A self mortification ritual I encourage everyone to undertake. I was permanently altered by the process. Perhaps, even, for the better!

I've finally been inducted into the exclusive #osr blogging secret society *ROOTRING*. Check out my #brick! rootr.ing/blog/160

I don't write posts people want, I write what they need. I present; foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/05/nom-...

A bunch of hexes, bad guys, bad satire. My small part of an #audacious #OSR project of behemothic proportions. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/05/unde...

What am I even doing?

What peak worldbuilding.

Trying to come up with a gimmick for all the monsters (these are the only ones) idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/my-odd-encou...

Last 4 #rpgs played: - OSR homebrew - Mazerats - Mythic Bastionland - OD&D domain pbp I have a taste.

A reminder to check this out. It's so good it makes me want to vomit.

Not too recently, I tried to write a wargame in the fashion of Turnip28 but for ancients with the point of divergence being Typhon defeating Zeus. It used handfuls of dried beans, painted with nail polish as two-sided dice (mainly 0/1, but some -1/+2 and other such binary gimmick results), but alas.

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

Good news for all you would-be adventurers.

I've expanded the career list of my weird urban fantasy #osr setting. Through play, it has expanded from 36 entries to 120. What was your career? foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-...

The conversation about what is lost when shortcuts and conveniences are used in TTRPG writing can be extended to OSR mechanics mechanics meant to sand off "rote" aspects of old games. Overloaded encounter dice are the bullet points of game mechanics. traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/03/work...

This #weirdo #osr player is casting more powerful #spells with this one simple trick! And basically, you're a #soulless husk. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/03/ritu...

Does the world have room for yet another OSR fighter fix? Yes. Specifically this one: traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/03/migh...

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Soviet-Afghan War dungeon crawling by BENTHIC ZONE NARCISSUS. or-the-feast-of-blood.blogspot.com/2026/03/war-...

This is very cool, Mythic Bastionland but you play as apparatchiks going to sort out a SSR. cavortingwhorl.bearblog.dev/sovietbaztiu...

Check out this fantastic hexcrawl. A brilliant bank of ideas and adventure.

Need three locations for your #hexcrawl fast? Just #bastardise Beowulf foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/02/isle...

A terrible shame for #miniature #wargame enthusiasts, but Irregular Miniatures are closing down. I'll be ordering that Benin project I've dreamt of and lots of bits and pieces that no one else does. www.irregularminiatures.co.uk

The long-awaited second part to my revolutionary and highly acclaimed weather system #Weather-Calendar/Calendar-Weather has finally arrived! Find within those weird weathers you fantasyheads and #OSR #fiends have been ravenously clamouring for: foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/02/d30-...

The long-awaited second part to my revolutionary and highly acclaimed weather system #Weather-Calendar/Calendar-Weather has finally arrived! Find within those weird weathers you fantasyheads and #OSR #fiends have been ravenously clamouring for: foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/02/d30-...

Radiation for #OSR games: At PC creation, roll your character’s maximum age - 50+2d20 years. Whenever a player whose character lacks a gasmask/filter makes a roll, their character loses 1 year off their lifespan. Filters last one day/are fragile. PCs #die when their current age exceeds their max age

One can find 'every initiative method' here: knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/06/ever... It's a great resource

Fun thing that's just a bit too loose for publishing or a blog entry - I've been putting "Vengeance Monster" entries on my random encounter tables. When I roll that, I pick out an adversary the players have faced before, add a few ranks and a new ability or two, and give it some... (1/2)

Updated my Caveman Lair for OD&D. A lurid, cavesploitation dungeon for savage campaigns of Frank Frazettanalia. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/02/cave...

I wrote a d100 random advancement table for humans. Ostensibly for my Middle-earth Hexcrawl ruleset, I think this could easily be used for any fantasy adventure game. As I think that humans are the most warlike of peoples, this list could be used for your fighter random advancements:

Very cool. Like Elmcat's blogosphere map but for all of bsky. I'm snugly within the TTRPG creator miasma but I'm looking forward to exploring the many diverse and different communities on the map.

Guess who's trying to #write too many things at the same time again 🫵 (No, it's #me)

Weedmonth, Mudmonth, Bloodmonth, #Threemilkmonth - perfect! Part two of my weather post coming soon. Some very weird weather is on the horizon.

I'm joining the newsletter game. Don't ask me why! I'm not sure either. I just want to help more good blogs get found elmc.at/catmail-1/

I liked Sam's post about legwork, but I feel like some folks over-emphasized it (for my tastes). *This* however is the kind of legwork I find to be supremely useful.

No more rolling for random weather. Your calendar and the weather are one and the same. In this blogpost I present a full year of weather, with simple mechanical effects for #osr games. I particularly like the water drinking rule for the month of Scorch. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/01/cale...

How to write a d20 table: 1. Have an idea, record it. 2. Whoops, 7 ideas, too many for a d6 - a d8 table it is. 3. Oh dear, more ideas, maybe a d12? 4. Now look what you've done, that's too many entries. Better crank it up to a d20... 5. Pray for forgiveness

I still can't get over this, one week later. I can accept the order, the ranking - but I cannot accept the power gap! 💢💢

Get chopped up, if you want to. A free-form Death and Dismemberment method for #osr and other #ttrpg games. (Now with a better title) foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2024/12/bodi...

New alignments just dropped.

Prismatic Wasteland will not spare us from the lamentable truth of things - one must #playtest ⚰️

Dungeon Town Fence: A "dangerous" dungeon item can be sold with a maximum placed on either speed, value, or descression. Pick 1. ⚡Speed = money next session, 💰Value = 2x money, 🤫Discretion = no one hears about it. A fence might give a thief a discount on their cut out of professional courtesy

Updated: Illness, Sickness, Disease! Not just for PCs but the #players themselves! A weird rules framework for #osr games. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2023/06/meta...

A lot of people conceptualize random encounters as the party encountering the monsters, but they make more sense the other way: the monsters encounter the party. Below is a thread on what most people get wrong about encounter activities and what there is to be done about it. (1/14)

Slightly diminish an RPG! In the Ordinary Rambler Rogue Swap-Meet Attendee Old School Optionals Hand-Cranked Bastionland Uncleship Labyrinth Lad

A sloppy blogpost. An alternate #magic system plus some spitballs on ritualised/metatextual/extradiegetic magic play for #osr games. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/01/meta...

I would not be half as reviled as I am now if I, like the great wizard Merlin, had a shack wherein, after taking the form of a bird, I could resume human form. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esplumo...

I started adding rumors to my monthly scheduling email and highly, highly recommend it compared to sharing rumors at the table. Saves tons of time and gets players thinking about the game between sessions.

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