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OSR blogger & speculative cartography enthusiast. Blog:
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/
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
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Much to consider
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Doodled a bunch of OD&D NPCs to drop in when the encounter table calls for a "Myrmidon" or whatever
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The Public Domain Review
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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/
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The Great Antarctic Hexcrawl pt. 15: The Ferruginous Forest
Another region from my entry. This one's inland, between a populous, settled region & a huge desert. It's less cohesive than I'd like, but it's got 69 keyed...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/the-great-antarctic-hexcrawl-pt-15-the-ferruginous-forest/
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The Great Antarctic Hexcrawl pt. 14: The Isles of Ashseva, Zyrina, & Sneep
Contextual note: this hex key is for one of the subregions in my entry. I've been back-porting my hexes from Typst to markdown & figured it was time to post...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/the-great-antarctic-hexcrawl-pt-14-the-isles-of-ashseva-zyrina-sneep/
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Beneath Foreign Planets
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An unsophisticated collection of Special Rooms for your
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Thinking about Special Rooms (Notes made during Meetings)
A rough and ready palimpsest of Special dungeon rooms for OSR games.
https://foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/10/thinking-about-special-rooms-notes-made.html
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ktrey
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#over/under
: Spiders & Cigarettes! Headlines & Hairdos!
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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.
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More Antarctica Jam material:
polyhedralplanet.blogspot.com/2025/10/anar...
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Anartica Adventure Jam Dungeon 1 - Level 1
As pat of the Anartica Adventure Jam, which runs until February 2026, I ended up committing myself to first an island, then 5 dungeons and ...
https://polyhedralplanet.blogspot.com/2025/10/anartica-adventure-jam-dungeon-1-level-1.html
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First issue of the only TRUE & UNBIASED newspaper on Prospero's Dream station in the ridiculous Over/Under megagame run by
@samsorensen.bsky.social
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Tobias
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Patlabor 2 is a truly underrated gem. 👀
add a skeleton here at some point
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Fun with the the "emojis as currency symbols" schtick
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New Antarctica Jam hexes!
bluemountain.bearblog.dev/malachis-cra...
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Malachi's Cradle - A Violet Flower Region
New games begin at hex 138-529. Any farmland in this region is terraced, long-gone gentle hills long-ago shaped by powerful hands into easy farming l...
https://bluemountain.bearblog.dev/malachis-cradle-a-violet-flower-region/
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Dungeon map
add a skeleton here at some point
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ktrey
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d100 - Wilderness Fauna Weaving some more Wildlife into those Overland Journeys
blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/10/d100...
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d100 - Wilderness Fauna
A s part of my Preparation for a new Wilderness Stocking Resource (an Overland version of my Dungeon Stocking – Expanded ) I’ve identified...
https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/10/d100-wilderness-fauna.html
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Bruno Dias
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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.
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So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter
In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill
https://azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-to-write-iambic-pentameter/
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A formatting hot take:
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Footnotes in RPGs
I claim that footnotes[^1] are an under-utilized typographical tool for TTRPG texts, one that I have increasingly adopted[^2] for my forays into DIY elfgamin...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/footnotes-in-rpgs/
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The Littlest Brown Book now has a 28-page player-facing companion assembled by
@eviltables.bsky.social
idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-littlest...
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Player's Guide Added
Added a player-facing guide with character creation, basic combat & magic rules, equipment, spells, and space for notes. The version on here is formatted for booklet printing, but you can snag the pdf...
https://idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-littlest-brown-book/devlog/1068981/players-guide-added
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New Molly Nilsson album ♥️
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The Littlest Brown Book has been updated with jousting rules, martians, robots, traps, settlements, & kickass art by
@chaoclypse.bsky.social
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The Littlest Brown Book has been updated with jousting rules, martians, robots, traps, settlements, & kickass art by
@chaoclypse.bsky.social
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idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-littlest...
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Just a table to preserve my blogging muscle memory
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d66xd66xd66 Standing Stones
The government has shutdown & I've been instructed not to 'perform work-related tasks' so I'm catching up on backlogged blog posts & projects. Here's a littl...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/d66xd66xd66-standing-stones/
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František Kupka
about 2 months ago
The Black Idol (Resistance)
https://www.wikiart.org/en/frantisek-kupka/the-black-idol-resistance-1903
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morrowind.txt
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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.
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Cool post by Phlox digging up the best setting templates in the hex map of Earth
whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
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The Better Parts of Earth for Hexmaps
For some reason, we all like to see real-life places covered in hexmaps. Because the six-mile hex can contain so much , it can be easy to as...
https://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-better-parts-of-earth-for-hexmaps.html
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Rise Up Comus - 🔜PaxU
about 2 months ago
Continuing my ill-advised project to key a hexmap of Middle-earth, I present Michel Delving and it's surrounding hexes
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Five Hexes Around Michel Delving
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. Michel Delving, ...
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/09/five-hexes-around-michel-delving.html
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blark
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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"
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Rise Up Comus - 🔜PaxU
about 2 months ago
Started a daily writing exercise where I key one (1) 12-mile hex of Middle-earth. Here are seven from the last week.
