My five posts about The Seven-Part Pact have been nominated for Best Series at this year's Bloggie Awards. You can now listen to all of them at We Read The Bloggies. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...

i was super inspired by @knightattheopera.bsky.social and @forlornencystment.bsky.social’s posts about mapping to incorporate similar dynamics into my pirate game and i felt the best way in my context was to make maps and mapping into a resource 🗺️ traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2026/02/stat...

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Hwæt, readers of blogs! The time is at hand! Arm yourselves for this great battle of good (post I liked) versus evil (post I didn't really like (no offense, Sam))!

My five posts about The Seven-Part Pact have been nominated for Best Series at this year's Bloggie Awards. You can now listen to all of them at We Read The Bloggies. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...

My 2nd episode of We Read the Bloggies is up, a recording of my post "Look Before You Leap." I'd like to thank my D&D players for volunteering to read my dreadful script for your entertainment. Please enjoy this bit of amateur theatre with a side of theory slop. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...

The Bloggies Nominees are here! We are 1 week away from voting, so I need everyone's help spreading the word. Congrats to all the nominees and blogs submitted—this last year was incredible. Forming the lists was equal parts rewarding and painful. www.explorersdesign.com/this-years-b...

I wrote up some thoughts on this a while ago: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/the-mapping-... In general, I'm one of the weirdos who like the painstaking process of player-mapping & calling out room dimensions, for the reasons given in the post.

Hijacking this strat today knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/02/navi...

N is for "NPC," a term we've often used interchangeably with "monster" which I think is very funny and cool for us as a hobby. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/01/n-mo...

Puzzle Dungeon Jam was super fun and busy. I talk about the experience and looking at the wonderful submissions with so many awesome guests. #osr #ttrpg puzzledungeon.com/a-look-back-...

In tabletop rpg design, sometimes gameplay doesn't come from the mechanics we add, but the ones we omit. www.explorersdesign.com/dominant-mec...

A fun fact a lot of people don't know about me is that I studied journalism in college ~ Anyways I always encourage people to practice media literacy (ex; ask "why is this disparate pull quote so far from its context?") when reading ~ So here's a thread of some basics I learned!

Putting the M's in Monster Manual amirite fellas hahaha hell yeah knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/01/m-mo...

Listen, I get it. You're about to see "The Bloggies" all over your feed and it's going to get real old real quick. That's why you can mute it on BlueSky and bookmark the official page. I made it so you can still participate without losing your mind. Submissions are officially open til Jan 31st.

Got to chat with Warren D of I Cast Light about dungeons both "mega" and "puzzle." Puzzle Dungeon Workshop continues with feedback for Forgotten Shrin 01 by David Garrett. youtu.be/irtxnbHC_4g?...

Rose Playing Games, the only tabletop RPG video series hosted by two Roses, is now on Youtube!

Ark Defender was our 2nd project. Another heavily overhauled old school project. It remains closer to the initial idea though. Sort of a mix of FTL: Faster Than Light & Asteroids. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om1h... #roguelike #indiedev #gamedesign #indiegames #indiegame #IndieGameDev #2dgame

Sure, you know about Vancian Magic, but what about Jackian Magic? (Someone please finish this design.) www.explorersdesign.com/jackian-magic/

You still have plenty of time to write a hex (or two) for Hexmas 2025! The map of current entries so far is below and here is a link with all you need to know about the prompt #osr #ttrpg www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/blogwag...

Probably my last post for 2025. A little look at one of my earliest attempts at homebrewing RPG content. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/12/arch...

New Puzzle Dungeon Workshop for a new puzzle dungeon. Arnold K helps me give feedback on Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between by Jesse Winter. Thank you <3 Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwnG... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7qE8SA9...

As a first year blogger, I've keep notes on jokes and trends. Its all culminated in this post! Thanks to @elmc.at's graph work and @linkskywalker.bsky.social's Flux Space, I got the motivation I needed to create the Blogosphere Flux. #blog #fluxspace #community theplayreports.com/posts/blogos...

Blogging again, this time discussing stealth rolls in #OSR games. Give this method a try next time you run OSE, Cairn or some other Dungeon Door Adventure game, I think it's a good technique.

