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🐉✨ Is the OSR is eating its own tail? From Into the Odd to Cairn & Mausritter, the “Oddlike” wave feels more FKR than ever. What if fiction & trust were always the hobby’s true core? Read in RPG Gazette: where rules fade & stories shine. #ttrpg #OSR #IntoTheOdd #FKR

The Daily Show reminded us in the montage below how Netanyahu has LIED about the "imminent" threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons since 1995. Netanyahu has for years wanted US to bomb Iran. In Trump, Netanyahu simply found a moron who believed him:

What’s your idea of the perfect OSR campaign? (Map by me. Watercolor and ink on paper)

May 10: (Phase II+) Both sides mobilize troops. Op Bunyan al-Marsus: claimed cyber-attack. Three Indian airbases targeted, minor damage. India attacks 9-12 PAF airbases, possible nuke storage site. Minor-moderate damage. Pakistan NCA meets. US gets alarming intel, presses end. 3/end

Me and my coworkers the last 3 hours of work today.

suppression of enemy space defenses

Fox News tuff guys. Reminds me of that time Secretary Whiskey Pete threw an axe over the safety wall and mangled somebody: youtu.be/pMrVdFnjEjs?...

Just finished the excellent #HouseOfTheRainKing by @gnipahellir.bsky.social. What an amazing debut novel. Anyone with an interest in mythology or #OSR #TTRPGs should go read it ASAP. Thanks for the recommendation @throneofsalt.bsky.social

you aren't supposed to be here

Behold, The Lands of the Great Powers who hold back the Foetid Dark. This highly requested map of the world of Trench Crusade was illustrated by the incomparable Jared Blando! #trenchcrusade #trenchcrusadelore

Ubisoft Brazil gets top notches for the way they went full tokusatsu marketing for Assassin's Creed Shadows

The biggest barrier to entry to making a board game is the components. This may already be a thing but I’m not into the #boardgames community to know it, but there seems like a big opportunity for a DIY board game renaissance: write board games using lingua franca components

Filth. Pure filth.

Printed some of @castlegrief.bsky.social's OSR zines this weekend

The United States Space Force released an image taken from the orbiting Boeing X-37B military spacecraft. The release was made on the DoD media sharing site DVIDS.

I printed the original 3 OD&D booklets + Chainmail (and Reference Sheets). It’s not amazing print quality, but works perfectly as table reference and to read through. I much prefer something printed vs a PDF. These will join me on my Europe trip. #ODnD #DnD #ttrpg #OSR #ttrpgs

I've released the Outdoor Survival Scaffolder - a tool that automatically generates lairs, monsters and treasure based off the terrain of the classic OD&D wilderness map! It's still WIP, but has been an enormous undertaking so far - I hope it's of use! chaoclypse.itch.io/outdoor-surv...

Something always missing from ultra-streamlined little OSR rules is the unmatched vibe you get from having absurd phrases like “save versus death ray” and “constitution adjustment” written on a character sheet.

Yochai posted about leaving Bluesky on his blog. It is gracious, sensible, and says everything that needs to be said: newschoolrevolution.com/blue-skies-a... Again: this is a loss to TTRPGsky.

Do good, don't spread hate, love the community. I don't know everything that's happening/happened but Yochai is the kind of man who goes above and beyond for the community. All of his digital Cairn products are creative commons and made accessible to people with disabilities on his website.

Great blogpost with tips on OSR RPG play: newschoolrevolution.com/basic-osr-pr...

Yochai is one of the best, most community-oriented persons in OSR-and-adjacent spaces. He'll do his work elsewhere. His departure isn't a loss to him, but to TTRPGs here on Bluesky. You fucking idiots. PS: go sign up for the Between Two Cairns patron: www.patreon.com/c/betweentwo...

Boy I hope y'all are happy. I hope y'all sleep so soundly tonight. So proud of yourselves for driving a good guy off this platform. A member of a marginalized community. A person excited to share his culture with you. Yochai Gal deserves better than us. #osr #nsr #ttrpg

I’ve missed what happened since yesterday when it first started, so I can’t comment on details, but there’s just no way Yochai deserved whatever was said that led him to leave here. He’s done so much to help create space for a positive #OSR community without the shitheads that are the real problem.

Oh man - people dog piling and bullying someone off this website and justifying it as antifascist action over what is AT WORST a momentary lapse of judgment makes me really re-think whether I want to be on this site at all

Before Yochai left Bluesky he posted a bunch of OSR game running advice. I happen to have taken a lot of what he said and rewrote it to share with my players. So, here is a kina sorta preservation of those missing skeets in🧵 form:

People suck. The OSR community on Bluesky is a worse place today than it was yesterday now that Yochai left.

I don't normally post about scene drama, because at this point in my life, I just can't bring myself to give enough of a shit. But that people got (so!) mad at Yochai for linking to a Questing Beast review of his adventure — inspired by his Jewish heritage no less — is some fucking weak sauce.

I have republished Yochai’s OSR feed, which I was the co-moderator of. Should be working exactly as it was before.

You can’t stop bad people who share nominally similar interests to you from existing online. You can however make it harder to find good spaces by making it miserable for decent people to do community work on popular websites.

Yochai was the first person ever to share one of my blog posts. It was a huge early confidence boost & I owe him a debt of gratitude. He does a hell of a lot for this hobby community & I think he deserved a lot better.

Between Two Cairns is one of the best TTRPG podcasts on the Internet and both of those people have contributed more to the TTRPG/osr space than I have. They deserve a couple of my dollars, at the very least.

Yochai Gal does more community building and work to make the scene inclusive than just about anybody. We should do better

If you want to make money in this thruppenny hobby, the Hand Guy’s endorsement means a lot. I don’t like or support him, and I don’t want him to have that power, so I do the work of replacing him. Instead of accusations or gossip, maybe do the work, or support people who are. 1/🧵

I remember being in OSR spaces online when that meant sharing those spaces with ZS. I was reluctant to share my own work. It sucked. The blossoming of OSR creativity since then has been incredible. Yochai is largely responsible for creating spaces that have helped usher that in.

a bunch of fucking assholes, after all the fucking work yochai put in, he was the best of us y'all who decide useless righteous rage is more important than fostering community and diversity in the hobby, you give the OSR a bad rep, too

Critique Navidad, @northernstranger.bsky.social! Today I’m looking at He Ain’t Gonna Jump No More! A hex crawl based on Wolves Upon the Coast set during the Normandy Landings! Does it stick the landing, or go down in flames? playfulvoid.game.blog/2024/12/28/c... #osr

New Mare Ignis video teasing a Shackleton Report release on Christmas #mareignis #analoghorror #ksp #projectorion youtu.be/WBkuxdCKMEs

Vallejo Acrylics workers on indefinite strike. English translation in the thread #wargaming #miniaturepainting #warhammercommunity #warhammer #oldworld #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings www.viaempresa.cat/es/empresa/9...

undead critters #rpg #osr #bestiary

Every OSR argument I've ever witnessed feels ripe for an angry Greek man to appear with a plucked chicken ready to make his point.

It's here. #wh40k #roguetrader #wargaming #ttrpg

Bringing #TONKS on the road

An article by @traversefantasy.bsky.social got me thinking about Zelda-style ❤️s in #OSR #TTRPG play. underwaterowlbear.github.io/2024/02/03/h...

Shortly before TTRPG designer Jennell Jaquays died, OSR blogger Justin Alexander, who once named Jennell's dungeon drawing techniques after her, started trying to erase her legacy, and rename that style after himself. I reject Justin's bad faith arguments for this, and celebrate Jaquaysian design.

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