James Chip

@james-chip.bsky.social

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Some time maker of tabletop games. Amateur magician. Plant grower. Abolish the monarchy. http://jameschip.io

A flow chart with two boxes: "check goals" and "adventure", that form a loop.
A photo taken from amidst the tall trees in a forest. The floor is covered in dried leaves, and there is a fallen tree reaching across it. The canopy is green, and bright. There is no path. Further on a few moss covered logs lay undisturbed. Just peeking through the trees a small grey stone church like building can be seen with one dark window.
Machine drum and ms20 mini sitting on my desk.
A machinedrum sitting in the corner of my desk. It is a silver drum machine covered in dark grey buttons and dials. There is a coaster made from old PCB sat on it for some reason.
Mike Maxwell from A1 Magic Multimedia. He is sitting on a tall stool against a backdrop of a large marble gas fireplace with a large pot plant next to it. He is wearing light blue trousers and a black turtle neck, over which he is wearing a red blazer. He has thick brown combed back hair in a side parting and a fabulous moustache. He is leaning slightly forward onto one knee holding a large black hard bound book.
A photo of a pie on a baking sheet. It has four brown gravy marks on the top that make it look like a smiley face.
My hand holding a two volume set of the oxford anthology of great British poetry.
Flower with dark purple petal that have a white edge to them.
A bunch of cream daffodils with yellow cones growing in my garden.
The mage knight box insert stuffed full of deck boxes with very little free space left in it.
A whole lot of cards covering a tabletop.
Shot of books shelf close up showing a copy of Frankenstein, the 1818 text.
Two cards. Meecras salt - cook a recipe with one fewer ingredient. Do not pay the command cost. Alzarrian cook book - cook 1 recipe for 1 fewer food token (and do not play the command cost)
A photo of a section of the sleeping gods ship board showing the location named "Sick Bay". Also shown is the title row of the damage tracking table with the location labeled as " infirm"
I hold two coins at the tips of my left hand. I takee one with my right and place it into my left palm, closing my fist around it. I take the second and place it on the first, you hear them make contact. I use my right hand to take a piece of invisible dust from my closed left fist and shake it until it becomes a coin. I open the left fist and only one coin is inside
A sleeved copy of rome, fate of an empire with a refolded insert to hold all the sleeved cards.
A chunky metal hole cutter on a desk. It has a metal cup through whit a large screw is pushed. On the other end of the screw is a round cutting head. In the background some electrical probes and a bench power supply are visible.
Me making a small red cup appear under a little black cup after I have visibly placed the ball in my pocket.
I fancy three coins on my right hand and hold my empty left hand away from it. With a small flick one coin invisibly travels from one hand to the other. I repeat it with another coin.
A Gameboy cartridge open on my desk. The old battery has been unsoldered and a replacement fitted.
The rule from hero quest from the searching for traps section reads. there are some traps in a room that have been placed directly on the other side of a door. Beware! The first hero to enter the room through that door will encounter the trap and suffer damage. Note: as a hero you cannot search for these traps by looking through the door. You must be into the room to search for any traps in it.
My hand holding a cassette box in a slip case. It is black with a few white lines going across it horizontally and has "Void Shift" in big letters at the top and "Binary Star Games" in smaller text in the bottom right corner.
I show my hands empty, pluck a piece of nothing from the air and turn it into a coin. I then vanish the coin in my right hand, take the invisible coin with my left, and make it reappear.
My hand holding three coins.
My hand holding two silver half crowns.
The nemo's war game set up on my table covered in dice and bits. It looks like an old war table with a map in the middle.
My hand holding a book with the bear lenormand card sketched on it in pen.
A terminal output from building the mfgj website. The last like says it has 190 games total. Last year we got 25 games
I roll a silver coin down my knuckles and it turns to a copper one.
Two cartoon men on a children's play road. Both are wearing track suits and a matching cap. One is in a blue tracksuit and is leaning trying to look cool. The other one is in red is sitting on a hand rail and is making hand signs.
A game of spirit island that I have won set up on my table.
A hand drawn lenormand card on a page. It is an ink drawing of a ruined tower.
Photo of the Agricola all creatures big and small board game. The farm fields are covered in little meeple horses, cows, pigs and sheep.
I hold a conker at my fingertips, pass my other hand quickly over it and it turns Into an acorn.
A genestealer miniature. It has bone white arms and a purple carapace. It is standing on a pipe sticking out of muddy ground.
Ronald Dahl's book of Ghost Stories. The cover is the head of a big black took on a white background.
I make coins travel from one hand it the other invisibly.
My hand holding the box for the Robinson Crusoe game.
A pink robin on a little mossy log. It has dark gray feathers but a bright pink breast.
Ticket to ride my first journey.
All the signatures and cover slips of the aforementioned book stitched together with white thread.
A cutting mat with a coaster taped to it as a stop and a signature against st it ready to trim.
Some sections of thick grey card that have had thin purple card wrapped around them.
A book press made from two squares of wooden table top held together by a length of threaded bar in each corner. They have been screwed shut and are trapping a folded sheet of paper between them.
The ends of the folded signatures being held together by my hand. They form a little zig zag pattern.
A bunch of printed and folded book signatures on a desk with a bone folder.
I show my hands empy other than a silver coin, i run my fingers over the coin and it turns to copper.
A sunflower that is only about 15cm tall.
The end of a piece of rope that is fraying apart.
Photo of a pri ted page of a book that reads "artifice ruse and subterfuge at the card table. A treaties on the science and art of manipulating cards"
Three lenormand cards on my desk. The book, the person, and the tree.
I take a coin in my right hand and vanish it into the air. I then open my left hand to show it also empty.
I make four coins travel from one hand to the other magically.
A notebook with pages filled with barely legible hand writing.
I show a coin on the palm of each hand, moving the coins to the finger tips and taking them in closed fists. I stick my thumbs out and tap the tips together and a little clink of coins is heard. When I open my hands again one of the coins has jumped from one hand to the other.
The cover of Wassail. A gnarled tree holds a playing card.