I went to GaryCon 18 and I wrote a blog post about it. www.weirdwonder.net/garycon2026 #osr

glad to see buddy @bradkerr.net’s horse lord getting the love it deserves!

Presenting our live recording of Between Two Cairns at Gary Con XVIII! @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I review D3: Vault of the Drow by Gary Gygax in another Gamer Blast from the Past! youtu.be/I_zrshbGR34?... Patrons received this video early.

Another one for @indestructoboy.bsky.social! A knight of a sun-order brandishes their flaming blade! #shadowdark #rpg #osr #art #dnd

We're back from #GaryCon! The latest #Dolmenwood session is scheduled for early next week, as a well as a new #Shadowdark Amuse-bouche from @deadlygazebo.bsky.social ! In the meantime, Patrons can enjoy some Shadowdark character generation! Links below!

Tonight in Break: I spent a lot of time acting as Thicket-Thorn the tree, an old tree singer who is definitely legally distinct from a certain ent. Also: I attacked the party with acidic goo monsters that formed a much larger meaner goo.

Hey, do you want to see my videos as soon as I make them? Or read DevNotes about my adventures, looking through multiple drafts to see how I write and edit them? Then check out my Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/JosephRLe... #osr #cairn #shadowdark #ttrpg #dnd

Just backed Ryan's gorgeous book -- dive in while you still can and support great craftsmanship!

Talking puzzles in adventure games with @bradkerr.net and @josephrlewis.bsky.social at Gary Con 2026. Happy with how this went <3 Thank you for all your help with the audio @bobbymcelver.bsky.social #osr #puzzles youtu.be/rb5uWdNHsAM

NEW RELEASES FOR MARCH! It's a big one this time: the long-awaited solo Troika! gamebook DOWN IN YONGARDY by @loottheroom.bsky.social has graced our hallowed shelves, along with DUNGEONS OF GALORA, a solo system and setting guide of decolonialized dungeon-crawling in a fantastic Latin America.

Being in the Cairn Adventure Anthology has been a highlight in my writerly game-designerish life. Amanda & Brad brought the accelerant to the Cairn fire! I get @watcherdm.com 's hesitation with the subject of my adventure; it is (necessarily) thorny territory: slowlorispress.com/post/7539232...

nice words by @watcherdm.com on the cairn adventure anthology I am delighted to be in with @zedecksiew.bsky.social and @bradkerr.net, thanks again to @yochaigal.bsky.social for letting us get weird!

I have a pdf copy of the Stith Thompson Folk-Motif Index and no one can stop me throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/03/100-...

One of my favorite sessions at Garycon was Cairn run by the excellent DM @weirdwonder.bsky.social. It's a creepy grim fantasy setting, and her adventure "The Eternal Empress" really leaned into that and was a lot of dark fun. You can buy it on DriveThruRPG and I highly recommend. #garycon #ttrpg

Do I recommend going? Yes. Do I recommend going with friends? Definitely.

We got our dice blessed by Gary Gygax, and Sam met Ed Greenwood.

I got to run my new Cairn 2e adventure, inspired by the Winchester Mystery House.

I koined another "State of the OSR" panel hosted by @limithron.bsky.social. Along with @bradkerr.net I was lucky enough to join Kelsey Dionne and Matt Finch.

Between Two Cairns recorded a live show at 8am. It went about as well as our regular shows.

@betterlegends.bsky.social ran Palace of the Silver Princess but Zelda. We were all woefully unprepared. @benjaminmarra.bsky.social drew a Goron portrait in about 30 seconds.

I helped slay a dragon (finally!) in @josephrlewis.bsky.social Shadowdark game. @cameronmaas.bsky.social did the deed and @bobbymcelver.bsky.social helped a little. See: I didn't forget you, Joe.

I got to play in an upcoming Dolmenwood investigative module run by @bradkerr.net. @weirdwonder.bsky.social played a drunken knight, and I played a Breggle Magician.

Gary Con 18 was a lot of fun. Here is a quick recap of some happenings there.

The celebration continues today! Doors open at 11:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.

