First Burning Gods in the wild!!! @mothership.bsky.social

Calling all players in San Francisco!

I thought about how cool psionics are in roleplaying games. Troika! Tuesday seems to be how it will happen. https://poundsofnothing.blogspot.com/2026/01/psionic-oops-table.html

youtu.be/yeFqakr8u6I?... Super cool adventure from @cairnrpg.com and @lostpages.co.uk Flip through and review from the time I ran it for @magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io and friends. Want to come back to do the rest soon.

flyrefi.itch.io/sword-and-le... I hang out in this discord and was able to do a little art and layout for this cool project. Check it out! Community make thing! #nsr #osr #ttrpg

Mail Day: International Player's Review #1-4 by @golden-achiever.bsky.social from @magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io's recent crowdfund. Stoked to sit down with these this weekend.

Just played my first game of Mythic Bastionland with @watcherdm.com and it was awesome. There were riddles with goblins, a winter duel with a Wight, and a friendly warband of ghostly warriors sworn to protect the realm one last time. Perfection.

The final Missive of 2025 is here! A look back at the year in numbers, the free Annual #3 zine collecting all of this year's freebies in one book, a Mothership blog catchup, and more cool stuff! Check it out: meatcastle.substack.com/p/meatcastle...

New MGG Gazette post is live! In which I roundup TTRPG and OSR writing that inspired me this year, and look ahead to what I’m planning for Magnum Galaxy Games in 2026. magnumgalaxygames.substack.com/p/a-look-bac...

That's one heck of a free resource. I'm checking it out right now.

Gorgeous. Feels like a beautiful Ghibli homage while breathing it's own air. Love the soft colours in contrast with the menace inherent in the images.

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I discuss our favorite module reviews from the year. That's right: it's the Cairnies 2025! www.patreon.com/posts/146425...

less uwu indie publishers, more collectives. Grab a bunch of friends making games similar to yours, make a single social account for promotion, and share the burden of Posting. Bundle them together. Promote each other and do less work at the same time

To make a more engaging hexcrawl draw from Star Trek. Adventure sites and stories based on exploration rather than just finding places to plunder. Sure there will be violence but that violence can stem from misunderstandings as well as textbook evil™️ leading to stories of fixing previous conflicts

Love to see some love for my pals @watcherdm.com. Also one of the more unhinged, laugh out loud intros lately. Kate Mulgrew needs to attend Between Two Cons.

Absolutely beautiful. This is giving me big ideas about doing a bespoke SCI-FI hex crawl with custom hex tiles to go with. And an encounter deck?! Oh man, one day!

If you are a fan of the BlueSky OSR feed Yochai created, that I now manage, please consider donating for its upkeep costs! The service we use has created this convenient page where you can donate directly to paying for the feed’s hosting. blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/save.vs.to...

"Well, I'm back" he said. Over the last three months, I've keyed every hex in the bounds of the Shire, including rumors, nested random encounters, and five embedded mini-dungeons. I've collated them into a document, linked on the blog:

Been following Martin Eden's #osr Blog Club on The Cauldron forums for awhile and this weeks discussion of carousing rules has been a treat. Love Martin and Gus L's suggested improvements and thinking how I could port carousing into @mothership.bsky.social to spice up rest saves.

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common "I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

If you are curious, this is the pamphlet I am reworking and expanding: evlyn.itch.io/the-warren I will eventually upload the redux version there, so people who bought the old version will also get the new one. I am generous like that . :3

Wonderful insights from Nova here when it comes to writing minimalist hacks of more complex systems. I'll be thinking about this as I incorporate Ross Burton's intriguing Liminal Maus into Mausantara for MZ01 Pandan Island. #Mausritter Late pledges for MZ01 opening soon.

One of my favourite newsletters. :-)

I am opening a shop

A new Missive is here! I review @norgad.bsky.social's Mothership module DEAD WEIGHT, drop a house rules FREEBIE for adding Datacaches (inspired by #OVER/UNDER) to your Mothership table, and More Cool #TTRPG Stuff. Check it out: meatcastle.substack.com/p/dead-weigh...

