silverarmpress.com/a-mask-that-... Fresh post up, some day I'll get back to blogging regularly again!

"Just tell them" is such an underrated piece of advice for telegraphing dangers in RPGs. "How can I hint that the hallway is trapped? How can I hint that if they defeat the dungeon lord, they become the next dungeon lord?" Just tell them. Tell them out loud. With your words.

I want to print this blogpost out and tape it to my bathroom mirror to recite like an affirmation each morning. There's a million ways to have fun with games but this pithily sums up what I personally enjoy most in playing or running an RPG. @bastionland.bsky.social

Proud to announce that my enormous infernal OSE adventure module “The Shrike” has won gold for best long form adventure at the ENNIE awards! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! You will be spared from eternal life marooned upon the monstrous iron edifice!

Ahhh yeah!

Would appreciate your Ennies vote for The Shrike for best long form adventure! Nobody does extradimensional hellscape sandbox adventurers like Leo.

“There is no such thing as a “neutral” design. As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact." ― Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein One of the best GDC talks ever.

silverarmpress.com/scooby-doo-a... Ruhroh.

Larstown Blues - the latest instalment of my Mothership Play By Post game set in @joelhines.bsky.social Desert Moon of Karth. #osr #mothership #ttrpg

See, this is great.

Today on Between Two Cairns, we're joined by @joelhines.bsky.social of Silver Arm Press to review Doom of the Savage Kings by @harley-stroh.bsky.social. We also answer a mailbag question about adjudicating drunk player characters. www.patreon.com/posts/doom-o...

If you're a tabletop designer and/or publisher whose business will be adversely affected by Donald Trump's April 2nd suite of tariffs, I want to hear from you. Changes in business, canceled or delayed projects, etc. email: [email protected] Signal: ChaseTC.24

Collecting some posts from yesterday into a blog post, which attempts to correct the notion that the OSR was just retroclones: arrested development gob yelling "come on!" dot gif.

GaryCon Friday night Just finished a hilariously scary game of Mothership run by the lovely @joelhines.bsky.social #osr #dnd #ttrpg

I am enjoying bullying my players with tea ceremonies and icy politeness as they meet Karth Governor Stieg Tanaka and her bioluminescent shark Shashihoko. Shashihoko is a merciless apex predator. So is Tanaka. They're terrified. #osr #mothership #ttrpg #desertmoonofkarth

Fresh rpg newsletter grist for the mill!

New blog post with a Mothership hack for a historical weird investigation campaign I ran in Volga Bulgaria! For the Eaters of the Dead/Ibn Fadlan fans

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...

This is very uncomfortable for me to do, but right now I'm having trouble getting by. I know a lot of you are struggling too, but if you can spare it and you've enjoyed my work in the past, I want to ask if you can spare a small tip. ko-fi.com/alexdzuricky

Kickstarter delivery day! This time, The Shrike by Leo Hunt, published by @joelhines.bsky.social

I wrote a thing about setting up a Play By Post game of @seanmccoy.bsky.social's Mothership game running @joelhines.bsky.social Desert Moon of Karth. I plan on checking back a couple of times a month with a post on how it's going. #ttrpg #osr #mothership #scifi

My copy of #TheShrike by Leo Hunt arrived this week! Brilliantly grimdark adventure module set in an abandoned corner of Hell. Some amazing NPCs in this too. Another winner from @joelhines.bsky.social publishing

Out of the most successful ($100,000+ raised) crowdfunded TTRPG projects in 2023; 43 of 105 of those projects were Fifth Edition. In 2024, this has shrunk nearly 50% to 22 of 106. Wild times we're in, folks. Data is from Tabletop Analytics and compiled by @mtblack.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy.

Hey all! Interloper, my new sandbox sci-fi mystery book for Mothership Month is wrapping up on Backerkit in 48 hours. Check it out if you dig rogue planets, failed utopias, murder investigations, and sweet retro art by Jacob Fleming. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... #MothershipMonth #MoshMo24

Early this year, we lost Jennell Jacquays. To just say that she was a TTRPG and video game designer would be doing her contributions a disservice, but that was my main intersection with her legacy. I want talk about why, historically, her work was such a blessing to dungeon design🧵 #gamedev #ttrpg

Tapping this sign again. To anybody painting the OSR with a broad brush: you are painting over me, and folks like me. But that is your privilege, I suppose. To radical queer commie OSR: I love you folx. 1/

The part of the “old school” worth reviving has never been THAC0 or fighting orcs in gray corridors but the DIY attitude of design that ceased once D&D grew from being just a Game to being a Brand

It's Mothership Month and of the 21 projects I contributed to 3 ! www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

if you haven't ran a game with an all weird little goblin party you're missing out on some good stinky stabby times

So Mystery Quest are doing a multipart actual play of my #MothershipRPG adventure Vibechete! from Hull Breach. They're all very funny and talented. It's really wild going from one of millions of youths watching the Yogscast play Minecraft 13 years ago, to watching them play something I wrote!

I'm once again trying to work on a Vaults of #Vaarn video game. Here is a forest of prototaxites against the distant Wall. #screenshotsaturday

And last but not least, I did the map for Interloper. #RPG #Map www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Hi all! As someone who wasn't active on OSR/TTRPG twitter before is it worth it for quality of life to get engaged in posting here for hobby discussions and promoting rpg stuff from zero or can I just stick to silently lurking around once a week here too?