Ben Meredith

@benrlmeredith.bsky.social

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Game Designer and Voice Actor. Played Elias in #themagnusarchives, Zolf & Grizzop in #rustyquillgaming, and David 7 in #stellarfirma. Soon to play Hooper in G.O.B.L.I.N.S

Photo of my wrist with a watch strapped to it. The watch has a purple leather band, with a purple clock face and a golden frame. The face has no numbers, instead the placement of a golden dot indicates the hour and a golden hand indicates the minutes.
Cover art of the absolutely wonderful puzzle/exploration/playground game Hohokum. It shows a bubbly purple floating castle with a multicoloured snake (the player avatar) winding through it. Various colourful cartoon characters are riding the snake and the whole thing is surrounded by colourful bubbles in blue, green, yellow and red.
Photo of a computer screen showing a box out on the Profound Decisions website. It reads "Rules Reminder. The use of generative AI is prohibited at Empire and in our online spaces. See the Playing the game and Online pages for more information."
A picture of a tabletop miniature. They are a superhero with a mask and a long flowing skirt over a supersuit. In their left hand a swirl of smoke is emerging. They are standing on top of a pile of rubble. They are painted in rough blocks of white and black. The base has some wires and tubing that are painted in green, red and blue
A vinyl record player sitting on a sideboard. It's currently playing Man Alive by Everything Everything
My hand holding a full art Plains land from the Magic the Gathering set Edge of Eternities
Art of Neow, the giant whale god? of rebirth and resurrection from Slay the Spire 2
My hand holding a toy that looks like a ping pong paddle which I am holding flat. There are four wooden chickens with articulated heads around the paddle. The heads are attached to strings, which are threaded through the centre of the paddle onto a dangling weight. As I rotate the paddle, the weight swings, pulling down the head of each chicken in turn, causing them to peck the paddle with a clack.
Miniature of a large man with brown skin, shoulder length black hair and a large moustache. He has a pale yellow vest with red fur trim and bright blue trousers. He has a club resting on his right shoulder.
Photo of the ruins of Corfe castle
A miniature of a large man with a club over his shoulder. His skin is brown, his hair and moustache is black, his jacket is yellow with red fur trim, his trousers are bright blue.
Close up of a miniature of a huge man with brown skin, long black hair, a club hefted over his right shoulder, blue trousers and a yellow jacket. The skin is highlighted to a reasonable degree, the other areas are base coated.
A shelf of half painted and unpainted miniatures
The "frog" is so large it casts a shadow
The "frog" is now represented by a gargantuan dragon miniature
A table with a battlegrid. In the center there is a 2x2 turtle miniature that is standing in for a big frog
A stack of 10 books on a bedside table. From the top the books are: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, Embassytown by China Mieville, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, Eerie East Anglia (short story collection, multiple authors), The Traitor by Seth Dickinson, Space It Is Set In Space by Williams & Cressey, Queer as Folklore by Sacha Coward, Britain's Folklore Year by Mark Norman, How to Make the Best Coffee at Home by James Hoffman, and finally Craftland by James Fox.
Picture of 7 magic the gathering cards laid out on a desk in front of a keyboard. From left to right the cards are: Curious Colossus, Raiding Schemes, Glen Elendra's Answer, Chronicle of Victory, Glen Elendra Guardian, Steam Vents, Glen Elendra Guardian (borderless variant).
Cover of an issue of the comic "Monstress" The background is split vertically in half. The left side is of a dry and ancient temple. The right is of crashing waves with grasping blue hands at the edges. In the centre foreground stands Maika, the main character. Next to her is a young child with fox-like features looking scared and clasping an angry looking cat with two tails.
A photo of a computer screen with the following books: Craftland by James Fox, Queer as Folklore by Sacha Coward, Britain's Folklore Year by Mark Norman
A box of Inquisitorial Agents minis for the Kill Team skirmish game
A miniature of a man in power armour with a gun in one hand and a sword in the other. His armour is red.
Photo of the sky in the morning, transitioning from pale blue at the top to pale orange at the bottom. The tops of some buildings can be seen on either side of the photo. There is a very sparse smattering of clouds and a clearly visible full moon in the centre bottom of the photo. There is a gull flying at the top of the photo.
A standing row of the book "Craft Land" by James Fox sitting on a blue bookshelf in an independent bookshop
Game art for The Séance of Blake Manor
Game art for Botany Manor
A miniature of a tall elf-like man in a green waistcoat, brown trousers and green shoes. He holds a walking stick in one hand, and his other hand is half concealed behind his back. He has pale blue skin but his hidden hand is multicoloured. He has a long reddish-blond beard. He is standing in front of a wooden bench with a jug sitting on it.
A miniature of a man with chainmail, an axe, and a shield. The man is on a square base. He has brown boots, blue trousers, a red and blue round, segmented shield, an iron axe with a red handle wrapping, a blue gambeson and an iron helmet.
Cose up photo of Kragnos' face. The eyes are painted dark red and the teeth are painted off-white
A close up photo of Kragnos' face, his face is painted in shades of brown with a beginner's attempt at shading
Me holding Kragnos close to camera, there's some dark to light brown shading on his skin/fur
A base for miniatures on a painting plinth held by my hand. The base is made up of cracked hexagon tiles painted with an iridescent silver with brown staining. On the base is a tiny painted wooden table crafted from foam
Photo of a miniature table intended as a prop for a mini base. It's made out of foam, is small enough to fit on a thumbnail, and is painted to look like it's made of wood
A baking tray full of roasted pieces of crown prince pumpkin and butternut squash sit on a kitchen worktop next to a slow cooker.
A picture of me wearing a white t-shirt and making a worried face. I am a white with round metal glasses, a shirt beard and long straight hair which reaches down beyond my shoulders.
Photo of a desk set up for painting miniatures. The focus of the image is an old Rusty Quill Gaming mug which is being used to hold water for paint brushes. The mug is white and stained with many different colours of paint.
A picture of the Games Workshop miniature of Kragnos, a large centaur-like beast man with large horns. He holds a mace in one hand and a large shield in the other. He stands on a rocky outcrop. He is half painted with a brown body, pink and blue mane and beard, and bronze accessories.
A pile of books sit on a computer desk. From top to bottom there is: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer, Feersum Endjinn by Ian M. Banks, The Traitor by Seth Dickinson, Embassy town by China Mieville.
A Fellow Ode coffee grinder, Wilfa coffee machine and a bag of "Black Mocha" single origin Ugandan coffee beans sit on a kitchen worktop
A can of Boss Black canned coffee sits on a kitchen worktop
Three cables covered by cable runners on a purple hued stage
The inside of a jack o' lantern which has started to rot. The craved face is visible.
Me taking a selfie in front of a purple lit stage for the Magnus live show
Photo of a steamdeck running Ball X Pit, a breakout / vampire survivors hybrid. The screen shows a dark green lane running vertically up the middle of the screen with hundreds of little balls bouncing around.
A jack o' lantern sits on the end of the wall in front of a white house. It has angry looking eyes, a square nose and a down turned mouth with a single tooth. It is lit up by a candle inside it.
A blurry image of a spooky carnival clown banging a gavel in a YouTube ad
A series of 5 square and one rectangular tupperware boxes sit on a kitchen counter. All of them are full of pumpkin soup.
A deep saucepan and a slow cooker sit on a hob. Both are full of half cooked pumpkin soup.
Long shot of the Jags v Rams NFL game at Wembley Stadium