Anyone wanna link me to their favourite dungeon procedure? The old-man-ier the better

Hi! I'm Hodag RPG. I'm a 4x Ennie Winning Illustrator and Gamesmaker, originally from Wisconsin. Anti AI. I do Black & White Interior illustrations for OSR and NSR projects! I love Star Wars, DC Comics and Pokémon alot. I hate bullies, bigots and jabronis. Trad Games🤝 Progressive Everything Else

Seriously, Feedly+Bear Blog(or Blot if you're a document hoarder like me) can replace a whooooole lotta internet

In the Troika ecosphere, gamins have replaced the spot orcs and goblins would fill in other (lesser) games. So far not a single player has blinked.

Pressure! Pressure! Pressure!

This is 99.9% serious! Promise I wont go near the setting

Hey @cubicle7games.bsky.social , can you loan me the rules expression copyright of WFRP1? Pretty-please.

Who wants a Warhammer Fantasy RP 1e retro clone? Cos I do

Palladium had Star Wars figs, Steve Jackson has Munchkin. Basically, we need to develop our own slightly embarrassing cash cow.

If you had an RSS feed you'd already know about this! How To Win Troika. www.dsell.me/civic-virtue...

Someone tell Feedly that I need a way to auto-banish dead blogs! I can't rummage through the post-apocalypse all day, im a busy guy

New Sam art? YES please

hollywood IP TTRPGs are still super dumb. Reddit "no OC" philosophy bleeding into real life

Anyone used Magma for online games? Used to use It when it was agarrio and it was great. If not, any no log-in collaborative whiteboards to recommend?

He's a sweetie

I need to get better at taking less blurry photos of tiny pictures. But quantity trumps quality! I got HUNDREDS of these babies now. Libraries beat LLMs every time

I have an 80s clip art book of just illustrations of random men and my favorite image from that one so far is this one. bsky.app/profile/evil...

Have another. I can find and rip, like, 5 of these etchings in the time it takes an LLM to poop out 1 ungodly mess.

With a library membership and a half decent phone, you can just MAKE royalty free images from ANYTHING! Look at this little gamin roughing up his old mum

It's sad how few people remember the true meaning of Tuesday. TROIKA! Troika is the true meaning of Tuesday.

If you listen closely you can hear the joyful undead echos of the blogosphere

@melsonian-arts-council.itch.io Found these at the used zine rack at my local. Two down, a dozen to go! 😅

Join me in supporting @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social ISLANDS OF WEIRDHOPE. I don't back many things, so you KNOW it's good www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

What? WHY WAS I NOT TOLD?! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Troika Citizen Generator: NOW WITH THINGS IN THEIR POCKETS/property portfolio. And added to the website (scrolls down and tell me if it mangles the webpage for you plz) www.melsonia.com/products/tro...

That's us!!

The Other OSR: The Hand of God A review of the second ‘1:5 Troika Adventures’ for Troika!, the weird Science Fantasy RPG from the Melsonian Arts Council. rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... #reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #UKrpg #OSR #Troika

I updated the old Troika Citizen Generator. Now with MIENS: perchance.org/4tpvv57r56

IT'S HAPPENING

This week on the 🐋Tales from the Humpback Sky🐋 #podcast Ridge goes back to the moment they were formed and Owen fights reality spiders. To listen search for "Humpback Sky" wherever you listen to pods. #troika Troika is created by the amazing @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io

First print of OSWOR is here! Grab it at @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io's table at Dragonmeet I also have a limited amount of copies to give away. Send me a DM with an address and I will post it to you 📯

Wanna come play The Venture Below in-person with me and the author? Few seats left and we're NOTORIOUSLY good company iglootree.com/products/in-...

9 hours until this artefact of the OSR past is gone! ebay.us/m/QmO9ab

Great Saturday morning game of @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io Stay Frosty - just one survivor from the missions to Ares-4, who left her infected companions planetside. This game is stonking good fun - will be running more on Open Hearth for sure

Practice for @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social Grogmeet, The Vast in the Dark from @feralcharlie.bsky.social , implemented in @foundryvtt.bsky.social and using @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io TROIKA! A randomly generated hex crawl, dungeon delve and exploration of a crumbling alien wasteland. #TTRPG

Heeeey. Winter sale. www.melsonia.com/collections/...

There are layers to interacting online. Top layer is melsonia.com. Calm, professional-ish. Next is social media. Cheeky, sometimes grumpy, shit-posty. Then there's the Patron. Creative stuff, moderated but personal, a room of peers. THEN there's the "secret" blog. Messy, self indulgent, impulsive

Also I'm apparently using my Patreon again. Wonder how long that will last?! : www.patreon.com/posts/reques...

The best compliment you can receive is, while browsing, you see something and go "oh neat, that's cool, what's this?" and it turns out it's something you made. Working on forming a parasocial relationship with myself here.

Oh no. MCM Comicon asked me for feedback! Sorry to my customer relations manager.

Just stationary things.

The real question on everyone's lips is *when is Troika month!?*

Probs going to run some adventure design workshops in the new year at Iglootree. Start the inevitable transition to becoming an educator and convention workshopper.

My experience of running a FLGS that gets mostly locals wandering in suggests that the received wisdom of RPGs being a hard sell as a hobby is not accurate. If you'll run it, they'll play it. Ask Games Workshop how this kinda thing works

yknow how people keep asking "why did you remove the weather rules from the inside of the pocket dimensions?" Well prepare yourselves cos the new one just landed and it's 2500 words. ENJOY YOUR WEATHER! I know I do!

I'm gonna present my "year in cons" review after Dragonmeet (the last and usually best). I'm confused by the nebulous value of cons, so maybe you will be too!

Still got our fingers crossed for two wealthy oligarchs fighting it out over the book.

Reduce → Reuse → Resist

Wait, scratch that, I don't understand eBay. This new one is the correct one NOW WITH WORKING POSTAGE! Go bid on the first every Melsonia book and help me pay some bills or buy lunch or something: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/13674222...

at 19:00 UK time, the book that started Melsonia is going up on eBay