What’s cool about this is it allows you to work on the dungeon at the same time without having to look back & forth at your computer. Great for when want to digitally unhook and lean more analogue with just pen, paper, and Jon’s soothing voice!

Law and Order in Dolmenwood: I tried layout how the structure of sheriffs, bailiffs, and capital pledges might be organized in Dolmenwood, what exceptions there would be, and a small trial procedure: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/07/law-...

This is awesome! And please do check the course out because it was created not to win awards but to encourage others to create dungeons! 2-3 sheets of graph paper & imagination is all you need. 1 sheet for the map remaining 2 for the key & you’re delving deep ⏬

The pink cat in Marathon is a cool estr.e@@ Just ran into it last night!

Really impressive work here! And yeah that is a communal board, plus individual player boards, to go with the individual player books but its not a board game per se... exciting stuff coming from Jay!

My title is: 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫-𝐍𝐢𝐦𝐡 Which feels like a thing needing to be got, so perhaps a hexcrawl this go around? Wonder if I could do something a little sideways like have PC be infected with said venom and need to do X in Y days across a hexcrawl?

Now this is a great character sheet. I especially like the save titles 🌬️💀🗿🪄✨

One of the coolest aspects of D&D! Sad the domain "cycle" of D&D has atrophied because I think moving from individual PCs to wargame-scale territory rulers is cool. Its also represents the player earning the right to modify the DM' world, which I also think is a nice parity.

Love this because it is a well-known meme, but combined with a deep-cut D&D rule

50th session of my home game of @inplacesdeep.bsky.social NIGHTWICK ABBEY! The Magician is trying to find a new body, the Fighter is having nightmares about his parents' condemned souls, the Cleric saved vs. charm person, hold person, & darkness, & the Frogling was almost turned into a shade 👻

Reading THE FORGE of FURY (3e 2000) which to someone who learned D&D via 5e is like me, who learned D&D via 2e, reading Cavern of Thracia (OD&D 1979). This is what’s so hard about communicating the “why” of old-school rulesets like BX (1981)

Again, IRL “treasure” is often far cooler than any fantasy treasure I’ve read about. New RPGs should just use public domain images from existing collections

👀 ‼️ A fantastic collab. And click through to the Bosch- inspired triptych!

Love doing stuff like this because it helps make party composition matter. To me it also helps eliminate “insight checks” and prompts me the DM to give info more freely.

In addition to, but not required, show those creators stats about their game! It’s fun! Here’s Nightwick Abbey’s first 60 sessions:

new post over at my D&D blog! first one in way too long. some very OSR-ish D&D-able inspiration taken from the Seyahatname of 17th-century ottoman scholar Evliya Çelebi, wherein he goes on a real dungeon delve into the pyramids! #OSR #D&D #DnD savevsworm.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-re...

Custom dungeon postcards! Best Christmas card!: gomezwritesgames.itch.io/chainmail-du...

Dungeons are the zeitgeist 👻. Just look at the popular media in the last 10 years that features them. Far from an arthritic extention of “old” D&D, they are a fantasy touchstone encountered before D&D: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/06/appe...

Nice post demonstrating where inspiration can come from and in RUC's case, its media half-remembered-- which I think is almost the best form!

And remember the founder of Facebook is supposedly buying up eleven houses, which totals to something like $100 million on his block to create a complex in California… so dungeon complex are still being built today!

Trying my hand at the synthwave rattle can priming. This is a great “Oldhammer” demon from Satyr Art Studio

blog post: a dubiously historical 2d6 combat maneuver system for #od&d, inspired by the "man-to-man" combat tables from Chainmail, and the Turn Undead ability! "What does my helmet do?" it stops you from getting smacked in the head. dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/06/od-c...

Sureshot if I ever heard one

Back to the sun-soaked, fear-dream of a great wizard, @inplacesdeep.bsky.social CUCCAGNA!

Stand out magazine in the gaming space. A must read and a great gift for gaming folks!

Yes.

An awesome set of models that made me jump on the Folk Horror 3 set. @gardensofhecate.bsky.social painting tutorials are fun too. Here are the herons I painted inside a ruined church I made via another tutorial from summon lesser maker

Great example of what I think of as “forward story”. Things the players want to do in the future which is more actionable for DM/party than things in the backstory which mostly have already happened.

D&D-ass clam with glyphs on its shell. Magic scrolls for merfolk and other who can read benthic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lioconc...

THE THING really shows how little you need to write to have a memorable, interactable NPC. To me, these also seem like great way to characterize your PCs as well.

Got it! And great interview here about the OSR, Inq28, kitbashing, and perfection:

Its touches like this, its anime/manga influence, & unified D20 mechanic, that makes me feel that BREAK!! is more the game a lot of 5E folks might looking for.

I think I will give this another shot this year to see how I do!

My painting has been rubbish lately #Nerdlings #PaintSlam26 #rubbish #3dprinting #TinyFurniture #miniaturepainting #minis #miniatures #terrain

Saw Backrooms. Good stuff! Put another tally on the board for “recent dungeon media”. It’s like what if you were gonna be killed in a MeowWolf by someone else’s (now living) issues. If you want to understand why dungeons are an attractive adventure space watch this movie.

Not another OSR ruleset but instead a rad sticker from my local nursery 🪴

Practice your art! (Even if it’s restaurant crayons)

Excited about this BREAK!! Supplement- I like being the the new, eager recruits of the Knights of the Lantern fighting against ever encroaching dark

Dungeon Designers Course Rise Up Comus (HI JOSH) 2025

More FPS need to allow you to play a game of Snake or something while you’re waiting in queue 🐍 ⚪️⚪️⚪️

In equal measure, 2/3rds of [OSR]ism is deciding which silly [old school ruleset] you’ll attempt to relate to everything.

MARATHON [SEA2] has 6 attributes now… STR, DEX, END, REC,SUP, RES

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Incredibly sad news that John Blanche has passed away, for so many of us he was an inspiration, a man who literally shaped the spiky contours of our imaginations when exposed to his work at, probably, far too young an age. I’d say that British gaming would be unrecognisable today without him but…

🌊🌊🌊 Behold! The Sea takes but also returns anew! 🌊🌊🌊 My cleric awashes ashore in a new part of Cuccagna- quenched of religious fervour and filled with scintillating magic like a crystal goblet (now an enchanter)

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...

Here's this week's Friday Freebie Map - a spiral dungeon map. Map Details: paratime.ca/ff05-29-2026... Enhanced DriveThru Link: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #FreeD&DMap #FridayFreebieMaps #ParatimeDesign #TimHartin #OSr #D&D #Dungeons&Dragons

I love when people do exercises like this with OD&D. Be it just monsters or a whole campaign.The variance around a common ruleset interests me & I delight twists of the well known. OD&D by its nature is an excellence clay.

DAWN OF THE FINAL DAY If you dig into the expanded setting material of START, you can help this brave, but under-budgeted order of lantern bearing knights take on...

TOWER DUNGEON (V) y’all! We got body thiefin’ & ovipositors!