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A Hexmap for Middle-earth
I reread The Lord of the Rings most years, and have done so since I was 12. As I was reading it this year, I was thinking about the physic...
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-hexmap-for-middle-earth.html
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Batrachomyomachia - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batrachomyomachia
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EvilTables
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adding mine as well!
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Personal Appendix N - EvilTables
personal appendix of RPG inspiration
https://eviltables.com/2025/06/08/personal-appendix-n/
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Lorde Stan Account
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Redux of an old post of mine that was borderline unreadable, but which had a nugget of wisdom worth salvaging. There are two totally different types of hexcrawl and nobody else seems to have pointed this out before.
knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
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How Do You Handle the "Inside" of a Hex? (George Lucas Special Edition)
[Context for this post: this is a re-write of an old post of mine I wrote back in 2021. I wasn't happy with my explanation, and it's filled ...
https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-do-you-handle-inside-of-hex-george.html
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For the bandwagon: my overall Appendix N list:
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/appendix-n/
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Woefully Encysted Creature
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I wrote about AD&D's assumption that characters with strongholds "will desire mazelike dungeons" beneath them. Retired adventurers, in their boredom, long for the dungeon! By constructing such dungeons of their own, they perpetuate the cycle of ruination upon which adventuring careers are built.
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Retired Adventurers Long for the Dungeon
From the AD&D 1e DMG, page 106: It is an assumption that high-level player characters with strongholds "will desire some dungeon mazes" bene...
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2025/09/retired-adventurers-long-for-dungeon.html
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Rise Up Comus - 🔜PaxU
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Decided I wanted another daily writing project in the vein of Dungeon 23 (which I used to create my forthcoming HIS MAJESTY THE WORM dungeon). Started putting this together using
@idraluna-archives.bsky.social
's Middle-earth map. My goal: One Middle-earth hex per day.
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🎃VERMIN🎃
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I think you should be encouraging trpg players to hack your game. treating your rules like they're perfect arcane scripture that will come crumbling down if someone ignores a rule they think is bogus makes you look like you don't trust your audience and also think much too highly of your intellect.
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Torches (6) micro-blog post:
@zenopus.bsky.social
Holmes houserules, AD&D taxes & city guard,
@caseyg.bsky.social
wonderful megadungeon 'zine Obulette, more free dungeons from
@goblinpunch.bsky.social
, new initiatives, &
@idraluna-archives.bsky.social
with d666 dungeon dressing:
tinyurl.com/mc7v25hp
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TORCHES (6): A RPG Microblog Collection 7
Over on bluesky , Zenopus Archives posts a new favorite Holmes/OD&D house rule: ". ..that thieves can fire into melee without penalty; i.e....
https://icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/09/torches-6-rpg-microblog-collection-7.html
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So psyched to see this on the printed version!!
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Levels 1-3 of Murdicog's Manse (a megadungeon of modest magnitude)
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Stella, Sandwich Enjoyer
2 months ago
hey
@idraluna-archives.bsky.social
I want you to know because of your hex map of california I decided to stop procrastinating on a fallout ttrpg adaptation I have been wanting to do for years. You are the goat of hex maps.
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Rise Up Comus - 🔜PaxU
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Feeling a Project coming on using this...
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12-mile Middle Earth Hexmap
I've been re-reading the Hobbit & Lord of The Rings this year, so naturally my latest cartographic hyperfixation was to make a map of Tolkien's paracosm. ...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/12-mile-middle-earth-hexmap/
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Incredible resource for magic shields, randomly generated OD&D fighters, etc.:
drawshield.net/random/index...
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Create a Random Shield | DrawShield
https://drawshield.net/random/index.html
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d666 Dungeon Dressing
Just a dungeon dressing table; there are many like it but this one's mine. It's arranged so that a 1 on the first die is always some kind of empty room (s...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/d666-dungeon-dressing/
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alice
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blog post: The Pale Keep -- A castle hex for od&d and FMC!
#osr
dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
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The Pale Keep
A grand construction of marble, more sepulcher then castle. Standing stark against rocky peaks, it gleams in the sunlight. The surrounding e...
https://dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-pale-keep.html
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Avram Grumer
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Hwæt! Aid for the free-trader, from all in hearing, foemen besiege us, our fusion-oars failing, gun-spool gone feeble, ship-breath escaping…
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New art for the Littlest Brown Book's back cover by the brilliant
@chaoclypse.bsky.social
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Plugging what I see as a criminally underrated piece of speculative fiction:
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/hav-review/
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Hav (review)
Jan Morris is known primarily for her history & travel writings (including firsthand reporting of Edmund Hilary's Everest expedition), and for the semina...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/hav-review/
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Plugging what I see as a criminally underrated piece of speculative fiction:
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/hav-review/
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Hav (review)
Jan Morris is known primarily for her history & travel writings (including firsthand reporting of Edmund Hilary's Everest expedition), and for the semina...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/hav-review/
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Nomicland
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The 6-mile hex Atlas of Earth has been updated with some ocean maps:
idraluna-archives.itch.io/6-mile-hex-a...
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