Just found out about the Wizardry remake for the Famicon. This might be the best thing I've ever seen. Can you imagine a hippo in a dungeon. #CRPG #DungeonCrawler #Famicon

I talk a little bit about Magic-User strongholds here in terms of world building: icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/07/prac...

!! BLOG POST TIME !! Combat can be a central part of a lot of games! Some people prefer the precise and balanced "Combat as Sport" where others yearn for the tactical infinity of "Combat as War." For me though? I seek out "Combat as Art"... www.failforward.moe/2026/06/comb...

Nishimura Kinu

TOMORROW THE VIOLENCE BEGINS* itch.io/jam/violence... (picture of my dog isn't related but he is pulling a funny face imo) **as in you can submit stuff. idk if anyone will have anything up on day one. maybe. i know i won't

working on a little od&d dollgame thing

In the final (?) post in my series on Developing the Sandbox, I lay siege to strongholds! They are settlement, dungeon, & monster lair, all in one. They support social intrigue, mass combat, & dungeon delving. How do the characters get inside, & what do they find within? #TTRPG #D&D #AD&D #OSR

session log: more vampire queen! played in the woods this time. i might try to get into the habit of running sessions fully analog when reasonable, since this was a really fun way to do it. dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/06/sess...

Does your hexcrawl need pseudo-realistic fire ecology? Look no fur- What? Where are you going? I just want to talk! idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/wildfires-in...

firefly lantern (MS Paint!)

ooo yaay! traveller stuff:

disabled ttrpg designers: I'm hosting a disability pride month game jam on itch (running from July 1-August 31, 2026). this jam is intended specifically for disabled ttrpg designers to showcase our work. so join me! invite all your crip game designer friends to join in! spread the word!

Laughing at the homeless is right wing. Monstering need is right wing.

coming to terms more and more with the fact that i really do just enjoy a good matrix

blog post: a dubiously historical 2d6 combat maneuver system for #od&d, inspired by the "man-to-man" combat tables from Chainmail, and the Turn Undead ability! "What does my helmet do?" it stops you from getting smacked in the head. dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/06/od-c...

session log: back to the Palace of the Vampire Queen after considerable time away! this session featuring a good many house cats and a surprisingly compassionate death. dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/06/sess...

The second installment in the Antarctica Jam interview series, featuring @h4gs.bsky.social idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/aaj-intervie...

still super new to painting minis but i’m pleased with how this basilisk turned out!

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NEW TODAY! A deep dive into the ancient global disasters at the heart of all three original D&D campaign settings: Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance. What do these cataclysms tell us about the game? Why do we find the end of the world so comforting?

a quick sketch break 👁️

Picking a thread on beholders reskinned as angels by @ratkingrpg.bsky.social, I talk about how a smaller beholder-kin, the spector, might employ a seemingly out-of-place spell in its arsenal, create food & water, to attract a cult to help with its guard duty: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/06/beho...

a bug getting zapped

A miserable #dungeon of savage pulp fair and oozing body-horror. 28 keyed areas over 5 pages, including the map, magic items and monsters. It's also #free. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/05/pity...

Forgot to also artshare!! Thanks for the tag, man! #artsky

Here’s my closest attempt: icastlight.blogspot.com/2023/03/od-o...

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.

google search is broken? fear not! rootring now has a search engine that lets you look for posts and contents from blogs on rootring search.rootr.ing

as much as i love a good consolidated rulebook (and i do) i’m such a freak about the od&d / classic traveller thing of a box set with three little booklets attempting to adapt entire genres into functioning gameplay

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane retrospective on the way of the Samurai! D&D has had a "Samurai" in some form every edition, and they're all just a bit funky. https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/05/every-single-samurai-in-dungeons-and.html?m=1

Exploring fantasy costumes for the same Knight as in previous posts. In addition to trying to find out the better match for the story I have in mind, I'm also figuring out what kind of designs I have the most fun drawing!

hags.bearblog.dev/folks-of-the... The second in a series of B/X class reworks that follow in-universe rules.

Setting lore post 🏰📜🕯️ traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/05/the-...

blog post: 4 types of fruit which grow inside dungeons! dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/05/dung...

can someone who's a game designer please explain to me how the "three strikes and you're out" system actually makes baseball "high lethality"

session log (of a session we played like 4 months ago): the party return to the Palace of the Vampire Queen, fighting bandits, losing a halfling, and gaining some treasure! dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/05/sess...

Various Types of Women

i wish more video game rpgs would take after Final Fantasy 1. being able to just like, make your whole party on one screen, buy whatever gear you want in town, and actually getting started on doing the fun adventuring stuff right away is such a dream

Over on the Nightwick Patreon we have an intro @umlauthuth.bsky.social wrote for a dungeon I ran and we're going to put on the patreon! It's got that awful little magic man in it! And mandrakes! And this one's free so you can read about it!

Prints for Sunday morning; harpy, peony & iris, snail and moths to a flame. (AND some beautiful peonies from the garden.) #art #linocut #printmaking #illustrator

doing some zine stuff today :3

hags.bearblog.dev/fighters-of-... B/X subclasses for Antarctic fighters

In honor of the 10 year anniversary of the GLOG, please enjoy my (now wildly out of date) overview of the early days of the GLOG blogging scene. diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2019/03/who-...

A hot take about hexcrawls idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/in-defense-o...

In my Nightwick game the current High Pontiff of the Realm of Man is, according to his proponents, secretly a Potato Bear (the in universe word for Raccoon). His name is Pope Dismas Here he is as rendered by one of the players

New catmail is out. I'm switching up format this time to make it less link heavy. elmc.at/catmail-4/