George Barker

@scruffylooking.bsky.social

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Marketing @ Osprey Games Freelance Games Writer with words for Tabletop Gaming Mag and Dicebreaker. Editor, Bits & Pieces He/Him Opinions my own.

Picture of the Jinteki.net UI showing the Runner's hand and details in a game of Netrunner. The Runner currently has won the game with 12 tags.
Wikipedia page for the 2026 film 'Wicker'. An outcast in a fishing village commissions a husband for herself made out of wicker.
A selection of small box games, (dnup, tinderblox, Tedoku, The Gang, 123, Go!, dnup again but smaller, and the Elevation card pack for Net runner) miniatures (Vampire hunters from Bad Squid do) and an RPG (Mothership Core set).
Three knight miniatures on a grassy tree-stumped board.
Three painted miniature knights in a grassy field amid tree stumps.
Three unpainted miniatures, showing a swordsman, a necromancer controlling the dead with bells and an apprentice with book and sword.
Two miniatures from star wars legion. Din Jarin shooting from the hip and Grogu chomping a frog.
Amazonomachy (battle of Greeks against Amazons) Title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) Artist: Attributed to the Eretria Painter Period: Classical Date: ca. 420 BCE https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253351
Photo of a painted miniature - a woman in a green dress and dark Turquoise cloak holds a gold jug in one hand, a knife partially concealed by the cloak in the other.
Top 9 board games by plays Crokinole, Trios, My Favourite Things, Cambio, Compile, General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, Sky Team, Coup, Whirly Derby
Dumplings joined by a crispy cornflour crust plated next to a jar of Chilli Crisp.
Stack of books - A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon. Once more, with feeling by Victoria Coren and Charlie Skelton. This Way Up by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman. I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally.
A board game on a table between two players. Fox player about to get clowned on by the Raven player.
4 painted miniatures of Ewoks. One stand atop a cracked stormtrooper helmet blowing a horn, the others pose armed with slings.
Chilli crisp in reused jars on a cutting board.
Shallots frying in oil surrounded by aromatics and spices ready for chilli crisp.
Star Wars: Legion Miniatures - a squad of stormtroopers armed with shields and batons supported by two KX droids. A blonde officer in the middle of the formation signals with his fist.
Man doing awkward pose next to large cat mascot thing.
Painted miniature of Luke Skywalker holding a pistol and lightsaber while posing on a rock in a fly jacket.
Photo - Padawan Ahsoka Tano charges forward ahead of Anakin and Rex (Three Painted Miniatures for Star Wars Legion)
A bag of conkers
Painted miniature of a Bow Street Runner. Miniature made by North Star Military Figures for their The Silver Bayonet line.
Two painted miniatures. Two men in ragged garments. One, wearing a top hat holds up a torch and drags a musket, the other, wearing half a skull across his face, weilds a pistol and a rusty blade.
A painted Star Wars Legion Miniature of Devaronian (A red alien with horns) pointing and holding a futuristic axe.
Boy at the window, holding an ice cream.
Miniature painted model of Ahsoka Tano.
Three sleeper cell miniatures by Atomic Mass Games kitbashed with clone armour parts.
4 painted miniatures. L to R: A man in a jacket with a hand on his holstered blaster, a woman yelling into a radio reciever, a man duel welding pistols and a surgical robot holding up a syringe hand.
A painted miniature of Luke Skywalker stood on a rock in a black outfit with a black cloak and hood. One arm is under the cloak, the other ends out a hand holding a green light saber to his side.
Board game statistics infographic of the games I played. Star Wars Legion 52 plays Kill Team 2018 12 Plays Kill Team 2024 9 plays Mahjong 6 Plays Longshot the Dice Game 5 Plays Battalion: War of the Ancients 5 Plays General Orders: WW2 5 Plays Pucket: 5 Plays Imperium: Horizons 4 Plays 177 Plays total 59 Games
A board game being played on a coffee table. Cardboard ranks of soldiers face off in battle lines. Also there are bowls of bean stew nearby.
Two painted heads for a plastic miniature mounted on a cork. One has a helmet the other has big muttonchop facial hair.
A miniature figure in multiple parts mounted to corks. The parts are in the process of being painted. The base for the figure features a wall section with star wars inspired graffiti. It features a symbol of the Rebel Alliance, the slogan F (letters obscured by a blaster mark) the Empire.