My latest interview is with WFRP designer T.S. Luikart. After working extensively on the Storm of Chaos set 2nd edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay for Green Ronin and Black Industries T.S. eventually joined Cubicle 7 to develop their range of Games Workshop IP games. T.S. has worked on Soulbound, Wrath & Glory, Imperium Maledictum, WFRP 4th edit…

Warhammer Armies: Wood Elves was released for the 4th edition of the game and marked the first ever Wood Elves armies book. Stu and Jordan revisit the classic book and chat through the best bits! _____________________________ Support Stu and Miniature Realms: PATREON: patreon.com/MiniatureRealms DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Zb3akVbvcw YOUTUBE: https…

Legendary RPG designer Graeme Davis returns to chat with me about the WFRP that never was! We explore the projects that didn't get finished, the ideas that almost made it, and the awesome stuff that almost happened. Graeme Davis was part of the team that brought WFRP to incredible life, and his career has taken him to amazing worlds like Vampire th…

In the mid-2000s Games Workshop's Black Library didn't just publish Warhammer novels, it published original stories for classic movie horror franchises like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Final Destination! With the new Final Destination: Bloodlines movie on the way Jordan Sorcery and Stu at the GW Book Club decided to delve into the…

Malekith is the first part of the Sundering trilogy, an epic tale of heroism and betrayal at the heart of the High Elf nation. The GW Book Club is joined by author Gav Thorpe to chat about the story, writing in the time of legends, working with Black Library, and the world of Warhammer! _____________________________ Support Stu and Miniature Realms…

Sandy Mitchell has written countless classic 40k and Warhammer Fantasy stories for GW Books and the Black Library. Pen name of author Alex Stewart, Mitchell, is the force behind the brilliant Commissar Ciaphas Cain series of novels and short stories. In conversation with Jordan Sorcery Alex talks about his early career reviewing films like Highland…

Former White Dwarf Australian editor Dave Taylor in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. We talked about Dave's career with Games Workshop, some behind the scenes White Dwarf insights, how the international editions came to be, and Dave's most recent project - Dave Taylor Miniatures, a company that publishes Art Of books by some of the best miniature …

Bob Naismith was one of the early Citadel sculptors who helped to define the foundations of Warhammer and 40k. From the original Space Marine design, predating Rogue Trader and the start of 40k, to the plastics created for HeroQuest and Space Crusade, Bob and Jordan talk about an incredible career full of iconic and important work. Bob Naismith int…

In the late 80s there were 17 fiction books published by Games Workshop in their first attempt to create the Black Library; and now we're going to rank them! _____________________________ Support Stu and @MiniatureRealms: [PATREON] patreon.com/MiniatureRealms [DISCORD] https://discord.gg/Zb3akVbvcw [YOUTUBE] https://youtube.com/@MiniatureRealms?si=…

Graeme Davis was part of the team that brought WFRP to incredible life, and his career has taken him to amazing worlds like Vampire the Masquerade, Supernatural, and Vaesen. In our conversation we explored the opportunities and perils of drawing on folklore for making monsters, such as with the Fimir of Warhammer, and the ways in which encounter an…

Warhammer Armies: High Elves for the 4th edition was the first army book for the faction in the history of Warhammer Fantasy Battle! In this non-fiction episode of the GW Book Club Stu and Jordan explore this classic Warhammer text! _____________________________ Support Stu and @MiniatureRealms: [PATREON] patreon.com/MiniatureRealms [DISCORD] https…

Trish Carden joined Citadel in the 80s and became a legendary sculptor for Citadel Miniatures. Working closely with Aly Morrison, Bob Naismith, and many others Trish soon gained famed as the Monster Girl, able to creature magnificent beasts, dragons, and monsters that were unforgettable. With Aly Morrison, Trish established Marauder Miniatures, a n…

The final GW Book, a true Warhammer Fantasy classic written by by Kim Newman under the pen name Jack Yeovil and released in 1991. Beasts in Velvet is a Jack the Ripper inspired murder mystery on the streets of the Empire capital of Altdorf. Featuring countless cameos from the other GW Books titles and a brilliant detective story at its heart this b…

