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OSR blogger & speculative cartography enthusiast. Blog:
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/
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Katt Kirsch
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"Okay, so, some of you are gonna say it, and in discussing this with friends some of you have already said it: 'Oh, so are we just gonna let the players read the dungeon first, now?' I don’t know. Maybe?" Running it Back: The Case For Replaying Modules.
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Running it Back: The Case for Replaying Modules
Part 1: Why You Haven’t Yet What’s your favourite movie? Your favourite musical album? Imagine them both in your mind. Now, how many times have you wat...
https://kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/running-it-back-the-case-for-replaying-modules/
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Scribble M. Horror (Pseud.)
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more theoryposting i guess:
www.imaginaryhistory.org/scribblesand...
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Faith and Games « Scribbles and Horrors
https://www.imaginaryhistory.org/scribblesandhorrors/index.php/2026/02/18/faith-and-games/
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Linnea Sterte
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GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime
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The Public Domain Review
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Happy
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! Here's a few costume designs by artist Charles Briton for the 1873 New Orleans Mardi Gras. See more great carnival designs, and learn about their creators, in our essay by
@allisoncmeier.bsky.social
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publicdomainreview.org/essay/illust...
#MardiGras
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Back on my bullshit
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Making a Classic Traveller Sector Map in QGIS
I've been having some fun using the rules in 1977 Traveller to make a big sector map in QGIS. Credit/blame goes to Unturned Hovel getting me interested in Cl...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/making-a-traveller-sector-map-in-qgis/
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blark
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blark dungeon blark dungeon
halforc.itch.io/dungeon-of-t...
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Dungeon of the Blue Door by blark
A 12 level dungeon.
https://halforc.itch.io/dungeon-of-the-blue-door
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Charli xcx's Wuthering Heights Stan Account
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Hijacking this strat today
knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/02/navi...
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Chris Hayes
22 days ago
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-29/ty-article/.premium/idf-accepts-gaza-health-ministry-estimate-of-over-70-000-palestinians-killed-in-the-war/0000019c-0918-dec4-adfd-fd5dde830000
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moby dickgirl
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Ill Will
26 days ago
New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.
illwill.com/lies
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lauren
27 days ago
the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace
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Ken Klippenstein
27 days ago
Very cool that Congress just renewed ICE's budget with absolutely zero concessions
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Stella
27 days ago
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
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Fixation on 'playability' (by which something more like 'frictionlessness' is often meant) is how we'll end up with the elfgame equivalent of Netflix shows that assume viewers are scrolling on their phones while watching.
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A very brief writeup on implementing random generators in a Typst document:
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Randomization in Typst
A very basic guide for incorporating randomness into a Typst document.
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/randomization-in-typst/
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New submission to the Antarctic Adventure Jam!
ghobo.itch.io/tratul
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Tratul by ghobo
38 Hexes and 100+ Creatures near the Pole
https://ghobo.itch.io/tratul
about 1 month ago
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New submission to the Antarctic Adventure Jam!
ghobo.itch.io/tratul
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Tratul by ghobo
38 Hexes and 100+ Creatures near the Pole
https://ghobo.itch.io/tratul
about 1 month ago
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ரமணன்
about 1 month ago
“Am I language policing here? Sure, why not. I think the original sense of the word matters and is worth preserving, worth insisting upon. I think zines, as a non-luxury print media are important.” The man that brought you “Fuck You Design” brings you a rant about fancy-ass zines.
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How to Not Do Zines Wrong
I’m not the first to remark that a lot of what we’re calling “zines” aren’t really zines. They’re fine, glossy magazines, or beautifully crafted books. While these products may share zines’ craft etho...
http://todistantlands.github.io/2026/01/15/how-to-not-do-zines-wrong.html
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Stella, Sandwich Enjoyer
about 1 month ago
I've been thinking about how fun it would be to have a local gaming community and I have decided to be the change I wanna see in the world. I am gonna try to start a club for people who wanna play dungeon crawlers in San Francisco. I am gonna print out these posters and put them about the city soon.
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Séamus
about 1 month ago
Absolutely stellar advice from a pal who, in his sage wisdom, isn't on bsky.
pressthebeast.bearblog.dev/the-osr-is-t...
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The OSR is trapped in Hexes it is addicted to Jaquaysing
So you wanna build a hexcrawl kid? In the online spaces I travel the hex crawl has become one of the most common formats suggested for structuring a campa...
https://pressthebeast.bearblog.dev/the-osr-is-trapped-in-hexes-it-is-addicted-to-jaquaysing/
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Chance L.
about 1 month ago
If you ever struggled with trying to learn how to play OD&D then you have to read the Littlest Brown Book. It clarifies and explains so much of the hard to parse information of the originals. It is also very funny.
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Turned one of my better blog posts into a Littlest Brown Book supplement
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Supplement א: Chromatic Charms & Spectral Sorceries by idraluna-archives
Color-coded magic-user sub-classes for The Littlest Brown Book
https://idraluna-archives.itch.io/supplement-aleph-chromatic-charms-spectral-sorceries
about 1 month ago
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Anil Dash
about 1 month ago
Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.
www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...
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How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
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Patrick Perini
about 1 month ago
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them:
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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Why did they make the original Demogorgon so cute??
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
More illuminated stuff -- this time the classic ship I'm always working on, the Type 9.
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Chance L.
about 2 months ago
unturnedhovel.bearblog.dev/mandog-after...
Here is my review of Mandog!
