Glasgow indie outfit Weird Specialty Productions brought manic multiversal comedy to the Royal Highland Centre as Warped: A Manic Multiversal TTRPG made its physical convention debut at Tabletop Scotland 2026. Designed by award-winning filmmaker and game developer Ross Eaglesham, the d20 tabletop game pairs lightning-fast dimensional combat with deadpan absurdism, offering players 100 distinct alternate-reality versions of themselves to cycle through mid-encounter.
Weird Specialty previously built a following with titles such as Lofi Bards (To Study and Relax To), but Warped pushes the studio into unapologetic gonzo territory. The game runs on four core character stats, Matter, Manoeuvring, Mind, and Magnetism, built to resolve actions quickly without encumbering tables with inventory bookkeeping.
The central mechanic hinges on the Chaos Meter. As reality frays during play, characters, non-player characters, and surrounding environments mutate on the fly. Speaking to Geek Native on the convention floor, Ross Eaglesham confirmed that the tone leans deliberately towards surreal, escalating absurdity. Miniatures laid out on the demo table illustrated the concept: an adventurer might open an encounter as a battle-hardened knight clad in plate armour, only for a dimensional rupture to transmute them into a towering, sentient cone of ice cream who still possesses a broadsword.
That specific pitch found traction in the Highland Hall, catching the eye of veteran roleplaying game designer Kenneth Hite (Trail of Cthulhu, Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition). Hite stopped by the Weird Specialty stand during the weekend, evaluated the physical book, and praised the mechanics and visual presentation. Eaglesham has formatted the core volume with high-contrast, art-book production values, blending loud typography with immediate, punchy layout design.
Alongside the core book, Weird Specialty introduced Sprogs, a companion minigame that became a word-of-mouth hit over the weekend. Pitched as an in-universe phenomenon within Warped, Sprogs tasks players with collecting and battling living toys. The supplement includes self-contained combat rules, variant tables, and non-player character profiles.
Convention attendees quickly realised the mini-game is system-agnostic. Multiple groups at Tabletop Scotland picked up copies not just for Warped, but to adapt the creature-battling rules directly into Dungeons & Dragons campaigns across the Forgotten Realms. That practical flexibility made the indie stand one of the most intriguing grassroots discoveries at Ingliston this year.
Physical and digital editions of Warped: A Manic Multiversal TTRPG are available on DriveThruRPG and directly from Weird Specialty.
Tabletop Scotland 2026 Coverage
Our thanks to Thistle Tavern for sponsoring our coverage of Tabletop Scotland. Visit their spacious store at 79 Shandwick Pl, Edinburgh for a huge selection of wargames, board games, and TCGs.
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- Dates: 4th to 6th September 2026
- Location: Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh
