Don’t roll! The most OSRish one and a third page RPG ever.

Blame is a real mood. Really making me want to re-run Gradient Descent.

I don’t remember anything about this book or why I backed it on Kickstarter. It looks cool, so I assume past Ramanan had some good taste.

Session 19 of Masters of Carcosa was pretty quiet, but session 20 had the players manage to free the giant monster-god Yog to tear up the town of Torok save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters... save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters...

In session 18 of Masters of Carcosa the players almost investigate the Snake Men ruins — but don't.

In session 17 of Masters of Carcosa, the Rainbow Connection meet the Protector of Truths and learn about his war with the Mi-Go.

Tania and Johan 😮

Blog map update! - Added many more blogs - Pulled in more historical post data (Substack, Ghost + others) - Reworked the side-panel stats to be clearer The new data also reshaped the communities. We're at eight now. graph.elmc.at

The blog post that got me even thinking about running Carcosa crossed with He-Man is this classic.

In session 16 of Masters of Carcosa the players finally discover the lair of the Jale Slavers. They also totally killed the Frog-God Llothali.

A day late! Session 15 was when the player's finally met the Space Alien Strike Force. They had to pretend they hadn't robbed the tomb of their fallen warrior a few sessions earlier. Somehow that worked, and they become bros.

Die Hard is OSR? Noel answers the question with science.

Alice is doing great work here, showing the creative power of having to interpret OD&D "quirks" into a unified system. OD&D sorta functions as a series of rules prompts, forcing a meditation on what each one means in the context of your campaign.

This is the juice.

In session 14 of Masters of Carcosa the players killed some bandits and ended up with some velociraptors for their troubles.

It’s true! I thought this would be a long journey, but a few people were really generous enough we are paid all up till next year for the feed. Thanks for all the sharing and caring. Maybe it’s time to add #osr back to the OSR feed.

Session 13 of Masters of Carcosa was some real OSR nonsense, with @linkskywalker.bsky.social and the team kidnapping an alien they woke up from cryosleep and convincing him that they had rescued him and all the other aliens in the complex they found him were dead. But why?

If you are a fan of the BlueSky OSR feed Yochai created, that I now manage, please consider donating for its upkeep costs! The service we use has created this convenient page where you can donate directly to paying for the feed’s hosting. blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/save.vs.to...

Interesting discussion with Sam about the very cool Over/Under.

I'm back with another Play Style Preferences. Let us travel back to the early days of the OSR: before Shadowdark, OSE, or Cairn. Today's post focuses on the fabled OSR G+ campaigns and the lessons they have to teach us about building worlds. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-pr...

I don’t even have any plane minis, but I’ve seen @caseyg.bsky.social working on this game for a hundred million years, no way I wasn’t going to grab it.

After 12 sessions the party return to the Space Alien Outpost that that kicked off the campaign and *almost* come face to face with the dirt-bag sorcerer they had inadvertently freed.

"Well, I'm back" he said. Over the last three months, I've keyed every hex in the bounds of the Shire, including rumors, nested random encounters, and five embedded mini-dungeons. I've collated them into a document, linked on the blog:

Planning on starting a one-on-one home Carcosa campaign (inspired by @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca) using Meatheads rules by @blarkblarkblark.bsky.social! Meatheads will be birthed from a Meat Grinder that, once per week, transforms one Red Man into a Meathead with no prior memory.

My technical difficulties with eBay, Payoneer and Etsy developed in a way I could never predict. Payoneer rejected my ID (the very same it approved!), and is closing my account. Which means I can no longer sell anywhere other than Ko-Fi, at least for now... And I still need to get rid of stuff.

Owlbears amirite betterlegends.com/webstore/owl...

In the 11th session of Masters of Carcosa the players stopped cultists from summoning some deep ones, and actually found treasure for a change. save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters...

Mr @betterlegends.bsky.social is making a zine about demons or something. It's for OSE Month. Pay attention. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I almost forgot #VALLEY100 was in 2025. It took a year off my life, but I'd do it all again... one day maybe.

Arsenal by Jordan Cuffie is a sci-fi skirmish game, a small posse of infantry and a mech. Real Mothership vibes with its setting, feels like you could drop it right in to your Mothership campaign. Cuffie did game design, art, writing, miniature photography. Amazing.

In session 10 the party ventures South to the town of Glom, where they get totally loaded off its evil Cthulhu lake water. save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters...

The Tabletop Titans crew have started a new Trench Crusade campaign, called The Heretic Coast - The Seventh Wake. In this first episode, the forces of New Antioch take on the ravening hordes of The Black Grail for control of the cursed shores of the Heretic Coast. #trenchcrusade youtu.be/DVa10OB-Vk4

Today I learned there are people unaware of my greatest contribution to the OSR: random character generators! It was 2012 and we finally had the technology to spit out new characters our most cherished of systems. save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/random-... character.totalpartykill.ca/basic/

This sounds like a pretty intense role playing game.

Session 9 ended with a mutant t-rex ... that ignored the party? Who wrote this movie?

It's the final episode of series six of the Bastionland Podcast, so I'm joined by Mark Diaz Truman of @magpiegames.bsky.social to discuss his choices for the Rule of Three. open.spotify.com/episode/61lf... Thanks to Mark and everyone else who guested on this series. That's all for now!

I had previously said my player's weren't reenacting Blood Meridian in this campaign, forgetting that in session 8 they decided to play a bit fast and loose with who counts as an evil slaver.

This is very exciting. Patrick's Snail Knight stories are some of my favourite writing he's done. Patrick's shared the first three stories again, all worth reading. For reals

This series has been fantastic, and concludes with a discussion of graphic design (for game designers). Although this series has focused on designing war games, all the information feels broadly useful. Well worth watching.

Thousand Empty Light by @alfredvalley.bsky.social looks cool as hell. A solo-adventure for Mothership.

And now in blog form: sneaking in a game of Mordheim before the year comes to a close.

Once more into Mordheim!

Session 7 of Masters of Carcosa was a lot of fighting Mi-Go. The party encounters their first Space Aliens.

Another day, another session of Masters of Carcosa! Session 6 was mostly exploring, but the players did kill a Mi-Go.

I was just about to post how much I am enjoying these, when I remembered that I ran and blogged about a Carcosa campaign that was inspired by your posts back around 2016/2017, which I thought you might get a kick out of: cutthroatsandcultists.blogspot.com/2017/04/week...

Session 5 of Masters of Carcosa. A quiet session, but they can’t all be loud. The party got high with some stoners living in a cave.

let's unbox another feature from our archive that's now completely free to read. this time we join up with @bastionland.bsky.social and visit a hellish planet filled with unimaginable horrors, bit of a busman's holiday perhaps, but still a change is as good as a rest

If there is one thing I am nostalgic about, it is G+ campaigns. I love that Ram is reposting his old Carcosa play reports.

Shout out to @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io who sold me this book at Dragonmeet. I’ve wanted a copy for ages. Crown of Salt by @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social. They did all writing, layout and art! That’s what it’s all about.