Rob Harper

@harperrob.bsky.social

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Player and designer of board games, doer of some other things also. He/him

A pack of "A4 subject dividers" with a price label that says, "3 for £10 or £3 each"
Two jars of 'Italian Classics cooking sauce' on a shop shelf, in a tray labelled as 'vegan sauce'. One jar is labelled as being for veal and pork, while the other is for chicken and meatballs.
A prototype of a board game with coloured domino tiles, assorted meeples on the tiles, and a tall stack of pink meeples in the middle.
A prototype card game. In the middle is a row of cards depicting castles, and on some of them are dice or a pawn. Lined up on either side of the row of castles are overlapped lines of cards, some face-down, and some face-up and showing titles like knight, soldier, and mercenary.
A big hall containing a load of tables with red tablecloths
A prototype board game. The board has recessed rectangular areas with coloured shapes in them, and there are a load of dice in different colours.
A cutting board, craft knife, and steel rule, with a piece of white foamboard with holes cut into it and a load of bits that have been cut away.
A load of dice with hand drawn stuff on the faces. Most of the dice are either coffee-cream or plum coloured and have faces that are 1 or 2 dots, an ice-cream cone, or blank. There is also a white die with shapes in different colours on its faces.
Several colourful, wooden animal tokens in front of a banana for scale, in front of a box that has the words "Grab Bag Jungle"
A board game virtual prototype with loads of cards, tiles, and stuff
A board game prototype on a table. Someone's arm is reaching across the table to move a component.
A board game with loads of tokens, including poo tokens, on various parts of the board.
A 2-d virtual boardgame prototype, with a map board of coloured tiles, assorted cards, and a score tracking board
Write a horror story using only 3 words
A small game board, depicting a stylised map, largely of England and Wales, on which are red and white cubes.
A virtual boardgame prototype with colourful domino-style tiles, cards, and various tokens
A pan containing a stew, topped with 6 fluffy dumplings
A prototype game, with assorted cards, many overlapped with each other, plus dice and a few other tokens
A prototype card game, including a layout of several characters made up of mismatched head, body, and leg sections
Showing the amazon.co.uk page for Grab Bag Jungle being offered for £12.30
A board game featuring a map of the USA with train tracks criss-crossing and coloured train tokens on many of them. In the foreground are coloured cards and paper money.
A game prototype. The main part of the image is three cards next to each other with mismatched parts of a character: its head, body, and legs.
A small game board with coloured disks placed in various spaces
A stone surrounded well, covered with an iron grill.
A virtual board game prototype with colourful tiles and tokens, and cards with icons and numbers on.
3 small cards in card stands, standing next to each other, with a wiggly line connecting across the cards
Hand written sign saying: "Hot, fresh, locally-sourced games to Playtest"
Lots of people playing games in a big hall
Some board game bits on a wooden table
A big hall with a lot of work going on, setting up stalls and stuff
A screen grab of the header of the Board Game Geek page for Grab Bag: Jungle, showing, amongst other things, that it has 1 rating and 0 comments.
Person pointing at a game called Grab Bag Jungle
Virtual prototype of a board game, with coloured squares with icons and tokens on the left area, and coloured circles connected with a network of lines on the right.
Virtual prototype of a board game, with a load of domino-like tiles on the left and a load of coloured circles, all with a load of tokens on them in both areas
Dragging a folder called 'GrabBagZoo' and dropping it into a folder called 'Archived'
A virtual boardgame prototype. On the left are coloured squares with icons and tokens on them. On the right is a network of coloured spaces with more tokens on.
A board game in mid-play, comprising several large cards making up a sort of board, and lots of coloured bird-shaped tokens placed on the cards.
A card game on a table. In the middle is a row of cards representing castles, and on either side of these are rows of other cards, some face up and some face down. There are also a few dice and a stand-up token depicting a flying raven.
2024-12-31 Table #366: Actual real English place name… Roll once for each column and combine. Column A... 1. Black. 2. Cran. 3. Hart. 4. Oak. 5. West. 6. Wood. Column B... 1. Hill. 2. Ley. 3. Ford. 4. Ham. 5. Well. 6. Field.
2024-12-30 Table #365: The ultimate pen… 1. Never runs out of ink and can switch between colours. 2. Can provide whatever line width you require. 3. Doesn't need to be carried, and just appears when required. 4. Can remind you of that thing you were thinking of a minute ago. 5. Moulds itself to perfectly fit your grip. 6. Has a glittery disco ball ornament on the end.
