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Award-winning TTRPG designer/idiot His Majesty the Worm Out Now!
http://hismajestytheworm.games/
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Hello! My name is Josh and I like RPGs. Here's an overview of some of my current projects: His Majesty the Worm - A new/old-school, tarot-based, megadungeon crawler Dungeon Design Course - Make a dungeon with me! Knock! - Adventure gaming bric-a-brac
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PHILLY. I AM IN YOU. I'll be at PaxU at the Exalted Funeral booth from 3-4 on Friday. Come see me! I'll be bored if you don't!
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ratti incantati
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New games just dropped! 📚 📚
@riseupcomus.bsky.social
's tarot-driven mega-dungeon, cyberpunk rebellion from
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, an occult medieval OSR, 2 x
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's experimental adventure, and a cool new Tarot deck! 🐀
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The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures. Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
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The Trashcat wants to go to Pax!
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Last night, my players surprised me (they always will) when they boarded an astral ship and went to space. I was saved by the only non-Worm book I have at the table. I am reminded just how valuable this resource is. It gave me the freedom to adapt and still run the game in a radically new direction.
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New art available on my Patreon!
www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
I was having some fun with this one.
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H. Jay Watson
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kind of the Mona Lisa of heroic fantasy RPG art, when you really think about it
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Wayspell's Monster
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He might of forgotten, but this is where I stole the idea for the Some Weird Sin srd
someweirdsin.github.io
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In 2023, like many people, I participated in Dungeon 23. The end result was a massive, Metroidvania-inspired dungeon called The Castle Automatic. Here are three techniques I am using to structure the information architecture: -Room names and numbers -Landmark/hidden/secret -Enemies last<>first
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Information Architecture in The Castle Automatic
In 2023, like many people, I participated in Dungeon 23 . The end result was two dungeons - one based on the tarot (for His Majesty the Worm...
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2024/09/information-architecture-in-castle.html
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YES using geasa as taboos - and having taboos being actually well reflected in the game - is my shit. The gimmick is that you gain a measure of potency from observing a taboo, but sometimes you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Explicitly the inspiration for pacts in HIS MAJESTY THE WORM
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In the Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Irish hero Cú Chulainn can enter a hulked-out rage state called the warp spasm. This is how it's described in my copy. To exit it, his men have to dunk him into barrels of water. THIS is what a berserk rage should look like. THIS is how you describe your next barbarian
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Do you like representational diagrams? Boy howdy, this post's got some. I'm going to be using this model in my Middle-earth Hexcrawl project
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Can't sleep, playing the Narnia CYOA game
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Inspiration is everywhere. Today, went to the closest show cavern near me. Going on Monday got me a private tour. The tour guide lit a candle to show how dark it would be to explore with candles and torches! Also, check out the cave map.
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Some loot for Worm, inspired by real life artifact:
beavermancer.com/cloisters-lo...
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Cloisters Loot Table — Beaver Lodge
cargo.site
https://beavermancer.com/cloisters-loot-table
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Blood Orchard is a new micro-modular dungeon area for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM by
@tofurevolution.bsky.social
Something I'm loving about the Worm community is the way they're approaching modular content. Dungeon levels like Legos = megadungeon.
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The Blood Orchard by Toadmilk
A horror dungeon location for His Majesty The Worm
https://toadmilkstudio.itch.io/the-blood-orchard
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This is my face, this is what I look like. If you see me at Pax, say hi!
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SPEAKING OF A PERFECT WIFE, CHECK OUT THIS HOTTIE
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My upcoming big dungeon, THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC, is the ultimate result of my efforts with
#dungeon23
. Has anyone else out there published their dungeon23 project?
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What a good list
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Derek "Eyball Soup" Griffin
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"Tarot Deck.." 2023-2025
#darkartwork
#inkillustration
#gothic
#tarotcards
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This is my face, this is what I look like. If you see me at Pax, say hi!
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TofuRevolution 🍄 Commissions Open
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I just published The Blood Orchard, a small dungeon location for His Majesty The Worm. It can be plugged into any megadungeon and comes with a disgusting new monster - The Dreadful Sucker!
toadmilkstudio.itch.io/the-blood-or...
