A colossal harvest of shiny links - a lot of folk getting extra inspired this past week! If you seek still more, see the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll...

Caput Caprae has reminded me of a game we used to play with my brothers when I was about twelve years old, which could be considered an extremely rudimentary kind of wargame....

The third installment in the AAJ interview series is with Forlorn Skulk, who blogs at forlornskulk.blogspot.com/ and has an itch store at forlornskulk.itch.io. Skulk joined the...

Fully functional pointcrawl map making. CREATING YOUR ROCK.The overland map and travel uses a Pointcrawl system. This means the planet offers no points of interest beyond those...

This is Lykourga, the Glamorous Threadspinner. In other news, FUCK ARDEN VUL MAPPING JESUS CHRIST. The Players: Note that spuk was absent from the session, and I was...

I'm back for another sporadic review! As I've mentioned before, I'm running fewer one-shots and short games this year, so these reviews will be for medium to long campaigns....

I'm back for another sporadic review! As I've mentioned before, I'm running fewer one-shots and short games this year, so these reviews will be for medium to long campaigns....

CRIMSON ROCK REGIONS. DIFFERENT TERRAINS. ENCOUNTERS, EVENTS, WEATHER. Create a starting region for your Map, or roll one in the table below. D20 Crimson Rock Regions 1...

Another one of those "writing down a conversation so I don't forget it" type of posts, about what I learned from other games.

When Sean McCoy proposed the Dungeon23 project, I couldn't help but join in. I wrote two dungeons--one for His Majesty the Worm and one for Under Hill, By Water. This effort...

A contribution to the RPG Blog Carnival for June 2026, on the theme of Cyclopes, Ettins, Hill Giants, and Ogres from Advantage on Arcana. Because I assume that you all, just...

I’ve been making TikToks about City Council of Darkness because I genuinely think it’s a fascinating case study in a lot of questions about AP dramaturgy… and also because, you...

I consider myself a deeply sensitive and loving person. I mean this in an entirely negative way. Sure in many parts of my life those traits are lovely and positive but when it...

  Seeing no real leads on learning more about the cult of YGSÐÐ, the group decide to simply leave the city. With a muledrawn cart they ambled Knorth, the city’s local fields...

!!!content warning!!!!!!scary!!! Full spoilers for Obsession (2026) you have been WARNED now let me get this off my chest Cat's dead. Title drop. this movie is about a dead...

There are only two meaningful functions for TTRPG rules. I laid the bait above to see who would click ready to take up arms based on it. Lots of discourse-addicted,...

In case your campaign needs a little bit more punch I wrote this up.

You want to roll dice but all you got is cards?

For running around like a headless chicken. Chases work on combat initiative rules (as outlined here. The party that wins initiative gets to go first Set up a grid like a...

I'm currently (off and on) going through all the "Expanded Universe" Star Wars media, starting with the release of Timothy Zahn's 1991 masterpiece Heir to the Empire. Children...

It really is so simple and has such a big impact!

You too, can pilot a giant mech suit in your tabletop games! (Assuming, of course, that you aren't already playing Girl Frame, Lancer, Armour Astir, or any other wonderful game...

header The Company finish mapping the last part of Floor 1 and get into some scrapes which are a lot more dangerous than expected. Party Members Tina the Titanic - Level 6...

The Ruins of Fantasy Every fantasy RPG world I know, or more certainly every one I want to run a dungeon crawl game in is filled with huge ruins.  Above ground, underground …...

Minigame: Take a shot every time I say Dark Souls. I’m a FromSoft fan. I like my souls dark. My blood borned. My rings elden. I definitely see the appeal of trying to capture...

Standing up from my last campaign my players said something that I was not sure should I feel hurt by - that my last couple of campaigns had the same feel. I thought I ran some...

Midsummer edition of ttrpg goodness with discord discussions, blogs to read, play reports, projects, arrivals, and of course a poem!

BURROW WEIRDNESS TABLE. SETTLEMENTS AND CURRENT EVENTS SITUATIONS. D20 Burrow Weirdness 1 Anti-gravity conveyors 2 Zero gravity field 3 Gravity sinkhole 4 Cryo-freeze leaks 5...

Notetaking on Adorno's "Aesthetic Theory."

Dear reader, I am not someone who believes the be all end all of tabletop games is player agency. I subscribe to a different idea, that games are social and material processes...