The Ten-Year Clips Show of False Machine

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On Sunday it was ten years since I began blogging. I asked people what they wanted and they basically wanted everything, so here is a bit of everything, a journey through ten years, from 2011 to 2021, with highlights and a dab of commentary.

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2011 - 2012  Birth

 

J.M.Szance

Teens! Reading! I ran games!
 
I think I ran more games for more people and more different *kinds* of people in 2011 to 2013 than I have in all the years since. In fact my first post, the Vampire Table.
 
The Teens games. The Apocalypse World group. I ran storygames!
 
My first big post; Monsters of Incompetence and Atomic Bread pretty much set the tone for whatever this blog is about
 
Oh god the teens, you can try here for a start 
 
 

 

October 2012 - Veins

 

Fritz Schwimbeck

Here is where I start writing Veins of the Earth
 
From October 2012 to march 2013 its largely veinsposting
 
In June 2013 we get the notable Fuck Information Design html and 'Art In Games'. 
 
 
 
 

2013 - Writing And Playing

Aki Akbar Sadeghi

 

I think for much of this period though I wasn't running many games, I was playing in a lot and I was writing a lot.
 
For real-life employment I quit my last non-temporary job in June 2013 after a meltdown. I had other temp jobs since but this was my last 'real' job.
 
Here in 2013 is the begging post that lead to Maze of the Blue Medusa, oh how PLEASED I was to be involved with that
 
 
Here is an oddity, attempting to re-write 5e powers in a gritty old-school style.
 

In 2013 a brief excursion into talking about minis-as-sculpture begins here with Jesus Likes Your Backpack. 
 
 
A final curiosity from 2013 is Ye Ugly Face Clubb, a post which was once linked to from *The New Yorker*....
 
 
 
  
 

2014 - The Derp Nerd Rises

Richard Corben

Black Glass, a prose piece from march 2014 which ended up in Veins in altered form, got popular on Reddit
 
I immediately poste incomprehensible darkness rules to get rid of the redditors. Just post poetry, its like bug spray for a blog.
 
Did you know I did a damn TRAILER for Deep Carbon Observatory before it came out? I did this thing on a fucking Toshiba laptop that was overheating, using only free download editing software and publicly available video along with scraps music for the soundtrack. Fuck old Patrick was HARDCORE, what a fucking chad.
 
AND BEHOLD I LIVE! Deep Carbon Observatory released! (A print copy would become available later).
 
In early 2014 you can see this rashamon-style play report- this was the high point and mid point of player games with Zak and the G-plus crowd online
 
And in summer 2014 I finally finish reading Rebecca Wests 'Black Lamb, Grey Falcon' and do this pretty decent review.
 
Honestly for everything in 'Fire on the Velvet Horizon' I think the Paladins of the Fall was probably the best, you can read a fragment of their entry here, I still don't know entirely where it came from.
 
The end if 2014 and the conception of Broken Fire Regime! A long time ago!
 
 
 
 
 

2015 - Mainly Writing And Breakdowns

Harry Clarke

The breakdowns largely happen offscreen, this was a quiet year for posting but I felt like I was doing a lot in the background.
 
Also this year at the mid point I got a temp job working for Barclays, which I got fired from within a few months, BUT, this was the last time I was deep in my overdraft on my main account.
 
Since university in 2001 I had never actually had 'money' on my main account, just varying levels of overdraft - but since mid 2015 I have actually had money, not much, and I still have my student debt looming over me but better than nothing (literally in this case).
 
 
2015 also brought us....
 
Strange Grains, a post Kenneth Hite liked
 
An actual trailer for Fire on the Velvet Horizon. Chad Patrick strikes again, I actually forgot I did that.
 
SLOW HEROES. the first mention of snail knights. (Will they ever return?)
 
This still brilliant interview with Dungeon Smash about FIRE. I follow this guy on Instagram and he is still fighting fires! more than ever actually I think.
 
The Greatest Image Known To Man
 
And the River of Drowned Queens. Short but sweet. Think I did good on that one.
 
 
 
 
 

2016 - Flowers in the Frost

Victor Vastnetov

The year starts with this... OPTIMISTIC prediction of future releases.
 
The Glass Dungeon Concept eventually became the maze of glass rooks in Silent Titans.
 
Who Will Stop the Worlds Most Evil Dog, written in a fume of time over about an hour.
 
Maze of the Blue Medusa came out. I was in something of a STATE at the time... I was actually in the middle of braking up with my girlfriend at the time and moving house, and having a meltdown at yet another call centre job, abut I did (appropriately) find time to write about Stephen Pynes excellent book about Antarctica.
 
AND, strangely, in the same month, to write this pretty good post inspired by a book on neuroscience Arnold sent me.
 
Ha! Turns out I was actually running a game; the Isles of the Imprisoned Moon. You can find a few play reports scattered about and here is a little artifact of the last few years of G+.
 
