DUNGEON BOSS. On the mountain top. Wrackton is an evil blind sage staff fighter, Level 7. Death Wing is a Lvl 10 peregrine falcon that can fly 300 mph, decapitate knights in a single pass, and blow over a horse with his shockwave. He has the mind of a normal trained falcon.

There are only two genders. Don't pretend that there aren't. So be honest. Are you a blacksmith or a miner? goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2025/08/dwar...

Magic Amulet - Endowment of the Flesh God. Focus on a creature to see through their eyes and learn their greatest desire. If you fail an easy Cha save their greatest desire overwrites your own greatest desire. Also, your bloodstreams commingle, sharing the effects of any potion, intoxicant, etc.

MONSTER: Atrocidon. Stats as ogre. Appear in packs of 1d3+1. Powerful lizard-hulks but effectiveness is crippled by their overriding urge for cruelty. Will *always* attack the weakest person. Will *always* go out of their way to trample a baby. Famously easy to control in this way.

When you design obstacles or puzzles in a dungeon, you should pack the dungeon with multiple solutions. The weirder, more esoteric, and more flavorful—the better. www.explorersdesign.com/designing-lo...

Combat is only a fail state if it's too costly relative to the rewards. The costliness can come from HP, resources, or the player's time. OSR games tend to have hard combats, which are frequently too costly (unless the players engineer some advantage).

It's April Fools, so all TTRPG bloggers should be looking at their old content and deciding which characters they'd put in their dating sim.

A Monster - Emperor Tortoise Cruel carnivores. 800 lbs, but no natural attacks. Can cast *magic jar* to swap bodies with you. While piloting your body, they'll jump off a cliff or drown you. Then they switch back and eat your corpse. Cha negates. Plan B is hiding in their shell and screaming.

Magic Item - Ghast Pituitary. If you eat this and then eat someone's brain, you can learn *roughly* what they knew, but you need to succeed on a Cha save or have your personality permanently altered to be more similar to theirs. Another Cha save, or you'll adopt 1 of their values/goals.

I started reading Atlas Shrugged and yes, it's pretty propagandish. BUT it is actually kinda fun to read if you treat it like pure fantasy. Like LotR is also kinda propandish but we don't care because it's a fantasy world that doesn't touch our world.

MAGIC ITEM - Green Glass Lance Once per day, when you take damage from a ranged attack, you may teleport to the source of the damage. If you do, you make an immediate melee attack against them with a +4 to hit.

I wrote a monster? Maybe it's more a dungeon hazard. It's mostly just a big thing that you run away from, meant to be The Big Thing on a dungeon level. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

Magic Item - Mind Bandit Amulets: Always produced in pairs. As long as both amulets are worn, the brains and eyes of the two wearers are swapped. Ends if one of the wearers dies or if the amulet is taken off.

A Trap and a Secret - Spear Ladder Each time the floor panel is depressed, a spear shoots out of the wall dealing 2d6. After pressing the panel 12x, you'll have a ladder made of spears, which leads to a hidden trap-door in the roof.

Magic Item - Saddle of Horsification Any creature that this saddle is strapped to will turn into a horse for as long as the saddle is affixed.

Magic Item - Transparent Paint Creates transparent patches when it is painted on objects. Allows you to see through thin walls and read the first page of books without opening them. If you drink it, you can see the insides of objects but not the outsides. It's disorienting; -4 to hit.

What's the best way* to make a website that has a searchable database of magic items? Not just searchable by "sword" but also by "flight" or "cursed" or "elven". *best way for a less-technical computer person.

I revised the crowdsourced dungeon that we made last week. A lot of stuff got rewritten but I tried to keep people's ideas mostly intact. Probably more useable as a dungeon, but also less interesting as an artifact. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/12/blue...

I wrote some Mushroom Men, Flying Worms, and Gremlins. There's also rules for cooking them, making them into potions, and crafting equipment from their lifeless bodies. You monster. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/12/mush...

Brain worms! Take those photons right out of your LCD screen and put them in your brain. Get those brain worms on in there. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/12/brai...

How I would do a Pokemon OSR game: your 6 stats are your 6 pokemon. Your class = your pokemon = your personality. Each one comes with 1-2 abilities, maybe you get a bonus ability if you have 5 pokemon of the same type. Nothing is lethal but if you lose too hard too many times you become an NPC.