Rowan Zeoli and Caeylin Ellis of the independent tabletop gaming news site Rascal join Jordan to chat about the founding of the site, taking games journalism seriously, and the future of gaming. Rascal News was founded a year ago by 3 tabletop journalists who had worked for Polygon, Dicebreaker, Gizmodo, and I09. As those organisations have been sh…

Codex: Eldar was the first army book for the faction in the history of 40k! In the first non-fiction episode of the GW Book Club Stu and Jordan explore this classic Warhammer text! _____________________________ Support Stu and @MiniatureRealms: [PATREON] patreon.com/MiniatureRealms [DISCORD] https://discord.gg/Zb3akVbvcw [YOUTUBE] https://youtube.c…

Kid Zero and his pet snake Lady Venom have come into possession of an illegal data disc from one of the Dark Future's biggest mega-corporations. On the run from bounty hunters the Kid will hook up with hackers, team up with biker gangs, get kidnapped to the Antarctic, and enter a virtual reality like nothing he's seen before! We're reading Ghost Da…

Fantastic fantasy artist Ralph Horsley has worked at Games Workshop and the Black Library providing incredible art for Inferno! Magazine and many Warhammer and 40k books. His career has seen him take on the biggest fantasy worlds with work on Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, as well as more recently returning to the Old World to illustr…

Author Graham McNeill joins Jordan Sorcery and Stu from Miniature Realms for a very special episode of the GW Book Club. Lords of the Lance is the first new Warhammer Fantasy novel from the Black Library in almost a decade and it restarts the story telling of Warhammer's Old World with a band. Bretonnian knights make a brave, yet foolish, expeditio…

Bolt Action, the World War 2 miniature wargame, just received a hugely succesful 3rd edition from Warlord Games. This is the story of Bolt Action from the people who made it. From the origins of the first Bolt Action Miniatures sculpted by Paul Hicks, through the acquisition of the line by Warlord Games, to the creation and development of the game …

In the 1980s Bryan Ansell took over Games Workshop and reshaped it into a brand new company. Paul Cockburn joined Games Workshop from TSR UK having worked on Imagine Magazine and supplements for Dungeons & Dragons. During his time at GW Paul oversaw the relocation of White Dwarf from London to Nottingham and its evolution into a dedicated Warhammer…

Gaslands creator Mike Hutchinson is one of the best modern wargames designers having released amazing 28mm fantasy battle games like Hobgoblin, hilarious skirmish game of drunken space orcs Space Gits, and even a multi-GM roleplaying game called The Crawling Chaos. Mike Hutchinson in conversation with Jordan talks about his career, design ethos and…

Warhammer Armies: The Empire was the first ever faction specific armies book from Games Workshop, and what a book it was! In the first non-fiction episode of the GW Book Club Stu and Jordan explore this genuine classic! _____________________________ Support Stu and @MiniatureRealms: [PATREON] patreon.com/MiniatureRealms [DISCORD] https://discord.gg…

John Thorntwaite, former Head of Plastics for Games Workshop between 1985 and 1999, joins Jordan Sorcery to talk about the development of injection modelled miniatures for Warhammer and 40k. We talk about Bryan Ansell's intentions for Games Workshop plastic manufacturing, test cases like the slotta base and Fighting Fantasy miniatures, psychosyrene…

A special episode of the GW Book Club covering the second collection of Gotrek and Felix stories written by William King. Skavenslayer was one of the earliest Warhammer Fantasy books published by the Black Library. This collection tells the story of the Skaven designs on Nuln, the first appearance of Thanquol, and the many battles of Gotrek & Felix…

Juan Diaz is a much loved miniature sculptor who worked at Games Workshop for 16 years producing countless amazing minis for Citadel and Forge World. Amongst his many classic sculpts are the first daemon prince Be’Lakor and the infamous Daemonettes of Slaanesh. In conversation with Jordan Sorcery Juan talks about the culture and people he worked wi…

