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OSR blogger & speculative cartography enthusiast. Blog:
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/
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Finished my entry for the Antarctic Adventure Jam:
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The Land of Zurth: An Antarctic Hexcrawl by idraluna-archives
500 Antarctic hexes to explore
https://idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-land-of-zurth-an-antarctic-hexcrawl
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The perfectly capture the vibes I was going for when writing Zurth
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Adam McKay
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This is an excellent over view of the dangerous warming period we’ll likely be entering in the next 12 months. Share it widely. Corp news will not acknowledge this increased danger until it’s too late in order to keep markets stable. That is their sole job.
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Something Is Brewing in the Pacific That Nobody in Washington Wants to Talk About
A super El Niño is forming in the same week federal climate policy is being dismantled. The atmosphere doesn't care about the politics.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisgloninger/p/something-is-brewing-in-the-pacific?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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My house rules for swapping ability scores for astrology signs, in case you want more woo in your game about wizards
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Astrology Signs for OD&D
The following system is in use in my Murdicog's Manse game. A couple people had asked for details, so I'm making it a separate post. Instead of rolling th...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/astrology-signs-for-odd/
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Mothmen (OD&D Class)
One of my backburner ideas is an OD&D campaign where all player characters can fly, thus making the aerial combat rules the "default" combat system. Mothmen ...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/mothmen-odd-class/
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Hags
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The Cannibal Coast
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The Cannibal Coast: Part 1
The first set of hexes for a new Antarctica Adventure Jam region. The keys are labelled "yyy-xxx" because I haven't decided on specific locations yet. You sh...
https://hags.bearblog.dev/cannibal-coast-1/
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The next steps for the Antarctic Adventure Jam:
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/aaj-reflecti...
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AAJ Reflection 2: The Future of The Antarctic Adventure Jam
The countdown on itch.io for the Antarctic Adventure Jam has run down. The jam is thus "over". Participants in the jam keyed areas covering nearly 5,000 he...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/aaj-reflection-2-the-future-of-the-antarctic-adventure-jam/
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The next steps for the Antarctic Adventure Jam:
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AAJ Reflection 2: The Future of The Antarctic Adventure Jam
The countdown on itch.io for the Antarctic Adventure Jam has run down. The jam is thus "over". Participants in the jam keyed areas covering nearly 5,000 he...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/aaj-reflection-2-the-future-of-the-antarctic-adventure-jam/
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Current Affairs
23 days ago
In the upcoming elections, an end to U.S. aid and weapons sales should be a bedrock demand. Nobody should support, let alone revere, a state whose leaders proudly wear nooses on their lapels.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...
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Israel’s New Lynching Law Is its Most Heinous Yet
A new Israeli law requires the hanging of Palestinians, and almost exclusively Palestinians. We have seen this before, in the American South, and it has to be stopped.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-new-lynching-law-is-its-most-heinous-yet
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Coining the term "Ponzi scheme comedy" for things that are bewildering upon first watch but hysterically funny to subject friends & family to once you've already seen it
about 1 month ago
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Archon's Court
about 1 month ago
Planning to run Idraluna's "Littlest Brown Book", an OD&D retroclone, this summer - along with its wizard-subclass supplement. So, some matching fighter subclasses... and also Eldritch Wizardry-style "you have a 5% chance for this to even come up" psionics - sorry, """gifts from the stars""".
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Littlest Brown Book - Fighters & Auspices
Fighter "subclasses" and psionics-like star signs for an upcoming OD&D-clone campaign.
https://archons-court.blogspot.com/2026/03/littlest-brown-book-fighters-auspices.html
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franc
about 1 month ago
I am being sincere on main
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reflection: the last 3 years
wrapped in wind, wrapped in the car, wrapped up in thoughts. No moon tonight. I try to relax into the seat and reflect on the DnD campaign. Instead, disp...
https://joeb.bearblog.dev/reflection-the-last-3-years/
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xaosseed
about 1 month ago
A sleeper hit of the past week - definitely worth a read on how to prep pre-published modules and adventures
#osr
#dnd
#ttrpg
#diyrpg
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M. John Harrison -- Apropos to how I think about writing hexcrawls.
about 1 month ago
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Chance L.
about 1 month ago
dungeondogma.bearblog.dev/into-the-odd...