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The Blood Orchard by Toadmilk
A horror dungeon location for His Majesty The Worm
https://toadmilkstudio.itch.io/the-blood-orchard
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Wyrd Science Magazine
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2026 belongs to the first indie RPG to bin dice in favour of (somehow) using a 1978 MB Games Simon
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Knave of Cups
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New this month: His Majesty the Worm by
@riseupcomus.bsky.social
👑🪱 A deluxe megadungeon RPG. Cloth hardbound w 400+ pages of Underworld-delving, City-exploring, creature-fighting, magic-casting goodness. Art abounds. And it's diceless! BC IT'S TAROT-DRIVEN!!! WE'RE NOT KIDDING, HOW COOL IS THAT
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Look at my ranger dawg I'm going to jail
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I have an announcement to announce at Pax. I am excited.
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Zedeck is the Hemingway of RPGs. Reading this is so fun.
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I have an announcement to announce at Pax. I am excited.
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I like Against the Darkmaster a lot. It's a great MERP retroclone that cleans up the text, streamlines it for modern gaming, and wears its influences on its sleeve. It also has this heavy metal aesthetic that I love. I love how they're infused in this table of Passions.
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I believe this is what the elves call "serving pucco" (This is a funny joke, look it up)
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Come with me again to the Northfarthing in my Middle-earth Hexcrawl project. Missing booze at a wayside inn, an eccentric hobbit's ill-considered hedgemaze, and a missing hobbit child are some of the strange adventures burglars might find as they take the Northway from Oatbarton to Greenfield.
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The Green Fields - Middle-earth Hexcrawl
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. We previously vi...
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-green-fields-middle-earth-hexcrawl.html
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Mothership Month? Mausritter Month? Gosh, everyone's been busy! We've been running a Monster Mash jam on the Worm Discord server! Lots of folks joining together to make a BEASTIARY for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. (Join the server from the game's website to check out some cool new beasties!)
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His Majesty the Worm
His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small moments of daily life inside t...
https://www.hismajestytheworm.games/
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Real indie RPG bootstrapping here. Looks like an interesting project!
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Just a reminder: I'm going to Pax U in…A WEEK FROM TODAY? AHHH! If you're there, I'd love to connect!
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TofuRevolution 🍄 Commissions Open
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The last couple of years I was at a point where I could (barely) live from my art. This whole year I got zero commissions... And the longer it gets the harder it gets to put myself out there, to regularly post art...
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Sometimes when you're writing, you're stumped. To unstump yourself, try to challenge yourself to write 10 of the thing you're stumped on. Force yourself to put stuff down on paper. Make yourself do MORE than you were going to. Writing towards prompts is a great way to defeat the stump.
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Andy McAlpine
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Less than 24 hours left!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
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Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows
Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/626169339/wildendrem-volume-two-the-saintly-hollows
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Ty
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I still regularly use my faction generator to spark ideas and think you might get some use out of it too. Check it out!
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
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smoke, fuel, & fire faction generator
https://perchance.org/smoke-fuel-fire
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Galstaff, you have entered the door to the north... Here's 10 special doors that prompt OSR problem solving to put in your dungeon.
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d10 Special Doors
Hookay, writing this blog post not because I have good ideas, but because I don't have any ideas. Bashing my head against a writing prompt i...
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/11/d10-special-doors.html
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Oozejar 🍯
9 days ago
And
#Toozeday
comes again 🙌 Issue 7, mixing the
#inktober
and
#morktober
⚓ prompts for Oct. 14 🤷 Grab a green Cellar Key from one of my projects, or with a small tip on Ko-fi to check past issues and unlock this month's secret loot 🔓️ 📚️
gourdin-konbo-club.itch.io
☕
ko-fi.com/oozejar
Thank you 💚
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Making my dungeon descriptions more inscrutable than ever
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I was in my blog drafts this morning and found a post from 2016 that clearly was the beginning of the CASTLE AUTOMATIC project (later built out by
#dungeon23
and then revised into a full megadungeon, coming soon!) Look at the first scrap and compare it to the intro blurb of the completed one
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my DURF jam submission! the giant vultures that used to loom over mount carrion have all vanished overnight. the birdwatchers’ guild has entrusted you with restoring things to what they once were. it’s my first adventure so i wanna talk a lil more abt the process
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Caged in the Cliffs of Mount Carrion by batbehaviour
A one-shot adventure module for DURF
https://batbehaviour.itch.io/caged
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9 days ago
Language studies
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Here is a fuzzy picture of me running Dolmenwood this past weekend. Continuing to have a blast of it.
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This rules
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The first John Wick uses a great storytelling tool: “I gave him an impossible task...the bodies he buried that night are the foundation of what we are now." You don't have to tell me what that is. It's better left unsaid. Do this while running games.
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