In the same way California Sober means you avoid drugs except for weed, California Vegetarian means you avoid meat except for human flesh

It cracks me up that the city supplement for Jorune, Companion Ardoth, has almost a full page dedicated to the law firms, including scrappy defense attorneys and civil rights firms. This suggests the possibility of a weird Matlock style Jorune campaign.

Doing some fiddling with the implications of overland travel in a #ttrpg where players can fly tbr.bearblog.dev/goodbye-hexe...

Ttrpg discourse is so silly; I can’t believe we spent last month debating whether or not adventures should include more of these:

d100 - Where Does Lamp Oil Come From? One Hundred Ideas for the Origins of those Flammable Flasks blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/05/d100... #osr #randomtables #ttrpgs

In the 7th session of our B1 campaign, the party engages in skullduggery & subterfuge with enemy goblins & encounters the "demon worm" of Quasqueton:

HALT. Submit to inspection! The Joesky Tax is your responsibility to include something gameable at the end of every theorypost or hot take. If this checkpoint exposes you as having BLOGGED without paying the tax, you are required to go pay it NOW

Watch/listen/telepathically absorb every episode today!

Another Reptile God observation is that I also begin all my personal correspondence with “Much has happened in my life since we fought side by side in the Troll Wars”

How many parties of neerdowell adventures playing through Against the Cult of the Reptile God simply head to the moneychanger’s house, take out the two guards and walk away with a cool 22,958 gold then skip the whole dangerous dungeon part?

I did an actual play of a forthcoming adventure for OSE month! I don’t watch actual plays much myself but this does have a very climactic conclusion (I think it may be in 3 parts and this is part 1 of 3). Go watch it!

Did you know that Electric Bastionland had a 1st party adventure released for it? It did, and it's excellent (and short). Here is my review (also short, but is it excellent? I leave that to a future metareview) #osr #ttrpg

(I’ve missed the last few rounds of discourse while drinking on the beach and I will not catch up) I’m not bothered by rules lawyering because I can simply defeat the rules lawyers if they try it. Not by pointing to the rules themselves either, I’ll start getting Euclidean on them

The best proof of the small and irrelevant nature of the TTRPG industry is that Bethesda, which has contented itself to re-re-release Skyrim in every conceivable form for the prior 15 years, has never licensed a Skyrim TTRPG (compatible with 5e, of course).

More WIP on my Boot Hill Reboot, this time focusing on the hand-to-hand combat rules, just on my patreon for now #osr #ttrpg

Early draft post for Patreon: I describe Boot Hill's kludgy initiative system and re-design it to fulfill similar goals without so much Gygaxian (derogatory) nonsense #osr #ttrpg

Today marks the 6th anniversary of me discovering the OSR by way of UVG!

Hi, if you recently received from FedEx a box containing about 35 books about some type of “Prismatic Wasteland” and found me via googling but what you were actually expecting was a Premium Feather Pillow Insert, the good news is that I have your pillow and am willing to trade

Blogwagon Roundup! 50 blogposts all about maps, including a few adventures that use the same map (from @amandalee.bsky.social) in totally different ways #osr #ttrpg

Evidence that I have terminal TTRPG brain, exhibit 1000: Roll under your SERENITY score when you attempt to accept the things they cannot change Roll under your COURAGE score when you attempt to change the things they can Roll under your WISDOM score when you attempt to know the difference

Very interesting project for OSR folks to follow along as it develops

A preview of a blog post that I meant to write right after PAXU but just got around to, inspired by my alcohol-stuffed backpack bursting open just as I was trying to head to the convention center (I promise this is actually game-related). Just for patrons for now www.patreon.com/posts/blog-p...

Bluesky CENSORED me yesterday by just fucking up and not working, but here is a new blog post where I propose a procedural method for generating hexcrawl terrain, inspired by both Mausritter and the original DMG #osr #ttrpg

Sneezing a lot around a well-mannered cleric until they run out of spell slots

New Blogpost: Play Is Canon What are the sources of "truth" about the world of your tabletop setting? For me, the paramount truth derives from play itself. This is my synthesis of blorb and anti-canon. #osr #ttrpg

Exalted Order of the Mystic Moose! A Maple Syrup Flavored Forestcrawl for Cairn by @jacobmarks.bsky.social is now available on my webstore! www.prismaticwasteland.com/shop/p/exalt...

Admire my brick rootr.ing/brickwall

I’m not usually into miniatures but these from @ageofage.bsky.social were too cool to pass up. Just in time for Easter!

I know a dnd monster when I see one. Need stats for a Billiken

Blog post preview about procedurally generating a hexcrawl. The final version will have an actual map of the example hex map, but that's something for Weekend Warren to work on. www.patreon.com/posts/chain-...

Social media (even this one) suck. Here is a home page to read a bunch of blogs instead

Two versions of the same book? Terrible idea!

Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like story games and OSR! Or 5e and OSR! Or board games and OSR! Or OSR and other OSR! Damn OSR, they ruined the OSR!

I should really play this game. Too bad I’m traveling Kanto for the 1000th time with my limited video game time these days

Small blog preview on the patreon about the tiers of truth in games (as always, it'll pop up on the blog proper at some point)

I miss when each class level in D&D had a different title

I think they’re busy

I rate every room in White Plume Mountain (X out of 5 Stars) and explain why each room does, or does not, work and how you can take these lessons into designing your own dungeons, be they of the funhouse variety or not #osr #ttrpg

If you ask someone how Into the Odd has streamlined their games, they will probably mention removing the "to hit" roll and just rolling damage. I blasphemously ask the question: can we re-incorporate accuracy and missed attacks with Into the Odd without turning it into a major slog? #osr #ttrpg

I look at my phone and see two new emails from Nintendo and my heart sinks. Then I see what they’re for: to confirm my purpose of Fire Red on the Switch. Phew

Pokémon Is OSR. Yes, seriously #osr #ttrpg #pokemon

Catch ‘Em All while you can! In commemoration of the 30th anniversary, I’m heistfunding a Poképocalyptic game based on Into the Odd. I call it INTO THE ODDISH! You can pre-order it now (until ???) #ttrpg #pokemon #osr

Catch ‘Em All while you can! In commemoration of the 30th anniversary, I’m heistfunding a Poképocalyptic game based on Into the Odd. I call it INTO THE ODDISH! You can pre-order it now (until ???) #ttrpg #pokemon #osr

Already two of my posts eliminated in the first round bloodbath (and so many of my favorites also eliminated by the fierce competition). Go vote! Specially vote for “Monster, Maiden, Madonna, Medusa” in the critique category; it’s one of my best written posts imo Links to voting and favs below

Go vote for my posts! I think I’m in all non-advice categories (because I only give bad advice, like “go vote for my posts”) www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-202...

Blog Preview is up on the Patreon, talking about Pokémon and its similarity to the OSR playstyle. You can check it out (and lots of other as of yet unpublished posts) for the cost of a cup of coffee in like 1960 ($1) #osr #ttrpg

Dragonball Z does NOT pass the Bechdel Test

“Meme lord” is a modern one-for-one translation of “philosopher king”