Stu Horvath
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Publisher at @unwinnable.com | TTRPG history at VintageRPG.com | Co-host of Games People Play on @wfmu.bsky.social | New book with @strangeattractor.bsky.social in 2025? | Links: https://linktr.ee/vintagerpg
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Stu Horvath
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Goblins & Gardens Tarot Deck (2022)
A delightful subversion of D&D monsters, tarot decks and gardens all at once. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/goblins-gardens-tarot-deck-2022/ #TTRPG
A delightful subversion of D&D monsters, tarot decks and gardens all at once. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/goblins-gardens-tarot-deck-2022/ #TTRPG
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Goblins & Gardens Tarot Deck (2022)
A delightful subversion of D&D monsters, tarot decks and gardens all at once. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/goblins-gardens-tarot-deck-2022/ #TTRPG
A delightful subversion of D&D monsters, tarot decks and gardens all at once. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/goblins-gardens-tarot-deck-2022/ #TTRPG
Mythic Britain & Ireland (2022)
Vaesen comes to the British Isles. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/mythic-britain-ireland-2022/ #TTRPG
Vaesen comes to the British Isles. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/mythic-britain-ireland-2022/ #TTRPG
December 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Mythic Britain & Ireland (2022)
Vaesen comes to the British Isles. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/mythic-britain-ireland-2022/ #TTRPG
Vaesen comes to the British Isles. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/mythic-britain-ireland-2022/ #TTRPG
Seven fishes: shrimp cocktail, snow crab legs, crab cakes, raw oysters, salmon and chili crisp, Goldfish crackers, Swedish fish.
December 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Seven fishes: shrimp cocktail, snow crab legs, crab cakes, raw oysters, salmon and chili crisp, Goldfish crackers, Swedish fish.
Book of Beasts (2023)
And now for monsters of a slightly grimmer sort. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/book-of-beasts-2023/ #TTRPG
And now for monsters of a slightly grimmer sort. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/book-of-beasts-2023/ #TTRPG
December 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Book of Beasts (2023)
And now for monsters of a slightly grimmer sort. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/book-of-beasts-2023/ #TTRPG
And now for monsters of a slightly grimmer sort. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/book-of-beasts-2023/ #TTRPG
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Thanks to @stuhorvath.com and @saraclemens.com for guest-hosting Techtonic yesterday! Their interview guest was author/illustrator Adam Allsuch Boardman.
Full episode:
techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
Full episode:
techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
December 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Thanks to @stuhorvath.com and @saraclemens.com for guest-hosting Techtonic yesterday! Their interview guest was author/illustrator Adam Allsuch Boardman.
Full episode:
techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
Full episode:
techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Dragonbane Bestiary (2023)
As ever, monster book = best book. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/dragonbane-bestiary-2023/ #TTRPG
As ever, monster book = best book. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/dragonbane-bestiary-2023/ #TTRPG
December 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Dragonbane Bestiary (2023)
As ever, monster book = best book. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/dragonbane-bestiary-2023/ #TTRPG
As ever, monster book = best book. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/dragonbane-bestiary-2023/ #TTRPG
Tonight! 6pm Eastern! Games People Play guest hosts Techtonic on WFMU (91.1 fm in North Jersey, streaming on the site). @wfmu.bsky.social
This time, we have as our guest author and illustrator Adam Allsuch Boardman. We're talking ghosts, UFOs and tech anxiety.
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
This time, we have as our guest author and illustrator Adam Allsuch Boardman. We're talking ghosts, UFOs and tech anxiety.
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
The Ghost of Christmas Tech Anxieties - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Adam Allsuch Boardman: Techtonic with Mark Hurst
Audio & playlist from December 22, 2025
www.wfmu.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Tonight! 6pm Eastern! Games People Play guest hosts Techtonic on WFMU (91.1 fm in North Jersey, streaming on the site). @wfmu.bsky.social
This time, we have as our guest author and illustrator Adam Allsuch Boardman. We're talking ghosts, UFOs and tech anxiety.
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
This time, we have as our guest author and illustrator Adam Allsuch Boardman. We're talking ghosts, UFOs and tech anxiety.
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Dragonbane (2023)
A promising revival of Sweden's foundational fantasy roleplaying game. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/dragonbane-2023/ #TTRPG
A promising revival of Sweden's foundational fantasy roleplaying game. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/dragonbane-2023/ #TTRPG
December 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Dragonbane (2023)
A promising revival of Sweden's foundational fantasy roleplaying game. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/dragonbane-2023/ #TTRPG
A promising revival of Sweden's foundational fantasy roleplaying game. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/dragonbane-2023/ #TTRPG
Read Susan Cooper's The Shortest Day to the kid for the...seventh time? The Sun Giant still gives me a chill.
