There is not a jail sentence long enough to reform this type of pudding brain. Maybe we can send them out to space like they did the Hulk when they couldn't figure out what to do with him.

Buck-ees is like an operation by Queen Beryl to fuel the Negaverse with evil energy Help us, Sailor Moon

I've been running a Magic School game using HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. This has obliged me to house rule the hell out of it. Here are the downtime actions to represent your extracurricular activities.

I got to play in an iteration of this whole Josh was making it. Top notch

Killer soundtrack, too. Got me whipping, nae naeing, Morris dancing, killing cops, jigging, etc.

While writing CASTLE AUTOMATIC for WORM, I've put my approach to dungeon keying to the test. NPCs are described last in the room's description but first in the details. This is because players *jump* at NPCs and tune out other descriptions. First, set the scene, then say who's in it.

It's good every time

Closing out the upcoming section on gifts (spells, feats, edges, powers, advantages, etc) for the Praxic Compendium by paraphrasing a chunk of a blog post by @riseupcomus.bsky.social, because obviously.

DURF Expanded is now live on Kickstarter! 🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

The poet Ruth Stone described how she would "run like hell" to catch a poem when she felt inspiration coming on. "...she would feel and hear a poem coming at her from over the landscape. It was like a thunderous train of air and it would come barreling down at her over the landscape."

The next installment of my Middle-earth Hexcrawl project. In this entry, trouble begets trouble as trolls (driven towards these lands by the Necromancer, no doubt) awakens an entity older than the Shire. A stalwart company may be able to unravel the mystery before things get out of hand.

You can use poker chips to track time of day for hexcrawling systems. For instance, you can have a stack of red, white, white, red, blue, blue to represent the flow of dawn, day, and night. I think I first saw this in Hot Springs Island by Jacob Hurst, but it's so clever I've used it ever since.

There's like, two blog posts I really put in a lot of professional research for (and the rest is my stupid ideas off the braindome): Horror in RPGs And Coziness in RPGs If either interest you, check 'em out, why not? riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2021/09/advi... riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2022/01/c-o-...

A reason I'm enjoying making a little (huge!) hexmap for Middle-earth as a personal writing project is that it gives me an excuse to delve into things I don't know about the world. What sort of crops DO the Hobbits raise? What's attested and what's inferred? What do they eat? Drink? Wear?

It looks like the rpg designers are back from summer break, because this month's issue of The Explorateur is over-encumbered with designer reviews, advice, and resources. What should I do for the anniversary issue next month? www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

The time for philanthropy is over. THE TIME FOR SWEET GAME BUNDLES IS HERE. I made it easier and cheaper to buy my most popular games :) itch.io/s/161143/the... 🌼

I've been running a magical school game in HIS MAJESTY THE WORM recently and unfortunately, the 1st year students have been TPKd. RIP. This is what I mean when I say that dungeons aren't balanced. They had skills that trivialized some encounters, but this one was over their heads.

This is SO GOOD

NEW (FREE) GAME FORTHCOMING: SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book. In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…

Have you seen ridella.xyz? It's like a Wordle for riddles. It's a good place to find solvable riddles for puzzles and sphinxes in your RPGs.

A (not yet final) full TTRPG (top secret project) is available only for my Patrons (even those just throwing a single dollar at me monthly), along with some cover art for another project I'm slowly working on. Consider joining for this and MORE! www.patreon.com/posts/rough-...

Although I wouldn't run it as written (well...) I have a genuine affection for the old MERP supplements. My partner captured an authentic emotion as I was explaining the little jokes in the text to them.

Someone who's followed me on Instagram for 2.5 years didn't know I'd done a full tarot deck even though they followed me when I started drawing the cards. However annoying you think you're being about your work - triple that and it still won't be even close. ✨Repost your work right the fuck now.✨

In HIS MAJESTY THE WORM, the game asks you to do small but regular maintenance on your dungeons to keep them feeling fresh. Silksong does a great job at this. You travel past old areas of the map and find new shops and new bosses, making them feel fresh and alive.

