James Kemp
@greencoatboy.bsky.social
A dad (they/them), geek (roleplaying, wargames, boardgames, technology), writer, history, science fiction and fantasy. Explorer Scout leader in North Angus, Scotland.
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James Kemp
@greencoatboy.bsky.social
· Jan 28
Realise I ought to have a pinned post with a link to my newest book. There are three currently in print, one non-fiction, one #Sci-Fi novella and a standalone #Fantasy novel.
mybook.to/Fierce
mybook.to/Fierce
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If you play games at all, you are a gamer. Not necessarily a Gamer, but you are a gamer. Play wordle every day? Gamer. Play candy crush? Gamer. Cookie clicker? Gamer.
August 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you play games at all, you are a gamer. Not necessarily a Gamer, but you are a gamer. Play wordle every day? Gamer. Play candy crush? Gamer. Cookie clicker? Gamer.
Crossing the Tay southbound for a week in Oxford.
August 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Crossing the Tay southbound for a week in Oxford.
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I think it is underrated that the magic glass boxes we carry in our pockets can be recharged by sticking them to a magnet for a while.
July 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I think it is underrated that the magic glass boxes we carry in our pockets can be recharged by sticking them to a magnet for a while.
Just after midnight local time, and it's still full on daylight.
July 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Just after midnight local time, and it's still full on daylight.
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
“I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!”
“I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!”
Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent
“Now look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?”
“Now look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?”
Discworld QOTD, from Thud!
June 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
“I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!”
“I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!”
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Wrote the blurb explaining Lit By Another Sun, the #SciFi #megagame I'm running in Edinburgh on 22 November.
truenorth.megagames.scot/doku.php/lba...
truenorth.megagames.scot/doku.php/lba...
Lit By Another Sun - True North Megagames
truenorth.megagames.scot
June 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Wrote the blurb explaining Lit By Another Sun, the #SciFi #megagame I'm running in Edinburgh on 22 November.
truenorth.megagames.scot/doku.php/lba...
truenorth.megagames.scot/doku.php/lba...
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Some #EnvironmentalStorytelling that's been causing a stir in our local area.
Donut, what did you do?
Donut, what did you do?
May 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Some #EnvironmentalStorytelling that's been causing a stir in our local area.
Donut, what did you do?
Donut, what did you do?
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My favourite kind of Dredd stories are the wackier, funnier ones that are basically Dirty Harry having to put up with living in Idiocracy.
It's a #SmithSunday with the works of the mighty Ron Smith
May 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My favourite kind of Dredd stories are the wackier, funnier ones that are basically Dirty Harry having to put up with living in Idiocracy.
is good book, you buy!
Have you enjoyed this week’s episode? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "Her Secret Service" by Claire Hubbard-Hall through the History Rage Bookshop!
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...
#History #Podcast @orionbooks.bsky.social
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...
#History #Podcast @orionbooks.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
is good book, you buy!
Fierce, my fantasy novel with a relatable female lead, is £0.99 this weekend
Realise I ought to have a pinned post with a link to my newest book. There are three currently in print, one non-fiction, one #Sci-Fi novella and a standalone #Fantasy novel.
mybook.to/Fierce
mybook.to/Fierce
March 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Fierce, my fantasy novel with a relatable female lead, is £0.99 this weekend
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RPGs for Accessible Gaming charity bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 240+ RPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to @dotsrpg.bsky.social
Donate here: itch.io/b/2850/rpgs-...
There are 240+ RPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to @dotsrpg.bsky.social
Donate here: itch.io/b/2850/rpgs-...
February 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
RPGs for Accessible Gaming charity bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 240+ RPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to @dotsrpg.bsky.social
Donate here: itch.io/b/2850/rpgs-...
There are 240+ RPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to @dotsrpg.bsky.social
Donate here: itch.io/b/2850/rpgs-...
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15 years ago, @handiworkgames.bsky.social & I were walking along the Union Canal between Polmont & Linlithgow, discussing our liking for shipwreck stories. Out of that came a lightweight game called (imaginatively) Shipwreck. It never saw the light of day and has lain untouched. Until now.
February 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
15 years ago, @handiworkgames.bsky.social & I were walking along the Union Canal between Polmont & Linlithgow, discussing our liking for shipwreck stories. Out of that came a lightweight game called (imaginatively) Shipwreck. It never saw the light of day and has lain untouched. Until now.
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And now, the UK cover to The Shattering Peace, which is pretty darn cool.
February 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
And now, the UK cover to The Shattering Peace, which is pretty darn cool.
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Can't wait for April 5th!! 😃💃
If you fancy coming along, you can get tickets here:
scottishrefugeecouncil.beaconforms.com/form/90129d36
If you fancy coming along, you can get tickets here:
scottishrefugeecouncil.beaconforms.com/form/90129d36
February 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Can't wait for April 5th!! 😃💃
If you fancy coming along, you can get tickets here:
scottishrefugeecouncil.beaconforms.com/form/90129d36
If you fancy coming along, you can get tickets here:
scottishrefugeecouncil.beaconforms.com/form/90129d36
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Check this out! I did the layout for it and absolutely vibe with the Arcane aesthetic!
