Dungeon levels everywhere for those with eyes to see

The map in my original tweet shows the number of graves, not number of bodies. Andalucía, by some way, has the most in terms of victims. In mass graves as shown in this map or otherwise.

Blogs from 2006 to 2025

Using @elmc.at blogosphere analysis to try and get a sense of blogging scene vibrancy tl;dr: based on community participation in jams and challenges and continued appearance of 'big idea' posts - blogosphere not dead yet. seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/quer... #dnd #osr #ttrpg #blogs #diyrpg

something i’ve always found somewhat whimsical about od&d is that due to how the encounter tables are set up, there is basically always a minimum 12.5% chance you run into a werewolf (well, lycanthropes generally).

New iteration of the Blogverse graph. Showing all time link connections. In case you are wondering Grognardia is the sun.

New iteration of the Blogverse graph. Showing all time link connections. In case you are wondering Grognardia is the sun.

And it's finished! One Hundred #over/under Tables: A Prospero Potpourri ktrey.itch.io/overunder-ta... It was super fun to flex some of my old Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi muscles before they completely atrophied!

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

Spent the past week mining my RSS reader to map what I'm calling the "Blogverse" Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting

Galstaff, you have entered the door to the north... Here's 10 special doors that prompt OSR problem solving to put in your dungeon.

I still regularly use my faction generator to spark ideas and think you might get some use out of it too. Check it out! perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...

Spent the past week mining my RSS reader to map what I'm calling the "Blogverse" Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting

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

Did a little write up of my Feast for a Sphinx duet session: discodanlives.bearblog.dev/a-feast-for-...

oh my god they actually did it lmao

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...

🚨NEW WEIRD GAME KLAXXON🚨 ECO MOFOS sets sail!! Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules light procedure-heavy TTRPG for solo and group play. Smash Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves, guzzling ambergris to learn new spells. tinyurl.com/yfryeat8

Heyy, I have a blog now!

Cheney dead

There is no world where I'm fine but other people are suffering and miserable. Even if we imagine I have no empathy or conscience, if I were smart, I'd know that other people having problems always causes for me. Every time. Guaranteed. Even if I only care about myself, helping others helps me.

The problem with Hard Men is that whenever it turns out that What Needs To Be Done is actually something soft and feminine like giving away free money to buy food, healthcare, housing, etc, the Hard Men simply refuse to Do it and start Hard planning human sacrifices instead.

The lack of a "anti-Fox News" is not a story of market failure. Media plutocrats have chosen to leave money on the table because they don't want to support challenges to plutocracy.

I had a great time talking about Mythic Bastionland on the Smiling Fox podcast, which is a whole podcast just about that one game! I talked a lot about @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social's wonderful approach to running the game in a way that facilitated lots of great character drama.

I posted this on Tumblr a few days ago: www.tumblr.com/secretsnowcl...

A blogpost that I made out of pettiness. Gamemasters are Game Designers! afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...

Why not start the domain game early with Medieval Farming Simulator? Costs are completely whacky due to the need to interact with B/X D&D's funny prices, but the flavor is mostly based on Frans Bengtsson's "The Long Ships," where Orm spends his adventuring gold on raising a hall.

meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... I've started a blog! My very first post is joining in the Hexmas Blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. (It is christmassy, in a catholic way, maybe not Rankin Bass-esque but it does have a headless cleric class to unlock, if you'll indulge me)

I'm here with a very exciting announcement: The Awards 2026 is happening! The SEO-friendly TTRPG awards show has had a refreshing year off and is back with a vengeance. To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Blog Preview! Last Friday's Blogpost is finally done being edited (I say as if I'm not the one who was taking his time editing it) Patrons at the Dollar Tier or higher can give it a read early! Or Less Late, as the case happens to be. It's about Trains. www.patreon.com/posts/blog-p...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes my entry to this year's Christmas Blog Bandwagon: An entry in a hex crawl inspired by Rankin/Bass! We've got orcs, we've got labor disputes, and boy howdy we've got pop culture references galore! magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...

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

The Junk City map will be my magnum opus.

The Better Legends RPG Preference Matrix has been making the rounds in some parts, so I thought it would be a fun lense to use to discuss Play Style Preferences. I'd love to see where everyone else falls in the various categories. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-pr...

Cooked up this harebrained idea while making holiday gifts! Curious if it's been done before. tbr.bearblog.dev/objects-as-r...

a really interesting criticism of the expressionist games manifesto when i posted it was "in order to play like this, everyone at the table would need to be a game designer" which is ... 1. i'm a game designer. ofc that's how i'm gonna play 2. it's v easy to think like a game designer if u want to

🎉 The Explorateur's Anniversary 🎉 My little community side project's still chugging along, and I'm happy to say, this month's issue's one of my favorites. Lots of great links, a new look, updated categories, and stats from last year's performance. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

We finished mythic bastionland tonight. The Snare Knight @naeolin.bsky.social , Magpie Knight @rrookstudio.bsky.social , and Leaf Knight (Dan!) used a pack of wolves and other animals plus mental trickery to yell The Sun back into the sky to become the winter sun again. #osr

New Carouse, Carouse! This time featuring, among other things, me writing about Over/Under, AI in games (not like that) from Patchwork Paladin, a review of Gorman's Larder by @giantrobottackler.bsky.social and a selection of blog posts, as always! www.carouse.blog/november-202...

Following up on my previous blog post, I dive into the Minimal and Maximal Players and how they can be used to help with TTRPG design. goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

Concept: chess with literally no rules changes but every piece has an elaborate backstory that the player must read before play begins. Sure, it’s easy to sacrifice a faceless nameless pawn, but not so easy when you know about their life story and everything that got them to this war

Trying to shake the writing block, so I wrote up a tiny Mythic Bastionland hack: a quick Reputation roll I lifted from @samseer.bsky.social's Mothership house rule and tweaked slightly. elmc.at/glory-as-rep...

ok here it is NEW BLOG POST! This is the first draft of a template for Sanic Hack prep that should make running the game's vibes easier! Or it won't, I'm not a Doctor. Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/themes... Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/10/them...

First of what I think will be many #over/under blogposts. This one is about how players have a lot more power than they may realize... theplayreports.com/posts/over-u...

Trying to shake the writing block, so I wrote up a tiny Mythic Bastionland hack: a quick Reputation roll I lifted from @samseer.bsky.social's Mothership house rule and tweaked slightly. elmc.at/glory-as-rep...

"Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract — laying off employees, rehiring them at lower wages, intensifying workloads, and normalizing precarity. [...] AI is not the cause of the layoffs but their justification."