Every RPG blogger is allowed one “What is the OSR?” post. Here’s mine:

I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out: www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...

New Blogpost: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings. #osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth

I made a "barebones" version of Cairn. Sort of. It's the 2e rules but with swingy and random character generation (no tables, no implied setting). I'm still tweaking it a lot so expect some changes. It's SRD only now, but here you go I guess. cairnrpg.com/barebones/

My adventure "Fabien's Atelier" is pay-what-you-want this month in honor of @directsungames.com Puzzle Dungeon Jam. Please enjoy. brad-kerr.itch.io/fabiens-atel...

The Better Legends RPG Preference Matrix has been making the rounds in some parts, so I thought it would be a fun lense to use to discuss Play Style Preferences. I'd love to see where everyone else falls in the various categories. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-pr...

The Better Legends RPG Preference Matrix has been making the rounds in some parts, so I thought it would be a fun lense to use to discuss Play Style Preferences. I'd love to see where everyone else falls in the various categories. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-pr...

We finished mythic bastionland tonight. The Snare Knight @naeolin.bsky.social , Magpie Knight @rrookstudio.bsky.social , and Leaf Knight (Dan!) used a pack of wolves and other animals plus mental trickery to yell The Sun back into the sky to become the winter sun again. #osr

Fall Newsletter is out to subscribers, or viewable on the web here: sendy.cairnrpg.com/w/sfWAXaPpdW...

New TTRPG Review Podcast Alert!

I recently published an adventure for Cairn 2e, and I'd like to talk about the development process a bit, it folks will indulge me.

I helped edit this. Also was part of the TPK that happened during playtesting. Who knows, maybe that's my PC on the cover? Or is it one of your PCs? You'll have to download it and run it for your players to find out!

I wrote another adventure. It's free. It's a forestcrawl. Get it!

My friend Martin over here making Mothership more Odd. We love to see it.

Part 3 is here. The deep dive into the Ennies. If you're someone who doesn't know much about the Ennie Awards, you should read parts 1 and 2. But if you like a bit of inside baseball and are interested in award shows in general—this is the article for you. www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-3/

d100 - What Do Those Rations Consist of Anyway? A Hundred Ideas for more Interesting Mobile Meals blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/10/d100... #osr #randomtables #ttrpgs

Go order the award-winning adventure for yourself! www.prismaticwasteland.com/shop/p/barke...

My adventure The Eternal Empress won second place in the Appendix N Jam from the judges! Content warning: body horror. Check it out here: weirdwonder.itch.io/empress

You can now purchase @weirdwonder.bsky.social's latest adventure Orestruck from the Cairn Store: store.cairnrpg.com/products/ore...

"Why megadungeons?" My pitch is that they are a campaign format that concentrates ideas, maximizes novelty, uses familiarity to advantage, and can be run in 2-4 hour sessions. Plus, between Silk Song and Delicious in Dungeon- everyone knows what they are! icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

This week in the Bathtub it’s Orestruck, the sequel to the eternally popular Tannic, by Amanda P! Is Tannic Forest deserving of a second visit? Find out!! idlecartulary.com/2025/09/22/b... #osr

So, yes, Orestruck, by @weirdwonder.bsky.social is out into the wild and barking on its tunnels, under the Tannic Forest, and I had an awesomely great fun time working them for its cover. weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck www.drivethrurpg.com/es/product/5... spacepenguin.ink/collections/... #ttrpg

I was on Between Two Cairns to talk about Tannic and we ended up deep diving about rpgs and grounded worlds.

As a point of clarity since a few folks asked, @spacepenguinink.bsky.social has published the physical edition: spacepenguin.ink/collections/...

Today my new adventure Orestruck is officially released! Return to the Tannic Forest to confront monstrosities, both magical and mundane. Itch weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck DrivethruRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... @spacepenguinink.bsky.social spacepenguin.ink/collections/...

thank you to @sal.gay for editing and @roqueromero.bsky.social for the awesome cover. Thank you also to everyone who did reading and gave feedback including @ratkingrpg.bsky.social @naeolin.bsky.social @bradkerr.net @cairnrpg.com @linkskywalker.bsky.social and to my wonderful playtesters!

