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Loveable oaf Blog:
https://bommyknocker.bearblog.dev
Itch:
https://bommyknocker-press.itch.io
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H. Jay Watson
about 18 hours ago
just got my mitts on the early release of The Castle Automatic (the new His Majesty the Worm joint) as I rip through it, I can say:
@riseupcomus.bsky.social
is in his Adventure of the Year era still time for preorders through
@exaltedfuneral.bsky.social
, so check it for yourself out *right now* 👇
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The Castle Automatic Preorder
Publisher and web store for Indie Role Playing games, Role Playing game supplements, weird art, doom, horror, and all that sort of thing.
https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-castle-automatic-preorder
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Agreeable Chatter
2 days ago
Doing some fiddling with the implications of overland travel in a
#ttrpg
where players can fly
tbr.bearblog.dev/goodbye-hexe...
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Goodbye Hexes, I'm Flying Over You
Another design journal, another sequel. About a week ago I was 7 or 8 days into working on the Community family of Queen Bee Ambitions. I'd been reading abou...
https://tbr.bearblog.dev/goodbye-hexes-im-flying-over-you/
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ktrey
3 days ago
d100 - Where Does Lamp Oil Come From? One Hundred Ideas for the Origins of those Flammable Flasks
blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/05/d100...
#osr
#randomtables
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d100 - Where Does That Lamp Oil Come From?
S ometimes, I like to confront a few of the curious questions that occasionally come up in various Settings. This time I decided to tackle...
https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/05/d100-where-does-that-lamp-oil-come-from.html
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Yochai Gal
2 days ago
Another PatStu +
@amandalee.bsky.social
joint!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaw...
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The Doom of the Dark
A Zine containing an original adventure for Tunnels and Trolls, written by Patrick Stuart, with art by Amanda Lee Franck
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gawain/the-doom-of-the-dark
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Rise Up Comus - CASTLE AUTOMATIC Crowdfunding Now!
3 days ago
HALT. Submit to inspection! The Joesky Tax is your responsibility to include something gameable at the end of every theorypost or hot take. If this checkpoint exposes you as having BLOGGED without paying the tax, you are required to go pay it NOW
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Gravy Press | boRyan
4 days ago
My friend just released this adventure for Cairn 2e. Great one shot length, where reality warps and crumbles as the players seek to stop incursions by a strange order of extra-dimensional mystics. Prints will be available soon!
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The Hypergeometric Incursion of Heu by warenunförmig, dandelionprocessions
a sad village and dimensional weirdness
https://cultofthecommodity.itch.io/the-hypergeometric-incursion-of-heu
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Possible Worlds Games
4 days ago
I got to playtest this game and absolutely LOVED it! Inspired by games like Beak, Feather, & Bone and
@lackingceremony.bsky.social
's The Quiet Year, you'll add to and alter a lego vehicle as your story unfolds. Check it out, and support Pittsburgh TTRPG designers!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...
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A Road that Knows Your Name
A card-based, one-shot TTRPG
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/forreststorrs/a-road-that-knows-your-name/
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Bastionland Press
4 days ago
www.bastionland.com/2026/05/boat...
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Boat Loan
Something I'm testing out for my Intergalactic testing, recently added to the playtest doc . Being part of a thousand-strong crew on a huge ...
https://www.bastionland.com/2026/05/boat-loan.html
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Sridhar Ramesh
5 days ago
This predates the Bluesky terms of service, so I'm in the clear.
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Woefully Encysted Creature
5 days ago
I wrote about developing dungeons for sandbox play, whether you're stealing from existing source material or making something of your own. Not as comprehensive as the thousands of bits of advice on the topic throughout recorded history, but hopefully a good place for someone to start.
#D&D
#OSR
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Developing the Sandbox: Dungeons
This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here . The series will, when necessary, go...
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2026/05/developing-sandbox-dungeons.html
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This review makes me hungry to finally play dolmenwood. It just looks so comfy to GM, always surrounded by excellent and thorough resources.
patchworkpaladin.com/2026/05/12/a...
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A Dolmenwood Retrospective
A retrospective of my two-year Dolmenwood campaign, and why this is the best game. Fight me.
https://patchworkpaladin.com/2026/05/12/a-dolmenwood-retrospective/
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Prismatic Wasteland
5 days ago
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
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Review: Canal of Horrors — Prismatic Wasteland
A review of an Electric Bastionland one-shot. Is Chris McDowall one of the funniest writers in TTRPGs?
https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/review-canal-of-horrors
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Some real crackers in this. All you bundleheads should know that there’s a bunch of (great) stuff in here I’ve never seen in a charity bundle before.
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Chris P. Wolf
7 days ago
Sure everyone’s talking about Stonetop but who is trying to play the Outer Space Black Market Testicle Robbery Adventure with me?
