What happens when Syd Mead and John Berkey argue about spaceships? It leads to a discussion on plumbing, of course! Then Harlan Ellison and Arthur C. Clarke show up to throw gas on the fire. Come take sides in the argument! Free 30-page booklet at grailrunner.com

A John Wayne movie. A stranger’s name. An irresponsible game of Call of Cthulhu. How those became rival commanders in our tabletop wargame, and how we built their looks in Daz & Photoshop. Go behind the scenes + grab a FREE lore card: grailrunner.com

Join Auroch and The Wake for a reunion beneath an abandoned gateway to pocket worlds where unfinished business and a very bad idea make dangerous company. Read the story and explore the new illustrations here: bit.ly/3VaTpIw

Great lore. Cool art. So why isn’t your game grabbing people? I share hard-earned lessons from redesigning Salt Mystic’s rulebook and packaging. And curing my addiction to lore-dumps. grailrunner.com #IndieGameDesign #TabletopGaming

I set out to design a tabletop wargame. Somehow, I ended up growing people’s hair in Blender. 😬 Bad art decisions, before-and-afters, and the Salt Mystic refresh: bit.ly/3TFi6fy #SaltMystic #IndieGameDev

I wrote an RPG—then spent 18 months afraid to read it. When I finally opened SALT MYSTIC: BOOK OF LOTS and trusted its oracles, they threw me onto a flying train with a filthy outlaw, a silent Fog Man and cities that walk. Here’s what happened: grailrunner.com

"Slowly writing a novel when AI could've knocked this out already..." New article (and musings on the upcoming Mazewater novel) is live now on grailrunner.com

“Let’s talk to Michael Weems: the Dungeon Master building the future of roleplaying with AI” Our latest interview features Michael Weems, a Dungeon Master experimenting with the frontier where imagination and artificial intelligence meet. ww.grailrunner.com #TTRPG #DnD

Let's fix a travesty, shall we? I set out to restore Lord Dunsany’s The Book of Wonder—not just the text, but the original pairing with Sidney Sime’s haunting illustrations that gave it life. grailrunner.com

The Journey to Pen & Ink Mastery — 15 lessons learned from returning to drawing after decades away. What the masters understand about line, contrast, restraint, and why most drawings fail before the first stroke is finished. grailrunner.com #PenAndInk #Illustration

It takes me seven years to write a novel. Not because I’m slow. Because I rewrite while I’m still discovering the story. I learned from concept art something that might help! 👉 grailrunner.com Do you draft fast or rewrite as you go?

What if classic Dungeon Magazine adventures were a podcast? We tested it using Google’s NotebookLM—and the results are fascinating. 👉 grailrunner.com #DnD #OSR #DungeonMaster #TabletopRPG

🂡 Before poker ruled the Wild West, there was FARO. 🂡 Fast. Elegant. Ruthless. The most popular gambling game on the frontier—now almost forgotten. New post on Grailrunner + free RPG & tabletop resources 👇 grailrunner.com #WildWest #GameHistory #TabletopRPG

Merry Christmas from Grailrunner!!

The Experimental Concept Art Masterclass 🎨 A free, beautifully illustrated and interactive guide and workbook to ideation techniques in concept art. 🚀 Download Now at grailrunner.com #ConceptArt #DigitalArt #ArtBook #Worldbuilding #ArtistsOnX #Grailrunner

We streamlined the Salt Mystic landing page! It’s like we cleaned our room—looks better, still can’t find anything. Take it for a spin and tell us what you think before we break it again. grailrunner.com/SaltMystic

"Geysers of Coral Nova" by Sung Choi artstation.com/artwork/eRLag…

Horror + ink collide. We interviewed Mateusz Lenart—Creative Director of Silent Hill 2 & pen & ink master—about comics roots, Slavic myth, & building fear in black & white. 👉 Read it here: grailrunner.com #SilentHill2 #PenAndInk #HorrorGames #IndieArt #Grailrunner

Using a 1796 travel diary, a paper map, and a small-town archive, I pinpointed the exact Ohio River shipwreck site from an adventurer's journal—and the earliest footprint of a town's founding. Dive in: grailrunner.com #History #OhioRiver #Waynesville #LocalHistory

What happens when Tolkien and the Monkey King co-design a naval wargame…with a little help from Admiral Nelson & Hannibal? Come see for yourself -it's free! grailrunner.com