This is so cool. Instantly transported to when I was a kid first discovering my friend's older brothers DND 2e collection. Would love to thumb through and run something for nostalgia's sake. But, with an OSR system lite enough to cut straight to the good stuff. Any recommendations?

This upcoming sculpture at the Barbican in London looks to be good inspiration for dungeon exploration! https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/barbican-to-unveil-giant-plant-covered-clay-pavilion-next-spring-85660/ #osr #NSR #ttrpg #dungeon

I wrote a TTRPG-specific gift guide that isn’t just nice or rpg books you already have or purposely don’t have. If you have well-meaning loved ones who support but don’t necessarily understand your hobby (or if you are that loved one) this may be helpful to share with them #ttrpg #osr #dnd

Creator Day is the best way to support artists directly. All my Mothership Adventures are on sale to celebrate and the bundle is nearly 50% off. Check it out here: itch.io/s/170190/mot...

Hey folks! Eric interviewed me for the newest issue of the International Player's Review. We had a fun time rolling up a character for Classic Traveller, 😁 Issues #1-4 are coming to print for the first time, check 'em out: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

New post on the Magnum Galaxy Gazette: an interview with my long-time collaborator @golden-achiever.bsky.social about design, #OSR RPGs, and his first zine series, The International Player’s Review. Come for the interview, stay for the links!

Headed to PAX Unplugged? Pandemonium Books and Games will have copies of Nirvana on Fire: Expanded Edition for sale at Booth 3701. Check them out if you'll be there! Thanks for setting this up as always @ipr.bsky.social!

Pre-orders for the print version release today. I'm excited to see the sci-fi issue!

Love this. The shadows are terrifying.

So cool to have the excellent @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social of Root and other great board games in on the @mothership.bsky.social train. Awesome portraits, and all released for free. So generous!

One week until The International Player’s Review Annual goes live on backerkit’s Holiday Market. Four issues of @golden-achiever.bsky.social's zine in print for the first time; 100+ pages of tables, short adventures, interviews, comics, and mini-rpgs. Nov 18–Dec 1 only. Free preview in the link!

@golden-achiever.bsky.social and I are taking up to give his old school #osr zines their first ever print run. Limited run launches in two weeks. Check it out!

This week on Ansible Uplink, @norgad.bsky.social joins me to review The Drain, by @ianyusem.bsky.social

In honour of the most appropriate season for @mothership.bsky.social I've put all my adventures for sale itch.io/s/165753/mag.... Go a la carte, or pick up everything at a steep discount! And most of all, enjoy THE HORRRRRROR.

HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid: 203 items for $12.00 itch.io/b/3276/hello... There are 203 items in here for 12 bucks. Expanded edition seven sealed spirits is in there, you should grab this and help people if you are able.

ALERT: A new great sci-fi RPG podcast is live! I accompanied Chris during the dev process and I can tell you this is a space bomb. Go give it a listen!

Stoked to have my @mothership.bsky.social adventures at Essenspiel with @joshuakitz.bsky.social. Wishing a great con to all who celebrate!

Mothership's A Pound of Flesh is my single favorite TTRPG supplement ever, and this year's Mothership Month is a crowdfunding blitz for 27(!!) expansions to it... but I'm getting married next month, so I can't afford to back any. So here's a thread for shouting out those that caught my eye!

every time i sit down to edit the Meatheads megadungeon im accompanied by this doodle of @golden-achiever.bsky.social

Asking with Mothership Month, this is a really exciting RPG project. I love that the one dollar pledge still gets you a cool book. Also, the art looks bangin!

A big shout out to @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social for their artwork - Burning Gods is forever intertwined with this awesome aesthetic. Wouldn't have it any other way!

For the Flatline on the Blocks pre-launch, all followers can nab a free digital copy of the postcard adventure, Sabotage on Sater's Redemption. Not only that, we're running a raffle to win physical copies! Follow the campaign to fill out the survey: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... 1/2

Well, this is exciting.

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