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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)
7 days ago
New TTRPG adventure from an Indonesian creator! My friend, Kerisian Kult, has just released his first OSR adventure, Ascension! It is compatible with MĂ–RK BORG! Check it out!
kerisiankult.itch.io/ascension-zine
#ttrpg
#osr
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Ascension | MĂ–RK BORG - Oneshot Dungeon Crawl by Kerisian Kult
https://kerisiankult.itch.io/ascension-zine
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Thomas Ragon
7 days ago
Bohumil Stépán, 1965
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the girl with Jean Seberg hair
9 days ago
In honor of the 10 year anniversary of the GLOG, please enjoy my (now wildly out of date) overview of the early days of the GLOG blogging scene.
diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2019/03/who-...
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Fantastic module, this is a very generous offer
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directsun
9 days ago
Community copies of A Familiar Tower are available on itch for zero dollars. Help yourself to a copy if you need the discount.
directsun.itch.io/a-familiar-t...
#osr
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A Familiar Tower by Directsun Games
A mind-bending escape room adventure.
https://directsun.itch.io/a-familiar-tower
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop
10 days ago
UPCOMING GAME ANNOUNCEMENT Violent Delights is a chess-based rpg about Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. It depicts the masquerade scene in which our lovers first meet. The chess board represents the Capulet’s great chamber, and the players act as a cast of characters who correspond to chess pieces. 👇
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Coming soon: Violent Delights
A chess-based RPG about Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/backwater/violent-delights
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11 days ago
fully compatible with dungeons: the dragoning 40k 7th edition
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Tackynowacki
13 days ago
My silly 25 page solo RPG, A Cup of Temporal Soup, is here! I had a blast designing this for
#pocketquet2026
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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A Cup of Temporal Soup - tackynowacki | DriveThruRPG
The Time Crystals have been sucked into the portal! That can’t be good. Dr. Bulion left you in charge. If you don’t go in and get them, you’ll definitely get fired. A Cup of Temporal Soup is a single-...
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/565828/a-cup-of-temporal-soup
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Peter Eijk
11 days ago
People are sleeping on this great collection of Mausritter adventures by
@wonderschouw.bsky.social
&
@geekitrealgood.bsky.social
Back it so we get the great stretch goal adventures as well.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/won...
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Abundance & Adversity - four adventure-filled seasons
A brand new adventure collection for Mausritter. Also available in Dutch: Overvloed & Ontberingen - vier jaargetijden vol avontuur.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wonderschouw/abundance-and-adversity-mausritter-adventure-collection
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John Bilodeau Illustrations
13 days ago
new stock art - shelf of potions a small illustration of shelves of potions for your ttrpg creations
#OSR
#TTRPG
#fantasyart
#stockart
#spotart
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SprintingOwlDesigns
15 days ago
So alongside the horse ttrpg, I would also like to announce: Horse TTRPG Jam. Make *your* horse game! You can use Original Finish or brew up something else entirely. Explore the world of gaming through your own understanding of horses.
itch.io/jam/original...
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Original Finish TTRPG Horse Jubilee
A game jam from 2026-05-02 to 2026-07-31 hosted by kumada1. For the past several months, I, SprintingOwl, have been overtaken by horses. I wrote the first couple pages of the thing that became Origina...
https://itch.io/jam/original-finish-ttrpg-horse-jubilee
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snow
16 days ago
Kill Jane Doe is an exploration of
@bungie.net
's Marathon, the extraction shooter released in 2026. It's also an exploration of the girl playing it and what it did to her mind. It delves into trans science fiction, what the game *really* is, and life/death.
snowttrpg.itch.io/kill-jane-doe
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GIFS GALORE
16 days ago
FANTASY/NAUSIA1S.GIF
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elmcat
16 days ago
New catmail is out. I'm switching up format this time to make it less link heavy.
elmc.at/catmail-4/
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CATMAIL #4
Look what the cat dragged in. Monthly project updates, plus curated blog posts and oddments worth your time.
https://elmc.at/catmail-4/
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ktrey
17 days ago
d100 - Magical Masks One Hundred Fanciful Face Coverings for a Blog Bandwagon
blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/04/d100...
#osr
#randomtables
#ttrpgs
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d100 - Magical Masks
E arlier today I was tagged in by Eldritch Fields for a blog bandwagon concerning Masks, so I decided to whip up a quick d100 Table with...
https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/04/d100-magical-masks.html
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It's always fun participating in these events - makes you feel like part of the community. I usually use them as an excuse to make a short outré post like this one.
bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/another-gimm...
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17 days ago
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Prismatic Wasteland
17 days ago
Blogwagon Roundup! 50 blogposts all about maps, including a few adventures that use the same map (from
@amandalee.bsky.social
) in totally different ways
#osr
#ttrpg
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Around the Blogosphere in 80 Days (Blogwagon Roundup) — Prismatic Wasteland
A roundup of 50 blogs from the past few months that all focus on maps (including a few adventures that key off the same map).
https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/around-the-blogosphere-in-80-days-blogwagon-roundup
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Keighn McDeath
18 days ago
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
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The Salamander Mines megadungeon
A massive 26" x 39" full color poster of the Salamander Mines megadungeon
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/tony-dowler/the-salamander-mines-megadungeon
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videogame history
17 days ago
pagestream 2.1, print ad screenshot, atari st (1991)
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Grey Wizard - KICKSTARTING NOW!
19 days ago
START for BREAK!! RPG The new adventure for the award-winning, anime inspired TTRPG is live on Kickstarter. 👍 Back 🙏 Share 🎉 Rejoice
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...