I recently finished Arcane Season 2.
I couldn't get it out of my head and like any rational person, I spent the next 3 weeks writing a Blades in the Dark supplement for it:
oneeyedgames.itch.io/arcane-in-th...
Here it is, free to download <3
#RPG #TTRPG #Arcane #Forgedinthedark #Bladesinthedark
I couldn't get it out of my head and like any rational person, I spent the next 3 weeks writing a Blades in the Dark supplement for it:
oneeyedgames.itch.io/arcane-in-th...
Here it is, free to download <3
#RPG #TTRPG #Arcane #Forgedinthedark #Bladesinthedark
Arcane in the Dark by Sonof0neEye
A Forged in the Dark Supplement based on Riot’s Arcane series.
oneeyedgames.itch.io
February 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Check this out! I did the layout for it and absolutely vibe with the Arcane aesthetic!
Need to build a city for the next part of a story. So I started by drawing the river delta that it's located on. Here's the Wackle Mouth.
February 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Need to build a city for the next part of a story. So I started by drawing the river delta that it's located on. Here's the Wackle Mouth.
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We're still working on Issue 3 of Peasant Magazine.
Unfortunately due to life getting in the way (5 trips to the hospital in the past week) the release has been moved back to March 1st.
In the meantime if you enjoy historical fiction and fantasy short stories please check out Issues 1 and 2.
Unfortunately due to life getting in the way (5 trips to the hospital in the past week) the release has been moved back to March 1st.
In the meantime if you enjoy historical fiction and fantasy short stories please check out Issues 1 and 2.
February 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We're still working on Issue 3 of Peasant Magazine.
Unfortunately due to life getting in the way (5 trips to the hospital in the past week) the release has been moved back to March 1st.
In the meantime if you enjoy historical fiction and fantasy short stories please check out Issues 1 and 2.
Unfortunately due to life getting in the way (5 trips to the hospital in the past week) the release has been moved back to March 1st.
In the meantime if you enjoy historical fiction and fantasy short stories please check out Issues 1 and 2.
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Look, I quote posted this earlier, and I am not dragging OP, but it’s really important, if anyone is going to survive the deepening of the onslaught, to understand the US is an explicitly eugenicist country.
I have seen a staggering naïveté about this, and a complicity. Short 🧵
I have seen a staggering naïveté about this, and a complicity. Short 🧵
This is probably not a surprise to people in the disability community, and I apologize for my ignorance about it, but I have been genuinely surprised how much immediate government wrath is going towards people in the disability community
February 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Look, I quote posted this earlier, and I am not dragging OP, but it’s really important, if anyone is going to survive the deepening of the onslaught, to understand the US is an explicitly eugenicist country.
I have seen a staggering naïveté about this, and a complicity. Short 🧵
I have seen a staggering naïveté about this, and a complicity. Short 🧵
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Rapid fire, arm-waving chitchat. Including mention of playtesting #coldcity 2nd edition with some of my @ljmuhistory.bsky.social 1st year students!
It's time for another chat with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social about #coldcity and #hotwar. This time we're talking play testing.
Get the transcript here: handiwork.games/cold-city-an...
Get the transcript here: handiwork.games/cold-city-an...
Cold City and Hot War introduction part four
YouTube video by Handiwork Games
youtu.be
February 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Rapid fire, arm-waving chitchat. Including mention of playtesting #coldcity 2nd edition with some of my @ljmuhistory.bsky.social 1st year students!
I may have written the intro scene for a sequel to Fierce on the train to Glasgow this morning.
363 words down, about 99,637 to go (plus or minus a few thousand).
363 words down, about 99,637 to go (plus or minus a few thousand).
February 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I may have written the intro scene for a sequel to Fierce on the train to Glasgow this morning.
363 words down, about 99,637 to go (plus or minus a few thousand).
363 words down, about 99,637 to go (plus or minus a few thousand).
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We're giving away 5 copies of FUTURE'S EDGE by Gareth Powell!
To enter:
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We are also giving away 10 copies in the US via Goodreads: tinyurl.com/msm7cww9
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February 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We're giving away 5 copies of FUTURE'S EDGE by Gareth Powell!
To enter:
🌙 Retweet this post
🌙 Follow @titanbooks.bsky.social & @garethlpowell.bsky.social
🌙 Tag a friend
UK only, ends 23:59 GMT, 16th February
We are also giving away 10 copies in the US via Goodreads: tinyurl.com/msm7cww9
To enter:
🌙 Retweet this post
🌙 Follow @titanbooks.bsky.social & @garethlpowell.bsky.social
🌙 Tag a friend
UK only, ends 23:59 GMT, 16th February
We are also giving away 10 copies in the US via Goodreads: tinyurl.com/msm7cww9