Welcome to the barrow... Additional Bones of Bronze art - part of why it's taken so long is because it's just a lot of skeletons...

Finally, a Christmas adventure for that most underserved of demographics: haters

Turn your poison into passion ~ I may be sick this Holiday week, but it's only emboldened me to add to the Hexmas Hex Crawl that most classic fantasy trope: The Poison Swamp www.failforward.moe/2025/12/pois...

Merry Christmas Eve, you filthy animals. I've been BULLIED (/j) into participating in @prismaticwasteland.com's Rankin-Bass Hex crawl project, featuring Investment Opportunities!! Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/jaw-br... Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/12/jaw-...

For my contribution to the Merry Hexmas blog bandwagon, I made a mini sandbox: the Jinglebell Barrens, a land which lives in the shadow of a lost city which forgot the meaning of Hexmas. Will the adventurers restore warmth & cheer to its streets, or simply plunder everything not nailed down? #osr

A rather silly hex for the Rankin Bass hexcrawl project. bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/barnyard-vol... Merry Christmas to those who want one! #osr #blog

Today, for Critique Navidad, it is the odd and wonderful Field Agent Handbook! What if you turned your entire life into a Hilda-meets-SCP larp? idlecartulary.com/2025/12/24/c...

Golconda - 1953 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20173

Surprise! 100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥 Download these games for free—for a limited time only. momatoes.itch.io/arc momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or... momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...

Tombstone Edition is officially PWYW for all eternity!

Finally added my hex, Hearth, to the Hexmas Map for the Blogwagon started by @prismaticwasteland.com! #blog #hexmas #community #ttrpg #hexcrawl theplayreports.com/posts/hexmas...

I keep coming back to these tarot inspired mechs because I had so much fun designing them and thinking about the world they are from. I think I'm going to try and make a game about them. That way I can have my friends pilot their own make-believe-cool-robot assigned by fate.

As a first year blogger, I've keep notes on jokes and trends. Its all culminated in this post! Thanks to @elmc.at's graph work and @linkskywalker.bsky.social's Flux Space, I got the motivation I needed to create the Blogosphere Flux. #blog #fluxspace #community theplayreports.com/posts/blogos...

Throwing one more post on the pile before the end of the year. Enjoy binarystar.games/posts/origin...

Patchwork Newsletter (Vol 1, Issue 2): Patchwork Paladin https://patchworkpaladin.com/2025/12/20/patchwork-newsletter-vol-1-issue-2/ #dnd #ttrpg

What are the practical steps of getting an RPG book printed? I pull back the curtain on the process and share my current progress in this blog post.

New Dungeon (in blog form): Castle Claus, or The Keep on the North Pole A Rankin Bass Christmas-themed dungeon for the Merry Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. Possibly one of my more high effort blog posts to date #osr #ttrpg

Blog map update! - Added many more blogs - Pulled in more historical post data (Substack, Ghost + others) - Reworked the side-panel stats to be clearer The new data also reshaped the communities. We're at eight now. graph.elmc.at

powers of authority

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the long-awaited sequel to Combat as my Balls! The term "Player skill" has always rankled me, so I decided to delve a little deeper into that and discuss different kinds of player skill games can encourage. magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/skil...

Wrote a sequel to this post! #osr #ttrpg #narrative #conflict tbr.bearblog.dev/narrative-pl...

Parties often travel through the same hexes multiples times. Shouldn't we have something interesting happen when they do it say the 4th or 5th time? #blog #hexcrawls #gmtool theplayreports.com/posts/terrai...

Critique Navidad! What do you get when you hire a university to write the most comprehensive history of a civilisation to support a module, and illustrate it better than most children’s history books? You get Carved in Stone, a module about living among the picts! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/13/c...

I'm back with another Play Style Preferences. Let us travel back to the early days of the OSR: before Shadowdark, OSE, or Cairn. Today's post focuses on the fabled OSR G+ campaigns and the lessons they have to teach us about building worlds. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-pr...

