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

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

Mini reviews of all the books I read this year: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/2025-bookpost/

Someone needs to turn this into a Wolves Upon The Coast -esque crawl: projectrho.com/public_html/...

what's up gamers, I'm back with ten more tangible tips for editing your tabletop RPG manuscript: samsorensen.blot.im/ten-more-tan...

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.)

Vertical Plains Blue and Red https://www.wikiart.org/en/frantisek-kupka/vertical-plains-blue-and-red-1913

To radiate heat into the interstellar void slightly faster.... in a fun way!

doodlin all manner of devious evil

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.

Elmcat more like ElmGOAT

"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

Dungeon levels everywhere for those with eyes to see

50 peculiar pregens for OD&D wandering NPC encounters (or whatever else): idraluna-archives.itch.io/pregenerated...

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...

50 peculiar pregens for OD&D wandering NPC encounters (or whatever else): idraluna-archives.itch.io/pregenerated...

Blog Post: additional musing on my previous Mortals and Monsters combat matrix, for use in od&d! dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2025/11/hero...

What can you infer about OD&D if you ignore its actual influences? coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2025/11/osr-...

Map progress from tonight's OD&D session

Played 5 turns of Marc Miller's Verdun game, made significant gains as the Germans but took some devastating losses in the last round of attacks. We meticulously saved the game state, so the winner remains to be decided

Much to consider

Doodled a bunch of OD&D NPCs to drop in when the encounter table calls for a "Myrmidon" or whatever

Sun and moon in pageant, from a 1596 manuscript about the eight lavish pageants held for the christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, 1596. One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/sun-and-moon-in-pageant/

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

#over/under: Spiders & Cigarettes! Headlines & Hairdos!

Issue 3 of The Dispatch for #Over/Under. Taking the weekend off to do other things was no doubt necessary, but I can't help but feel like we missed A LOT of goings-on. @idraluna-archives.bsky.social

More Antarctica Jam material: polyhedralplanet.blogspot.com/2025/10/anar...

First issue of the only TRUE & UNBIASED newspaper on Prospero's Dream station in the ridiculous Over/Under megagame run by @samsorensen.bsky.social

Patlabor 2 is a truly underrated gem. 👀

Fun with the the "emojis as currency symbols" schtick

New Antarctica Jam hexes! bluemountain.bearblog.dev/malachis-cra...

Dungeon map

d100 - Wilderness Fauna Weaving some more Wildlife into those Overland Journeys blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/10/d100... #osr #randomtables #ttrpgs

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me. azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

A formatting hot take: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/footnotes-in...

The Littlest Brown Book now has a 28-page player-facing companion assembled by @eviltables.bsky.social idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-littlest...

New Molly Nilsson album ♥️

The Littlest Brown Book has been updated with jousting rules, martians, robots, traps, settlements, & kickass art by @chaoclypse.bsky.social ! idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-littlest...

The Littlest Brown Book has been updated with jousting rules, martians, robots, traps, settlements, & kickass art by @chaoclypse.bsky.social ! idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-littlest...

Just a table to preserve my blogging muscle memory idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/d66xd66xd66-...

The Black Idol (Resistance) https://www.wikiart.org/en/frantisek-kupka/the-black-idol-resistance-1903

You have chosen war with Dagoth Ur. We grieve for your loss, but we will not spare you. You refused the sweetness of Lord Dagoth's friendship. Now know the bitterness of his fury.

Cool post by Phlox digging up the best setting templates in the hex map of Earth whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Continuing my ill-advised project to key a hexmap of Middle-earth, I present Michel Delving and it's surrounding hexes

people suggest blogs and yo for rpg ideas, world building/lore inspo when honestly the best stuff you'll find is stuff like a pdf scan of an essay from the 70s titled "Lip-Blown Instruments of Ireland Before The Norman Invasion"

Started a daily writing exercise where I key one (1) 12-mile hex of Middle-earth. Here are seven from the last week.