Gav Thorpe's Blog, page 33
February 24, 2015
Questions, questions, questions…
It used to be the case that your favourite author was probably a distant figure, dispensing their pearls of fictional awesomeness from a mysterious ivory tower in the wilderness of Imaginationland. If you really, really liked them you might send them a letter via their publisher, and would probably receive a reply. You might get […]
January 19, 2015
The Dead Return
18:07, 24th March, 1945 ���How long���s he been muttering like that?��� asked Mayhew from halfway down the basement steps. The SS officer was sat on a rickety chair amongst broken boxes and torn sacking, speaking quietly, without pause. His gaze was fixed on a nondescript point at the centre of the cracked plaster ceiling. Urbanski […]
January 13, 2015
2015 The Year of Hobby: Update One
As I mentioned before Christmas, I’m launching myself into the toy soldiers and gaming hobby with a bit more gusto than previous years, thanks to some work on Open Combat and also a big Kickstarter delivery. Apologies for amateurish camera work, but I will get some better pics when stuff gets finished. Sunday evening I […]
January 6, 2015
Raptor Competition Winner and Early Plans for 2015
Welcome to the hallowed halls of 2015. Just before Christmas I set a challenge: My latest audio drama Holder of the Keys had a line removed during editing. The line was “We checked it twice.” I want you to tell me where in the audio the line was originally. The real trick was remembering that […]
December 24, 2014
Christmas Competition
Season’s Greetings one and all! I’ve finished off 2014 with some eldar rewrites, a short-notice Horus Heresy story about some Word Bearers and ready for rewrites to The Unforgiven in the New Year. To celebrate the occasion I am offering a signed copy of my Raptor audio when it is released on CD next year. […]
December 15, 2014
Halflings and Fubarnii and Delgon
I must start with a confession. For the past few years my toy soldiering has dwindled and dwindled. Lack of time, falling out of the loop, not quite finding the miniatures and games that really caught my imagination, all of these things took their toll on my hobby muscles. It’s a common story. Real-life commitments […]
October 27, 2014
An Old Friend Returns
Say hello to Astelan. This image appeared in the Horus Heresy CCG from Sabertooth Games (where he gained the first name Merir), based on the character I first introduced in Angels of Darkness more than ten years ago. Astelan has been a provocative and controversial figure since his inception, inciting both argument and inspiration amongst […]
October 22, 2014
The Norman(ish) Conquest
I was able to take a day off writing book three of my Dark Angels trilogy (The Unforgiven) to squeeze in a couple of games of Open Combat with Second Thunder-incarnate Carl Brown. I tried out an all-cavalry force of Norman knights against a warband of Saxons from my collection. Usually I go for a […]
October 15, 2014
Fancy Some Open Combat?
As some of you will be aware, I’ve been pootling about doing a bit of games design work in my free time, mostly for the fun of it because who doesn’t like inventing games, right? None of those projects are quite ready for the light of day, either commercially or just to share, but for […]
October 13, 2014
Morehammer Fest!
I spent this past Saturday and Sunday at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, UK for the first ever Warhammer Fest. The successor to Games Day as Games Workshop’s premier event, Warhammer Fest had a lot to live up to. If I’m brutally honest… it did! Okay, so it was smaller, but that was not a […]
