i'm seeing plenty of male gaze but a shameful lack of male gays in Deathbringer. where my himbos at?

300 words is a great limit to impose on writing for an OSR dungeon room.

we love to see play reports!

an Apocalypse World podcast syllabus. Listen and learn as you clean the dishes, do your laundry, or drive somewhere! edmocat.bearblog.dev/edmos-apocal...

Another Elmcat banger!

Classic Traveller on the brain. My newsletter has been slowly transforming into a promo + development diary, but I'm eventually going to put out a blog (or something) with all this sector info + notes.

The #dnd wisdom my teenage self spent too much time searching for. www.valerialoves.com/a-sickos-gui...

I've been working a set of rules for a solo game of Violence by @lukegearing.bsky.social where you have to fight each week to pay the bills. Of course stuff will change before it's done but it has been quite fun to make!

As Vice Reeve of the Baying Hog Pit I challenged my hogs to think of as many entries as possible for a I Loot the Body table. Over the course of one week they came up with fun, interesting, silly, and downright strange entries. Check it out here! yakamo.blot.im/1d434-i-loot...

IF YOU WANNA PLAY SOME WILD ASS SHIT IN MY BUDDY'S DAY OF BIRTH, YOU SHOULD RIP INTO THIS SHIT AND TELL EM I SENT YOU rat-bastard-games.itch.io/hypermall-un...

Featuring crowdfund best practices: - just making a cool book - realistic pricing & funding goal

I keep thinking about a hypothetical GM who's trying to earnestly run this folk horror game only for one of the players to respond to threatening situations by shouting "I WHIRLWIND ATTACK WITH MY GUN"

Let's Eat!!!!!!!! Go Buy!!!! yyakamo.itch.io/lets-eat Let's Eat!!!!!!! Go Read Dev Log!!!! yakamo.blot.im/lets-eat-par...

I updated rootring again On the rootr.ing/latest page posts now show when they: - are linked by another blog on the ring - link to another post from a blog on the ring

Another blog in the rootr.ing! @elmc.at unites us in the electrons of 1996.

Have you heard the good news? Once again it’s time to preach the gospel of the ttrpg webring (specifically Elmcat’s rootring)

Just £100 away from hitting £2k! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

talking about one-shots and campaign play, and how the one-shot intersects with different play styles edmocat.bearblog.dev/its-about-ti...

Updated the feed views on rootr.ing. posts are now easier to scan, and grouped by date Hope this makes it more useful

Thank you, Sam Kieth. RIP

Blogpost: I've often mentioned the local meetup I run in conversations on here and elsewhere. Now, after 3 years, here's an overview of how I did it and what we've been playing. pointlessmonument.blot.im/60-systems-a...

Wow, this book rocks. I've been missing Over/Under a lot recently so it's been fun to visit a new, very big corner of the Dream as I do a bit of proofreading on this.

This is a beautiful thing; there’s few things in the hobby cooler than sharing it with someone new and them having a great time.

Some more friends and I have gathered to start a second, bigger bundle to help fund the move of our dear friend @cosmic-chill.bsky.social out of her situation in Australia. We've got up to 12 items for you in this bundle at various purchase tiers. All support is appreciated. itch.io/b/3590/mayas...

Have been working on a new project for blog discovery. It's now live! Check out rootr.ing! A new small hub and webring for ttrpg blogs. Read about here: elmc.at/rootring-is-...

Day 1 of Dragoons resolved!!! It took me about two hours, hoping that'll decrease as people submit fewer longer orders over time, and also as I get more used to the process. Really excited to run three months of this wargame, and get some good workflow practice in for Solar later this year.

a feral creature (complimentary)

Apologies to all of Hannah's customers! Something exciting is happening. Be a part of it ⤵️

I know, I know, I keep talking about the Bloggies. But I built an archive of all the past Bloggies Awards. If that's your kind of thing, take a look! You can also grab yearly OPML files of all nominees for your RSS reader. bloggies.org

Leonardo Donatello Michelangelo Casey Jones

Don't wanna pester folks too much, but I've been homeless for the last year and we're currently fundraising to get me over to somewhere I'll have safe housing and can finally start living a better life. Gofundme: gofund.me/75d904432 @lukegearing.bsky.socials adventure: itch.io/b/3536/mayas...

Millie was a foundational element of fostering the community in #over/under and it should come with no surprise that the person behind her is even better at it. Maya's been in a rough spot for far too long, and still has been spending most of that time looking out for others. If you can, please help

You can pick up the adventure discussed in the post here: lukegearing.itch.io/glass-men Proceeds are going towards getting one of the dolls out of a tight spot. Pay what you can, or donate directly to the fundraiser linked on the page.

Glass Men is an adventure module about a girl called Honey and what a fragile, brittle, cruel man did to her. One of its 4 varient covers was made by me. You can read a full break down of how I designed it here: thegardenbelow.blot.im/depicting-vi... Heed the content warnings on this one folks.

Juniper has taken the RPG blogging scene by storm, and this is another great piece. All I can say is go read it and go pick up Glass Men, not necessarily in that order.

excited to get stuck in and test Pixel and Paper! I prefer to write in markdown, so this could be a game changer for me.

Four days in, and 53 nominated Bloggies posts have already been read and recorded by wonderful authors and volunteers, then published on the We Read The Bloggies podcast. Truly incredible!

I’ll forever be thinking about O/U and all the brilliant things that game did for me and my place in the hobby, and all the strange things it did *to me*. Cant wait to read every word Lin writes about it, and you should read too.

talk at me please let me know what you think please yell at me yakamo.blot.im/how-should-w...

banger banger banger

a mechanic out of context -- is the Mothership d100 under-designed? should GM advice be rules? Is this just a gap between cultures of play? edmocat.bearblog.dev/a-mechanic-o...

Make the lizardth kith!!

A new player is entering the fray this week for my office Cairn campaign which means I've added another new ancestry bonus over on the blog - THE MANCAT: meatcastlegameware.com/blog/2026/1/...

F the 💿🐴!!! elfgames are not praxis!

great players make GMs better, and that's never been more true in my experience than the Cloud Empress session we played yesterday.

I wrote a theory post. Don't worry, I paid taxes at the end. newschoolrevolution.com/turning-the-...

hell yes

5 Game Things I want to make/finish in 2026: - revised/improved version of my Cloud Empress Winter Jam location - RPG blog of my own… with posts - progressing the players of my Mythic Bastionland PbP through Seasons and Ages - several new game jam entries - a Cairn conversion for my friend’s zine

Started up a Mythic Bastionland PbP campaign with some #over/under friends. Thought I'd post some very sketchy prelim character work for my knight, Sir Gauwyn the Key Knight. #sketching #ttrpg #MythicBastionland #inkdrawing

The newest Missive includes TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE DATACACHE, a Mothership freebie inspired by my time playing #OVER/UNDER last month, that lets you easily add datacaches, intel ops, counterintel, and tokens to your own space stations. Plus, more cool stuff: meatcastle.substack.com/p/dead-weigh...