An excellent post detailing more about the issues of monetization in the hobby.
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Into the Oddish and monetization of the hobby
A rant about commercialization in my hobby
https://dungeondogma.bearblog.dev/into-the-oddish-and-monetization-of-the-hobby/
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Chance L.
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unturnedhovel.bearblog.dev/trying-to-be...
I wrote about my changing perspective on TTRPGs and some of the frustration that comes from the struggle of what your voice is.
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Trying to Be Brave
I got into the hobby late compared to most folks, no dad that grew up in the advent of the hobby or brother to let me play at his table jealously. Tabletop g...
https://unturnedhovel.bearblog.dev/trying-to-be-brave/
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Player note from a very old campaign... what did they mean by this?
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Tip for everyone emotionally invested in the bullet points vs prose debate: you can decisively win the argument and humiliate your enemies by writing a stunningly beautiful, clever, and/or compelling adventure in your preferred style :)
about 1 month ago
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Jason Hickel
about 2 months ago
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
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More mapping game ideas:
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/three-more-m...
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Three More Mapping Game Paradigms
In the conversation that led to The Mapping Game -- Conventional Dungeon Paradigm, Scribble & I imagined a few additional paradigms that could support a game...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/three-more-mapping-game-paradigms/
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Alvin Munk
about 2 months ago
The magic stone transported me into another universe, a fantasy world full of beasts and magic. And I was 300 pounds of rippling muscle, completely hairless, and had a huge cumbersome penis which got in the way as I fought nudely
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
about 2 months ago
Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.
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Stella Joy
about 2 months ago
I am gonna do a solo hexcrawl of the land of Zurth one day per day. It's gonna be under the tag
#imwilintheblue
I'm starting as a castaway in the lilac wastes.
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𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈
about 2 months ago
Reading
@idraluna-archives.bsky.social
's Zurth hexcrawl and I'm thrilled. There's like a minimum of 10 good ideas per page. I'm Zurthpilled. I'm a Zurthhead. I'm standing on the street asking strangers if they heard of Zurth
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The greatest ever to do it...
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about 2 months ago
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Melsonian Arts Council
about 2 months ago
Down with the internet!
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How To Stop Jumping Ship
Almost all of us have been on the internet long enough to have had one of our essential community hubs go flying off into oncoming traffic. MySpace, G+, Disc...
https://dsell.me/how-to-stop-jumping-ship/
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about 2 months ago
Creator of WigglyPaint wrote about how his work (free WigglyPain program from awesome Decker) is stolen by AI/mobile grifters to elicit profit. The most striking thing for me is how those grifters mutilate a free program to lock tools behind the paywall.
beyondloom.com/blog/onwiggl...
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Internally, WigglyPaint maintains three image buffers and edits them simultaneously, with different types of randomization applied for different drawing tools; many tools apply a random position offset between stroke segments or randomly select different brush shapes and sizes:
http://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html
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A mask for
@500poundsofnothing.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
's mask relay:
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/mask-23-the-...
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Finished my entry for the Antarctic Adventure Jam:
idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-land-of-...
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The Land of Zurth: An Antarctic Hexcrawl by idraluna-archives
500 Antarctic hexes to explore
https://idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-land-of-zurth-an-antarctic-hexcrawl
about 2 months ago
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June Martin
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Sorry, you can’t have healthcare or supportive housing or anything because 50 billion dollars have been set aside to ensure ample munitions for Operation Vanquished Toddler
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Solomon lowkey cooked with all these tbh
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An absolute banger
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about 2 months ago
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One of the best writers in DIY RPGs has a new blog!
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about 2 months ago
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𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈
about 2 months ago
If you're ever worried about your settlements being underprepped, remember that people used to run years-long campaigns with Wilderlands of High Fantasy which described towns like this:
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Why I think everyone should be writing session reports for their games (even if nobody reads them!):
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/four-brief-a...
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Four Brief Arguments for Session Reports
The proposition: session reports are worth writing even if nobody reads them.[^4] Writing a session report is part of prepping for your next session. Whethe...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/four-brief-arguments-for-session-reports/
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Katt Kirsch
2 months ago
"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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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
2 months ago
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
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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
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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
3 months 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!
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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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