BASTION ELYSIUM An Electric Bastionland apartment crawl adventure for 3–5 players. What if Disco Elysium were set entirely in an apartment building? Coming soon! Cover art by Citaaticat #osr #ttrpg

I love combat systems with hit locations. The only thing better than kicking someone off a ledge is taking off their arm. BUT they're always so fiddly! I'd love to use hit locations in an OSR game. So here's a little system with a new combat resolution scheme. #osr #ttrpg

A revised version, more refined and complete with layout, is now available. binary-star-games.itch.io/death-has-co...

I'm adding SHIP COMBAT to my Shimmernight game this week. Wish me luck. Pray for me. Remember me as I was, not who I'm about to become.

i got new rules i count em traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2026/04/expl...

PLASMODICS: VERMICULTURE is off to @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online for editing! eight bunker scenarios across nearly 20,000 words in a dense sandboxy mesh. people live underground and they're not normal. cover art by @emo-sludge.com.

Great blog post from Noel about implementing the lessons from a different blog! Give your characters something to believe in! viridianvoid.bearblog.dev/worked-examp...

For our imminent new kickstarter, working on a new adventure team for the special edition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

literally me

New Blogpost: Play Is Canon What are the sources of "truth" about the world of your tabletop setting? For me, the paramount truth derives from play itself. This is my synthesis of blorb and anti-canon. #osr #ttrpg

I wrote up a few tips for writing modules. I hope folks find it interesting! I might add to it over time. newschoolrevolution.com/module-writi...

New blog post that attempts to span all types of challenge-oriented games, rather than just talking RPGs like I normally do. But there's plenty of RPG stuff in here, too. Discussion questions included at the end. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-...

please don't make me go through the whole song and dance of signing up to an online storefront to download the free quickstart pdf 😭

Sometimes I get stuck trying to make a design decision and I start to hear John Harper in the back of my head like the green goblin mask telling me to just use clocks

The first in a series describing how I developed my B1 sandbox (& how you might develop sandboxes more generally) for play, beyond the initial minimalist sketches of locations. First, I describe how you might determine the order of operations by which you'll detail each location in the area of play.

Pine Shallows is live on Kickstarter Small town, big adventures - Strange things keep happening in town. It's up to you meddlesome kids to get to the bottom of things. A meddlesome kids ttrpg. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

If anyone was wondering, this is what I see when I video call @nornnoszka.bsky.social

Today, I am proud to announce Cooking with the Orcs, a new cooking minigame expansion for my Ennie-nominated dark fantasy worldbuilding game Dawn of the Orcs! lymetime.itch.io/cookingwitht...

⚡ NEW BLOG POST! I'm back talking about adventure design, this time laying out a mental model for 'energy' inside of an adventure. It's a simple and effective way to categorize elements inside of the scenario and look for stagnation and chaos. Check it out! ⚡ www.mindstormpress.com/energy-coin-...

⚡ NEW BLOG POST! I'm back talking about adventure design, this time laying out a mental model for 'energy' inside of an adventure. It's a simple and effective way to categorize elements inside of the scenario and look for stagnation and chaos. Check it out! ⚡ www.mindstormpress.com/energy-coin-...

The Castle Automatic is filled with golems who serve one of four courts: Swords, Cups, Pentacles, and Wands. Each royal of the court was modeled by the dungeon's creator on a specific person from humanity's ancient past--a reference nobody living understands today.

Great post from Studio Quagg about bringing the Spell FRIEND and enter idea I blogged about to BREAK!! its.quagg.studio/blog/posts-h...

A lot of these middle grade mystery books feature weird hotels... In Pine Shallows is The Grand Pine Hotel managed by Archibald Smithee and his husband Jacques Estorel (bestselling writer & cryptid enthusiast). What adventures will you have in Pine Shallows? www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

And now in blog form, some thoughts on Emergence!

I've got a draft called "belief beats alignment" but I've just discovered that 3x5 Arcana has a series of posts that make the point in almost the exact same way. Excellent! substack.com/home/post/p-...

It is our patriotic duty to buy Canadian Mothership modules. Emergence is a funnel adventure—like you play in DCCRPG—where the characters will play inmates in a prison complex trying to escape. (And I mean there is a whole bunch of other stuff going on too.) Art by @chaoclypse.bsky.social—what! 🤘🏾

starting chainsaw man part 2: where the hell is denji halfway through part 2: shut up denji. where's asa

It's done. 10k words covering everything I know about how to make RPGs, from your first idea to getting the book on the shelf. It's not perfect but I hope it helps someone. brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/everything-i...

can't stop vibing to LIKA www.youtube.com/@likainmusic

not a QRT dunk on Derek who does have a website, but you all know you can still do this stuff right? You can still easily start a blog on bearblog.dev or neocities.org. I still use RSS and it's still good. I post on forums like www.dosgameclub.com and papercult.club. You can still do all this stuff

another perfect use of the humble punnett square

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

Been a little while! Put together an essay about how to use circuit design principles to think about pointcrawls in #osr and adventure games. tbr.bearblog.dev/circuit-craw...

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

Ty keeps using the phrase "bog-standard". As if there is anything standard about bogs

Blogpost: I've often mentioned the local meetup I run in conversations on here and elsewhere. Now, after 3 years, here's an overview of how I did it and what we've been playing. pointlessmonument.blot.im/60-systems-a...

this is a perfect example of a "toyetic" and "intrusive" ttrpg encounter. npc establishes themselves as low status to the pcs, that there's a bizarre misunderstanding, and that it's on the player to choose what's next (while looking at a basket full of puppies)

No one has a bigger grindset mindset than an adventurer with a downtime turn.

For fans of pirates and play reports, the next session of my Shimmernight Sea game has been written up! www.mindstormpress.com/shimmernight...

🚨TTRPG KEYSTONE ADVICE ALERT🚨 If you are a person who runs or plays roleplaying games, please read this. Internalise it. It'll save your table from aggressively wasting each other's valuable play time! 1/

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-...

It’s hard to truly understand the immortality of an elf as a human player, but not hard to understand the mortality of animal-folk- therefore: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/03/ratl...

This is great advice for just GMing in general. Very often players have plans, even if it's just "we go to the other side of town" and framing things in the way Nick suggests is sort of like putting a jet engine on the back of the game: pushing it forward until the players change course.

While working on a more substantive project, I got to thinking about a maladaption I've noticed in many referees. Then a few hours later, a friend of mine did the exact thing I was thinking of right in front of me. So I wrote about it. www.paperspencils.com/referee-sabo...

All The Problems In This World is one of the best stores I've been too. Jan is awesome, there's SO MUCH cool shit there, and now the store is having trouble and needs YOUR help. Physical, local game/zine/comic/music stores must survive!

After writing koboldpress.com/kpstore/prod... with @prismaticwasteland.com I started codifying "make a formal plan" as a step in my procedures because of the very issue Nick identifies. Especially when playing online, I put plans into WRITING, to serve as our "agenda" for the next stretch of play.

This is pretty dang cool. I like the gambling aspect of building up dice and taking actions, and getting to choose when you make the roll. There's some juice here for sure!

the valley of flowers has created more "that-was-the-best-session-evers" than anything else i've ever played or ran. go get it: phantom-mill.itch.io/the-valley-o...

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...