sometimes I get this big urge to get back into video game level design like I was with half-life 2 but there's generally no games out there for me that feel as good to play as a source engine game

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the first annual Lizzies! The best and brightest of the blogosphere comes forward, as decided by your second-favorite blogger with a furry pfp! magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

New Dungeon (in blog form): Castle Claus, or The Keep on the North Pole A Rankin Bass Christmas-themed dungeon for the Merry Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. Possibly one of my more high effort blog posts to date #osr #ttrpg

WOWZA can you imagine getting some norn art in your rpg book? It's more likely than you think you just gotta commission them!!

New Patreon post, and a big one ! This is the huge (A2 !) map I drew for @riseupcomus.bsky.social's RPG book "Castle Automatic". You can see my process here : www.patreon.com/posts/castle... The book and the map are currently available for preorder : www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...

Fantasy in My Backyard is coming to Zine Month! -Use Google Maps to build Urban Fantasy in real cities -Create "hidden world" of magical inhabitants and the relationships between them -Inspired by Beak, Feather, Bone, i'm sorry did you say street magic, and Ex Novo bit.ly/backyard-teaser-bsky

"Well, I'm back" he said. Over the last three months, I've keyed every hex in the bounds of the Shire, including rumors, nested random encounters, and five embedded mini-dungeons. I've collated them into a document, linked on the blog:

1st Page Chapter One versus 6th Page Chapter Two #webcomics

All fun and games until you have to break down that station

finally.... #giantwoman art

Fröliche Krampusnacht!!!!

I somehow missed this one (and boy, do I love powderkegs). This one pairs great with my New Vegas post, I think!

I come to you like Paul Revere on the back of a liger. The Bloggies are coming! Like, share, and subscribe. www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...

I had fun at PAX Unplugged! I played over 20 hours worth of games and went out to the local taverns every night. How did I do it all? That’s proprietary, but you can instead read all about the games I played #osr #ttrpg

next update is on Tuesday if you even care

In THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC, a giant mummified psychic vampire will tell you that you're the chosen one. She is lying to you. Learn more about the *story* of the upcoming 100 room, 5 level Metroidvania-inspired dungeon for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM.

Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky? elmc.at/mapping-the-... To check out the graph directly follow this link: graph.elmc.at

VOID_SHIFT PHYSICAL IS OUT and BLACK FRIDAY(ish) SALE IS ON shop.binarystar.games Read on for more detail!

@directsun.bsky.social Invited me onto his podcast talking about Puzzle Dungeons and it was real fun. Give it a listen. Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...

Although it was written 15 years ago, I think China Mieville's "Embassytown" can be read as depicting AI psychosis. Aliens with two voices that always speak in harmony and always speak the truth can only understand pairs of human ambassadors who do the same. 💙📚🪐 1/

So which one of yous is the vampire and which ones the vampire hunter?

when you're doing princess play with a trad system while running an OSR module remember that rules elide for as long as the system matters and only when your players are in a fiction first actor stance

The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures. Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price! www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...

Got to finish a super cute pink witch tattoo yesterday! Lines are healed, shading and color fresh.

I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out: www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out: www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...

for someone who's skeptical of any film that comes out in 2025 i really, *really* loved Guillermo Del Toro's take on Frankenstein. Incredibly well crafted and well-performed. So I made some Creature flash 🍁🦋🔥

If you're having #over/under fomo, want a recap, or left mid-game, you can read about what happened on my public timeline here: app.mural.co/t/oneshots51...

I still regularly use my faction generator to spark ideas and think you might get some use out of it too. Check it out! perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...

Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution. Behold, the Stepladder Table!

protagonist (chapter one) versus protagonist (chapter two) #webcomic #marakethschosen

Seven new pieces of flash and some placement ideas

NEW BLOG BANDWAGON During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore! #osr #rpg #hexmas

Fuck it up, drink blood, Blood Borg is free to download today only, happy Halloween. worldchampgameco.itch.io/bloodborg

Talking to @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social is always a delight. Their work is inspirational and also so much damn fun. Burned Over is worth getting excited about.

next update is Tuesday 11/4 (newsletter 'scribers get it early on 10/28)

Now that AWS isn't being stupid: Devlog 1, in which the Developer begins to understand the extent of the work ahead of him. binarystar.games/posts/origin...

Hey folks, my laptop needs fan replacements, but I am currently having financial struggles. Need my device for some freelance work, so any help to get them repaired is appreciated. itch.io/s/162117/hel...

I haven't been posting much on here because I've been busy with work! Here's some tattoos I've done in the past month

Preview sketch of a map by Guy Pradel for my upcoming big dungeon CASTLE AUTOMATIC. Five levels, each ruled by different factions, with pathways between them. Being very careful to make sure that the flows, chokepoints, gates, and keys between the different levels are interesting and varied.

another day volunteering at the TTRPG museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the Rule of Cool. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it.

"This Whole Thing Smacks of Pathfinder", I holler as I overturn my GM's dice tower and turn the 4th round of combat into the 4th round of Shit

exploration: 7 rules characters: 12 rules equipment: 2 rules combat: 63 rules magic items: 2 rules someone who is good at game design please help me fix this. my combats take 4 hours

If you have a blog PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put a greatest hits / best posts section on your site. Be vain and put your posts on the fridge / trophy shelf for all to see. Whenever I discover a new blog that's the first thing I check.

more adventurers with crowbars 👏 👏 👏

Couple of teaser images from Felipe Faria from the forthcoming jumbo (mega?!) dungeon CASTLE AUTOMATIC for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM DARE you enter my magical realm? (All art for the book will be made available as separate digital downloads so GMs can show them to players without spoilers.)

cube (1997) is osr

Welcome to the Maraketh Megathread: a page-by-page posting of the SECOND issue of our dark fantasy #webcomic ~ updates on the first Tuesday of the month. Behold the cover!👹🐍💅🔥🌙 by @mhudson-illustration.com