Sallying out of Magnolia Keep, a case against giving monsters spell slots (and also an excuse for me to suck 4E's dick again) magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/03/stop...

🚨 New Blogpost: I started a campaign without a game system, collectively designing any rules as they were needed. Here is how my Calvinball experiment fared and the rules we patched together #ttrpg #osr

I spent way too long writing this - both in terms of the months it was stewing in my brain and also that it's now 4:20 in the morning and I'm pretty sure I started this like 5 hours ago or more. Yeesh. iknowadamseats.blogspot.com/2025/02/stop...

Today we completed the first book of Blood Lords and this marks the end of my Pathfinder 2 experiment. Really didn’t like the module writing, monster design, and how many rolls it took to resolve things. I did end up pitching an insane Burning Wheel PF2 hybrid game among totally different games.

I’m sorry D&D 4e stans… I don’t think Madness at Gardmore Abbey is a good adventure 😭

Somehow having this on Itch felt wrong and I’ve moved it to my blog. When I’ve had more time I may polish up and publish properly, for now I need sleep Long story short, my grandmother is dying and I made a dungeon about a dying wizard to process it #OSR blog.catshavenolord.page/the-flesh-is...

Know someone looking for B/W interior art for their game by an ENNIE AWARD WINNING ARTIST? FOR FREE? Please share far and wide! I'll select from all pitches on 3/1/25. :) And if you're aprehenisive, I am personally inviting you, yes, you, to pitch! 🫵

Did you recently see a bunch of blogposts loosely themed around "elements"? Too many to keep up with? Good news: I tracked them all down and provided brief summaries of all the posts so you can go read all that sound interesting (which may be all of them!) #osr #ttrpg

Blog post! Last week I posted about Two Against Darkness, a way to run two D&D4 heroes against OSR adventures. Here’s my post about my design process, monster math from OD&D to 4, and how to run it at levels higher than 1. qarsi.bearblog.dev/two-against-...

Conceiving a dungeon involves injecting spaces with barely contained energy that yearns to explode, impacting the surrounding area. One way to develop natural tension is through creating dungeons that hold opposed themes. #osr #ttrpg weirdwonder.bearblog.dev/opposed-them...

People seem to like our catalog, so we're looking into sharing it digitally. In the meantime, I wanted to show you its pages and the creators they feature. First up is @junkfoodgames.bsky.social, who also laid out the catalog. Check out these awesome zines... 1/

Incredible blog post! This is so useful it’s getting in my game yesterday!

blog bandwagon: my contribution to the Prismatic Wasteland 'Elements' blog bandwagon: re-imagining the elemental planes as planets in our solar system! dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Jumping on the Blog Bandwagon, I present a blackjack mechanic for alchemy! Suitable for any role-playing game where you want to add some simple crafting. personabler.blogspot.com/2025/02/elem...

New Post: Control Weather Should Not Be a Spell How a single spell holds back an entire field of magic plus a new character class (Tempestarius) that can control the weather and also gets a storm cloud stronghold (This is for today’s blog bandwagon. Y’know, “elements” as in weather) #osr #ttrpg

Sallying out of Magnolia Keep, its Periodic Table of the Elements Day! To celebrate, a bunch of us bloggers all made element-themed posts! Mine is on the Rock Lords, demigods fighting in the war between Law and Chaos, with some goodies for Black Sword Hack! magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/02/peri...

New blog post! We’re Blog Bandwagoning! The theme is elements, so I wrote about alchemical oozes: a puzzle monster that eats gold, silver, or you depending on what its made of! qarsi.bearblog.dev/alchemical-o...

Republishing my first "blog post". How to make a bespoke hex jig for mapping your #OSR game or other #TTRPG. Here you go @claytonian.bsky.social. billhook.bearblog.dev/make-a-hex-j...

New (?) Blog Post! Back on twitter I did a live reading of @riseupcomus.bsky.social His Majesty the Worm. I was pretty happy with it and twitter is a hellhole now so it’s now on my blog! qarsi.bearblog.dev/his-majesty-...

Recent posts I've enjoyed on other blogs virtualmoose.org/2025/02/05/b...

New blog post! This one is a little post for fun about dissociated mechanics, D&D4 powers, and a creative exercise to associate them. qarsi.bearblog.dev/associating-...

New blog post! This one is about how I think about settings and lore. Fundamental Truths that let me make up lore on the spot. And a way to let players come up with lore too! qarsi.bearblog.dev/truths-from-...

Hey! I just published my first RPG blog post! - It's all about Solo RPG design and how we design interactions within them. Looking at The Wretched by @loottheroom.bsky.social, Ironsworn by @shawntomkin.bsky.social, Lay On Hands by @alfredvalley.bsky.social, and Quill by @scottmalthouse.bsky.social

A worm blog rises 🪱

Oh also for an iconic daily challenge moment, I’m holding off on #Dungeon25 this month to learn layout and publish my parry game for Playtest Zero’s Parry Jam. The game needs to exist and I must be the one to do it.

