"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. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/running-it-b...

more theoryposting i guess: www.imaginaryhistory.org/scribblesand...

GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime

Happy #FatTuesday! 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 : publicdomainreview.org/essay/illust... #MardiGras

Back on my bullshit idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/making-a-tra...

blark dungeon blark dungeon halforc.itch.io/dungeon-of-t...

Hijacking this strat today knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/02/navi...

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/...

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

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

Very cool that Congress just renewed ICE's budget with absolutely zero concessions

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

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.

A very brief writeup on implementing random generators in a Typst document: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/randomizatio...

New submission to the Antarctic Adventure Jam! ghobo.itch.io/tratul

New submission to the Antarctic Adventure Jam! ghobo.itch.io/tratul

“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.

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.

Absolutely stellar advice from a pal who, in his sage wisdom, isn't on bsky. pressthebeast.bearblog.dev/the-osr-is-t...

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.

Turned one of my better blog posts into a Littlest Brown Book supplement idraluna-archives.itch.io/supplement-a...

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...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Why did they make the original Demogorgon so cute??

More illuminated stuff -- this time the classic ship I'm always working on, the Type 9.

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.

Decree 0.16 is finally out Happy new year, bliadhna mhath ùr Much love to you all Venture forth, ever watchful

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