Tomorrow: get ready #osr #ttrpg

A roundup of the biggest blog bandwagon ever: over 69 different bloggers wrote about their Appendices N and I collected and categorized them all for you #osr #ttrpg

Love the logistical Challenges Treasure can create at those lower levels. I even whipped this up to help *ease* my Players into the concept of Big, Bulky, or Fragile things taking up *more hands*:

In which we look through an Appendix N of the various videogames that have inspired me when I'm running/making TTRPG material, and focus on one level of one game in particular. Blogpost: Appendix N: The OSR of the First Level of Deus Ex

We are in the final 8 hours of the Vaults of Vaarn 2E crowdfunder campaign! This has been a huge milestone month for the project and the funding has exceeded anything I dared dream of! If you were on the fence about pledging please allow the FOMO to take over www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

wrote a new design diary (free for everyone to access) about @lackingceremony.bsky.social 's developmental editing for Seven-Part Pact and the process of implementing it — both creatively and philosophically! www.patreon.com/posts/137648...

#ClassicTravellerRPG #ClassicTraveller

I fell hard for Mythic Bastionland this summer. Here's exactly how I prepped and ran it (plus a pile of resources). If you're asking "where do I start?", this is for you: elmc.at/running-myth...

📰 NEW MINDSTORM POST! 📰 I've thought a lot about what makes good worldbuilding, and the most consistent throughline seems to come down to one thing: being an absolute sicko about it. Here's a post about it, including some interviews from other designers. www.mindstormpress.com/sicko-worldb...

Just wrote a short post on castaway origins in Castle Kelpsprot, my capsule game megadungeon: dododecahedron.blog/2025/08/26/k...

Excited to share something more substantial for the megadungeon capsule game I’m working on: dododecahedron.blog/2025/08/18/c...

This is one of the best Appendix N. Jam entries, it'll make your skin crawl...

Today's #Toozeday !🙌 Here's 1 out of 2 versions for the creature from July's Ooze Cellar issue #4. 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 💚

My first ever review, and it's for the @norgad.bsky.social Mothership module I ran a couple of weeks ago pointlessmonument.blot.im/i-ran-bracki...

I love this post by James Maliszewski about aging in the hobby, and about Lovecraft's The Silver Key, and the way ttrpgs can be a silver key that open a door to our childhood imagination. It's beautifully expressed. Read it. grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

Small dungeon studies to try and zero in on a style for a Cairn 2e adventure

Thank you to everyone who has checked out my new adventure The Eternal Empress! #osr Be sure to read all the awesome new Appendix N jam adventures! If you missed it: weirdwonder.itch.io/empress

And finally, the closing episode of season 6, destined to be the most recent post for a year or so until I get around to producing season 7: A Spectre (7+3 HD) is Haunting the Flaeness: Towards a Leftist OSR, by @humza.bsky.social blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/08/06/e...

This week in the bathtub: What does it mean for a module to subvert many of the things that define a module? What then does it become? Can we still play it? idlecartulary.com/2025/08/04/b... #osr

People ask me all the time, why do you write a blog? I’d say probably the glory, the accolades, the fame, the brand deals, and the money in that order. Everyone should start a blog! It feels nice to yell into the void, sometimes people even listen

Fuck the Ennies! No hype, no fanfare, no award shows, no spell checking, no nothing. I didn't even grab pictures for this post yet. Just the Ramanan Sivaranjan Awards for Excellence in Gaming 2025.

Today I'm releasing The Eternal Empress, a short location-based adventure for the Appendix N. jam. #osr Special thanks to @explorersdesign.bsky.social and Gus L. for the great cover and map! weirdwonder.itch.io/empress

Today, I wrote Got Not Game! It's a discussion of system agnosticism in modules, how different modules approach it, and what process to take when deciding whether it's right for your module. Check it out here! idlecartulary.com/2025/07/22/g... #osr