One of my childhood friends was in town last night and we played Liars Duel. We had a blast and left with a bunch of notes on how to improve it 🤠

I’ve been working my way through the backlog of Between Two Cairns episodes, and having “Best Books We Haven’t Read Yet” is a solid award category

And if you wanted rules for your hats... +1 to your base stat for wearing an appropriate hat, e.g., bear-skin cap grants +1 Str, cocky little fez grants +1 Int, etc. “Oh crap, my hat!” replaces the “Shields will be Splintered” house rule. wampuscountry.blogspot.com/2012/03/enti...

The Gloggies, the goblin step-brother of the Bloggies, just announced its winners for this year! If you want some gameable ideas for your murky dungeon game, the collection here is awesome. mediumsandmessages.bearblog.dev/the-winners-...

Root and Arcs designer Cole Wehrle, style-defining artist Kyle Ferrin lead staff exodus from Leder Games to form new board game publisher Buried Giant Studios: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... Best of luck to @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social !

Hey, guess what: buriedgiantstudios.com

hi #portfolioday! I'm a videogame designer from Brazil but I also work on my own #TTRPG books and art! My material is filled with references to Latin America! Namely my solo TTRPG system, Dungeons of Galora. I also write a lot of #mausritter adventures! foletto.itch.io #brart

I love this movie

Heyy, it’s my birthday! 🥳 Gift me some ✨inspiration✨ in the form of your favorite game design related blog post

goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/h... Sharing this at a better time of day😎 This Hex Flower is a homage to the classic arcade game Pac-Man. In this case ‘Hac-man’ runs the maze eating pellets and being chased by Ghosts. Can you get past Lv 3? #Pac-Man #PacMan #HexFlower #Hex-Flower #OSR

silverarmpress.com/all-hail-kin... he shall bless us all twelvefold

I have a new blog in the chamber (my notes app) that’s a spiritual sequel to DROPNET, which incorporates a modified Dice Bank and uses more common components Didn’t have time to draw up graphics tonight, but I’m excited and had to say something #AnalogClawMachineEmulator

Took a swing at a modified version of this mapping style for a horror session tonight, incorporating progression triggers into the keyed locations, which were mostly rooms but sometimes hallway spots. Very pleased! Thanks for the blog post and idea :3

having to drive with my windows down at 9pm on January 8th because it’s too warm…

The tiktok algorithm just informed me that something weird I’ve been doing for years is apparently a recent wellness trend I mean it’s cool that it’s improving people’s sleep, but I just think it’s fun to take showers in a windowless pitch black room during the middle of the day #itsDareDevilTime

"Nuance" meaning "cops encountered a situation regular Americans deal with every single day and responded with murderous gunfire"

extremely niche music take: #DannyGo #LittleBig

hey @catshavenolord.itch.io check out timestamp 17:15

Humid Insect Summer

Audrey takes game design lessons from Bluey ladytabletop.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/6... 13/🧵

Toucan’t Blog: At The Edge Of Bulb-Light “What if you could walk from one end of the dungeon all the way to the other without entering a single room? …and how can I make that interesting?”

New Generator: I've taken the dozens of tables I've produced over the years for Magical Items and finally loaded them into a generator to produce new wonders with a single click! blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/magi... #osr #ttrpgs #randomtables

Hey! Turned a home #Mausritter game from last week into a 2 pager. Download #Oneshot for free! Play a #ttrpg during the holidays! blindeduif.itch.io/delivery-del...

on a normal work day, I’m usually up by 4:30am, so being awake for 5hrs means it’s only 9:30am winter break so far has been exhausting so I ended up sleeping until Noon, and being awake for 5hrs means it’s 5:00pm and dark outside… I don’t like this

Two days left for #OnegeonJam! Still time to get your kickass dungeon room in there. Gonna have to do a big round up of what everyone has submitted after it wraps up. Lots of good stuff in there so far. #TTRPG #OSR itch.io/jam/onegeon-...

For anyone curious about the difference between between these two games: “Welcome To Everdell” is a 2-4 player game with cardboard components “My Lil Everdell” is a 1-4 player game with deluxe components, and components/rules for solo play

my wife introduced our daughter to Bananas In Pajamas, and she’s been singing the intro song over and over and over and over—ever since found this drawing she made on the chalkboard in our basement

Bell Daemon ko-fi.com/gaxix Planning 2026 for more new stuff. Thanks, have a good day ✌

🎶 Then one foggy Christmas Eve…

(threateningly) May your days be Merry and Bright

Hey gang, I put up 50 community copies each for solo games VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, and Lighthouse at the End of the World, AND for my two-player game Wayfarer 1. Grab, play, share, enjoy. bannerless.games/voidam bannerless.games/ntm bannerless.games/lighthouse bannerless.games/wayfarer1

Mana Pool

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

D6 Snow Gorillas slide towards you #RandomEncounter

Ernie Bushmiller, 1947

party larva

🎄Seasonal Depression⛄️

literally every news story I read these days, regardless of source has me feeling like

d100 - Where is that Treasure Hidden? A Hundred Hiding Places for those Twinkling Troves blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/d100... #osr #randomtables #ttrpgs

New Dungeon (in blog form): Castle Claus, or The Keep on the North Pole A Rankin Bass Christmas-themed dungeon for the Merry Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. Possibly one of my more high effort blog posts to date #osr #ttrpg

Blog map update! - Added many more blogs - Pulled in more historical post data (Substack, Ghost + others) - Reworked the side-panel stats to be clearer The new data also reshaped the communities. We're at eight now. graph.elmc.at

“5 Room Dungeon”

The entrance to a dungeon (or a new level) should evoke trepidation and demand a tangible commitment to peril. #osr

This is the Thursday-est Tuesday, that has ever Tuesday-ed

Alright, I've been going through this and it's probably my favorite thing I've seen come out of the RPG scene this year. It's detailed, personal, long, and focused on usability. It doesn't require much layout or art, but what's there is good. It makes me want to start playing immediately.

I had some ideas for how to replace darkvision, too: