Stout Stoat

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International awards winning gamesbook publisher. https://www.stoutstoat.co.uk

Box set of Old-School Essentials
Photo of a convention display, with bright artwork pinned onto display boards.
Photo of signed and editioned bookplate for Border Riding.
Photo of Border Riding game and hand drawn maps generated during play.
One Breath Left. Cardboard box with card slip cover.
Text reading “USA Shipping now available from Indie Press Revolution” over the cover of Carved in Stone. Cover shows a precision of ancient Scots hiking through a forest, but with badly drawn USA flags in their hands.
Screenshot of the Stout Stoat Press website.
Photo of a plastic silver token, sort of like a doubloon
Selfie of Brian in front of a display for Carved in Stone.
Close up of a hand drawn map. A large orange stoat is hanging out with Odin's ravens on top of a tavern.
Four panel sequence showing an artisan casting a bronze penannular brooch. They make a mould from clay, cast molten bronze into it, break it open, and then file down the rough cast shape.
Screen recorded flick through of the preview app, showing lushly illustrated pages from the book.
Photo of pages inside Carved in Stone, showing a topic titled Hearth and Home and a large illustration of the inside of a Pictish house.
Photo of the book Carved in Stone.
Screenshot of the Carved in Stone listing on the BackerKit pre-order page, with the price marked down from £50 to £40.
Illustration of a long-haired, muscular fella washing themselves with damp cloth. On their shoulder is a tattoo of a boar, rather crudely shaped. It is a close replica of the Pictish boar from the stone Old Scatness 3.
Screenshot of an itch.io page for Carved in Stone
Cover artwork for Carved in Stone. A series of Pictish travellers hike through an ancient temperate rainforest, conversing with each other.
A repeat of the Scatness boar image from the start of this thread.
Illustration of a bisected Pictish house, with a hearth in the centre of the living space. People work, rest, cook over and play by the hearth. Artist: Letty Wilson.
Left; Knocknagael Boar Symbol. Right; Old Scatness 3 B/boar figure.
A different drawing of the Old Scatness stone, this one more representational, to scale, and using stippling to create tone and depth. It is by Ian G Scott.
1st of three boars. Similar to the Bulls earlier, all boars have defining swirls, a similar silhouette, and all four legs on the ground.
Various animal symbols , as part of a larger cropped page from Carved in Stone. The animals include: wolf, snake, bull, salmon, stag, boar, eagle, goose, horse, a "bird" (quite duck-like), a "cat" (quite monkey-like) and a "beast".
Part of the Drosten Stone. Its scene shows Pictish symbols besides wild animals, and a hunter with a crossbow trying to shoot them. All images from the Ian G Scott collection.
Illustration of a crescent and V-rod Pictish symbol. It look like a crescent, with an arrow bent at angle to piece into and then out of it.
Illustrations of three Pictish stones, with knotwork designs, Celtic crosses, and Pictish symbols. Art by Elemei.
Photo of modern day ruins of a stone building at Old Scatness. There is a hearth in the middle of the excavated ruin, central to several off shoot pod rooms.
Digital drawing of a Pictish carved stone. It shows a naive inscription of a boar, with long rectangular body spouting a ridge of hair, 5 or 6 legs, a charming snout, and tiny tusks. Swirls fail to form into Celtic knotwork along its body.
Drawing of the Aberlemno battle stone, which depicts two forces in fighting one another.
A filled in version of Scurry’s character sheet, featuring Caleb the Badger, who has a trusty mallet, can whistle a tune, and has inquisitive ears.
Preview, flipping through a digital booklet edition of Scurry.
modifier letter apostrophe (U+02BC)
quotation mark (U+0022) and apostrophe (U+0027)
a crop of a larger digital painting. It shows a lush wet peat bog with flowing water, bright green and red mosses and lichens, thin slashes of reeds and grasses, and occasional tiny dabs of purple flowers. Art credit: George Outhwaite.