Elvis Presley, alligator-human hybrids, ghost astronauts, and the end of the world - it's just a regular Tuesday in the Dark Future. We're reading Comeback Tour, the third novel set in Games Workshop's post-apocalyptic-cyber-goth Dark Future setting that was inspired by Mad Max, Blade Runner, Judge Dredd, 80s action & horror movies, and a little bi…

GW Book Club tackles the final tale in the Orfeo trilogy of Warhammer Fantasy stories by Brian Craig. The novels so far have been a mixed bag, but can this finale bring together all of the disparate ideas with it's Arthurian tale of Dark Elves and Slaaneshi storm warriors on the islands of Albion? _____________________________ Support Stu and Minia…

There have been many Games Workshop games that just didn’t make it past the development stage - from Necromunda on a corrupted Eldar Craft World, to a Dr Who time travelling board game, to the fall of the Empire and the corruption of the Warhammer world by Tamurkhan. Rick Priestley, creator of Warhammer and 40k and the design team lead at Games Wor…

We're reading Krokodil Tears, the second novel set in Games Workshop's post-apocalyptic-cyber-goth Dark Future setting that was inspired by Mad Max, Blade Runner, Judge Dredd, 80s action & horror movies, and a little bit of Cthulhu. Written by Kim Newman under the pen name Jack Yeovil and released in 1991 Krokodil Tears raises the stakes for the fa…

Legendary Warhammer and 40k artist Paul Bonner joins Jordan Sorcery to talk about his time at Games workshop. They discuss Paul's iconic Orks and Goblins, his incredible work for early Warhammer, and the way that Games Workshop operated in the late 80s and early 90s. Paul Bonner interview. _____________________________ [ ELEMENT GAMES AFFILIATE LIN…

We're reading the Warhammer Fantasy novel Shadowbreed by David Ferring, the second part of the Konrad trilogy. This tale follows the young Konrad through a series of increasingly random encounters with little to show for it and even fewer answers! In GW Book Club my friend Stu and I explore classic fiction from the worlds of Warhammer, 40k, and Dar…

John Peake co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 with his school- and flat-mates Steve Jackson and Sir Ian Livingstone. Together they would sell John’s handmade wooden games, publish Owl & Weasel fanzine, and battle to keep the company afloat in its first year. Everything culminated in the first ever Games Day, followed shortly thereafter by John’s dec…

We're reading Inquisitor, the first 40k novel in Ian Watson's original trilogy. Featuring a Genestealer uprising, Inquisitors, a Callidus Assassin, a Squat, a hidden cabal at the heart of the imperium, and one of the weirdest plots in 40k history this is a wild one! In GW Book Club my friend Stu and I explore classic fiction from the worlds of Warh…

We're reading Deathwing, the first anthology of 40k fiction ever published and we're talking all about it in this month's GW Book Club! Featuring 7 short stories about inquisitors, assassins, Space Marine terminators, Genestealer Cults, Chaos, and the Imperium this collection includes tales by authors Bryan Ansell, William King, Charles Stross, Sto…

We're reading Demon Download, the first novel set in Games Workhop's Dark Future. Written by Kim Newman under the pen name Jack Yeovil this is a cyberpunk horror mash up that brings together Blade Runner, Mad Max, Judge Dredd, and HP Lovecraft in a compelling, high octane adventure! In GW Book Club my friend Stu and I explore classic fiction from t…

Ronnie Renton, founder of Mantic Games, talks about his career starting with his time as a managing director at Games Workshop. We explore some of the key business decisions behind Games Workshop's phenomenal growth in the 90s, how the culture of the company changed over time, and the challenges they faced. Then we talk the origins of Mantic, creat…

We're reading Route 666, the the first collection of fiction set in Games Workshop’s short lived Mad Max style universe of Dark Future. GW Books favourite authors including: Kim Newman (writing as Jack Yeovil), William King, and Brian Stableford (writing as Brian Craig) are joined by many others to present 9 tales of car combat, cyberpunk action, d…