After moving from Liverpool, my exploration of the Wirral begins with me travelling about, looking through History books and transliterating Gawain because I was sad.
 
that takes us all the way to the end of 2016, capped be reviews of Blood in the Chocolate and Broodmother Skyfortress
 
the autumnal hours of the culture are gathering, a year of crisis begins....
 
 
  
 
 

2017 - CATACLYSM!!!

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkeiwitz 

Despite it being a nightmare year I manage to start it with a post I am still very proud of; The City of Infinite Ruin.
 
Where the fuck did the idea of wizards living in towers come from? this meeting of great minds from G+ is the last of these collections and attempts to answer just that question.
 
My attempt to 'Map the OSR' caused me a fair amount of trouble. I called it a 'living document' but never went back to it.
 
Robespierre loves Tarts, did you know? Discover more here.
 
I talk about the fucking ennies. I would end up going to these awards to watch 7th Sea win everything #stillbitter
 
September 2017! I have a total meltdown, cut my ties with Zak, tell all of you to go fuck yourself and spend five months going through the Farie Queene, resulting in this actually pretty good review in 2018!
 
 
 
 
 

2018 - By the Fingernails

Agnes Miller-Parker

 

I literally have nothing else to do so try to continue writing and making things. ITS THAT OR THE CALL CENTRE.
 
The Great Crystal Debate haS since been lost I think - Kiel took it down, but in it I take arms against the krystaphiles in our culture.
 
May 2018 and we have another drama, the details lost in the fall of the G+
 
June 2018 - Nightmares in Syr Darya. I think this is the last game I actually *ran*. man it was a while ago.
 
A pretty decent review of Amber Diceless, a seminal but annoying text.
 
Just before the end of the year I bring forth the cursed word; ARTPUNK. (I'm still sure I am not the first to use this, others are to blame!)
 
And then the Silent Titans kickstarter begins...
 
The Patrick of 2013-2016 is basically dead or near-dead at this point. Will anything survive or grow in his place?
 
 
 
 
 
 

2019 - Birth of False Machine Publishing

Peter Klucik

I start working for Eldritch Foundry, there is actually a book, or a books worth of material. I have maybe the only test print but it does exist!
 
About here I am getting back into Warhammer and painting. this interview with Kevin Chin is still EXCELLENT.
 
I try to make interesting Halflings, and Gnomes for Eldritch Foundry, and recognise my own worst qualities in the Horus Heresies best character. (My mum did not like this post.)
 
I travel to Canada LITERALLY TO PLAY AND OUT OF PRINT WARGAME.
 
And I still like this concept for a fantasy-esque tv series.
 
After fucking up my first attempt at the Kickstarter and falling into despair, my co-creators encourage me to try again. And I FINALLY finish Jon Petersons ‘Playing at the World’, HE SAID HE LIKED THIS REVIEW ON TWITTER!
 
The Prospero. An adventure, or actually a game now, which may one day exist.
 
And I end the year considering the rules of artificial intelligence as applied to golem, and shitting on JJ Abram’s Star Wars.
 
I think I also watched ‘cats’ at about the same time and it was a glorious mindfuck.
 
 
 
 

2020 - I Sell You The Same Thing Again

Horacio Salinas Blach 

Its 2020 and the long brewing remaster of DCO is in the works. At the same time at the urging of Ram I read the Mahabharata and decide that I am not a fan (of its moral message, assuming I even understood it).
 
I begin to wind up work for Eldritch Foundry . This fragment is an important one, and we get maybe the last of the big community posts? in which we all think about dungeon design by making the worst dungeon ever. This got Zedeck to repeat the phrase ‘camouflaged rape engines’ on twitter, something for which I will ever be proud.
 
This post, gets big traction on…. twitter (pre first cancellation, I will be dead to these people by the end of the year), and becomes part of a series in which I think about creating a form of D&D for families and children. Think you may still be able to find a version of the design doc on my blog.
 
Did you know the Streetfighter RPG was actually really well made? Well you do now, find out more here.
 
 
In July the first post mentioning 'Queen Mab' is here. I start weebing here, and get cancelled by twitter about the same time.
 
I ride out the year making monsters
 
 
 

2021 - That's This Year!

Peter Jones

The year is pretty slow as I eventually decide I need to put Goose-Gold and Goblins aside to try to work on active projects, especially Demon-Bone Sarcophagus, the first part of Broken Fire Regime
 
February is surprisingly active though with a review of the colour revolution, (part of my increasing interest  in colour and camouflage). The dungeon poem challenge and its results.  
 
I discover Daphne DuMaurier  and continue to harass Games Workshop with my thoughts on what they should be doing = MORE BEASTMAN SLASH FIC.
 
I read Gormenghast, (still reading it actually), and this is also the year I actually get up to date with EVERY Horus Heresy novel, and decide to talk about that series in EVEN MORE depth.
 
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