Illustration of a wooden Pictish chapel, inside of a small community. Its walls and roof are painted in bright blues, yellows, greens and reds. Art by Jagal!
Screenshot of part of an illustrated map showing what is now the north-east coast of modern day Scotland, but on the map is labelled as Pictland. It is covered in old names, like Fidach, Fortriu, Fotla, Circin, Fib, the Bannawg, Dunnottar, and so on.
Photo of Forsinard Flows Nature reserve, an example of a blanket bog. Shallow pools of water appear around stretches of marshy grass. A golden sunlight, typical of Scottish mornings or evenings, washes over the rather flat landscape. In the distance is a snow capped mountain. Photo credit RSPB.
A dark page. A white header reads "why should we play?" Subtitles include "Who matters in the past?" and a message in ogham, reading "challenge the present". An adjacent illustration shows cave explorers exploring a dark environ, featuring stalagmites, lizards, ferns, and ancient Pictish artwork.
A single page, titled Cuisine. The text describes seasonal dishes you might eat as a Pict in spring and winter, and accompanying illustrations feature a banquet of rich hearty foods; roasted skirret roots sit on leafy greens, there are bowls and cauldrons of stews featuring peas, bacon, lovage, wild carrots, and chunks of meat. Where there's space between dishes sit wooden mugs of cold-steeped herbal decoctions, syrupy honey mead, charlock bread slathered with butter and jam, acorn cakes, bannocks, and fried mushrooms.
meme. a cyclical flowchart reading it's so over / we're so back / it's so over / we're so back
Tables of prices by weight for the International Tracked service from Royal Mail. World Zone 3 (USA) for 500g is £13.80.
Video flip through of a draft book block, showing sketchy illustrations in black and white or colour, and lots of text.
Photo of Brian behind the same table as in the quote post, but this time in a different venue. Brian is pulling a funny face while holding two peace signs.
Photo of Brian, a white dude with wavy short hair and a beard, sitting behind a table convention table. The table shows illustrated map games, animal heist adventure books, and a home-printed document titled "carved in stone".
Photo of a workman loading a large pallet of books off of a truck.
Floor plan for the board game zone at TAGS 25. There's a boardgame shop, an open play zone with a board game library, benches to sit on and read, a large space dedicated to blood on the clock tower, and bookable tables at the back of the hall.
A floor plan of the TAGS 25 marketplace, with to-scale tables laid out into aisles and islands. There are two sizes of table; orange 6' tables and blue 4' tables. All of the tables also have spacing between them, and spacing behind them.
A colour bar chart showing how costs for TAGS weigh up against income from exhibitor table fees. Currently, Exhibitor table fees cover the cost of a discounted venue, advertising, printing handouts, and some fees & insurance costs. It doesn't cover paying stewards, the organisers, or additional help.
Photo of sticker sheets with different coloured bookplates with the same white leaping rat on each. Each rat is signed with the same signature, but has a different fancy hat.
Cropped email quote reading: "If possible, I think it'd be cool if the bard had some gender stuff going on, so I might revisit that in the next wave."
Screenshot of a video composition in AfterEffects. Heisting animals wander through a woodland landscape.
Screenshot of a Gemini assistant response, reacting to "play the news". The assistant asks for more clarification and lists relevant news sources, claiming to be able to find specific topics and relevant news for me.
Screenshot of the Scurry Backerkit campaign page. £8,835 raised across 311 backers, with 63 minutes left on the clock.
Illustration of a mole and a songbird sitting on a large tree branch overlooking verdant mountainous wilds below. The mole wears a contraption with wings, and practices moving them in time with the song bird who is instructing them.
Scurry BackerKit page, at £4855 out of £5000 needed to fund successfully.
Screenshot of a speculative print quote. 1000 units of a hardcover book are quoted as costing €3670, or about £3000 as of March 2nd 2024.
Screenshot of a Mixam print order, for 500 A5 64 page booklets, priced at £757.50 for the whole print run.
Screenshot of the 2025 BackerKit campaign. 118 backers have raised £3540 in a single day.