Asa McDonald's Spine. They both are focused on books in completely different ways.
Thieves of the Tome has players write a grimoire based on a real book in their room, and then pass the grimoire along to a different player to play its wizard-author in a one shot. The catch is that the wizard player knows only the title of the spells, and not the effects. Hilaroious, high-powered hijinks guaranteed. When I played it I wrote a grimoire based on the book Great Parliamentary Scandals by Matther Parris, and it ended up a grimoire on how to get away with crimes. Then, during the same game, I played Charles Dickens. Opening every NPC introduction with "Good day to you, I am the Charles Dickens" was so funny.
In Spine you read a book called Spine. While you read it, you will notice the bevvy of footnotes: the footnotes you decide to read will tell you to do things to the book. This might include writing in it, defacing it, giving it away, and possibly even destroying it. I guess Spine qualifies a LARP. It might be the smartest legacy game ever designed.
Something I did not expect to surface in 2026 is a live recording of Chris Cornell (of Soundgarden and Audioslave fame) singing Metallica's One on the tune of U2 The One. Soundgarden is my favourite band, and the way Chris decided to leave this world behind still hurts in stupid ways. Only nine years later, this song helped me cry about it.
Should you come to our table at a convention, say hi! Should we not meet, I'll be again in your inbox sometimes before the end of the year. We have a new title in the works. And it's a big one. Something around 700-800 pages.