This quote by Gildor from The Fellowship of the Ring has informed a lot of my choices in my Middle-earth hexmap project:

After playing HIS MAJESTY THE WORM on both sides of the GM screen - as both a game runner and a player - I can confidently say that my players are better at the combat system than I am. The best players: * Combo off other players * Bide their time * Use every card every round

Reading my partner part of Dolmenwood and they said: "MY GOD! HOW HORRIFIC? What happens in the other honeycombs?" (They'd never seen a hex map, thought they were honeycombs)

been playing a pen and paper RPG called His Majesty The Worm and it feels about as close to Dungeon Meshi as it could be, very delightful system. we danced a mural open, got banned from a tavern, met the rat pope, and one of us was hours away from irreparably turning into a slug

One way to do a wizard's manse might be using modern floor plans in a "medieval" setting. This one might make a pretty good ~30-room dungeon. @riseupcomus.bsky.social and I have just the course to help design it: dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games/docs/chapter1/

Well worth the wait!

The next installment of my Middle-earth Hexmap series. These hexes contain the first site-based adventure of our experiment. Here, the problems of the populous are still pedestrian, but you'll soon start to see how queer things can get on the borders of the wild.

This is true, I was there

In October 2019, my friend Jess and I saw something unexpained while driving a dirt road on a decrepit farm in east Appalachia. I'm still not sure what it was; we call it the wrist monster.

Who else read the sequel novels to Willow (Lucasfilm, 1988), the Shadow Moon trilogy? Nobody? Just me?

I like to think of gnomes as a sect of religious fundamentalist dwarves who practice, like, a Wicker Man religion. Like folk horror Mennonites.

Even when I have "work" I have to do for games (Knock!, HIS MAJESTY THE WORM stuff, etc.) I think it's really important to maintain some hobby projects in the background. Things I'm doing *just for myself* are where real innovations in my craft (I hear it) are made.

I love knights.

And let's not forget their most important artwork: X-Men Swimsuit Specials

Still working on the Treasure Overhaul. Here's a preview of the Sages chapter. Enhance your alchemists.

I wrote a little about criticism today. idlecartulary.com/2025/09/25/w...

I like making art requests for THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC because I get to remember how ludicrous some of these freaky little guys are

I hope you backed the Mordant Arcana Deck - but if you didn't, you can get "Matt's Dungeon Generator," which uses a tarot deck to lay out a dungeon map, right now! bogfolk.itch.io/matt

Reposting for the weekday crowd. The Castle Automatic was a result of my efforts with the #Dungeon23 project! Give me a room number, and I'll give you a teaser for the room's contents.

One of the many, many reasons His Majesty the Worm (by @riseupcomus.bsky.social ) is first on my "next to try" list:

"Why megadungeons?" I wrote a whole damn game to try and answer that question. But Warren sums it up succinctly here! Megadungeons are my favorite type of RPG adventure! I've been playing them for years and having a blast!

Hey! Part one of me, Ivy & Tony playing through this adventure is up and titled properly on the @plusoneexp.bsky.social YouTube! Episode 2 is shot & being edited, and the thrilling conclusion(?) is probably live on Twitch this weekend! www.youtube.com/live/z2xbBUL...

Legolas watching the Hobbits freeze to death and the Men trying to clear a path on Caradhras and then just Naruto-running away is so funny to me.

Taking my own good advice, yesterday I went to my local living history museum. It made me think about some practicalities of living, sleeping, lighting, cooking, and raising animals in pre-modern times. (My players WILL be hearing about what I learned, insufferably.)

Illustrations like this are great to help GMs and players alike visualize how a particular adversary fights, but I also think they teach a very important lesson for BREAK!! specifically: no matter how cool your character is something silly is going to happen to them eventually, best embrace it

Sept 22. Happy Bday to Bilbo & Frodo.