𝔙𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔗𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰! Time to get in there and vote 🗳️ for your favorite blog posts. I have two up this year: Why Megadungeons? in 🤔 Theory Encounter Tables as Adventure RAM in 🎲 Gamable But check out all 5️⃣ categories!

Proof your fantasy religions are not wilder than actual practices-- are *your* clerics saving up for a silver+bronze ritual drinking vessel? Why not?

I wrote a d100 random advancement table for humans. Ostensibly for my Middle-earth Hexcrawl ruleset, I think this could easily be used for any fantasy adventure game. As I think that humans are the most warlike of peoples, this list could be used for your fighter random advancements:

When you have multiple dungeon entrances, I think it best to present them in away that highlights differences & provides clues to what’s in the room behind them— this allows impactful PC choice (and even poor *human* illos can be fun, so draw your own stuff unabashedly)

Glad “Why Megadungeons?” Resonates with folks

My takeaway here is that we’re not, by and large, and industry. We’re a hobby, and we should act like hobbyists sharing something they love, not capitalists trying to out-grow each other.

The Inq28 scene has similar energy to the OSR when I first joined it. Mordheim feels like the BX of Inq28, but I've turned toward Forbidden Psalms as a quick entry. However, there is still something about Mordheim that is alluring: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/02/psal...

ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰! Wow. This is pretty awesome that folks have recorded all the blog posts for this year's Bloggies in vein of @linkskywalker.bsky.social Blogs on Tape! So load these up for your daily walk, run, automated task, travel, or kit-bashing binge. Its never been easier to stay informed

After about 2-3 rounds of trial and error, I think I've got a paint scheme that is serviceable... now to paint this terrain and PLAY PLAY being the 1️⃣🏆 to doing all this!

𝔓𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰 Some of the best writing in the RPG blogging space! I have two pieces in the running, but Clayton has done a nice job with the brackets so check out all the other quality there.

Got spooked about trying out mod Podge + paint on my terrain so whipped up a test piece real quick

Oh! We got crow-donkeys too!

Tower Dungeon 4️⃣ We got mouse people 🐁 y’all!

Reading Katabasis R. F. Kuang, and from a dungeoneering perspective these two main characters are seemingly underprepared for a sojourn to Hell. No Shepard’s cane to touch/hit stuff with distance, no rope or grapple hook, and no iron spike- but they do have chalk!

A little bit of microblogging covering death rules, hexcrawling, PC relationships, and blogging on Shadow Over Mordor’s Nemesis system! icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/02/torc...

Okay these are good freaks 🌙!

765 submissions. And people say blogging is dead...bah! 𝔓𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰

Images like this are what I imagine is 50% of what INTO THE ODD's world looks like.

Human Organs. Just a tube of normal human organs.

🤔 What if a 🍷 wine cellar was a dungeon? This an idea I explored a while back in 50-room dungeon & recently collect all my thought into one place: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/01/wine...?

Remember I'm using markdown and css to layout zines and books? We'll I'm building myself a little web app to speed up the process, I'll release it as open source and put it on a website somewhere for anyone to play with it If you're interested drop a comment, I'll note keep you posted

Puzzle Dungeon Jam was super fun and busy. I talk about the experience and looking at the wonderful submissions with so many awesome guests. #osr #ttrpg puzzledungeon.com/a-look-back-...

If you or someone you know has run or played Nightwick Abbey y'all gotta let me know and tell me how it went!

Ultimately we've got to reckon with the fact that much of the OSR movement is merely reacting to indie TTRPGs' tendency to lose sight of why many folks take up the hobby: for a safe and budget-friendly way to satisfy the natural human impulse to put one's friends in some kind of fucked up labyrinth.

🤔 What about PC backpacks as secondary objectives for monsters? Taking them off gives +1 to all d20 rolls, but will the walking brains of the Crystal Library walk off with them? icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/01/your...

Game 45 of my own running of Nightwick Abbey, the MU was stabbed to death by cultists after sleeping 10, reincarnated to a thief by a necromancer, which caused the cleric to renounce the Church Law after thy wouldn’t help & commune for salvation in the woods (hermit background) Megadungeons y’all…

Psst. Hey you. There's free stuff in my ko-fi library for you to use in your projects - even commercial ones. Don't tell anyone I told you 🤫 ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...

Okay, this is a pretty great music video that nails the old-school D&D feel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl0C...

Great video on DIY miniature making: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8js...

On the theme of how little you need to start a campaign, here I outline six 1-mile hexes around your megadungeon which I frame as a micro-nation/super-fund site: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/01/six-...

Distant Lands is back with some thoughts on ‘zine construction similar to $7 popsicle stick/cardboard terrain, I agree B&W letter-sized format for ‘zines democratizes participation in the hobby & promotes spread; See also Obilette by @caseyg.bsky.social : todistantlands.github.io/2026/01/15/h...

An amazing issue! Oldhammer, Prachett, Castle Rat, black light cover art, and an interview with the creator of Warhammer! Pick it up!

Emil Melmoth (Pssst @inplacesdeep.bsky.social )

Dungeon Town Fence: A "dangerous" dungeon item can be sold with a maximum placed on either speed, value, or descression. Pick 1. ⚡Speed = money next session, 💰Value = 2x money, 🤫Discretion = no one hears about it. A fence might give a thief a discount on their cut out of professional courtesy

Like a lower-case Voynich Manuscript: fantastic pictures just add interpretation!

💀 𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖒 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖘!💀 I needed a skeleton class for an up-coming game, so I fleshed one out. Went from 1st level Skeleton to 8th level "Death Knight" also provided OD&D Stronghold elements; And some fun optional 4th level titles: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/01/skel...

A nice post on DMing. And from playing many, many sessions of Nightwick, I can say Miranda pulls it off quite well!

Wow. First time in a long time that a book 📕 hit me emotionally 💔. I hit a point and was like “oh @$&! I gotta keep reading! WTF!”

i'm available for commissions — personal and commercial work — send me a DM or email [email protected] to talk details. finances are tight and my queue is empty for now, so if you need b&w art, drop me a line

Intrigued by magic connected to the humors 👀 ⁉️

More awesome blog posts from a unique perspective in the scene. Check ‘em out and start your own blog!

If you want to know what the BLOGGIES are all about and why folks even blog in the first place… feast your eyes 👇

Well, now its got me🐴🐴🐴🐴: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot...

💀Bring out ya dead! 🪦 Designing a sorta Dolmenwood dungeon, so I turned the campaign book timeline into a 1d12 table from recent to oldest Dolmenwood events to help give my burial sites, coffins, and crypts context: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/01/cryp...

DM'd my 1st session of 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖜𝖎𝖈𝖐 𝕬𝖇𝖇𝖊𝖞 2026- Winter months saw a woman from Zenopolis seeking Ambrose the Easterner, bearing him 3 things: an omen, a warning, & a prophetic dream of a queen with gold hair; 3 days hence Ambrose was dragged toward the Abbey by something bearing a crown & golden hair

Fiendishly fun find!

Seriously! Blog! 2026 is the year of *your* blog.

𝐈 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭! Reflections on 2025 & what I’m looking forward to in 2026 : icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-ca...

Love a good reskin and love the BREAK!! team is showing that off!

Already some good contenders!