Iain McAllister

@giantbrain.co.uk

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Game writer, freelance critic, and podcaster. Writer for Tabletop Gaming Magzine. Host of Cult of the Old and But Why Vikings? Find all my work here https://linktr.ee/thegiantbrain

Character sheets for fatherfog lie around the table with dice and cups of tea. The book lies cracked open near the camera
A book on ereader. Under how to play section there are key concepts spelt quay as in boat.
I am standing in front of some casks I've just cleaned
A stats pic from bgstats. I played 11 games but only 5 different ones. Earthborne Rangers, The Gang and Magical Athlete with 3 plays each and Arcs and Courtisans with 1.
A tiny bunny hides under a black car
A grid of 25 cards some face up with a couple of tokens to show the Knight and Hunting Beast.
A sum up of the games I've played this month including images of the top 9. Number 1 is Magical Athlete
Thiefdom
From left to right Tim Clare, Ava Foxfort, and I sit behind a red clothed table. We are smiling to camera and Ava has their arms around Tim and I
A blue box with games in it. Visible are Glatisant and Ethnos amongst the games.
Cover of Senet magazine. A witch peers over a fence at a little girl. Black on yellow
The cover of the score by C.Thi Nguyen.
A grid of 9 games I played in January. From top left to bottom right in order of plays. Flip 7, Moon colony bloodbath, compile main 2, the gang, crumbs, ethnos, kabuto sumo, sanctuary, sky team
Flip7 box. Rainbow foil.
Break!! in play with character sheets, dice, pencils and the town of Homble as a starting point.
Two player moon colony Bloodbath. Two boards with tokens on opposite sides of the table with lots of cards in between.
An ancient robot games tote bag under a cyberpunk card deck and ark Nova board game
The cover of The Score by C.Thi Nguyen. It is a blue cover with clouds and the authors name and title in circles in a row in the middle along with a summary of the book name.
The cover of velvet RPG shows Kaiju breathing fire across a city.
Undying sands gm screen.
I look into the camera lens wearing a blue jumper with a cream curtain behind me. I am wearing glasses.
Vampire The Eternal Struggle in play.
FiveEvil book with the intensity coasters
Old.kings crown. I'm playing as the uprising in red.
The old Kings Crown on my table. The nobility board after a couple of rounds of play.
4 people look to camera with rpg ephemera strewn across the table.
Box of The Old Kings Crown displaying a lush but seemingly degenerating kingdom.
Looking down on a hall full of people playing Netrunner.
A hexagonal board has 10 large cardboard standees. Cards are on either side of the board showing the powers of the characters on the board.
Leaders in play. A hexagonal board is occupied by various standees.
Innovation fourth edition in play. A circle of cards showing different ages is in the middle. In front of the players are cards of different colours showing technologies.
Kingdom Crossing in play. Player board with various tracks and a green island where beavers roam in the middle
Personal Demons board. An octagonal board is filled with cards. The cards represent demons and you form seals on the corners of the cards.
The front cover to the zone. A skeleton screams wearing a purple cloak. A green swirl in the background with red figures.
A box full of manilla a4 envelopes containing the quiz and accessories for each team.
Computer on a table showing the quiz rounds and the TV behind it mirroring the screen.
A slide from the pub quiz for tabletop scotland showing the 5 rounds. They are One Star Only, Price is Right, General Knowledge, Name of the Game, and Get a Clue
9 trophies with a blue top showing the tabletop scotland logo for 2025 and a white base that says Pub Quiz Winner
Innovation 4th edition box.
Padme, anakin Meme. Anakin says 'We are cracking down on homelessness" Padme asks "So you will give them homes?" Anakin looks blank. Padme asks it again.
A wooden table is covered by a neoprene mat. It has a red border and black central area with the giant brain logo
Lined paper with writing. It says Arcs de Triumph at the top.
Arcs board strewn with pieces as we go into act 2.
Imperium classics box on top of the imperium horizons box
Glamping pods in the Blair atholl caravan park. Table where I setup to write this morning in foreground. Trees and grass all around.
Oware board. 12 hollows hold 4 seeds each in two rows. Carved wood.
Oware board consisting of 12 holes carved into a piece of wood and seed pieces.
A Spotify chapter listing for cult of the old episode about memoir 44 featuring one chapter called the synchronicity of escape
Last Bug Standing in the Circle of Doom. A grid of 16 cards where the tank moves, the navigator card on its space on the left, the circle of doom on the right.
Compile. 6 protocols in landscape with cards in portrait on my side
A black book with His Majesty The Worm written in silver inside a circle.
5 people look to camera after finishing a Slugblaster game
A finger points out at you from a poster. No is written below it.
A hand points a finger out of the poster. Below it is the word No with an asterix. The asterix at the bottom of the poster refers to this. It reads "No, for more information please reread this poster"
5 folk look to camera from around the table. They have been playing eat the Reich
A 3 x 3 image grid shows all the games I played this month.