Welcome to The Warhammer Wordforge
FAQ's and FYI's for one and all
Welcome, readers and writers alike to the Warhammer Wordforge, home to Black Library and Warhammer RPG content alike.
Herein lies everything you need to know to get the most from your visits, including:
The weekly schedule of content
How to manage your email notifications
Subscribing to the Wordforge (spoiler: this site is 100% free)
The role of AI (another spoiler, I don’t use AI in my writing)
Reader article submissions
Weekly Schedule
Mondays
Black Library Weekly, the site’s flagship column that’s been in circulation for over a year (first over at Tabletop Battles/Goonhammer, and now here), runs every Monday. From new and upcoming books to conversations with the authors, plus all the news and happenings from around the webway. If you want to stay up-to-date with the Black Library, this is your ticket.
Wednesdays
On Wednesdays we run a Black Library featurette, which is usually one of the following:
Audio Impressions: reviews of Warhammer audiobooks
Black Library Bibliophiles: a series devoted to the curation of the physical collection and personal libraries
The History of the Black Library: A long-running series walking the history of the Black Library from inception to present day. Primarily focused on 40K, at least for the moment. (/foreshadowing alert)
Show and Tell: reviews of WarhammerTV content (typically animations)
White Dwarf Stories: Some Black Library gems are squirreled away within the pages of White Dwarf, Games Workshop’s monthly magazine. Each episode we look to uncover another one.
Fridays
For you Warhammer role-playing game fans, Warhammer RPG Weekly is your version of Black Library Weekly. Each week we’ll look at what’s going on in the wide world of Warhammer RPG’s!
Saturdays
Every other Saturday brings a new installment of The Hall Monitor, the “behind-the-scenes director’s commentary” of the Black Library Readers’ Hall of Fame project over on Tabletop Battles. Also, RPG features (coming soon) will be released on Saturdays as well.
Managing Your Notifications
That’s a lot of content, which can mean a lot of email notifications in your inbox. It is a top priority of mine to make sure you enjoy your experience with the Wordforge, and towards that end I’ve looked to make it easy to adjust your notifications of new content to your liking.
Here’s how.
While you’re on the site, click on your profile in the upper-right corner to bring up your menu options. Click on “Manage Subscription,” as shown below.
That will then bring up this handy interface, where you can select which content you’d like to have emailed to you, and which content you wouldn’t.
So maybe you’re here for RPG content only, so you can deselect Black Library Weekly and Black Library Features. Don’t want RPG stuff? Deselect Role-Playing Games. If you’re a Black Library reader and only want one “digest” email a week? Then just subscribe to Black Library Weekly, because that column will have links to everything else I run each week.
The first category, “The Warhammer Wordforge,” is only used for site content (like this article), so that’s going to be pretty uncommon.
But this way, you can make sure you’re getting exactly the amount of email notifications you’d like when you subscribe to the Wordforge!
Let’s Talk Subscriptions
This is Substack, and Substack loves to push monetization because that’s how it makes its money. Even the word “Subscription” makes it sound like something that costs money, so it’s important to be abundantly clear about pricing at the Warhammer Wordforge.
In short, there isn’t any. Articles, subscriptions, it’s all free. In fact, with a name like “The Warhammer Wordforge,” if I started charging to read my content I’d potentially be exposed to risk of a DCMA from Games Workshop, which historically has been somewhat aggressive in such matters.
At some point I’m probably going to activate an optional monetization model, mainly because you have to have monetization turned on to gain access to all of Substack’s content and services. But that will be the equivalent of a ‘tip jar.’
One more time: all content on the site is free to read, access, and share. There is no paywall at the Wordforge!
Abominable Intelligence
All of my writing is 100% AI-free. I think AI is an incredible tool that has been managed abysmally, without regard either for creator rights or downstream impacts. My use of AI is minimal and specific: I have a NotebookLM that I upload all of my articles into, and when I need to see when I last spoke about a certain topic or what stories I’ve reviewed over time, I’ll ask it.
In other words, it’s my archivist assistant. I don’t use it for any of my writing. And why would I, writing is the thing I love to do. Robots make good labor-savers, but poor thinkers.
Reader Submissions
While presently I have only published articles I’ve written, I am open to the right pitch. It doesn’t pay and I won’t insult anyone by promising them “exposure,” but I can offer editing and mentoring. Feel free to reach out!
And that’s it! Thanks for your support, and for being a reader. Don’t hesitate to connect if you have any questions or feedback, too!