Wyrd Science Magazine

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The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons! Say hi press@wyrd.science Made in Belgium. Published in the UK. Read Everywhere. https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience #RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit

Lego Aragorn with Lego Sauron in a Lego Palantir
the new lego set of the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
An illustration of lich god Nagash, the undying king and patron saint of milliners throughout the mortal realms
Wyrd Science issue 8 being read on an iPad by someone presumably from the future
your friend the CHock-A-Block supercomputer and its servatorized human menial, the Chockagirl
The poster for the movie Van Helsing
a photo of issues 1-7 of Wyrd Science spread out on a red table
The cover to the new Fighting Fantasy game book, featuring some kind of malicious looking goblin with a flaming Warhammer
A photo by Stephan Gladieu of someone stood in a street in Kinshasa wearing a costume made from brightly coloured plastic buckets and water containers
A reveal of the new Warhammer Ork Boyz on the GW Instagram account
Peasant metal band Netherwilds looking like a bunch of freshly rolled up (and rolled in the mud) Warhammer Fantasy Rile-Play characters about to set off to find fame, fortune and exciting new poxes
A ye olde illustration of a manticore, with what looks like an inbred French man’s face on a lion, note no wings and as befits a French man’s a puny tail
A Warhammer model of a ome kind of mono-horned war hippo with an Ogor on its back
A hastily sketched picture of Necron best boy Trazyn saying ‘let’s fucking goooooooooooo!’
A 28 mm wargame miniature of Count Binface
A fanned out stack of copies of wyrd science with issue 8 featuring Tom J Newell’s incredible psychedelic mushroom death cover on top
A photo of a sneering young mark e smith with a speech bubble at the bottom of the picture
A photo of Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks. Also some idiot (it’s me, I’m the idiot) has photoshopped the awe inspiring image of the stay puft man from ghostbusters into the scene) Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
A photo of the front of Rare Mags in Stockport, with its beautiful blue shopfront
A photo by Chad Wadsworth of a woman wearing a medieval tabard and plate armour getting prepped for a fight
A still from a video of someone wearing an absolutely fucking fabulous outfit that comprises a giant eye everything dripping in jewels. Some wag (it’s us, we’re the wag!) has stuck a caption on it saying “When you have to beholding, at 5pm & bedazzling at 6pm” Maybe games publishers will take us seriously now
A photo of the cover of Monster Boom! A risograph zine from Goodbye Press all about Kaiju
Two made to order citadel miniatures of donkey/horse/mule baggage trains
A photo of the book SECRET IDENTITY - The fetish art of Superman’s Creator Joe Shuster, featuring a drawing of a woman whipping a dude strapped to a table
A photo of one of the Nottingham Horror collectives zines laid open to a pink and yellow illustrated spread on yellowjackets
A print zine, volume 1 of The Last Closet on the Left, a garish neon pink and yellow zine, lying on a bright yellow background
The cover to the Usborne Weird Computer Games book
a brightly coloured risograph style illustration featuring a few classic old hammer miniatures including two gun toting amazons and an orc with a Margaret thatcher banner (based on Colin Dixon's wonderful model)
The new issue of Senet, ripped from its envelope and lying in the sun
The Ladybird Book of Toys & Games to Make
nice classic Horror Top Trumps
a page from a 1990 issue of White Dwarf which featured an introduction to a forthcoming (though ultimately never released) game called Chivalry, about knightly combat, this page was a set of cards you were supposed to cut out that each presented 1 of 32 combat moves your knight could do in any round
A quote from a meta employee: "If [models] were a vehicle, Al would be the car and humans would be the fuel behind the whole thing," says one of the reporters who's worked for Meta
a rictus grinned skeletal terminator robot stood infant of a painting of the same rictus grinned skeletal terminator robot
the cover for David Saunders Encyclopaedia of the Worlds of Doctor Who A-D featuring I believe Bok the Gargoyle
The cover of a pink photocopied zine titled why are monsters hot? Featuring the it clown’s face superimposed on some hot dude’s body
the cover to Galive issue 3, with a knight fighting in a chain linked pit on his hands and knees
Tales From The Floating Vagabond is a new role-playing game whose only goal is pure fun. The universe presented covers all genres and all realities in an extremely funny way. Because of the open universe, the possibilities of the game are virtually endless. On the cover its says “Ludicrous adventure in a universe whose natural laws are out to lunch.” The whole game starts when the players (called “Patrons”) stumble into an interdimensional bar called The Floating Vagabond. Unable to return home, these fugitives from all over time and space have no alternative but to become inter-dimensional adventurers. This ridiculous premise is supported by a game system that is supposedly a model of simplicity and playability. Central to the play of the game is the concept of the Schtick, a single special power that almost all Patrons have. An example is the Flynn effect that guarantees that the character will always, no matter where he or she is, has something to swing on, be it a rope, vine, chandelier, whatever. Tales From The Floating Vagabond retails for a suggested list price of $13.95, and is available wherever games are sold. For additional information contact Phyllis Opolko, The Avalon Hill Game Company, 4517 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD.
A picture of a girl with red hair and an orange top (I think this was from the traitors) captioned: Jessie: and here they all come to chat a load of bollocks
a screenshot from a wikipedia page concerning Tolkien's antiquarian tendencies and how he made himself a page from what was designed to look like an incredibly ancient book that he'd discovered with the story of the lord of the rings on that he'd then translated " Picture: The first page from The Book of Mazarbul, a facsimile artefact that Tolkien carefully created in the style of a forgery to support the story and bring readers into his fantasy; he had hoped to include it in the first edition of The Lord of the Rings. Text: Catherine McIlwaine writes that Tolkien used his pipe to burn the edges of the Book of Mazarbul's pages, "pierced holes along one side to resemble the holes where the parchment would have been stitched to the binding and washed them with red paint to resemble bloodstains".[16] Groom notes that Tolkien was not a "literary forger" like Chatterton, but that his facsimile pages of the Book of Mazarbul "enlist[ed] the aesthetics of antiquarianism" and that he "adopts the techniques of literary forgery". Sherwood adds that these forgery methods were much like Chatterton's ways of making his documents look realistic. The set of forged and invented non-narrative elements took their place alongside the frame story that Bilbo and later Hobbits had edited, transcribed and annotated the text of the ancient Red Book of Westmarch which Tolkien supposedly found and edited as The Lord of the Rings"
John Blanche’s Amazon Gothic painting of a spiky armoured chaos warrior in her towering high heels and giant eighties hair metal pomp
John Blanche’s painting of a Warhammer empire knight atop his warhorse