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Yttikon
19 days ago
The small town Trissam is cursed with an all-consuming grey sand, infected with greed and on the brink of a civil war. My first
#Cairn
adventure & first over 1 page, so I'm exited about it. If you check it out, I'd love to hear what you think.
yttikon.itch.io/lady-grey-of...
#osr
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Lady Grey of the Beautiful End by Yttikon
Living grey sand transforms a town - An adventure for Cairn
https://yttikon.itch.io/lady-grey-of-the-beautiful-end
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19 days ago
Cloud cover by Nakkusu
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HODAG RPG
19 days ago
Into The ***ish: Vile ***** Mountain Module
PrismaticWasteland.com
2026
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Brazen Head of Criswell (owner/operator)
19 days ago
Tokens for my Dolmenwood game made from From Arthur Szyk's Canterbury Tales illustrations
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Valeria Loves
20 days ago
The
#dnd
wisdom my teenage self spent too much time searching for.
www.valerialoves.com/a-sickos-gui...
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A Sicko’s Guide to Prepping D&D
A decade of knowledge applied to the most common questions in tabletop.
https://www.valerialoves.com/a-sickos-guide-to-prepping-dandd/
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elmcat
20 days ago
Using clickbait to point to my most essay like post yet. Just in time for the map bandwagon.
elmc.at/against-maps/
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Against Maps
Not all maps help play. Some clarify, some confuse, some inspire, and some just sit there like decoration.
https://elmc.at/against-maps/
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Cats Have No Lord
21 days ago
I blogged about how to track big storms like a typhoon on a hex map.
#OSR
#TTRPG
blog.catshavenolord.page/tracking-the...
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Tracking the Storm
This is my final entry to the current blog bandwagon before it closes soon. I previously posted a keyed version of the incredible map Amanda Lee Franck did f...
https://blog.catshavenolord.page/tracking-the-storm/
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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)
21 days ago
New blogpost from my friend Habib who also wrote the Bloggies nominated "the default dungeon is colonial" 🙌 An interesting insight regarding one's first encounter with TTRPG (mostly it's with D&D), and how it shapes one's perspective regarding the hobby.
beeboobubie.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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the first encounter of the roleplaying kind
entering the hobby through a door you didn’t notice
https://beeboobubie.substack.com/p/the-first-encounter-of-the-roleplaying
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Velocitree2
21 days ago
My
@prismaticwasteland.com
Maps Blogwagon blog post got un-lost just before the deadline. I give you, the lazy man’s hexcrawl filling procedure, the hexframe. Thanks to
@chrismcdowell.bsky.social
for the Mythic Bastionland inspiration!
dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/04/dont...
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Don’t prep hexcrawls, prep hexframes
Here’s a pair of questions I have been pondering: why don’t I make keyed hexcrawls for wilderness travel in my home game, and which publishe...
https://dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/04/dont-prep-hexcrawls-prep-hexframes.html
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jay Dragon is on some wizard shit
21 days ago
these are a lot of fun to write
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Personable | Markus
21 days ago
It's the last days of the maps blogwagon, so we're blogging! I write about what is communicated by a map, both in what is included and how:
personable.blog/the-map-speaks
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The Map Speaks: Communicating Via Maps
The map as a communication tool between designers, GMs, and players.
https://personable.blog/the-map-speaks
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Aaron Lim 林家丰
21 days ago
Went to check out
@munkao.bsky.social
’s Tragedy at Zaya’s Theatre zine launch event today. So cool to see people playing and checking out the game, and also great to meet Eli Gimbad who edited the zines!
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Magnolia Keep
22 days ago
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes Orcstabber: The Roleplaying Game! Thrill as you slowly starve to death in an Orcish nursery because your last meager ration was several chambers ago. Maybe stab an orc too, who can say?
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/04/orcs...
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Orcstabber: The Roleplaying Game
I've started work on an RPG named Elfkisser , and while I was discussing it Elizabeth of Patchwork Paladin jokingly asked when I was workin...
https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/04/orcstabber-roleplaying-game.html
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Cats Have No Lord
22 days ago
One more post for the Blog bandwagon before it closes up. Looking at how to track large storms, like a Typhoon, on a hex map for old school games. Rough draft for now based on my recent personal experiences, but hopefully I can playtest and improve.
#OSR
blog.catshavenolord.page/tracking-the...
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Errant Thinking
24 days ago
I went Berserk and made a mythic bastionland hex flower for
@gthynk.bsky.social
's Woland. I present the Silver Cradle!
errantthinking.com/silver-cradle/
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Woefully Encysted Creature
24 days ago
In the 6th session of our B1 campaign, a new player joins the party, the party tracks down some hirelings & smugglers, & returns to the dungeon. The goblins have clashed with the orcs! A horse-sized worm is on the loose! The party finds a wealth of magnificent treasure! Or do they?
#D&D
#AD&D
#OSR
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Play Report (AD&D 2e): In Search of the Unknown (Session 6)
We played the sixth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here . T...
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2026/04/play-report-ad-2e-in-search-of-unknown_23.html
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