December 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Read Susan Cooper's The Shortest Day to the kid for the...seventh time? The Sun Giant still gives me a chill.
Managed to finish reading the other book just in time for this one.
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Managed to finish reading the other book just in time for this one.
Just read a story where a Christmas tree kills a bunch of rich people.
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just read a story where a Christmas tree kills a bunch of rich people.
N.C. Wyeth was the best.
There's nothing more festive than Frankenstein. In this month's Unwinnable Monthly, read @orringrey.com's feature on the creature as well as our regular columnists' latest thoughts. Happy holidays!
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December 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
N.C. Wyeth was the best.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Unholy Nights in Lankhmar (2019)
Yuletide comes to the city of the black toga. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/unholy-nights-in-lankhmar-2019/ #TTRPG
Yuletide comes to the city of the black toga. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/unholy-nights-in-lankhmar-2019/ #TTRPG
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Unholy Nights in Lankhmar (2019)
Yuletide comes to the city of the black toga. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/unholy-nights-in-lankhmar-2019/ #TTRPG
Yuletide comes to the city of the black toga. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/unholy-nights-in-lankhmar-2019/ #TTRPG
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (2017-2023)
I've read them all, and now I'm sad about it. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/fafhrd-and-the-gray-mouser-2017-2023/ #TTRPG
I've read them all, and now I'm sad about it. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/fafhrd-and-the-gray-mouser-2017-2023/ #TTRPG
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (2017-2023)
I've read them all, and now I'm sad about it. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/fafhrd-and-the-gray-mouser-2017-2023/ #TTRPG
I've read them all, and now I'm sad about it. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/fafhrd-and-the-gray-mouser-2017-2023/ #TTRPG
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If we get 100 new subs by the end of the year we'll be adding at least one Final Romantasy fan fic into the Final Fantasy x Politics issue courtesy of @derekkinsman.com. Make him regret it folks!
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December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Subscribe to Unwinnable before the end of the year and get all the 2025 issues free! That's twelve issues of Unwinnable Monthly AND twelve issues of Exploits for five clams. Feed your brain over the holidays!
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December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Avengers in Lankhmar (1995)
_Slayers of Lankhmar_ , take two. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/avengers-in-lankhmar-1995/ #TTRPG
_Slayers of Lankhmar_ , take two. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/avengers-in-lankhmar-1995/ #TTRPG
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Avengers in Lankhmar (1995)
_Slayers of Lankhmar_ , take two. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/avengers-in-lankhmar-1995/ #TTRPG
_Slayers of Lankhmar_ , take two. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/avengers-in-lankhmar-1995/ #TTRPG
Slayers of Lankhmar (1992)
A unique (for the moment) new type of adventure! Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/slayers-of-lankhmar-1992/ #TTRPG
A unique (for the moment) new type of adventure! Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/slayers-of-lankhmar-1992/ #TTRPG
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Slayers of Lankhmar (1992)
A unique (for the moment) new type of adventure! Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/slayers-of-lankhmar-1992/ #TTRPG
A unique (for the moment) new type of adventure! Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/slayers-of-lankhmar-1992/ #TTRPG
Tales of Lankhmar (1991)
Take up residence in one of the most famous bars in fantasy. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/tales-of-lankhmar-1991/ #TTRPG
Take up residence in one of the most famous bars in fantasy. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/tales-of-lankhmar-1991/ #TTRPG
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tales of Lankhmar (1991)
Take up residence in one of the most famous bars in fantasy. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/tales-of-lankhmar-1991/ #TTRPG
Take up residence in one of the most famous bars in fantasy. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/tales-of-lankhmar-1991/ #TTRPG
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Woke up to find all the trees illustrated by Bernie Wrigtson.
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Woke up to find all the trees illustrated by Bernie Wrigtson.
Fuck, Jean Ray was a terror.
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Fuck, Jean Ray was a terror.
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YES! Thank you @stuhorvath.com and @johnmcguirerpg.bsky.social for shouting out the BEST Kraken EVER on this episode of Vintage RPG! Harryhausen for the win!
a large rock is in the middle of the ocean .
Alt: a large rock is in the middle of the ocean .
With a bloody great Kraken rising up behind it.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
YES! Thank you @stuhorvath.com and @johnmcguirerpg.bsky.social for shouting out the BEST Kraken EVER on this episode of Vintage RPG! Harryhausen for the win!