For those who stumble in blind; I am Patrick Stuart. I make adventures and other content for pen and paper role playing games. I am (or was), broadly associated with the crumbling ruins of the OSR movement.
Books I’ve been involved with include Deep Carbon Observatory, Veins of the Earth, Silent Titans, Fire on the Velvet Horizon, Demon-Bone Sarcophagus and Gackling Moon.
What is this?
This Substack started as a backup to my original blog; False Machine but has evolved into an all-in-one feed for my writing and a first-glimpse feed for gaming stuff, which will appear on the old False Machine site later. All my other online sites generally do one thing only, (book reviews, film reviews etc), this is where everything is collected.
Once a month you get a breakdown of all of the culture I devoured, including reviews for everything I read and saw, along with any interesting online events.
Hopefully at least once a month you will get something relating to worldbuilding, game development for upcoming RPG projects, or game ideas I have, (this is the main reason people actually read this).
You may also get me schtizo-ing out about one thing or another. (Nobody likes this.)
Why Subscribe?
If you want a first look at ‘False Machine’ stuff.
If you want the latest ‘False Machine’ news.
If you want to follow without reading the blog, following the socials, or without using an RSS reader.
If you want the schtitzo mental health updates or me doomposting about eugenics (JBS Haldane wanted to raise armies of colonial African soldiers to fight in a chemically poisoned Europe!)
If you just really like Substack/newsletters.
Or if you want to pay me money for writing. The Substack is free and the same for all but one or two people do pay, purely out of munificence. (Blessings upon thee).
