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Caelyn Ellis

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Covers:  Video games, tabletop games (minis, RPGs.) Comics. Transgender, fat and disability issues.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Huge fan of tiny giant robots. Freelance journo, bylines @rockpapershot @eurogamer, @joindicebreaker. Disabled and fat. Leftie. She/They

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Caelyn Ellis’s Biography

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Caelyn Ellis is a fat, disabled trans woman who currently resides in the North of England with her partner. She works as a freelance journalist and games critic, mostly covering videogames, tabletop games and various other pop culture.

Over the years she has worked in primary education and the videogames industry, among others, and been employed by Richard Branson, Superman and God.

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Nobody Wants to Die review - a noiry cyberpunk tale told beautifully

Nobody Wants to Die review - a noiry cyberpunk tale told beautifully

Eurogamer's review of Nobody Wants to Die, which doesn't bring much invention to the table - but while it lac…

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Age of Sigmar: Skaventide delivers damn good Warhammer

Age of Sigmar: Skaventide delivers damn good Warhammer

Rats entertainment.

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The Outer Worlds' Parvati Holcomb is a rare but shining example of asexual representation

The Outer Worlds' Parvati Holcomb is a rare but shining example of asexual representation

Hello! Eurogamer is once again marking Pride with another week of features celebrating the intersection of LG…

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No Rest For the Wicked early access review - a shaky start, but there's potential

No Rest For the Wicked early access review - a shaky start, but there's potential

Our early access review of No Rest for the Wicked, an attempt to blend Diablo and the Souls games.

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Stellar Blade is more than skin deep

Stellar Blade is more than skin deep

Stellar Blade has a rip-roaring opening and strong ending, but a padded middle that's benefited by largely sa…

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How to play Warhammer 40,000: 10E rules explained

How to play Warhammer 40,000: 10E rules explained

From movement to attacking, here's everything you need to know before jumping into Warhammer 40k.

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Articles

Making your mark: three games streamline play with dry-erase markers

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By Caelyn Ellis Verified
| Rascal.News
As a self-confessed hobby dilettante (a phrase that sounds better than AuDHD-riddled, squirrel-brained gremlin), I’ve always been surprised about how little cross-pollination there is between very similar disciplines. Take painting and modelling, for example. You’d think miniature painting, traditional scale modelling, and Gunpla building would have a big overlap, but up until recently, they’ve been almost completely siloed off.
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Armageddon out of the Warhammer 40,000 coverage game

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By Caelyn Ellis Verified
| Rascal.News
If you’re even slightly tuned in to the Games Workshop grapevine or you’ve walked into your FLGS in the past few days, you’re probably aware that the eleventh edition of Warhammer 40,000 has just been released in the form of the traditional Big Box**, titled Armageddon. You may also have noticed that Rascal has featured absolutely no coverage of it whatsoever. In fact, I’ve not written anything about Warhammer since November, and I’ve written about Dungeons & Dragons four times since then.
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Twenty years and two editions later, Heroes of Horror still offers scary good advice

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| Rascal.News
At the time of writing, we are well into the Dungeons & Dragons’ Season of Horror, one of three themes Wizards of the Coast is presenting to us this year. This first project umbrella is timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Curse of Strahd, itself a remake of the classic Ravenloft adventure module.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I guess it would be editing my college magazine a very long time ago. Life took me on a very different path, but I'm back to writing now.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! My mum had one kicking around and I tried it out because I love writing, but hate writing by hand.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

An email or a DM on Twitter. I work at all kinds of odd hours due to my health issues, so talking in real time can be tricky.