This week in the Bathtub it’s Orestruck, the sequel to the eternally popular Tannic, by Amanda P! Is Tannic Forest deserving of a second visit? Find out!! idlecartulary.com/2025/09/22/b... #osr

ZOMBIE OGRE!!!

Sort of game related! Gamerverse MVC Wolverine is possibly the best Wolverine toy ever made. Glad I waited until now to get into Marvel Legends.

So cool to see more people use my Monstrous Menagerie free stock art pack! Thank you so much for sharing @gilarpgs.bsky.social ! You can download Monstrous Menagerie I for FREE! tania-herrero.itch.io/monstrous-me...

Painting in procreate

Did we ask for another B/X hack-thing? NO! There's too many of those already and we don't need any more! ... anyways, i translated my b/x hack-thing in english and posted it up on Itchio <3 (More like, only the Basic of B/X) Check out my little furry ttrpg uwu mooexe.itch.io/explorers-of...

I’m giving a talk at Lightbox! I’ll be covering ways to manage creative burnout on October 25th 😁 Hope to see you there!!

All 16 characters for Heartbeat Highschool are now designed. I have to work on the last two or three bios and do some stuff before a BIG meeting on Saturday with @areyoshi.bsky.social. The layout is coming together, but I think the full rules need an edit pass before I go any further...

Got my copy of Ratcatchers Issue 1, there’s always something special seeing your name in print! It’s excellent work by @tidalwavegames.com and full of great writers and artists, though I am particularly partial to @dojikaan.bsky.social’s incredible mimic! #drawsteel #ttrpg #ttrpgrising #mcdm #dnd

I wrote about the challenges posed by treasure in AD&D, Gygax's weird insurance guy actuarial accounting of items, & why it was important to him & to the game to make dealing with treasure such a hassle:

The first room of your dungeon shouldn't be empty! Put some cool choices right in room 1 Let's do a thread of Gygaxian democracy for INTERESTING THINGS IN ROOM 1 I'll start: - A crow's nest cage with a skeleton in it. Investigating the skeleton finds a skeleton key in the skull to a locked door

@danielharila.bsky.social 's doing some really great layout work on Duginthroat Divided: classic design principles with an emphasis on presenting as much information as possible while maximizing at-the-table utility. We'll have plenty more to share as the Kickstarter launch date approaches!

Just got this gem of a backer award from the good folks at @tidalwavegames.com . Not only is it great material for the massively fun Draw Steel, but this really takes me back in a good way to the zines I read when I first got into gaming in the 80s.

This week, in the Bathtub, is Straight Arrows. Does this commentary on the pharma-industrial-complex hit the bullseye, or does it fly wide of its target? Find out! idlecartulary.com/2025/09/15/b...

For a long time I've believed that it's important to be clear about your values as a creator. Some creators aren't, and so we have a recent death getting a few to go mask-off and disappoint a lot of people. Don't excuse them in advance. This isn't the first time. They just stopped hiding it.

NO BULLSHIT

Five hours left and just $89 to go to hit the stretch goal!

Started a daily writing exercise where I key one (1) 12-mile hex of Middle-earth. Here are seven from the last week.

It's the LAST DAY to get in on MONSTER CONDO. We need less than $200 to definitively hit our only stretch goal to print in colour and afford more art by @chaoclypse.bsky.social! www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

We've updated the "Make Accessible TTRPGs" zine, cleaner PDFs, removed text backgrounds. It's free and a great starting point to think accessible design. the-lost-bay.itch.io/make-accessi...

Last year I started blogging my way through every adventure in Dungeon Magazine, and then I stopped because I was approaching burnout. I'm slowly starting that again. This post has been on Patreon for a while, but I've just made it public on Loot The Room loottheroom.uk/the-keep-at-... #ttrpg

Monster Condo has about $530 left to reach its ONE AND ONLY STRETCH GOAL. There's just over two days left of the campaign, OSR folks take a look ⤵️ (I am not on this project but the better TWG does, the better I do!)

Hey hey hey! It’s me, doing some more Mothership! Shock and awe!

I made a new edition of the project tracking calendar. hinokodo.itch.io/text It trades diagonal text for horizontal labels and is a little more limiting on projects, but fits on an 8.5x11. could potentially be expanded if you're keeping it digital.

Barbarian Sci-fi Game Zine you-know-what-ing next week. Hand drawn. Bespoke 2d6 system. Print and play. Share this post and one or two might fall off the truck early! If you wanna review copy for your blog, pm me. You aren't gonna wanna miss this one!

ratcatcher.tidalwavegames.com Ratcatcher Magazine 01 for @hellomcdm.bsky.social's DRAW STEEL is NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE! That link above will take you to the itch page, or you can pick it up physical here: store.tidalwavegames.com

www.kickstarter.com/projects/see... A little over $750 and we'll reach the stretch goal to print in colour and get @chaoclypse.bsky.social to do more amazing artwork! You definitely want that!

Orphans, the brand new module for Mothership by @lukegearing.bsky.social is out now. It's classic (can I say that yet) Mothership: deadly, terrifying, and has a swamp monster. Grab it at the shop: www.tuesdayknightgames.com/products/orp...

So @chaoclypse.bsky.social is KILLING IT. Don't you want to guarantee more of this dope art? Of course you do. Pledge now; ends Friday! www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Six days to go and just over $900 to hit the one and only stretch goal for color printing and even more interior art from @chaoclypse.bsky.social!

Redux of an old post of mine that was borderline unreadable, but which had a nugget of wisdom worth salvaging. There are two totally different types of hexcrawl and nobody else seems to have pointed this out before. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

Monster Condo www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Emergency vet expenses are horrific to begin with, let alone when you have to say goodbye. If you can send some help Gadda's way, please do.

I'm gonna start posting some rooms from the dungeon that I think are good. If you think they are also good, you should pledge to the project. www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Absolutely BALLER artwork coming in. Cannot wait to see more. www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

CHIMERA for MONSTER CONDO by @tidalwavegames.com There's still a week left in the Kickstarter, go back it!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Our OSR dungeon with over 100 rooms is now FUNDED and awaiting your additional pledge. Check it out now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

WE ARE FUNDED! Now to get us to that sweet $3200 stretch goal for colour printing and more art! www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

This is the article that finally got me to be a subscriber. I love the work Rascal does and the kind of investigative journalism in our small industry. I've been meaning to sign up for a while and this was a good reason to give them money today.

Got a book I was interested in and then it turns out that despite all credits, someone on this fucking thing definitely used AI, because its entire full page super rendered line drawings, that don't match each other, and look like shit. I don't even want this in my house.

We are just $86 away from funding! Chao messaged me this morning to tell me he's ready to start working on new art for this. So I'm INCREDIBLY hyped right now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Monster Condo less than $150 from funding! Just ten more pledges today could push it over the finish line 👾🏠

We need a little over $400 to fund, and then it's on to our stretch goal to print in colour! www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

If anyone wants to join me drawing Pokémon everyday in October for PokémOCT, feel free to tag me in #PokemOCT assuming that hashing ain't nothing weird. I'll be reposting last year's 'MON too so there will be lots to catch.

If we fund today, I will post a preview layout for one of the unrevealed areas. You want to meet the Cult of Moloch, right? www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

My day job is playing Alf on the TV at 230am in the morning. Pledge now to save me from this existential hell

Day 2! If this funds today, I'll start posting little profiles of all the weird faction and cult leaders that show up in this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Day 2! If this funds today, I'll start posting little profiles of all the weird faction and cult leaders that show up in this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

$1200 in 20 hours is nothing to sneeze at. Incredible progress. One of my players said, "People really want this, huh?"