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...

Now with an improved graphic! prismaticweekly.substack.com/p/ennies-goo...

If you haven't voted yet, please vote HIS MAJESTY THE WORM #1 for Best Rules and Best Game vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/in...

ENNIE Award Voting is now live! Hero Forge Kitbashing has been nominated for the Best Aid/Accessory - Digital category, so if you've enjoyed leveling up your character creation with Kitbashing, please consider voting using the link below! LINK: vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/

Our games are on #SteamSummerSale! Get them now or #wishlist for later. In Ark Defender defend from evil aliens, cults & more; in They Dug Too Deep fight unleashed swarms; Mix towers to defend a city in Tower Alchemy; or consume a star empirein Doomed Stars! store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...

The post-OSR blogosphere (and the wider rpg blog ecosystem) has been buzzing about two very different games that one might initially associate with OSR-heads. I’m not sure either has detailed rules about torches at all. I roundup the recent posts about Seven-Part Pact and Daggerheart #osr #ttrpg

Rare post about discourse. Warning: shameless OSR circlejerking and Ram-bait. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/07/brok...

So, His Majesty the Worm is in the news, but have I talked to you about Under Hill, By Water recently? Under Hill, By Water is a game about halflings who don't want no adventures, thank you! On Bundle of Holding with Worm, NOW. $15 for everything! bundleofholding.com/presents/His...

Final wizardpost is about 7PP's alternative to the Game Master model of Authority. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/07/seven-part-pact-authority.html

I'm becoming keenly aware of the factors that lead a project into Development Hell. It's both fascinating and concerning to see it from the inside. I've been writing my own RPG for a _minute_, and every time I get back into it, the rabbit hole deepens.

Today's wizardpost is about 7PP's philosophy towards the role of rules, and of the joy of Consequences. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/07/seve...

If you are in the EU check out #stopkillinggames www.stopkillinggames.com " 'Stop Killing Games' is a consumer movement started to challenge the legality of publishers destroying video games they have sold to customers." If you are not consider spreading the word! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEVB...

Today's wizardpost is about 7PP's rules for Combat, which admittedly aren't a huge part of the game, but I'd hate for them to be lost amidst the rest of its deluge of ideas and innovations. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/07/seven-part-pact-combat.html

Instead of penalizing being overencumbered, what if there was a reward to carrying fewer items than your capacity? Would this make encumbrance tracking something players want to do instead of a chore? Read the thought experiment #osr #ttrpg

More wizardposting: today's post is about 7PP's rules for Companions. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/06/seve...

Spending this week blogging about cool game design found in The Seven-Part Pact, Jay Dragon's extremely ambitious wizardgame. Up first is a post about TIME. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/06/seve...

finally published #CINCO, my homebrew heartbreaker! my goal was to isolate the character-driven subculture of 5E from the mechanical cruft of that game's rules, making smth more streamlined and dare i say fun 🙂‍↕️💖 featuring gorgeous art by @nornnoszka.bsky.social!! traversefantasy.itch.io/cinco

Read the latest by @knightattheopera.bsky.social, and went back and re-read parts of the initial post I've been doing Side Initiative, Randomized for so long and it works well. But Speed Sandwich, with the "AC is your target", seems really really appealing to me now Torn on whether to jump ship...

Another follow-up to my only good post. I'm going all in on the one-hit-wonder trajectory. Warning: sloppy and unedited and full of questionable opinions. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...

The final chapter of the Designing Dungeons course is out now. THIS MEANS THE COURSE IS NOW COMPLETE! The Designing Dungeons Course is a free, step-by-step online resource to create a fantasy dungeon, complete with workbook and exercises. dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games

Game design sickos all have the same origin story: once upon a time, they get annoyed at something in a game they like, so they try changing one small rule. This was mine. This post is old now, written with hilariously misplaced confidence. But I can't help but be fond of it, still. Thanks, Nick.

“a feminist constellation”, three small essays (?) in one - patriarchy & social reproduction - degrowth feminism - from LGBT to FGT trying to gesture towards a bigger feminist vision than what current discourse allows traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-fe...

Almost exactly a year since posting the Big List of Initiative Methods, I've updated it. About 20 new methods (some quite major!), and a lot of restructuring. Here's an addendum addressing common responses and some decisions I made. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/06/ever...

You probably know how languages in D&D work: pretty much everyone speaks “Common” but there are also a smattering of languages different ethnic groups speak like Elvish and Dwarven. For this to make sense, it tells us something about the implied setting of D&D #ttrpg #osr #dnd

Can't sleep, so I'm sharing my new post, about daylight, at midnight. #OSR #initiative

Shamelessly piggybacking this to share my submission to last year's LEGO jam, which is one of my favorite RPG projects I've ever made. Highly recommend getting in on this, especially if you've never done a game jam before. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/07/summ...

A good ol' fashion blog post about applying OSR theory to a specific technique of play, just like mom used to make. directsungames.blogspot.com/2025/06/magi...

I'm not going to keep up the Lorde thing for this whole album cycle, but I'll do one post about the new single: (re)read this essay today. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Introduc...

Sunday, I had the pleasure of playing The Seven Part Pact with @jdragsky.bsky.social, Alan of @unicyclegames.bsky.social, @knightattheopera.bsky.social, @luckoftheharbor.com, and a few other folks I haven't found on here yet. Partake of wizard madness. iknowadamseats.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-da...

The Shapeshifter's Duel: a short story about my experience playing The Seven-Part Pact, created by @jdragsky.bsky.social knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...