Dave Morris

@davemorris.bsky.social

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Writer, game designer, omnicurious.

Planning map for the gamebook DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN.
First paragraphs of Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens.
Flowchart of the gamebook Down Among The Dead Men.
Screenshot from the app version of the gamebook Down Among The Dead Men.
Manta car from Heart of Ice (gamebook)
Comparison of Dario Amodei and Donald Trump.
Comic book panel from Marvelman/Miracleman #1
Cover of the gamebook CAN YOU BREXIT WITHOUT BREAKING BRITAIN?
Poster for the Vulcanverse open-world gamebook series.
Page from White Dwarf magazine in 1983
Cover of the Blood Sword 5e book.
Illustration from the 1952 magazine publication of "The God in the Bowl" by Robert E Howard.
Image of a "Hound" of Tindalos by Mike Franchina: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/6zdxta/hound_of_tindalos_by_mike_franchina/
Russ Nicholson illustration of samurai fighting on a castle staircase.
A 1930s private eye faces a Cthulhu-like entity in a dark alley.
Spoof of the 2016 Vote Leave poster that claimed (mendaciously) that Turkey was about to join the EU.
Ungrammatical text from The Economist.
Joke cover for a Cthulhu Mythos variant of the Dragon Warriors RPG showing a female private eye shooting at a tentacle-faced monster on the streets of 1920s New York.
Painting: A House Collapsing on Two Firemen, Shoe Lane, London, EC4
Chart showing how ignorant most Americans are about US foreign aid spending.
Barry Smith cover for Conan the Barbarian #7: "The God in the Bowl".
A 4chan message begging for free copies of gamebooks on DriveThruRPG.
Artist's impression of the interior of the alien spacecraft from the novel Rendezvous With Rama.
Abbreviated passage from The Mill on the Floss.
Floor plan for RPG adventure based on "The God in the Bowl" by Robert E Howard.
Barry (Windsor-) Smith's cover for Conan the Barbarian #7.
Label for Japanese "Lemosco" relish.
The President of the United States has the mind of a petulant toddler.
Text response by Google's Gemini 2.5 LLM.
The Kingpin musing on the lack of a corpse in Matt Murdock's apparent death by car crash. Comics page from "Born Again" storyline in Daredevil: https://www.cbr.com/daredevil-kingpin-no-hope-no-fear/
Loading page for the forthcoming Blood Sword CRPG.
Lyonesse RPG
Excerpt from "Notes From Underground" (1864) predicting the rise of demagogues opposed to evidence-based reasoning and rules-based government.
Chart showing Trump's net favorability by demographic (T-shirt version: male, young, white, uneducated).
Cover of Blood Sword book 5: ominous stars in the night sky above the ruined citadel of Spyte. Painting by Mattia Simone.
Dozy Parker Award for car drivers who selfishly take up more than one space.
Image of the Chinese folk hero Ne Zha.
Closing panels from "To Save Face", a story in Eerie #17 (Sep 1968). A celebrity has used a beauty treatment that causes her skin to molt.
Medieval illustration. A priest is preaching to his congregation, but a knight is sceptical.
(Screenshot from the Ealing movie "Hue & Cry".) A schoolmaster disgustedly holds up a copy of a comic called "The Trump".
Letter to "the Royal Mythological Society" from Mirabilis: Year of Wonders.
A quote from Sallust about Trump's second term.
Poster reads: "It's just another Seldon Crisis".
Detail from the Geneva Window by the artist Harry Clarke.
The actor Ray Walston as "Uncle Martin" in the TV show My Favorite Martian (1963-1966).
The Kindleberger spiral
Screenshot from The Thaumaturge CRPG.
Medieval university lecture.
Oliver Johnson and Dave Morris, authors of Dragon Warriors, in 1985.