🧵 One thing I think is neat about D&K is that it pairs an internal difficulty score with external difficulty scores Basically it’s a “roll under your stat” system, but you roll three separate dice An easy task requires one success, medium task requires two successes, and a hard task requires three

Went to the Magic House and made some journals with their sewing machine

you know what, it's been a while, here's a new paper mini jam Art jam where you make small printable creature and character for RPG, wargames and the likes! #rpg #osr #papermini itch.io/jam/paper-mi...

I’m not big on people comparing non-5e games to 5e. I normally hear it pitched towards 5e players offering them an alternative—I’m just not the target audience for that pitch Just recently heard someone describe a game that I like as a “gateway game to 5e” which made me have STRONG opinions

Public Apology: I may have been quick to anger. Turns out the content from the $40 Starter Set is available as a free pdf! No account or email required to access… Whoops 😅 Here’s the Starter Set’s QuickStart, which notably is different than the Free RPG Day QuickStart

Doing a Patreon on a whim. Help support me paying other people (artists, editors, etc…) on future projects. Get all my paid work plus whatever I decide to post on there: dungeons? Art? Monsters? Who knows what will show up? #TTRPG #OSR patreon.com/CatsHaveNoLord

I don’t normally advocate for games that have a $40 starter set that doesn’t include character creation rules, or games that charge $30 for a pdf, or games that charge $50 for the book without a pdf—but the Free RPG Day QuickStart of Dungeons & Kittens is really neat! They should make it a free pdf

I got assigned “The Gladsome Horror” for the Appx. N Jam 2026… 🔮🤔 I need to ponder the orb for this one

A few weeks ago, my friend Habib just released his new Electric Bastionland pamphlet adventure! The adventure is back corporate hell pointcrawl set in an office building. It's free/pwyw! the-occultant.itch.io/welcome-to-h...

I hate it when I think of the perfect one-word name for a TTRPG I’m fiddling around with, and then realize someone beat me to it

Appx. N Jam 2026 by @dankdungeons.bsky.social and @jorphdan.bsky.social starts today! 🙌 Looking forward to read the weird and gonzo #ttrpg #dnd #osr adventures people are making this year. Good luck to those who are participating! You can still join if you're interested! itch.io/jam/appx-n-j...

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This is my first summer working an outside job. Accounting humidity, I think today got up 106°F I was mowing from 6:00am to 2:30pm, then came home and mowed my own lawn for a couple hours It’s 10:00pm and the feels like temp is still 90°F

check out this free #SoloRPG oracle

I heard all of the cool kids were posting their full microRPG in the screenshots #ttrpg ESC with a FRIEND by Me

This is clever If you’re confident then you have a 60% chance of success. If you’re not confident then you have a 35% chance of success. Both options have a 5% chance of something really bad happening The specific wording makes it very intuitive and memorable #ttrpg Don’t Roll 13! by PelleP

It’s going to take me a while to comb through all of these, but I’ll tell you now that this bundle includes: 3 Raccoons In A Spacesuit Axolotl With A Gun Block, Dodge, Parry - A Levelless, Classless, Expansion of Cairn Tiny Dungeon 2e

Loving this one. Definitely going to keep an eye out for the 2027 submission link

Free RPG Day 2026

Free RPG Day: “FIGHT ITEM RUN” #ToucantBlog #FreeRPGDay #FightItemRun #Pokemon

“Fight, Item, Run” is a solid 3 ability score system

If I ever make a skirmish game, climbing and walking would cost the same movement, but transitioning between the two movement types would cost one Narratively that one movement cost would be a grunt or a deep-breathed sigh

Handful of thoughts about queens of the stone age and attacking the character sheet in #osr games! tbr.bearblog.dev/vampyre-of-t...

Why would Bugbears need to have pumpkins for heads? Oh no reason. #art #sketch #acrylic #marker #bugbear #D&D #monster #fantasy #OSR

Just now realizing that ”Pikemen” and “Pikmin” sound so similar… putting a bookmark in this for later creative inspo

Reposting one of my biggest contributions to other sites. #art #RacecarRepost

Anyone know if Dungeon Crawler Carl Totem Cards merch exists? Ideally not randomized booster packs. But I’d love it if you could buy a set of all of the ones mentioned in the books

Horror short film #TheBorrowers #Arrietty #Mausritter

I’m headcanoning that the pumpkins work similar to Oscar the Grouch’s trash can in Elmo in Grouchland

Chronically online? I get paid to touch grass (I’m working as a groundskeeper this summer)

Perhaps there might be other types of pumpkins that bugbears have for heads? Perhaps it goes a bit too silly that way, but then again it's a silly concept to begin with. #art #watercolor #sketch #ink #pumpkin #bugbear #D&D #OSR #monster #fantasy

What’s your favorite middle child pokemon? Mine is Haunter

She tough. She smack

Game Changer TTRPG: Don’t let the players know what system they are playing

My wife and I are hosting twice weekly casual community events at the park to encourage a routine playtime for the neighborhood kids over the summer

Burden Bird for Vaults of Vaarn 2E

Me to me: Don’t be weird. Don’t be weird. Don’t be weird. Me to the parents of my kid’s newest friend: Isn’t it wild how all fabric is either made from plants, plastic, or hair? The parents of my kid’s newest friend: ….What?

I’m a big fan of wizard hats and gnome hats—but friendly reminder that the color, brim size, and overall character silhouette should always be considered when designing pointy hats, ESPECIALLY if you have an American audience

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Any public interest in an Oatchi update for Groundlings? Yochai’s post is tempting me to shirk my responsibilities, and work on my Pikmin hack for Mausritter again

As someone who likes to build decks, this app is very friendly. For being a game that’s 50% card collection, I love that at most you only need 2 copies of a single card to play competitively. If you only have one copy of a trainer card, you can still use it in all 25 decks without disassembling them

accidentally calculated summer break as only 11 Thursdays, and made myself sad

Herein I read the monster manual entries from OD&D in order and try to parse them into groupings and categories that let me use them at the table. Every attempt to read OD&D is some sort of bizarre self mortification ritual. It's not the text itself, it's the grappling with it that's important.

This is the heart of the #osr

here, take this tiny clodsire

Even though I don’t collect physical novels and it doesn’t affect, I was a bit bummed when I realized the stylized Dungeon Crawler Carl covers were mere dust jackets

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

The "Problem of Knowledge" says this: When you know something, you forget what it's like to not know it. Game designers don't know what it's like to not understand the rules (new players). How can they bridge the gap? A 🧵 +

I haven’t charged for most of my work in a while, but I’ve got big plans for something later this year that mean paying an artist, so I’m trying to save up toward that. Putting $2 or more toward this will help make that come true. #TTRPG #OSR

Mausritter expanding into every TTRPG genre