you may be surprised at which one of these was from when i lived In Town as opposed to The Middle of Nowhere/The Forest (it was the mountain lion)

introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild* -snapping turtle -porcupine -turkey vulture -mountain lion -black bear *actually just in my yard

i now have over 30 excaliburs and chaos blades in final fantasy tactics, in case you were wondering how i spent my holiday

one weird trick to not see your family during the holidays, friends hate her dead parents jokes

Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky? elmc.at/mapping-the-... To check out the graph directly follow this link: graph.elmc.at

this post has a link to my favorite clip from back when i watched wrestling

I’ve recently received a small uptick in interest for my hex icons for RPG maps - if you want to make my day and can spare £3 please consider adding to that interest! Thanks!

I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books. This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.

who's your favorite director? i'll go first

Every RPG blogger is allowed one “What is the OSR?” post. Here’s mine:

any time people talk about cold weather online i have to remember I live in the geographic/winter equivalent of spiders georg

also there was a new great grandpa album this year! 2025 has been pretty great for music i like

wild how the best song mike kinsella ever wrote wasn't even in american football

introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you've seen covet panopticon mewithoutYou godspeed you! black emperor coheed and cambria

just spent way too long messing with character styles in order to spell my last name correctly

i want to highlight some submissions to the #icon0clasm ball for fantastic medieval campaigns! thank you to everyone who has submitted so far, especially for developing such thoughtful and effortful works 😊 blog: traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2025/11/gene... itch: itch.io/jam/icon0cla...

my kingdom for a good desktop publishing program on linux

In 2023, like many people, I participated in Dungeon 23. The end result was a massive, Metroidvania-inspired dungeon called The Castle Automatic. Here are three techniques I am using to structure the information architecture: -Room names and numbers -Landmark/hidden/secret -Enemies last<>first

my initial idea for this involved a d6. it might actually work better that way, but ultimately i listened to my heart. i went with the pun

i like going through my game design drafts, which read a lot like a stream of consciousness journal, and finding sentences like, "mayhaps only use the humble d6?"

if you had told me in 2008 that jenny owen youngs and jess abbott got married one day, i think i would have done a perfect backflip

"that's why they call this thing bloodsport, kid."

what perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

chess is a great game to learn if you want to feel bad at something almost 50% of the time no matter how much you improve

new blog post! the standard operating procedure for determining weather in osr games is ludicrous, and i'm sick of pretending it isn't! so here's a simple addendum

🎶 if it makes milfs happy, it can't be that bad 🎶

my thursday table "a-team" decided we're going to wrap up our blades in the dark season 1 next time we can all get together and then move on to a different game. i let them pick looks like i'll be running fabula ultima starting in december/january

it's over for you bitches* once my new laptop arrives *blogging about and making things for ttrpgs

did not expect to hear david marion on a portugal. the man song

Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution. Behold, the Stepladder Table!

brb writing a one page ttrpg inspired by BIO-DOME (1996)

the baker family has a way of making games that burrow their way into my bones and then explode like a supernova. from what i've already seen via patreon, burned over does the same. even if you have an older one, i think it's worth checking out this apocalypse world

i live in a small enough town that it is genuinely shocking when i run into someone with one of my family's last names and it turns out we are not related

they say that if you're happy when a bad person dies then you're just as bad as the bad person. they say other stupid shit too but that's one of them.

NEW BLOG BANDWAGON During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore! #osr #rpg #hexmas

when post-rock has cello? that's good, to me

the most embarrassing part about being a sanatist is other satanists, but especially the organizations

happy early november to all those who celebrate

it's finally the one day of the year we're allowed to listen to this song

the line "everybody with a website, everybody with a blog" has been stuck in my head for nearly 20 years

For this year’s spooky season post, I dig up the background of Skeletons, how they’ve been historically depicted in media (including D&D) and my favorite way to include them in my games #osr #ttrpg

finally got dolmenwood in the mail today so i guess im dropping everything to run that now

i was in 5th grade the last time i dressed up for halloween, but should i ever feel the urge to do it again i'd choose the same costume (jester)

name an album with zero skips (as the roots undo by circle takes the square)

wow, i can't believe daniel naroditsky is gone

black eyes?! what a time to be alive

my thursday table dipped back into mothership, which naturally has me thinking about hacking it

i think most bands have one to three good albums in them and they are almost always found in the first four releases

send help i'm thinking about locks/picking in medieval fantasy games again

Happy news! I got in contact with someone who had digital versions of the newsletter of Kay Woollard's smial which ran from 84 to 87, which gave me access to some more of her art. She did a series of comic strips about a hobbit child called Wilmot who has a catch phrase "I'VE THUNK"