Today I finished transcribing something across into a post - the live module write I did a few months ago. Check out How To Write A Module here! idlecartulary.com/2025/11/19/h... #osr

My grossest #rpg blogpost to date! Little dudes you can find in #dungeons to #devour! foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/d20-...

If you see this post a bird

If you like blog post aggregation, especially for OSR style blogs you should really be following @xaosseed.bsky.social at seedofworlds.blogspot.com?m=1. According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!

Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution. Behold, the Stepladder Table!

Rewatching Magadheera made me again want an #rpg bbeg set a challenge so difficult that, as they watch the PCs struggle and succeed, the villain is so moved they're converted to a staunch ally and friend. I make it sound less than it is, watch the film!

Here's a rather unusual class I wrote for your #OSR games 𓅦𓅦𓅦𓅦. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Here's my #Frazetta and #OD&D inspired caveman #dungeon lair for #osr games. Easy to insert into a campaign but leans into the pulpy, caveman exploitation genre. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/02/cave...

Shall I make yet another caveman dungeon?

Do you want to have animal people without choosing between satanic beastmen and furries? Perhaps consider these unsettling human-animal hybrid from 1827 as an alternative.

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Big fan of the concept of a Special Room... valuable oilbirds roost high on cave ceiling, scream like demons, can be squeezed to refuel lamp

An unsophisticated collection of Special Rooms for your #osr #dungeons. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/10/thin...

If you're not fishing deep in the Lynchian noosphere for game mechanic ideas, will you ever make it as a rpg designer?

Pointcrawls and Overloaded Encounter Dice are rather recent innovations in #RPG 'technology'. Imagine, there are great mechanics yet undreamed off. What a lovely thought.

I've been writing about SPECIAL #dungeon rooms but Traipse has beat me to it and at a much higher #quality. What a #champ. traipse.hexarcana.com/2025/10/the-...

If HP really is a character's ability to defend themselves you should be really leaning into that. Being very sad should lower your HP, some really scary thing that triggers your flight/freeze response should too, you should lose HP for a poor night's sleep. Defending a child should raise your HP.

10 horror movies known only to me: ⚜️ Fleur-DIE-lis 🇰🇾 The Cayman Islands Killer 🏕️ Camp Cacochymical 🦷 Gnathic Gnathic 🔪 The Gullskinna 🤘 Sin for Satan (the long lost video nasty) 🦹 Necromancer ('69) 🦹 Necromancer ('23) 🧘‍♂️ Recording Naraka 🕴️He Floats!

I wrote about the prevalence of monster poaching, egg-snatching, and giant beaver slavery in AD&D, why it's even more Evil than it sounds, & why that has kind of fun gameplay implications, plus some musings about how much you might be able to sell a mind flayer brain for.

Having lots of fun with hexfriend.net

There's like, two blog posts I really put in a lot of professional research for (and the rest is my stupid ideas off the braindome): Horror in RPGs And Coziness in RPGs If either interest you, check 'em out, why not? riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2021/09/advi... riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2022/01/c-o-...

IMO, the d16 is the great lost die. The missing link between d12 and d20. Oh, what might have been. One weeps to dwell too long upon this.

You're all siblings and you've got to go save your sick father.

Check it out, the personal Appendix N's of 69 #sixtynine bloggers 😏. I'll try to hop on the next blog bandwagon, I only thought of a good topic for this one, this morning!

[Like a shipping forecast for adventurers] Valley of Skulls; mournful, becoming dour. Ghostly activity: good, occasionally poor.

I've been painting #miniatures

I'm feeling I could run a Mount and Blade inspired game with Mythic Bastionland's mechanics and domain management system combined with Into the Odd's enterprise rules and currency. The Warband/Retinue warfare and combat mechanics would really lend themselves to it.

Dare ye enter mine dungeon room? It containeth... potted ferns (643)! a large amount of overcooked spaghetti (662)! and... an elaborate fountain (525)!

Speaking of 'speaking of mono-dungeons'... itch.io/jam/onegeon-...

11 RPGs known only to me: 1. Greyworld 2. Surfeit Speciation: d100 hack 3. Jungle Work: The Warren Zevon RPG of Esoteric Mercenary Warfare 4. Picnic Quest, 2nd Edition 5. Old School Oliphaunt 6. Blackguard Ballroom, powered by Chess 1/2

Name: Mōgub's Necroworks Theme: Undeath Part graveyard, part research facility, here the good doctor works beyond the long arm of the law & prying eyes to overcome death itself Encounters: Dr. Mōgub (Apefolk Orangutan), his research assistants, Zombies, Sentient Undead, Ghouls, & monster slayers

Speaking of mono-dungeons... muto2525.substack.com/p/the-chaos-...

Wowie zowie. My miniature-sized #osr module LOW TIDINGS! Was ranked #1, first place, in the Appendix N vibes category. beneath-foreign-planets.itch.io/low-tidings

62. Low Tidings! by @foreignplanets.bsky.social A beachside fort defense module statted for OSE 🏴‍☠️ This takes place in the world of Fafrhd & the Gray Mouser, but you could really adapt it to any setting or OSR system. Densely written, with great build up of tension, & flavorful encounters

Some thoughts on artificial intelligence [sic] and its perils to tabletop gaming as a medium #osr #ttrpg

I want to thank everybody who participated in the Appx. N Jam! It was amazing seeing all the creativity in the community! Check out the 233(!) submissions. If you're looking for some #retro #pulpfantasy #osr one-shots you are COVERED. itch.io/jam/appx-n-j...

Ornamental Hermit

Due to popular demand (and copyright infringement) my free Fritz Lieber inspired adventure has brand new art! Get it for free at beneath-foreign-planets.itch.io/low-tidings

I have employed several 'distinctive' techniques to uncover a range of titles excluded from Dungeons and Dragon's renowned Appendix N foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-... #dnd #osr

games released the year I was born

Low Tidings, my Fritz Lieber inspired Appendix N jam entry is out - a one-shot #osr adventure, you will defend a crumbling fortress through the night against occult pirates, witches... a sword-wielding octopus. Also features a IRL scavenger hunt mini-game beneath-foreign-planets.itch.io/low-tidings

Testing the waters on #itch.io before publishing my Appendix N jam entry (a fort defense one-shot inspired by Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser). Here's six one-page lairs for OD&D and other #osr games. beneath-foreign-planets.itch.io/sixsavagelairs

I wrote more lair-style dungeons, shorter (one-page) but just as lurid and pulpy. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/07/six-... #osr #rpg #cavemen #swordsandsorcery

MONSTER: Atrocidon. Stats as ogre. Appear in packs of 1d3+1. Powerful lizard-hulks but effectiveness is crippled by their overriding urge for cruelty. Will *always* attack the weakest person. Will *always* go out of their way to trample a baby. Famously easy to control in this way.

Your players keep forgetting their torches? Make your them fear Death in the Dark. Here’s a house rule that makes light a real factor in combat by shaping initiative rolls. Bonus rule for 'dungeon scarring' for hardcore #DMs foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/06/deat... #Osr #rpg #dungeons #darkness

I wanted religion for a modern, Earth-like world. Rather than reskinning the major ones, I asked a knowledgeable friend to break it down for me. If you want to construct a religion that isn't just the Greek gods in fresh clothes, check it out: www.mindstormpress.com/biblically-i... #osr #ttrpg

Improving random encounter rolls, again! foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... #osr #dnd #rpg

Inspired by the Underclock of Goblinpunch fame and the Overloaded Encounter die, I have reworked the random encounter roll for added tension, dungeon reactivity and unintended stealth mechanics. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/02/pred... #osr #rpg #dnd