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Writer and game developer. Narrative lead on Zeo Genesis from Best Hobby, and a former Games Workshop writer.
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Gav Thorpe

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Writer and game developer. Narrative lead on Zeo Genesis from Best Hobby, and a former Games Workshop writer.

Gav Thorpe is the narrative lead on Zeo Genesis, published by Best Hobby. He’s also credited with game development and with writing for the game’s World Anvil wiki. He was a Games Workshop writer before this.

He also co-wrote the Carnevale rulebook for TTCombat.

Games

Painted artwork of a Venetian canal under a green, lightning-filled sky: a Guild gondolier and fighters clash with a fish-headed Rashaar creature rising from the water, while a masked, armoured figure and a woman with a spear lunge forward in front of a stone bridge and a glowing church

Carnevale

TTCombat's narrative skirmish game set in a drowned, monster-haunted Venice in 1795. Gangs of around ten characters climb, jump, swim, and drown each other across a table that's a third water, with free rules and d10s.

Skirmish · 2–4 players · Own minis line · Free rules
Zeo Genesis concept art: two armored figures cross an orange desert toward an industrial outpost under jagged rock spires and a huge blue planet in the night sky

Zeo Genesis

Andy Chambers' scalable skirmish game of big armored suits from Best Hobby. Piloted Zeoforms and their support teams fight a shadow war among the Hundred Suns, with hard plastic models made in the USA. The core rules are a free download.

Skirmish · 2 players · Print / STL · Free rules