2024-12-29 Table #364: Birds (4) 1. Chinstrap 2. Emperor. 3. Galapagos. 4. Gentoo. 5. Humboldt. 6. King. 7. Little. 8. Macaroni. 9. Magellanic. 10. Royal. 11. Rockhopper. 12. Yellow-eyed.
2024-12-28 Table #363: Ahead, you can see you are approaching… 1. A huge, stone gateway. 2. The shore of a massive expanse of water. 3. A cluster of brightly coloured flags. 4. A circle of wagons. 5. The end of the road. 6. An establishment that provides rest and refreshment.
2024-12-27 Table #362: The person you bump into… 1. Apologises profusely and offers to help you. 2. Says nothing and walks onwards. 3. Drops a lot of small items and scrambles to pick them up. 4. Seems excited to have encountered you. 5. Slings some insults at you before stomping off. 6. Pulls out a weapon and challenges you to a duel.
2024-12-26 Table #361: The visitor wants to play a game about… 1. Animals competing for supplies of food. 2. Stealing treasure from the inhabitants of an underground city. 3. A historical conflict with a terrible loss of life. 4. Collecting numbers in specific groups. 5. Guessing which player is trying to ruin everything. 6. Commodity trading around a central sea.
2025-12-25 Table #360: The occupant of the cottage… 1. Wants you gone - now! 2. Has a terrible sickness. 3. Needs help repairing something weird. 4. Is expecting someone else. 5. Has been missing for months. 6. Is hiding a terrible secret.
2024-12-24 Table #359: Inside the cottage is… 1. Nothing. It looks long-abandoned. 2. One elderly person who spins yarn all day. 3. Signs that several large animals live here. 4. A very welcoming family of goblins. 5. A large dog that barks aggressively. 6. A group of soldiers, separated from their unit.
2024-12-23 Table #358: Nailed above the cottage's door… 1. An iron horseshoe. 2. A sign, pyrographed with the word "welcome". 3. A pair of ears. 4. A charm made of tied grasses. 5. A wreath of rich, green leaves. 6. An agricultural tool.
2024-12-22 Table #357: This item is particularly… 1. Sharp. 2. Pointy. 3. Heavy. 4. Smooth. 5. Shiny. 6. Well crafted. 7. Intricate. 8. Weird looking. 9. Warm. 10. Rare.
2024-12-21 Table #356: The delivery has been left… 1. In the rain, outside the door. 2. With a neighbour. 3. In the shed. 4. In a neighbour's shed. 5. At a random address across town. 6. On the roof.
A frame from a YouTube video with the title "Blue Oyster Cult - 'That Was Me' - Official Music Video". The frame has an old rocker guy pulling an intense face while aggressively pounding on a cowbell. The guy is Albert Bouchard, the original drummer from Blue Oyster Cult, who left the band under less than ideal circumstances in the 1980s. The cowbell is a reference to a famous Saturday Night Live sketch: "More cowbells!"
2024-12-20 Table #355: Look out! You are… 1. In the path of something enormous and terrifying. 2. About to fall down a hole. 3. Operating beyond safe parameters. 4. Zigging when you should be zagging. 5. Being pursued. 6. In danger of accidentally damaging something valuable.
2024-12-19 Table #354: Floating in the air before you… 1. A colourful feather quill. 2. Seven grey pebbles, slowly moving in a circular path. 3. A lit candle. 4. A leather-bound and silver-trimmed book. 5. A sphere of swirling liquid. 6. A skull, with flames in the eye sockets.
2024-12-18 Table #353: The curious pond… 1. There is always ice floating in it. 2. Seems to be bottomless. 3. Does something strange to faces reflected in it. 4. Has a frog that walks around on its surface. 5. Has no water, but there are fish swimming around. 6. Appears somewhere different every morning.
2024-12-17 Table #352: The magical world through the portal… 1. Everything is made of candy. 2. Everyone, even visitors, can fly. 3. The ground is entirely covered with brightly coloured gems. 4. Everyone is followed around by a singing insect. 5. The trees scream as you walk past them. 6. The weather wildly and rapidly swings between extremes.
2024-12-16 Table #351: The sentient weapon wants… 1. To feed from the strongest life forces. 2. To be wielded by the mightiest monarch. 3. To be free of its servitude. 4. To bring about an age of chaos. 5. To rid the world of the undead. 6. Companionship.
2024-12-15 Table #350: This sword has… 1. Several chips along the edge of its blade. 2. A jewel-encrusted hilt. 3. A fine, pattern-welded blade. 4. Patches of coloured tints on parts of the blade. 5. An occasional glow that seems to be triggered by something. 6. An ice cold temperature when it is touched.
2024-12-14 Table #349: Below the recently disturbed earth… 1. A locked metal box. 2. A locket attached to a fine, silver chain. 3. Something large and heavy, wrapped in a tarpaulin. 4. A single bone, slightly chewed. 5. A sword in a scabbard. 6. A waxed, canvas rolled-up tube.
2024-12-13 Table #348: Tasting notes 1. Citrus. 2. Berries. 3. Stoned fruit. 4. Apples. 5. Bananas. 6. Chocolate. 7. Caramel. 8. Nuts. 9. Brown sugar. 10. Vanilla. 11. Smoke. 12. Disinfectant. 13. Despair. 14. Wood. 15. Grass. 16. Kombucha. 17. Cheese. 18. Floral. 19. Coffee. 20. Ashes.