This is what stares back at me as I edit THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC if anyone was wondering

I wrote a little about criticism today. idlecartulary.com/2025/09/25/w...

Reposting for the weekday crowd. The Castle Automatic was a result of my efforts with the #Dungeon23 project! Give me a room number, and I'll give you a teaser for the room's contents.

Coming next summer! Join @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I at Between Two Cons, an indie RPG/OSR convention in Portland, Oregon. Fill out this survey to influence how it takes shape: forms.gle/bxs7RkvRkeeD...

New Review! Orphans, the newest Tuesday Night Games Pamphlet. Numerous thoughts within. www.valerialoves.com/orphans-stuc...

Heya! I'm Izzy, I make sci fi and fantasy art for games, gamers, and game-makers. Character pieces start at 20 USD, and I'm happy to work with you at any budget whatsoever 🤓 No AI, ever. #ttrpgart #art #ttrpg

"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-...

A review of one of the earliest official 5e adventures (but one you’ve never heard of) which also explores the 5e play culture of the time and whether you can “fix” an adventure with lots of fun aspects without subverting the intended play culture #dnd #rpg #osr

yum yum yum little lunchbreak blogpost lukegearing.blot.im/contacts-and...

Today on the BREAK!! blog - it's a lovely morning in the Blazing Garden, and you are a horrible monstrich. breakrpg.blogspot.com/2025/09/free...

Happy Batman Day, Bruce Wayne has a lot of money but I dont so consider paying 5 dollars for a copy of SW//NG, a caltrop core ttrpg about vigilantes tortured by their pasts and driven to do the right thing. Or just get one of the free copies, im not a cop. farmergadda.itch.io/swng

I'm a simple man. If the spear in your TTRPG is not at least as good as a sword, I get upset

Blogpost! Is your elfgame village a little drab? Your small town beset by hidden horrors missing a certain local silliness? Don't worry, because ol' Gadda's got just the thing... A 1D20 Table of excuses to fucking PARTY. Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/reason...

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/...

#mintrecommends: Space Fantasy I've had a LOT of space recommendations in the past, and space fantasy / space opera has taken up a significant chunk of that! Here's some of my top recs.

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

Me and some tattoos I did on Saturday! I'm getting better!

Examine and analyze the conceptual models that underlie games. Examine and analyze the ways that the game's processes embody its underlying models. (These diagrams are about our game Under Hollow Hills, from this blog post: lumpley.games/2021/04/07/p...)

I love a good 2 hour long driving video set to music, and just found this banger channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN2V...

The first clue to the 2025 Blinking Birch Puzzle Hunt will be posted on Saturday, September 20th at 9am ET, along with the link to the Discord server. Solving these 8 puzzles will require your brain, your indie TTRPG collection, and your friends. Best of luck to you all.

Oh hey, it's only a month until the next issue starts airing. Mor-Rioghan and Eris both got some updated looks 👀 #marakethschosenwebcomic

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CW: domestic violence Hey folks, I’m visiting family, and we’re helping a neighbor escape an abusive relationship. Please pitch in if you can and please give this a signal boost! I’m mostly RPG-focused on here, but I’m not on any other social media and this is very important gofund.me/ba07656c3

Started a daily writing exercise where I key one (1) 12-mile hex of Middle-earth. Here are seven from the last week.

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

Alpha draft of my game is (allegedly) table-ready! This is the version I will be testing against, I would love to hear what folks think of it. As a companion piece, here is an Appendix N for the game so far! tbr.bearblog.dev/tbr-appendix...

Redux of an old post of mine that was borderline unreadable, but which had a nugget of wisdom worth salvaging. There are two totally different types of hexcrawl and nobody else seems to have pointed this out before. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

I hate to e-beg, but this was an unexpected thousand dollars we spent to try and get care. Anything helps mitigate the cost. paypal.me/farmergadda

happy with @nornnoszka.bsky.social

Two more Monster Manual posts, for the letters K and L. Some of the best letters in the whole book, honestly. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/08/k-mo... knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/08/l-mo...

Some traditional OSR blogging for Labor Day... Blogpost: How to make hunting tough monsters an interesting challenge for your players, with multiple paths to success pointlessmonument.blot.im/how-to-make-...

Post a meme you made:

I set up a Patreon because I have 0 integrity left, which matches my intentions to get a new 9 to 5 job. Right now The only tier is $3+, and it gets you get all the rejected icons I've made in the last 9 months. GO MY HOMUNCULI MAKE ME RICH

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...

Blog Post Time! I've written up an Adventure site, featuring a quaint little storefront run by a friendly Farmer! What dark truths lie in his sordid past? And what's with the weird sheep? Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/knickk... Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

I wrote about Gygax's characterization of the player characters as "the most aggressive" adventurers in the area of play, how this positions them to pose a unique threat to the established order of things, & how that perception should color every interaction the PCs have with quest-giving NPCs:

i can't explain it but this is me and ty

It's that time of the month again: The Idle Digest is up! If you don't use RSS to follow Playful Void, the Idle Digest is the best spot to find out what I'm doing, with a few bonus points of interest! open.substack.com/pub/idlecart...

One of my favorite level up mechanics when it comes to a character's special abilities is just: "Work with the GM to come up with an ability." It's not seen too often because of a lot of reasons (fear of designing / fear of balance / fear of missing out) but it really sings when everyone dives in.

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...

@veilsedgegames.bsky.social talks about different lenses to view games as. Does playing with a beat up book make it a different game than playing with a pristine copy? (yes) blog.alexrinehart.net/posts/games-...

Fuck me, this is a good post

"You go from wondering about a place to knowing about a place." This is the biggest part I want to highlight for people. This is when you know that you're in your world; you may not know everything yet, but as the blog says, that's the moment you go from tourist to local.

“When the tour guide is a tourist themselves, you know you’re fucked.”

This is a great article about world building. This specific advice reminds me of @inplacesdeep.bsky.social's post "The DM is a Shut Eye", one of my favorites of hers: inplacesdeep.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-...

The good news is that you only have to go Sicko Mode once... ...BECAUSE YR NEVER GONNA LEAVE SICKO MODE

📰 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...

In the Light of a Setting Sun is a rules-lite game of bigger-than-life cowpokes on an unforgiving frontier. It it, you can play as cowherds on a long cattle drive, gunslingers solving problems in dusty border towns, or no-good outlaws on the run from a bloodthirsty sheriff. (1/?)

2018 comic pages versus 2025 comic pages i done did. letters by @rebelmusecomics.bsky.social