Trench Crusade is a brand new skirmish wargame set in an alternate and hellish world war where demons walk the earth. Based on the world and art of Mike Franchina the game is currently going great guns on Kickstarter where it has already secured more than £1.5mn in support. Mike has worked on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay with Green Ronin, Warhammer O…

Mat Hart, co-founder and creative director at Steamforged Games, joins Jordan Sorcery to talk about the tabletop business, a career in video and table games, and planning the future of Warmachine and the Iron Kingdoms. Over the past decade Steamforged Games have released original games like Guildball and licenced video game adaptations like Dark So…

We're reading Red Thirst, the third and final anthology of short stories set in Warhammer Fantasy's known world. It features a cavalcade of returning superstar authors including: Kim Newman (writing as Jack Yeovil) and showing us a little more of the Vampire Genevieve's long and exciting life, Brian Stableford (writing as Brian Craig) offering up a…

We're reading Plague Daemon, the second book in the Orfeo trilogy and it features a chaos invasion into the Border Princes of Warhammer's Old World and some of the coolest concepts for magic plot points I've enjoyed. Written by Brian Stableford, under the name Brian Craig, this is the 6th of the original GW Books range released by Games Workshop be…

Author and former Games Workshop board member Peter Darvill-Evans in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Games Workshop and White Dwarf have a long history dating back to days before Warhammer Fantasy even existed. Under the tenure of co-founders Steve Jackson and Sir Ian Livingstone GW was the European importer of the new roleplaying game Dungeons &…

Advanced Fighting Fantasy Publisher Graham Bottley in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Fighting Fantasy gamebooks have had an incredible legacy - ever since that we found that Warlock at Firetop Mountain we’ve gone back into the dungeons, forests, cities, islands, and everything else that Fighting Fantasy has had to offer. In the 80s there was an …

Everyone probably agrees that the movies Alien directed by Ridley Scott and Aliens directed by James Cameron have had a huge influence on the creation of Warhammer 40,000; but what exactly can we trace back to these classic sci-fi movies? Jordan Sorcery and his great gaming friend Rob explore how and where the Alien films have informed the evolutio…

We're reading Konrad, the first adventure in an epic trilogy set in Warhammer’s Old World. There’s chaos mutants, gruff sellswords, female dwarfs, and a sojourn in Kislev, and all of it seems to lead to a destiny planned by the gods - Sigmar or others. This tale follows the young Konrad through a series of increasingly random encounters with little…

We're reading Wolf Riders the second anthology of short stories published by GW Books and set in the world of Warhammer Fantasy. This is the collection that includes the second Gotrek and Felix short story from William ‘Bill’ King, a loose Drachenfels prequel from Jack Yeovil AKA Kim Newman, a brace of stories told by Brian Stableford writing as Br…

Former Warhammer author Josh Reynolds joins Jordan Sorcery to talk about working with the Black Library, how the End Times really went down, and the challenges & opportunities of writing fiction for settings like Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40k, Age of Sigmar, Arkham Horror, and the Legend of the Five Rings. Josh Reynolds has written some of the m…

We're reading Zaragoz, the first novel of the Orfeo trilogy, written in 1989 by Brian Stableford under the pen name Brian Craig. The book introduces us to master lute player, minstrel, and storyteller Orfeo as he weaves a tale of the mysterious Estallian city of Zaragoz in an effort to win his freedom from a dangerous pirate lord. In GW Book Club m…

Paul Hicks is a veteran miniatures sculptor with a wealth of experience in the act and art of sculpting. Having produced many historical and fantasy miniatures over the years, after first working in Games Workshop retail, we talk about the business of being an independent sculptor, creating new games like Bolt Action from scratch, and the technique…

Ryan Miller helped to establish Games Workshop’s brief tenure as a CCG and TCG card game company by founding Sabretooth Games in the early 2000s. Responsible for the Warhammer card game WarCry, and a 40k card game called Horus Heresy, Miller explored parts of the settings and lore that were relatively untouched, and tapped into a completely differe…