Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I review B8: Journey to the Rock by Michael Malone in another Gamer Blast from the Past! Also, we answer a mailbag question. www.patreon.com/posts/b8-jou...

My Break!! campaign starts tonight. Thanks @naldodrinan.bsky.social for making a neat game

What's the best time to launch a blog? 10:16pm EST on a Wednesday night? No? Damn, alright. deldon.bearblog.dev/2026-year-st...

An old one but I'm still proud of it, my first really "busy" piece for Chance Phillip's Phantasmagoria Issue 2.

Join us tomorrow night as Tony & @aaronmfking.bsky.social welcome @megueyb.bsky.social & @lumpley.bsky.social on to our 1st episode of Show Me Your Moves! Show me your moves is a year long exploration of life & design through PbtA Moves! Join us at 8p et Twitch.tv/TonyPlusOne 1/2

The blog says "4-minute read." That's a lie. Here's every finalist from the past three years of The Bloggies. www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...

one of the sillier things I have participated in for sure.

Hey y'all. I had to leave my dayjob recently, so it is a *great* time to buy my games or subscribe to my Patreon. I'm gonna be okay, but I'm out of work until I get something else lined up. I've got a few leads, but things are shaky. My work's at BrewistTabletopGames.itch.io.

All the Hunt for Gollum talk reminded me I wrote this. weirdwonder.bearblog.dev/tom-bombadil...

Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.

Hi people! One of my 2026 resolutions is to be able to "revive" Alone Together, a Discord server we've created in 2021 for solo #TTRPG enthusiasts. Luckily, lots of cool people are already in it, and are posting there. If you're not one of these cool people yet, lmk and I'll send you a link!

it’s good!

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Hello I have played more TTRPG systems on-mic than any performer in the history of TTRPGs and Actual Play, and more TTRPG systems than most players period, AMA www.partyofonepodcast.com

hello gamers, I'm here with my final blogpost of the year. this one's just a big list of every new word I learned this year, with short definitions for each. peruse at your leisure: samsorensen.blot.im/new-words-fr...

I wrote a brief year wrap up. Be well everyone. weirdwonder.net/year-over-ye... #osr

Evangeline does incredible work!

Goals for 2026: Keep playing new games, different kinda of games, weird games. Write and publish a few new adventures. Restart watercolor painting and continue practicing art, esp cartography. Go to the Art Museum. Keep reading books and going down rabbit holes of learning. Make that game.

ITS DONE. COMPLETE. A full fucking player facing playtest rulebook ready to go! All formated nice with all the rules and everything. Pierre Menards First Edition realised at last. Finally I can start the real OSR: writing a cool as hell adventure module for it.

April @weirdwonder.bsky.social heard something drilling near Tannic and asked me if I could try to get a snapshot of whoever was responsible of that noise, so I investigated what was true about the Orestruck... weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck Working with Amanda was a delight! #ttrpgart

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Hi, new blueskiers! I'm Roque, a 47 Spanish graphic layout designer and comic letterer by daylight and horror, sci-fi and dark fantasy artist when I have some spare time, working mostly on awesome ttrpg stuff with even awesomer people. cara.app/roquerr roque-romero.itch.io

I am playing Blue Prince.

My contribution to the Rankin & Bass hexcrawl is Coal Mountain, the source of all the coal for naughty children, and home to Jazz King Coal and his stronghold nightclub, the Coal House. Meet the miners - elf workers Santa rejected! Win some Company Scrip at the casino! Have a glass of Jingle Juice!

New Generator: I've taken the dozens of tables I've produced over the years for Magical Items and finally loaded them into a generator to produce new wonders with a single click! blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/magi... #osr #ttrpgs #randomtables

I've been talking of late with @friede.bsky.social about the triangle of extractive - experiential - additive relationships, however fleeting, & in the flurry of threads about a certain Star-Tribune article, this one hits most clearly at that, for me.

I wrote about my plans for 2026, both under the @cairnrpg.com umbrella and Between Two Cairns. newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/

I too am participating in Hexmas! I give you 0202: Conifer Mountain, an adaptation of a portion of a play-by-post game I ran last year weirdwonder.net/hexmas-0202-... #osr

got around to scanning THE LONG DARK, a riso mini about a knight navigating the perils of the mega dungeon he’s taken refuge in. will share a couple pages

I've created a list of cons in New England (2026). Please let me know if I'm missing any cons, or event details! I'm still working at it. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Holiday woodchuck, colored over a scan of the riso print

It is time for the annual viewing of Night of the Comet.

THE CAIRNIES

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I discuss our favorite module reviews from the year. That's right: it's the Cairnies 2025! www.patreon.com/posts/146425...

Over this holiday break I've been learning the Godot game engine, and for this practice I've had to draw some assets for myself. The player character is an old wizard because I find that relatable, and my two enemies so far as an orc and a goblin.

I'm running a little Winter Sale on my projects on itch.io, 25% off my stuff including my new adventure Orestruck: itch.io/s/177075/win...

My cover illustration for Brian!'s The Cataclysmic Engine. Listen to it here it's a great album brianbassoon.bandcamp.com/album/the-ca...

This is fun!

The Star Fallen is my science fantasy alien background for Cairn 2e. It's very cool, I promise. Get it HERE (for free): meatcastlegameware.itch.io/the-star-fal...

Flatline on the Blocks has been such a fun project! I hadn’t written for Mothership in a while after writing Resonant so it was a good time to work with everybody. #osr www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Hello, PDF games cheap now WINTER SALE very good!! please buy thanks bye bye itch.io/s/175165/win...

Reminder that you can get my lauded Liminal Horror module THE CHAIR for less than $2 right now. emosludge.itch.io/the-chair

Another piece of interior art for Bones of Bronze - my upcoming five level dungeon set in the Crystal Frontier's Barrow Fields.

are you jewish and do you think you can gather 2-5 players for TTRPG playtest that must take place in the next 48 hours? if so, send me a DM!

New from TTRPG INSIDER: We spoke with the designer of HIS MAJESTY THE WORM about his new mega dungeon and his pre-order strategy www.ttrpginsider.news/p/news-round... @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social

this is exciting!

Oh yeah, I made a Christmas themed game a few years ago, because [Werner Herzog voice, with same level of sincerity] the figure of Santa Claus is repulsive to me helloalexroberts.itch.io/andtoallagoo...