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...

I just learned abt a new game abt psychoanalysis. "You aim to formulate new therapeutic techniques, establish a practice, grow your clientele, and become Freud’s most distinguished contemporary." It includes a set of rules abt interpreting the dreams of yr clients. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/32...

You know who is great to work with? @thelostbaystudio.com Seriously, hire Iko to advise you on how to develop that podcast you've been dreaming of, or get him to create that website you've wanted to make. In addition to being a lovely human, he is highly skilled, organized, and professional.

Good morning, bsky! My novel, Ornamental Women, is out now, and I made a blog post about it. Intrigued by the idea of dark Gothic fantasy? Want to read the first three chapters for free? Well then... talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/05/orna...

My work for the tabletop game GODS is back up on my website! Included are outtakes from the game like this sea monster.

If you like occult horror films, I thought Bring Her Back was really great. Unnerving performance by Sally Hawkins. Significantly better than Weapons, which was good! youtu.be/1I15ttCedfY?...

This is the best comment I ever declined to approve for my blog. "Instant Revenge Death Spell To Kill Anyone Overnight If you desperately need an honest and real death spell caster" is quite a product to be pushing

OBJECTION!

Oh my god this is incredible

More fantasy needs law firms. When running my old ASE game (with several lawyer players oddly) ... they needed representation ... It's best if lawyers are expensive, oddly charming, and the edge of a vast unfathomable bureaucratic horror...So I wrote this dungeonofsigns.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-...

It cracks me up that the city supplement for Jorune, Companion Ardoth, has almost a full page dedicated to the law firms, including scrappy defense attorneys and civil rights firms. This suggests the possibility of a weird Matlock style Jorune campaign.

NOW AVAILABLE! Gnydron Supplement 2: Science Fantasy. Compatible with Basic/Expert and Old-School Essentials. DriveThruRPG (digital): drivethrurpg.com/en/product/566887 Lulu (print on demand): lulu.com/spotlight/patagames #OSR #B/X #OSE #DND #RPG

Remorseful Demon

Telling my DM I have the premium Paladin battlepass so after I kill 15 more half-orcs my character will unlock the Peppa Pig (TM) "Daddy Pigadin" skin complete with radial impact laughing fall damage and custom voice pack.

Besides the fact that this is a brazen wish to enshitify D&D, ttrpgs are not like a video game where I just show up with my little customized guy. Unlike an mmo, in D&D the game & imagined reality is created and shared at each table. Hasbro doesn't have control over that just by owning the brand

Gonna be doing an AMA about my new book SKULLBOY'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO DEMONS in the OSE fan discord discord.gg/8GVfus9fV3 Thursday, May 21st at from 9-11am EST. I'll post about it again before it happens too.

I read all of Wagner's Kane books and I have OPINIONS. @rarecryptid.bsky.social was 100% right. Start with Nightwinds. Kane stories at their best. All you need to know going in is Kane is cursed immortality as an incarnation of human slaughter. Read Bloodstone next. Kane as villain is the best Kane.

Of all the published Jorune stuff, the Ardoth Guide is the most adventuresome. In addition to a relatively flavorful city, it has lurking mysteries, and an underworld that's just been discovered. I could easily imagine running a city-based megadungeon-ish Ardoth campaign.

This award-winning RPG combines D&D and Zelda "into something bigger and more evocative" for its first campaign www.gamesradar.com/tabletop-gam...

Kaneko Tomiyuki, mixed media on Japanese paper www.kanekotomiyuki.com

So excited for this Patrick + Amanda team up!

I love that GLOG is so anti everything that its 10 anniversary can almost past by without notice. Shout out to Arnold, one of the bestest.

ideas for a film of The Odyssey: 1. overarching theme is ' do I even want to go home? '2. come on we can fix this problem with building a giant wooden animal 3. Circe is played by about 15 differently beautiful women a new one in each scene

Excited for this new project! Who doesn't want more demons with sweet Skullboy art?

This is a completely wild adventure written by @falsemachine.bsky.social and illustrated in incredible charcoals by @amandalee.bsky.social. Trust me, it's Patrick Stuart in top form. It's statted for tunnels & trolls but you could run it using anything OSR. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaw...

These are all so good! I hope one day I throw $$$ at Pastel Lich to buy a physical deck of this madness

I really love how this little game written by Michael Raston--inexplicably written on a piece of cardboard btw--has attributes that are faults. They are 22 minus your 3d6 roll. "I want to try to bribe a guard." "OK test your repulsiveness." mraston.itch.io/adventure-ga...

4_29_2026 #art #fantasy #horror #characterdesign

Excited for this!!!

II think of this in terms of "campaign premise", the initial hook to "adventure" before things evolve past it organically. Change the campaign premise and the meaning of a module or adventure shifts. The strength of OSR stuff is it's designed to be open to player agency so can withstand this shift.

I never read Daredevil back in the day despite coming up in the 1980's in NYC and being attached to old New York and Hell's Kitchen as it was back then. What are the runs of Daredevil I should read?

Perhaps the weirdest fact about Jorune, the truly weird ttrpg from the 1980s that almost no one played, is that the Japanese release of Futureworld, the album by the excellent band TransAm, contains 3 Jorune themed bonus tracks, "Woffen Shenter", "Thriddle Giggit Dream", and "Ardoth Marketplace".

I just learned the word "panjandrum" and I am delighted. The NPCs I run tend to be panjandrums, so it's nice to finally have a word to describe them

HeartBREAK!!er seems like an obvious one

I think at this point I just have to admit that this weird white whale Jorune hack I've been fiddling with forever is just hack of Break!! @naldodrinan.bsky.social @greywizard.bsky.social Do you have a word for that, like PbtA or Forged in the Dark? Do we have it we have to call it...Broken?

End of an era

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

spreads coming together for The Doom of the Dark by @falsemachine.bsky.social (I still gotta add the numbers to the map)

If you'd like to have weird picaresque adventures in a sprawling enchanted forest filled with haunted ruins, capricious fairies, sinister cults, knights gallant and wicked, and mysterious fungi... startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

What it feels like taking the family from the library with your new books to the bar to get drinks and read em

I just watched Longlegs. The biggest problem for folks in that universe isn't that satan is real, or devil dolls, or past faced serial killers--it's that light bulbs top out at 10 watts. If anyone could turn on a proper light 90% of their problems would vanish.

As an old school player, this post is preaching to the choir. But this handout is gold! If your players are wondering what they do with marbles and string, this is great: patchworkpaladin.com/2026/04/07/l...

I hear that some humans have gone further from New Jersey than anyone has ever gone before

Sunset Wedding Chapel in Acapulco, Mexico r/brutalism

I spent a full day hang with @ratkingrpg.bsky.social, my longtime collaborator, whom I had somehow never met in person! We've been talking about games for many years; we worked on Bones of Contention and Ultan's Door. Hanging with him was an absolute blast. I'm doing pr well with this pledge so far!

New drawings in charcoal for the spot art collection on patreon! Coming soon! you can get these & hundreds more for your games here:https://www.patreon.com/cw/ABestiaryandCompleteWorldAtlas or on comradery:https://comradery.co/amandalee #ttrpg #osr

RIP G+ It allowed me to play games with @benlaurence.bsky.social and @zedecksiew.bsky.social and also were I learned about @inplacesdeep.bsky.social dread abbey

This version of he-man by James Jean is sick!

this fuckin rules

The first of my OGA Vastlands card decks - Nemesis and Ministry - is finished. 60 cards, flavor texts, art, and so on. Gaze upon more pictures at the link. www.patreon.com/posts/nemesi...