What a cool project. Such a firm imagining of the goings-on in the Shire. #fantasy #Tolkien #OSR #blog #rpg

"Well, I'm back" he said. Over the last three months, I've keyed every hex in the bounds of the Shire, including rumors, nested random encounters, and five embedded mini-dungeons. I've collated them into a document, linked on the blog:

I read through the Shire hexcrawl doc by @riseupcomus.bsky.social youtube.com/live/6pfVMz0... #ttrpg #lotr #dnd

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a bunch of wikipedia editors made a website where you can stream public domain movies! wikiflix.toolforge.org#/

wrote a new blog post for a community hexcrawl project over on the prismatic waystation server! it's about killing the same guy so many times that you kinda start to like him 😌 elsewhere-elsewhere.neocities.org/posts/2025-1...

Blogging again, this time discussing stealth rolls in #OSR games. Give this method a try next time you run OSE, Cairn or some other Dungeon Door Adventure game, I think it's a good technique.

Out now: WHALE ROADS The chronicle of a year-long, 30+ player West Marches campaign of Wolves Upon the Coast by @lukegearing.bsky.social A 250-page "zine" filled with play summaries, original art, and Referee commentary. Available now, and it's 100% completely free. sulcata.itch.io/whale-roads

A half memory clings like a scrap of flesh on carrion. Once upon a time, in another life, the path you walked was that of a…

This hexmas, let me present The Transient Snowfields: up in the foothills the snow gets up and walks around, unaware of its own mortality. There's roblings there. Half-goblin, half-robin, compulsive burglars. Oh, and a gingerbread mecha full of scientists. periaptgames.blogspot.com/2025/12/blog...

Chatting on Discord about running TTRPG ads and how to make sense of it all. It can be really confusing. Reminded me that I did a Reddit ad experiment a while back and learned a lot. I was doing it all wrong: omnes.exeunt.press/p/reddit-ads...

New Adventure: RUIN OF REPUTATION is a free, one session beginner puzzle dungeon for Cairn 2E. It has 10 rooms and should take around 3.5 hours. Supplementary material is provided for continuing the adventure's story through a longer campaign. pointlessmonument.itch.io/ruin-of-repu...

There’s an art to reading these older modules. They can be pretty dry -so much of the fun is implied by the little details present. What I’m saying is that B2 is a soulslike.

Here we go! I'm starting a readthrough of Dungeon Module B2: The Keep on the Borderlands! Is it a better introductory adventure than B1? Let's find out!

As #Mausritter month draws near an end, here's my humble contribution to honour such a charming game and dedicated community. Thanks again to @manarampmatt.bsky.social, @hlashbrooke.bsky.social, @losing.games, and @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social! #TTRPG byodinsbeardrpg.itch.io/lost-in-the-...

Toodling with collating the Middle-earth Hexcrawl blog posts together for convenience. Maybe this thing can actually be played! Art by @gorangligovic.bsky.social

I come to you like Paul Revere on the back of a liger. The Bloggies are coming! Like, share, and subscribe. www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...

A nice summary of an idea I've been moaning about for a long time. There is no singular OSR, and if you talk about the OSR like it's a monolith I'm going to assume you're some sort of dope.

I had fun at PAX Unplugged! I played over 20 hours worth of games and went out to the local taverns every night. How did I do it all? That’s proprietary, but you can instead read all about the games I played #osr #ttrpg

Looking at old session notes from my Carcosa game, I realize I had made a generator for the random space alien weapons tables in the book, as part of my Random Carcosa site.

Welcome to summer! (Or winter for the hemispherically-challenged.) We’ve pulled together another cracker issue as we careen towards the holiday season, with a roundup of the month’s best blogs, an exclusive PAXU review, and a new gameable location from your truly. www.carouse.blog/r/35c6ae52?m...

🚨NEW WEIRD GAME KLAXXON🚨 ECO MOFOS sets sail!! Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules light procedure-heavy TTRPG for solo and group play. Smash Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves, guzzling ambergris to learn new spells. tinyurl.com/yfryeat8

This series was amazing last year, thrilled that it's becoming an institution.

They sure are! I'm moving them a little this year so I'm not rushed to read and curate the final list around the holidays. A small announcement will be in The Explorateur tomorrow and an official announcement later in December. Submissions will open in January. Voting opens in February.