Puzzle dungeon design school with aid @knightattheopera.bsky.social puzzledungeon.com/mastering-th...

I discussed some thoughts and feelings i have about @rrookstudio.bsky.social's excellent Sherwood. It's a game of pseudo-historical banditry that borrows a lot from Classic Traveller and takes some delightful and innovative departures. I don't discuss those here.

Cyber Monday Sale! 20% off Mischief & Mayhem Studio games 28th through 1st!

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

@directsun.bsky.social Invited me onto his podcast talking about Puzzle Dungeons and it was real fun. Give it a listen. Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...

I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out: www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...

Happy birthday to my blog knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/11/happ...

We need more puzzle dungeons! This is my siren call to creators. Make a dungeon with help thus November. itch.io/jam/puzzle-d...

My friend Directsun is on a mission to get more people creating Zelda-style puzzle dungeons. Give his blog a read and let him talk you into it: puzzledungeon.com/puzzle-dunge...

All our games, Tower Alchemy (mix to unlock towers), Ark Defender (survive in a hostile galaxy), They Dug Too Deep (defeat unleashed swarms), & Doomed Stars (become the empire ender), are part of the #SteamAutumnSale! #indiedev #indiegames #indiegame #IndieGameDev #2dgame

Barkeep on the Borderlands is in its 2nd printing! It is now perfect bound with a spine and has much more consistent colors in the interior. To celebrate, the next ~50 orders of Barkeep or the Barkeep Bundle will also come with a random autographed “print proof” page #osr #rpg

Our game, Tower Alchemy, is 50% off for the #SteamAutumnSale! It’s a classic #towerdefense game with a twist. Mix & match basic towers to unlock anything from laser cannons to holy storms! #indiedev #indiegames #indiegame #IndieGameDev #2dgame

hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ? i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme! gofund.me/394dc2e93

My lawyer @prismaticwasteland.com has cleared me of any liability for sharing this meme edit I made:

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

Redux of an old post of mine that was borderline unreadable, but which had a nugget of wisdom worth salvaging. There are two totally different types of hexcrawl and nobody else seems to have pointed this out before. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

Two more Monster Manual posts, for the letters K and L. Some of the best letters in the whole book, honestly. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/08/k-mo... knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/08/l-mo...

📰 NEW MINDSTORM POST! 📰 I've thought a lot about what makes good worldbuilding, and the most consistent throughline seems to come down to one thing: being an absolute sicko about it. Here's a post about it, including some interviews from other designers. www.mindstormpress.com/sicko-worldb...

Last year I started a series going through the Monster Manual and talking about each monster with my brother Ben. In case you missed them, here's H, I, and J: knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/09/h-mo... knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/08/i-mo... knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/08/jack...

Hey, did you know I have a blog? I don't talk about it a lot, and I probably post to it even less - but I've talked about things like my experiences with Jay Dragon's games, the math behind balancing encounters, bothering people to go try new games and more. More things coming soon.

If you've just started following me since Blogs on Tape got going: hi, hello, how are ya. Here's some other stuff of mine to look at, now that Blogs on Tape is done: I publish Errant: www.killjester.com/errant I've got a blog: www.paperspencils.com I've got a stupid homepage: www.linkskywalker.com

Seven-Part Pact Director: David Lowery Necromancer: Andy Serkis (in mo-cap obv) Hierophant: Forest Whitaker Warlock: Ralph Ineson Mariner: Mark Rylance Faustian: Dev Patel Sorcerer: Ralph Fiennes Sage: Tilda Swinton Necromancer's apprentice: Emma D’Arcy King: Ian McShane Devil: Tom Waits

The myth of the free market makes us think that jumping ship without life preserver is the right choice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_V....

I always enjoy Thomas Manuel's interviews (he's one of the best interviewers in the biz), but the one with Emily Allen in the latest Yes Indie'd podcast was especially compelling. open.spotify.com/episode/4h39...

Level design for life, game designers are NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Game Design vs Level Design, by Dwiz.) (I might be going slightly insane from writing all these little intro posts) blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/07/23/e...

Silly post about board game opinions. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/07/boar...