Greg R. Buchanan
@gregbuchananwriter.com
Bestselling Novelist. Writer of award-winning video games & TTRPGs | NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | Creative Text on MAGIC: THE GATHERING
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At a AAA games company, I asked for feedback on my work so far, and I was told "you have as many bad ideas as you have good ideas, but you have them so quickly that you have more good ideas than most"
The War Between the Land and the Sea (BBC, 2025)
December 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The War Between the Land and the Sea (BBC, 2025)
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Follow the Kickstarter for an occult action thriller containing:
Breakneck action 💥
Interpersonal drama 🫂
Occult investigion 🔦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...
Breakneck action 💥
Interpersonal drama 🫂
Occult investigion 🔦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...
Welcome to everyone new to following me on BSky! You can also follow my upcoming KS campaign, an occult action thriller THE THUNDER PERFECT MIND.
Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind
An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG
www.kickstarter.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Follow the Kickstarter for an occult action thriller containing:
Breakneck action 💥
Interpersonal drama 🫂
Occult investigion 🔦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...
Breakneck action 💥
Interpersonal drama 🫂
Occult investigion 🔦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...
Merry Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Merry Christmas everyone!
People who have played Elden Ring: Nightreign -- do you think someone without much Soulslike experience would have fun playing with three others (two of which have loads, one has a decent amount)? Is it the kind of thing where the others could protect the new person like an escort quest?
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
People who have played Elden Ring: Nightreign -- do you think someone without much Soulslike experience would have fun playing with three others (two of which have loads, one has a decent amount)? Is it the kind of thing where the others could protect the new person like an escort quest?
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My next game writing workshop is starting February 2026 -- for aspiring and professional writers alike, focussing on creating a game of your own with a supportive group
Head over to www.gregbuchanangames.com/courses to join the list & get your application -- I'm finishing work in the next few days
Head over to www.gregbuchanangames.com/courses to join the list & get your application -- I'm finishing work in the next few days
December 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My next game writing workshop is starting February 2026 -- for aspiring and professional writers alike, focussing on creating a game of your own with a supportive group
Head over to www.gregbuchanangames.com/courses to join the list & get your application -- I'm finishing work in the next few days
Head over to www.gregbuchanangames.com/courses to join the list & get your application -- I'm finishing work in the next few days
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Gamers! Go check out the DIE RPG on @bundleofholding.com. It's a great TTRPG, based on the comic by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social, designed by them as well and published by the fine folks at @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social .
bundleofholding.com/presents/DIE...
bundleofholding.com/presents/DIE...
DIE RPG Bundle
Adventurer! This new DIE RPG Bundle presents DIE, the tabletop roleplaying game from Rowan, Rook, & Decard based on – rather, created in parallel with – the DIE Image Comics series (20 issues, 2018-21...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Gamers! Go check out the DIE RPG on @bundleofholding.com. It's a great TTRPG, based on the comic by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social, designed by them as well and published by the fine folks at @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social .
bundleofholding.com/presents/DIE...
bundleofholding.com/presents/DIE...
And irony, I know, due to the themes I'm drawn towards, but:
If you realise that -everything- you are writing/sharing on social media is dominated by anger or despair, then just ask yourself if there's more you can share, and if you feel able to, try. It could mean a lot to the people who see it.
If you realise that -everything- you are writing/sharing on social media is dominated by anger or despair, then just ask yourself if there's more you can share, and if you feel able to, try. It could mean a lot to the people who see it.
Gratitude journalling is a practice that aims to shape life: not just to realise the good things that have happened in the face of our bias-towards-the-negative, but to -notice- and appreciate the positive more actively over time.
You're not ignoring the negative, you're just -balancing- it out
You're not ignoring the negative, you're just -balancing- it out
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
And irony, I know, due to the themes I'm drawn towards, but:
If you realise that -everything- you are writing/sharing on social media is dominated by anger or despair, then just ask yourself if there's more you can share, and if you feel able to, try. It could mean a lot to the people who see it.
If you realise that -everything- you are writing/sharing on social media is dominated by anger or despair, then just ask yourself if there's more you can share, and if you feel able to, try. It could mean a lot to the people who see it.
Gratitude journalling is a practice that aims to shape life: not just to realise the good things that have happened in the face of our bias-towards-the-negative, but to -notice- and appreciate the positive more actively over time.
You're not ignoring the negative, you're just -balancing- it out
You're not ignoring the negative, you're just -balancing- it out
December 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Gratitude journalling is a practice that aims to shape life: not just to realise the good things that have happened in the face of our bias-towards-the-negative, but to -notice- and appreciate the positive more actively over time.
You're not ignoring the negative, you're just -balancing- it out
You're not ignoring the negative, you're just -balancing- it out
Interested also: who here reads any CYOA-type books, and which are your favourite? I’m especially intrigued to hear about any that were written in the last ten years
December 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Interested also: who here reads any CYOA-type books, and which are your favourite? I’m especially intrigued to hear about any that were written in the last ten years
So cool
Ages ago I signed up to the online Fighting Fantasy club, and it turned out I was the 400th person to join! To celebrate that they sent me postcards signed by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, and that in itself lit the fire in me to do more with the brand.
They sit proudly in my collection.
They sit proudly in my collection.