I am using charcoal for everything on account of it means you only get to use light & darkness to describe the forms (no line work) so everything gets this dreamy indistinctness, and a dark border around the text so it's like the book is disappearing around the edges #ttrpg #osr

some charcoal details for an ADVENTURE ZINE I am illustrating for @falsemachine.bsky.social it is gonna be done like next month (this is all the border that's going around all the pages)

Have been working on a new project for blog discovery. It's now live! Check out rootr.ing! A new small hub and webring for ttrpg blogs. Read about here: elmc.at/rootring-is-...

CHAPTER SERF: A Warhammer 40K fan roleplaying game where you play the lowly freaks that serve the Space Marines: light their candles, polish their bolters, launder their loincloths- Now in printer-friendly formats: slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...

THE KNIGHT ERRANT: EXPANDED EDITION'S PHYSICAL EDITION IS OUT NOW! The first Indonesian Tabletop RPG product published internationally! www.copypastecoop.com/shop/p/the-k... Thank you @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social, @daniellocke.bsky.social, Copy/Paste Co-op as our publisher! #osr #tabletoprpg

I was in the group this morning and it rocked. Creepy dark fairytale vibes. Thanks for writing and running it. #garycon #ttrpg

First night of GARYCON @3d6downtheline.com @riseupcomus.bsky.social

Hope everyone is having a great #GaryCon. Yesterday I played Pirate Borg in an indoor water park, truly neato.

I wrote about my experiences teaching Cairn to middle school kids, but my advice works just as well for adults as it does for adolescents. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/teaching-cai...

FYI: I will be at Garycon this weekend running and playing games.

"The Princess & The Dragon" is the latest TTRPG adventure for the gritty and pretty Perils & Princesses. Written by @dhowl37.bsky.social, writer of the Ennie-nominated "Sweet Revenge," This freaky friday forest crawl is packed with high fantasy adventure and fairy tale antics. Live on Kickstarter.

Seven-Part Pact, my fantastical and ornate TTRPG about the seven most powerful wizards in a fantasy world, is coming this summer to kickstarter!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

I'm once again working on sprites for some sort of Arthurian roguelike. Taking a lot of inspiration from marginalia. #roguelike #pixelart #gamedev

Great news everyone, it only took hours and me sitting in silence for awhile but there is now a print available of elliptic curve cryptography www.inprnt.com/gallery/acid...

like 3 days left on your chance to get glass men. after this bundle it won't be for sale for the foreseeable. itch.io/b/3536/mayas...

Gooood morning people of Bluesky ⛅ After a heartening push from folks in my discord, I am launching a crowdfund for Season 2 of Lyrical Ludology! Season 1 launched in 2024, and I am very proud of it. Season 2 promises to be just as good 🤩 Sign up at the link 👇🏼 www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Some more adventure illustration. This one is filed under "What happens if the players do nothing"

IN ONE WEEK: Join us for Tabletop Bookshelf's Grand Opening! We've got a packed schedule with an open house, creator Q&As, and demos of Daggerheart, The Wildsea, and Perils & Princesses. We can't wait to see you there! (Poster art by @outridercreative.bsky.social)

A DEAD PLANET, A FORSAKEN KNIGHT AND A GROUP OF STRANDED SPACEFARERS The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition is now available on itch! A science fantasy old school Tabletop RPG adventure, designed for any Mark of the Odd games. Published by @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Copy/Paste Co-op. Link below!

9. Adventure overland map with points of interests/important hexes listed with page number and basic info.

8. Different sections could be color-coded and given a small icon maybe. For a rulebook, it'd be stuff like character creation, rules, classes etc. For an adventure, it's different sections like intro, NPCs, location, monsters.

7. Kinda what I'm doing in Invincible; this could be a sidebar/statblock/table that sort of dips into the paragraph, breaking things up a bit. I'd give it more whitespace though.

6. This could be a roll table of random encounters or events, each represented with a spot illustration.

5. This could be a timeline showing different factions and significant monsters and their actions and progress up to and beyond the point of the adventure.

4. Clean up the shit to the left, switch the moka pot to a dungeon map and this could be a one-page dungeon.