New blog post! This one is about how I think about settings and lore. Fundamental Truths that let me make up lore on the spot. And a way to let players come up with lore too! qarsi.bearblog.dev/truths-from-...

Wrote this one up Use a different character creation ruleset at different points of the game riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/02/diff...

🚨 New Blog Alert! 🚨 I’m starting an elfgame blog with an insane one! Only have 2 players? Here’s how to turn OSR adventures into romps for 2 D&D4 heroes with just one notecard! qarsi.bearblog.dev/two-against-...

🚨 New Blog Alert! 🚨 I’m starting an elfgame blog with an insane one! Only have 2 players? Here’s how to turn OSR adventures into romps for 2 D&D4 heroes with just one notecard! qarsi.bearblog.dev/two-against-...

🔹🏆 BLOGGIES 2024 - PLATINUM WINNER 🏆🔹 I am pleased to announce that after an exhaustive 263 responses, the overall winner of the 2024 Bloggies is... The 1 HP Dragon, from @explorersdesign.bsky.social Read the details and gold medalist speeches here: sachagoat.blot.im/bloggies-202...

The Zungeon Jam by @idlecartulary.itch.io had me looking into @traversefantasy.itch.io's Bite-Sized Dungeons again - and I found an easy flowchart syntax that makes creating and editing such dungeons really easy! dicegoblin.blog/bite-sized-d...

Does anyone make osr adventures designed so you can print them out and staple them into a little zine yourself? I’ve been thinking a lot about printability in rpgs lately and I want to see more

🗳️ BLOGGIES 2024 - THE FINALS 🗳️ Congratulations again to the four category winners! Now, it’s time to decide which blog post deserves the top honor. This form will be open for 48 hours. Decide which blog post is the best of 2024! Link to voting form⤵️

While we all wait for the Bloggie finals voting to open, I hereby present my alternative awards: The Snubbies! My hand-picked favourites of this year's Bloggie finalists that did not get a podium finish. personabler.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-... Please share your own non-winning favourites!

This is very uncomfortable for me to do, but right now I'm having trouble getting by. I know a lot of you are struggling too, but if you can spare it and you've enjoyed my work in the past, I want to ask if you can spare a small tip. ko-fi.com/alexdzuricky

Approaching the end of January #Dungeon25, for about a week now the shape of the dungeon has been in my brain and it’s finally on paper! This is the prison in top shape, now I need to crumble it. F1 is a nexus that connects to B1 and F2 via ramps. The rec room’s slope connects to all 3 floors.

i'm with @sarahz.bsky.social , @ladyemily.nebula.tv , and @austinwalker.bsky.social right now as sarah plays SLAY THE SPIRE and we raise money for trans rights! www.youtube.com/live/iQ1FbkI...

made a #zungeon inspired by the punk music that got me through catholic school during the bush administration there's more planned, but it's a #beta

Made a little dungeon today! A dwarf tomb ravaged by oozes. Red oozes eat gold (aqua regia), yellow oozes eat silver (aqua fortis), clear oozes eat flesh (spirits of salt). If you need to get a clear ooze off you, merge it with a yellow to make red! It’s alchemy.

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - REVIEW - ROUND OF 16🗳️ The review category is now open for voting! This year’s varied candidates span OSR, trad, solo, and story game RPGs. Link to voting form⤵️

I really like that thing the Merry Mushmen do in their adventures where they have an area just with a bunch of curious NPC hirelings hanging out ready for hire / to replace dead PCs

sharing this again in light of the anti-trans executive orders passed yesterday, and the highly lacking responses from even ‘allies’ now’s the time to get vocal and angry talkingtrans.carrd.co

Rascal Catches The Last Train To Hell (via Bremen)

Bad games are the best games because they create game designers. If 5e were perfect, there would be only one game. Instead, 5e sucks so there are 10,000 tiny indie games that suck less and that’s beautiful

Chapter 4: Creating the Map of the Designing Dungeons Course is now live! Work along with me as we draw our dungeon. We'll discuss the essentials of making an interesting layout, placing your dungeon in your setting, and creating connections. dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games/docs/chapter...

I had an idea yesterday, and today it is a released game! By reading this, you are already playing Chicken and Egg. Continue reading, or remain a chicken: personable.itch.io/chicken-and-...

🚨KICKSTARTER COMING SOON🚨 A tabletop roleplaying game adventure of contemporary urban horror. Featuring the bloody Malaysian pontianak. With full-colour art by SCRAP WORLD and @amandalee.bsky.social . Expanded, and in print. Follow the KS page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav... 1/

SLIPSINGER I wrote a little pamphlet for Cloud Empress which adds a new form of magic and a new job, the Slipsinger, to pick during character creation! With a fantastic illustration by @pbbeta.bsky.social! emielboven.itch.io/slipsinger

Extremely good playtest happened tonight, it turns out my insane idea not just works but sings 😊

Check out all the awesome games we got out here! It was a fun year of playtesting, and I'm sure 2025 will also be just as fun :D