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
So cool
I really don’t think I will be going to GDC again for a long time. As someone who has produced explicitly political work, it feels a risk to travel — and although it was great to meet some people face to face, the event’s vibe is unfriendly. Develop in Brighton + Feral Vector = ultimate pairing.
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I really don’t think I will be going to GDC again for a long time. As someone who has produced explicitly political work, it feels a risk to travel — and although it was great to meet some people face to face, the event’s vibe is unfriendly. Develop in Brighton + Feral Vector = ultimate pairing.
For those wondering about my books btw — 3 & 4 were written simultaneously and are in the pipe, more to share in 2026 but I hope they will be worth the wait. Both ambitious for very different reasons: I had not written so many POVs for one (an ensemble), and the other, you’ll see. Both standalone.
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
For those wondering about my books btw — 3 & 4 were written simultaneously and are in the pipe, more to share in 2026 but I hope they will be worth the wait. Both ambitious for very different reasons: I had not written so many POVs for one (an ensemble), and the other, you’ll see. Both standalone.
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Silent Hill f: The social and domestic abuse levied towards women is the true horror and it leads to self-harm and suicide in ways we have not yet come to terms with as a society
Silent Hill f director: I met a woman once and I've never been so scared in my life
Silent Hill f director: I met a woman once and I've never been so scared in my life
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Silent Hill f: The social and domestic abuse levied towards women is the true horror and it leads to self-harm and suicide in ways we have not yet come to terms with as a society
Silent Hill f director: I met a woman once and I've never been so scared in my life
Silent Hill f director: I met a woman once and I've never been so scared in my life
Even on stuff like books, where your name is all over it, you get a very small portion of the for-sale price in traditional publishing (though they do give you loads of physical copies, which I think the games industry could stand to do)
Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.
December 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Even on stuff like books, where your name is all over it, you get a very small portion of the for-sale price in traditional publishing (though they do give you loads of physical copies, which I think the games industry could stand to do)
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Which btw, massive PSA: paracetamol / tylenol = DEADLY to cats in even a small portion of one pill, but a lot of people either don’t know this or actively give them to their pets. Any amount can kill them — keep your cats away and bring to vets immediately if they ingest any.
My kitten Mop and I are on our way back from the vets after running around with (potentially) half a shell of paracetamol/tylenol, he had to be in intensive care despite us not knowing if he actually ate any 🥲
All pre-Christmas tidying and work totally off schedule but look at his little face
All pre-Christmas tidying and work totally off schedule but look at his little face
December 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Which btw, massive PSA: paracetamol / tylenol = DEADLY to cats in even a small portion of one pill, but a lot of people either don’t know this or actively give them to their pets. Any amount can kill them — keep your cats away and bring to vets immediately if they ingest any.
My kitten Mop and I are on our way back from the vets after running around with (potentially) half a shell of paracetamol/tylenol, he had to be in intensive care despite us not knowing if he actually ate any 🥲
All pre-Christmas tidying and work totally off schedule but look at his little face
All pre-Christmas tidying and work totally off schedule but look at his little face
December 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
My kitten Mop and I are on our way back from the vets after running around with (potentially) half a shell of paracetamol/tylenol, he had to be in intensive care despite us not knowing if he actually ate any 🥲
All pre-Christmas tidying and work totally off schedule but look at his little face
All pre-Christmas tidying and work totally off schedule but look at his little face
So - CHEATING IN SINGLE PLAYER GAMES and/or EDITING SAVE FILES. it could be your friend or your neighbour. Would you edit a baby? Maybe.
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
So - CHEATING IN SINGLE PLAYER GAMES and/or EDITING SAVE FILES. it could be your friend or your neighbour. Would you edit a baby? Maybe.
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time for this niche meme
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
time for this niche meme
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I haven’t shared this as a recommendation yet but some incredibly profound and great writing from this — you should all at least follow this account if not support their work more directly
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December 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I haven’t shared this as a recommendation yet but some incredibly profound and great writing from this — you should all at least follow this account if not support their work more directly
PLURIBUS is so so good. Not the show I thought it was going to be at all. It has a huge, Antimimetics kind of scope ala @qntm.org ‘s work but as with that, small scale emotional focus as the lens into it
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
PLURIBUS is so so good. Not the show I thought it was going to be at all. It has a huge, Antimimetics kind of scope ala @qntm.org ‘s work but as with that, small scale emotional focus as the lens into it
Keep an eye out at gregbuchanan.substack.com for some CHRISTMAS related pieces over the next few days — including a redux version of an exercise you can use to pillage your experiences over Christmas to both practice and improve writing, and be more present at the same time
Narrative Gravity | Greg R Buchanan | Substack
Long-reads, advice, and essays on storytelling from a bestselling novelist and writer of award-winning games. Click to read Narrative Gravity, by Greg R Buchanan, a Substack publication with thousands...
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December 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Keep an eye out at gregbuchanan.substack.com for some CHRISTMAS related pieces over the next few days — including a redux version of an exercise you can use to pillage your experiences over Christmas to both practice and improve writing, and be more present at the same time
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It is Winter Solstice, the very day where this folk horror ttrpg is set, so enjoy the sale!
Solstice by Tanya Floaker
Small town mentality, shame, and burning alive to bring back the sun
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December 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It is Winter Solstice, the very day where this folk horror ttrpg is set, so enjoy the sale!