I got to pop into Between Two Cons this past weekend - my first con! - and it was pretty cool, meeting people and chatting shop. But I keep thinking about the wholly well-meaning advice I got repeatedly re: attending cons while having kids, which I've gotten online many times before (1/10)

I’m gonna ask for some help. I haven’t done this before and I was trying to avoid but things have been adding up. The birth of our son did not go as expected. We’re all home and safe now but the hospital visit was very expensive. He also had to stay in the NICU for 8 days.

The new Charli XCX song is literally just the I Think You Should Leave Sloppy Steaks sketch (positive) youtu.be/BAp4q27hTOc?... youtu.be/buK45NW_ikI?...

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LEON HELP!!! #tattooartistsofbsky

PRIDE FLASH!! FLASH DE LA FIERTÉ!!!

Cyberrats in Space is LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! Get this game of fast, tactical combat, revenge in space, and giant rats in giant mechs! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

"Why are you so focused on today’s pleasure, today’s pain? Don’t you realize how quickly today will leave you?" My 'You should do stuff' manifesto. valerialoves.com/fail-more-co...

When a dragon has just 1 hit point and a maze of obstacles, combat is like an open-ended puzzle. The challenge: the player characters only have 1 hit point too—and the dragon has a lot fewer obstacles. A small playtesting update about death without hit points:

A novel worldbuilding method for generating interesting religions by focusing on the behaviour of the believer first. Inspired by the writing of @mindstorm.bsky.social and for @prismaticwasteland.com's Random blogwagon. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/06/deus... #osr #ttrpg #worldbuilding

Excellent post on creating religions!!! Check this out!

random blogwagon contribution. what can you do when you roll to write "one beautiful sentence"? elmc.at/a-world-that...

posting these horserider monster guys i drew in perspective and then logging off

Picking a thread on beholders reskinned as angels by @ratkingrpg.bsky.social, I talk about how a smaller beholder-kin, the spector, might employ a seemingly out-of-place spell in its arsenal, create food & water, to attract a cult to help with its guard duty: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/06/beho...

Big News: Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard is officially back in print thanks to a publishing partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social! Cover art by @tonytranrpg.bsky.social plusoneexp.com/collections/...

it's good

fyi if you find a playlist of every single song charli xcx has released it'll be almost the perfect length of time for an 8 hour shift

Writing about a doomed spacecraft full of Cyberrats and RatMechs was incredibly fun and challenging (I think I used every single word Alex let me)! I'm an avid fan of Cyberrats for a ton of reasons but one of them is that you very rarely see a perfect TRILOGY of games in TTRPGs! Check it out!!!

@willjobst.bsky.social fun fact: I immediately thought of Big Grave Fashion Fantasy when I saw the trailer for I Love Boosters: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1xZ...

Attention all bloggers: a new blog bandwagon appears! This time the topic is randomness in all its forms. The post includes some random tables to further randomize your ensuing post #osr #ttrpg

feel like the whole pbta movement is ALWAYS on the cusp of splitting into two warring factions: those of think its okay to just say "I go aggro" and those who don't

Mixing up how hard/easy your treasure is to carry/sell will give your players better choices in dungeon crawls. Here is that same concept in slightly longer blog form: www.failuretolerated.com/treasure-enc...

got to do a resident evil 4 tattoo yesterday

my new article, the three secrets of making games, is all about playing your game early, quickly, and enjoyably possumcreek.medium.com/the-three-se...

Released my first Mothership module today - Prospero's Trust, inspired by #over/under by @samsorensen.bsky.social. Shoutout to @amandalee.bsky.social and @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social for their incredible art along with all the support from fellow creators. <3 bakenshake09.itch.io/prosperos-tr...

I wrote about developing dungeons for sandbox play, whether you're stealing from existing source material or making something of your own. Not as comprehensive as the thousands of bits of advice on the topic throughout recorded history, but hopefully a good place for someone to start. #D&D #OSR

GET IT NOW #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...

A lot of good stuff in here, but it’s particularly strong on OSR adventures. Dungeonheads don’t want to miss this one. Launching soon! itch.io/b/3670/typho...

Krampus from my flash (healed) and a fresh Mother Nature lady head!!

I think these are the critical entries for a Breathless stakes sheet. Might drop one more on each side, maybe? Then type up a one-page usage guide, and ta-da! Expanded checks with multiple stakes, no sweat.

turning a big dial taht says "Weather" on it and constantly looking back at the inhabitants of the castle automatic for approval like a contestant on the price is right

rae is my best friend and is one of the most compassionate, imaginative, and brilliant people in rpgs. his designs untangle normal concepts of what games are and what they're supposed to be. please, please, please, support him and his work

Blogwagon Roundup! 50 blogposts all about maps, including a few adventures that use the same map (from @amandalee.bsky.social) in totally different ways #osr #ttrpg

Wrote a quick review of a Cairn adventure I’ve run a few times now. Give it a look. It’s free. www.explorersdesign.com/reviewing-bl...

talking about my fav part of my home game which is players collecting their fav npcs to live in their towns and send them out on quests traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2026/04/cinc...

happy Break!! day to all who celebrate!!

START for BREAK!! RPG The new adventure for the award-winning, anime inspired TTRPG is live on Kickstarter. 👍 Back 🙏 Share 🎉 Rejoice www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

we played the first session and it was FASCINATING. the players have no interest in killing the dragon (although they hope they can convince it to help them take back algens), their biggest conflict was against the gate guard, and one of the most important npcs is the otherwise-nameless daughter

having the fascinating experience of preparing the black wyrm of brandonsford as the OSR module of choice for playtesting the Princess of Algens and seeing how thoroughly you can change the output of a "system neutral" adventure by just changing who is engaging with it

Ok so the reason I love this post is *because* I don't understand it. I'm comfy with skill challenges across multiple systems, but the technical? almost programming-y? presentation Ty uses to explain it is gibberish to me. And I LOVE THAT bc it speaks to GMs who don't parse info the same way I do.🧵

The #dnd wisdom my teenage self spent too much time searching for. www.valerialoves.com/a-sickos-gui...

i loved reading this one. my kinda minigame

@valerialoves.bsky.social can't open bluesky rn but you lot need to read this immediately she's gone and posted peak again www.valerialoves.com/a-sickos-gui...

Using clickbait to point to my most essay like post yet. Just in time for the map bandwagon. elmc.at/against-maps/

A new post, on sunday, at noon o'clock, appreciating my favorite map? It's more likely than you think! If you like fantasy, I PROMISE YOU that something about this map will grab you and shake out at least one adventure idea. That's a money back guarantee. www.mindstormpress.com/my-favorite-...

Anti-colonial TTRPG Map. Part of @prismaticwasteland.com's Maps Blogwagon. In this blogpost, I analyzed a pre-colonial Indonesian map and use it as reference on how I would make an Anti-colonial TTRPG Map. afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/anti-colonia... #ttrpg #osr

A new post, on sunday, at noon o'clock, appreciating my favorite map? It's more likely than you think! If you like fantasy, I PROMISE YOU that something about this map will grab you and shake out at least one adventure idea. That's a money back guarantee. www.mindstormpress.com/my-favorite-...

The Castle Automatic 100+ rooms 5 levels 4 mechanical kings 3 broken time engines 2 lost dwarves 1 worm at the center of the Underworld

I went Berserk and made a mythic bastionland hex flower for @gthynk.bsky.social's Woland. I present the Silver Cradle! errantthinking.com/silver-cradle/