The perfectly capture the vibes I was going for when writing Zurth

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. open.substack.com/pub/chrisglo...

My house rules for swapping ability scores for astrology signs, in case you want more woo in your game about wizards idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/astrology-si...

hags.bearblog.dev/cannibal-coa... The Cannibal Coast

The next steps for the Antarctic Adventure Jam: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/aaj-reflecti...

The next steps for the Antarctic Adventure Jam: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/aaj-reflecti...

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...

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

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""".

I am being sincere on main joeb.bearblog.dev/reflection-t...

A sleeper hit of the past week - definitely worth a read on how to prep pre-published modules and adventures #osr #dnd #ttrpg #diyrpg

M. John Harrison -- Apropos to how I think about writing hexcrawls.

dungeondogma.bearblog.dev/into-the-odd... An excellent post detailing more about the issues of monetization in the hobby.

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.

Player note from a very old campaign... what did they mean by this?

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 :)

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.

More mapping game ideas: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/three-more-m...

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

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.

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.

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

The greatest ever to do it...

Down with the internet! dsell.me/how-to-stop-...

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...

A mask for @500poundsofnothing.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy 's mask relay: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/mask-23-the-...

Finished my entry for the Antarctic Adventure Jam: idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-land-of-...

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

Solomon lowkey cooked with all these tbh

An absolute banger

One of the best writers in DIY RPGs has a new blog!

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:

Why I think everyone should be writing session reports for their games (even if nobody reads them!): idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/four-brief-a...

"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...

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/...