Cute little one shot with a good "What does the goblin have in their pocket?" table. aswampinspace.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

Riffing on @goblinpunch.bsky.social's recent fairy entries, I wrote about tiny people riding dragonflies for the blog.

What a bewildering article. Do any OSR gamers feel like 5th edition was written to appeal to them? screenrant.com/dnd-2024-dms...

We did it, guys. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/12/crow...

Paladins from Hell! You summon them like you summon demons! Also the Monstrome is now in v5 and getting pretty chunky. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/12/pala...

Always Repost Veins.

I love how simple Record of the Lodoss War looks, and yet a whole anime's worth of stories came out of it.

This is good: strangeaeons.substack.com/p/servants-o...

More monsters! A couple of new ones themed for a mythic underworld that follows video game logic instead of Gygaxian ecology. Also version 4 of the Monstrome. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/12/door...

The crowdsourced dungeon is almost complete! I've summarized the progress here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... We still need rooms: 14, 15, 16 and the big crystal rooms: 19, 20, and 22. Please post on the original thread: bsky.app/profile/gobl...

Your random encounter tables shouldn't just have monsters on them. Here are some merchants that you might bump into, both friendly and "friendly" ones. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/11/d6-m...

Friendly reminder that Santa Claus is Turkish, is buried in Italy, and that his magic bones secrete perfume. Look it up.

Friendly reminder to fantasy writers that a "relic" is the body part of a dead saint that is revered. And "artifact" is any remnant or byproduct of human craft. Pencil shavings and bottle caps can be artifacts.

I'm still working on the Monstrome, trying to make a maximalist, useable bestiary. Just added morlocks, ogres, and skeleton jellies: goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/11/morl...

Crowdsourced dungeon! Please add a room! Don't be shy! Your ideas ARE wanted here! - Each corner (19-22) has a giant elemental crystal. - Faction #1: elemental golems who defend the dungeon. Falling apart and cannibalizing each other. - Faction #2: mutant barbarian raiders w/ mutant dogs.

Anyone want to do a crowdsourced dungeon?

A TRAP! Motion sensor door. It closes when it senses movement. Opens after 1 minute without any movement. The most obvious solution is to hold very still, then jump through. The pit trap on the far side of the door will hinge open when at least 10 lbs are placed on it.

Tapping this sign again. To anybody painting the OSR with a broad brush: you are painting over me, and folks like me. But that is your privilege, I suppose. To radical queer commie OSR: I love you folx. 1/

I'm realizing that I have a lot posts with themes of biology and identity: goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-sp... goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2023/01/some... goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2013/10/afte... goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2020/03/hype... goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-...

This one ended up being more like a piece of creepypasta fiction than most of my posts, but I'm still convinced it's gameable: goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/11/cail...

The Underclock variant is cool, but I especially like the idea of treating hacking like a dungeoncrawl for the whole party, with each node controlling a specific subsystem.

A new monster to kill your players: Angelmen! I also updated my bestiary with a few new entries (Landshark, Angelmen, and a few Fairies). #osr #ttrpg

Here's a 12-page dungeon. It's a sequel to a really old, really cool blogpost. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/11/towe... #osr #dungeon #ttrpg

MAGIC ITEM: Sword of the Dreamer. If you fall asleep holding this sword +0, you will begin sleepwalking. In your dreams you are a hero, and the sword becomes a +3 sword. Sleepwalking, you fight to defend your friends. Loud noises awaken you. You remember nothing of what has occurred.

I decided to try writing a bestiary. Everyone else is doing minimalism, so I thought I would try maximalist entries. But, you know, like, *useful* maximalist. goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-... #osr #ttrpg #bestiary

OBSTACLE: 10' up the wall, a doorway leads somewhere cool. However, the vertical surface of the wall is completely covered in yellow mold. It releases poison clouds when touched. Burning it creates a poison cloud that lasts 24 hours, and alerts everyone.

SPICY TAKE: DMs who are okay with fudging the dice should also be okay with their players fudging the dice.

SECRET DOOR! The W room has a unique shape. Three discolored tiles open a secret door if all are pressed simultaneously. Farther away, the E room is an identical mirror image, except cloaked in magical darkness. The secret tiles are in the same places, but cannot be distinguished in the dark.

TRAP: In the *obviously* lightning themed dungeon, a ladder is embedded in the wall. It leads up to the next level. It is made of copper and bisected down the middle--the two halves do not touch. Anyone touching both halves completing the circuit and is shocked.