I love random advancement tables! Here’s one for goblins or other sneaky little folks

Remember, “ye olde” megadungeons are now contemporary media… start your OD&D dungeon campaign today! Details below 👇

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

Love kitbash mini stuff. The diy spirit of the Inq28 scene is great!

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

For those that observe, we are approaching that anniversary G➕🪦 #OSR

Big caveat to this style of game is that both the world sorta "resets" with each run AND the "story" moves forward (ie PC impact) by events and "seasons" dictated by a design team outside the PCs. RPG dungeons are more dynamic- an important factor

Honestly a great idea to use tokusatsu monsters for the spawn in a Carcosa game @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca

Been playing a lot of MARATHON lately, here is a play report of my last run...well successful run...I don't mention the two previous deaths before this one: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/03/extr...

How cool! Glad folks are finding the Designing Dungeons course useful for not only making dungeons but getting them *played at the table*! Also big fan of assembling your own ruleset to play them as well.

“The Carcass Front” love the name & I threw in for a box www.trenchcrusade.com/news/the-car...

I think one of the top 3 old-school modules of all time. And I think one that most fits modern play requirements in a module.

This was cool to get in the 🐌 mail! SmashBash website below 👇

I have this weird idea the Illusionist class was created to make a better Magic-User, what’s been people experiences running this class? 🕯️💎🌈

Awesome 🦇🦇🦇

My selections for not quite Darkest Dungeon party

What is your favorite stats array for old-school/BX/OSE games? Mine is maybe: 16, 13, 11, 10, 08, 06

My current favorite answer to what everyone else is doing in the grim dark future- like seriously- what are people’s morning routines?

𝔏𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔗𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔰 See! Blogging IS cool! Now come look at all the cool writing people are doing!

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...

I think the live action One Piece shares a lot in common with the Adam West Batman (positive)- you could do a cross-over episode and no one would blink

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...

Did not realize that Valerian was a serial in Heavy Metal

Now with each chapter beautifully recorded by DM Jon of @3d6downtheline.com ! Learn with your eyeballs or ears or both!

Nice read and especially good discussion on the clever use of a 1st level spell. But looking at the amount of adventure with *just* 25 hexes- 5x5! Also, the pressure of needing money creating a low-level basic need of the party

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The disgust I feel when I realize that maybe keying a dungeon via Excel tables might help with reviewing things like treasure amount and monster variety

I blog about converting the “declare spells” step in an encounter into a broader “declare actions” as a way to provide a space for action novelty and set the stakes for the initiative roll: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/03/decl...

For International Woman’s Day, 28-MAG (covering the “Inq28” scene) put out a great set of issues collected here for free: 28-mag.com#iwd-issues

Whipped up some toothpick cacti for some more #oldhammer next week! Gosh, it’s just so fun!!

I can see a world where someone fully trains an LLM to write a new RPG based on my CC-BY-SA text, then spits out the result with a closed license. This is already possible of course (mechanics can't be copyrighted) but it still is very anti-social behavior.

the stop motion skeleton warrior is one of the best gifts that film has bestowed on us

Make a poison save...

Did anyone else have a friend with this game, Battle Masters?

Big fan of play reports because they help others understand one way of making D&D "go", demonstrate where the energy is located in certain modules or adventure styles, or (in the case of old-school D&D) how quirky facets are navigated.

As someone who spent many hours over Halo:Reach, Left 4 Dead, and Battlefield, I dig this.

📷: Lori Pond: Bosch Redux

Great post from a great blogger. If I could add one thing, it would be to *read* more blogs as well. I have been in a bit of a reading slump for a while, and getting out of it, it is amazing how much it inspires me to write. If nothing else, because I see something I disagree with and must respond

I reflect on the 2026 Bloggies, blogging in general, & what inspired the posts featured this year: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/03/pond...

Very please Designing Dungeons which I co-wrote with @riseupcomus.bsky.social won best blog series! And was enhanced by being turned into a podcast by @3d6downtheline.com so now it’s in an even more potable form! Link 👇

Two of my latest acquisitions, both some sort of experiment in futuristic medievalism: Ergo Cosmos Volume 1 by Massimiliano Nigro Queen Mab's Palace by Patrick Stuart.

𝔙𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔗𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰! Last Day for the Bl🔮ggies Bonus Round: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Monsters in your Pocket… so get ‘em in yours!

The past couple of days I’ve dropped links from the course to folks stumped on some aspect of dungeon design- it helped them break through! So give it a listen or jump around in the course itself-each piece is semi-self contained

This is absolutely amazing! It’s really nice to see this series turned into an entire podcast! Designing Dungeons: Now in podcast formulation

The final countdown! My personal vote for 🥇top post of 2025 is @elmc.at Mapping the Blogosphere Knowing the link to/from over time of various blogs is an incredible project not only from a hobby perspective but an academic & preservationist one as well! A true 💎

Argh would have loved to feature this in the next issue but best we can do i guess is give it a boost here, absolutely love the look of those 90s zines

Vermis III I still want to run an OD&D campaign with this & fortunately this book DOES have a dungeon layout in it!