@gromb.bsky.social
's fantastic investigation module. Something that should be an inspiration to other adventures in the same space. You should run this module.
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Mandog After Action Review
\ Artists:Written by Gromb Illustrated by Edited by Layout by \ Players: Shaman as \ Zaro as \ Valibuk as \ System: Delta Green Session...
https://unturnedhovel.bearblog.dev/mandog-after-action-review/
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Séamus
about 2 months ago
Decree 0.16 is finally out Happy new year, bliadhna mhath ùr Much love to you all Venture forth, ever watchful
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0.16
Took me bloody long enough. Highlights : Incredible, gorgeous artwork by Chaoclypse and Dan Morison ! Massively overhauled character creation, with 36 new backgrounds to choose from! Tons of new weapo...
https://phantom-limbs.itch.io/decree/devlog/1284709/016
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My $0.02 on the discourse du jour: this dichotomy is fine; I'm on team toy. Toy gang rise up. Where my toy-heads at, who wants to get open-ended & multivalent with me
about 2 months ago
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ktrey
about 2 months ago
New Generator: I've taken the dozens of tables I've produced over the years for Magical Items and finally loaded them into a generator to produce new wonders with a single click!
blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/magi...
#osr
#ttrpgs
#randomtables
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Magic Item Generator
W ith a little bit of digital elbow grease, I’ve finally managed to create a Generator that produces Magical Items from the dozens of d10...
https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/magic-item-generator.html
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2025 in Review
This was a banger year for actually playing games. I got to be part of five campaigns: Also a smattering of one-shots: in Cairn, a session of i...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/2025-in-review/
about 2 months ago
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Mini reviews of all the books I read this year:
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/2025-bookpost/
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2025 Bookpost
That which I did read this year.
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/2025-bookpost/
about 2 months ago
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Someone needs to turn this into a Wolves Upon The Coast -esque crawl:
projectrho.com/public_html/...
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Ring Raiders - Atomic Rockets
https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/appringraiders.php
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sam “fully armored” sorensen
2 months ago
what's up gamers, I'm back with ten more tangible tips for editing your tabletop RPG manuscript:
samsorensen.blot.im/ten-more-tan...
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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu)
2 months ago
Just played in an OD&D one-shot run by
@idraluna-archives.bsky.social
I played a fighter who failed every single roll he did then died horribly. Because he was also the lantern bearer, he also shrouded the entire party in darkness by dying. It was great fun! (Also, I was mapper, of course.)
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František Kupka
2 months ago
Vertical Plains Blue and Red
https://www.wikiart.org/en/frantisek-kupka/vertical-plains-blue-and-red-1913
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To radiate heat into the interstellar void slightly faster.... in a fun way!
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2 months ago
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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu)
3 months ago
doodlin all manner of devious evil
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3 months ago
Finished the hexmap yesterday but it was too late to photograph it, so I made another one. Sorry for the strong side sunlight, which makes the paper appear too textured. With thanks to
@idraluna-archives.bsky.social
,
@ktrey.bsky.social
, and
@save.vs.totalpartykill.ca
who were kind to the first one.
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There Is No Optimal Hex Size
Please forgive me for indulging in a bit of pedantry. I've been brewing up this post for a while -- a recent discussion on the Purple OSR server reminded me ...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/there-is-no-optimal-hex-size/
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Elmcat more like ElmGOAT
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"Nomad with a long-ass musket" is a really underrated aesthetic imo. I want to write a setting where the default player character is a nomad with a long-ass musket
3 months ago
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Dungeon levels everywhere for those with eyes to see
3 months ago
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50 peculiar pregens for OD&D wandering NPC encounters (or whatever else):
idraluna-archives.itch.io/pregenerated...
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Supplement A: Pregenerated Personage Portfolio by idraluna-archives
50 Pregenerated NPCs for The Littlest Brown Book
https://idraluna-archives.itch.io/pregenerated-personage-portfolio
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𝖂.𝕯.
3 months ago
Given common complaints against starting MUs, I wondered what the starting spells were for early D&D pre-gens so I took a look at the B-series:
icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/11/basi...
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BASIC MAGIC: What Was Top Choice Among Starting Spells for Early Module MUs?
from Wizard of Barge Due to playing a long-running, well, 6th level anyway, BX magic-user , I've had a lot of thoughts over the years abo...
https://icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/11/basic-magic-what-was-top-choice-among.html
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50 peculiar pregens for OD&D wandering NPC encounters (or whatever else):
idraluna-archives.itch.io/pregenerated...
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Supplement A: Pregenerated Personage Portfolio by idraluna-archives
50 Pregenerated NPCs for The Littlest Brown Book
https://idraluna-archives.itch.io/pregenerated-personage-portfolio
3 months ago
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alice
3 months ago
Blog Post: additional musing on my previous Mortals and Monsters combat matrix, for use in od&d!
dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2025/11/hero...
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Mages and Heroes
As often happens with this blog, I intended to post this in late September, then had to put it off because of schoo...
https://dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2025/11/heroes-and-mages.html
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Skerples
3 months ago
What can you infer about OD&D if you ignore its actual influences?
coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2025/11/osr-...
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OSR: Beyond the Western Desert (or OD&D with Appendix N-1)
The conceit of my current OD&D game is "OD&D without context". What weird mutant offshoot of the tree of RPG development will we create if...
https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2025/11/osr-beyond-western-desert-or-od-with.html
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Map progress from tonight's OD&D session
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