forums are still good, btw

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Fresh summer flavors remain my top priority

i googled "best monkey photo 2026" and this was the top result

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Not a single soul: Not a single solitary living being, ever: Asian Rain Man: [Content removed by BlueSky's moderation team]

The defining principle of our society is that people who were lucky during the dot com boom or Web 2.0 should have vast and ever-growing individual power over the entire world. The only acceptable check on their power is their squabbles with each other.

We used to be a united country

getting blocked for this reply probably felt good as hell

Why did we let the people who need No Fear Shakespeare take over the entire western publishing market.

You just know dragonforums dot net has a history as rich and storied as Paris, as Moscow, as Alexandria before the fall. It has its own lore keepers, kings, princes, tyrants, revolutionaries. The good surgeon has been all of them, at one time or another

I’ve never been so dumbfounded at an image on the internet as the surgeon tarot business card, I’m going to have to reorganize major parts of my life

Attention all bloggers: a new blog bandwagon appears! This time the topic is randomness in all its forms. The post includes some random tables to further randomize your ensuing post #osr #ttrpg

i need a third state of consciousness other than awake or asleep i can exist in for at least 4 hours a day

the wikipedia image for sexual roleplay is making my lose my mind

google search is broken? fear not! rootring now has a search engine that lets you look for posts and contents from blogs on rootring search.rootr.ing

Last year I wrote a ttrpg manifesto trying to outline a style of play I enjoy. I have since refined those thoughts and arrived at a more clear vision of that philosophy. This is the "lost" seventh culture of play. www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2026/05...

Cannon Beach Sonata In E Major 10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available on my website.

The "Problem of Knowledge" says this: When you know something, you forget what it's like to not know it. Game designers don't know what it's like to not understand the rules (new players). How can they bridge the gap? A 🧵 +

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.

our Frans are Dreschered in centuries

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane retrospective on the way of the Samurai! D&D has had a "Samurai" in some form every edition, and they're all just a bit funky. https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/05/every-single-samurai-in-dungeons-and.html?m=1

hags.bearblog.dev/folks-of-the... The second in a series of B/X class reworks that follow in-universe rules.

Leapfrogged over the last post and tested out a more dynamic turn-based exploration procedure for flying characters in #ttrpgs tbr.bearblog.dev/sectors-vect...

we need colonies on the moon and mars asap. top priority (posting later on r/InertPowders) more people from this sub should be trying to build support

Happy World Bee Day! 🐝 (art: Emily Duffin)

True. wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2026/05/on-h...

I talk about AD&D's Spying table, & how you might use it to resolve NPC missions (like sending henchmen to clear out a dungeon or an army to lay siege to a stronghold or monster lair) or rival adventuring parties' quests, or to determine if that Evil wizard finished their new spell. #D&D #AD&D #OSR

Hmm. Bees functionally have the sexes of queen, drone, and worker. A trinary arrangement, this makes them, ironically, non-beenary.

[You are encumbered and cannot run] [You drop: Greatsword of Frost] [You are encumbered] [Warning! Dropping Prince Tim will abandon his questline!] [You drop: Prince Tim] [Quest failed! "Tiny Kingdom in Need"] [You are encumbered] [You drop: (1) of (14) Cheese Wheels] [You are no longer encumbered]

It's the ides of May and I'm back with another monthly newsletter, containing links to a thematically appropriate 46 blog posts I thought were good this month. table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-may... #nsr #osr #rpg

In the same way California Sober means you avoid drugs except for weed, California Vegetarian means you avoid meat except for human flesh

Just heard a radio DJ use the phrase “I’m just doing my job” while introing the new drake

Doing some fiddling with the implications of overland travel in a #ttrpg where players can fly tbr.bearblog.dev/goodbye-hexe...

If you tell me something is 'naturally antibacterial' I will just believe you no questions asked. You don't have to prove it or cite your sources or anything. I will think about it for three seconds and say "yeah that makes sense"

Your honor, The People accept this juror.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Anybody else notice the guys who say it's "inevitable" Goodwife Putnam hang as a witch "so get used to it" are the same bros who only a few months ago were saying Sarah Browne the scullery maid hath spake bedeviling words in a tomcat's ear to make him walk on two legs in mockery of Christian man?

Did you know that Electric Bastionland had a 1st party adventure released for it? It did, and it's excellent (and short). Here is my review (also short, but is it excellent? I leave that to a future metareview) #osr #ttrpg

I've just published the first essay in the design series for Violent Delights: a chess-based RPG about Romeo and Juliet. It's about abstract board games and how we read into them. It also touches on Takuma Okada's Chess: Two Kingdoms.

When your cat looks in another direction for a minute and you're puzzled about what has their attention, that's when it's addressing the audience. If you read Garfield you'd understand that's the beat where it's thinking about something really funny, at your expense, making you look like an idiot

In which the fate of the OSR+ and artistic salons and electrocuted squirrels are pondered…I accidentally posted a draft last night, so this is the finished version with a better ending. dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist—hark!

GET IT NOW #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

Look upon my works ye mighty and smile :)

it drives me crazy whenever nba fans try to say that there aren’t any nba players. what, you think the ball’s dribbling itself? watch the games

the reason most people never think about how amazing sewers are is because some amazing people are always thinking about sewers.

Some nice tastes of spring in the high country