Today, for Critique Navidad, it is the odd and wonderful Field Agent Handbook! What if you turned your entire life into a Hilda-meets-SCP larp? idlecartulary.com/2025/12/24/c...

🚨WORTHY ESSAY ALERT🚨 "but i’m more interested in a different question. what happens when a spell becomes cheaper than a worker." The traditional magic=tech worldbuilding question has always bored me. Add class analysis to the mix? I'm in. beeboobubie.substack.com/p/the-infras...

My Christmas has been paid for because somebody included The Wretched in their Christmas gift guide. Talk about the stuff you like.

Flatline on the Blocks has been such a fun project! I hadn’t written for Mothership in a while after writing Resonant so it was a good time to work with everybody. #osr www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

"Nobody is taking our toys away ... Our magic circle is still unbroken, but now we can understand more about how the circle came to be." @harbowoputra.bsky.social , on dungeons: diceless.substack.com/p/embracing-...

reminder 20% off the shop till the end of the month! perplexingruinsshop.bigcartel.com that's original drawings, Gnome, Solo Booklet, and more

The colonial plantation is a TTRPG dungeon. I approve of this greatly!

Great pair of essays for thinking about writing anti-colonial ttrpgs and adventures.

Citation is easy. It's a couple of lines on your credits page. Citation is encouragement. Every time somebody else acknowledges me this way, I feel like the work is worthwhile. Citation is introspection. You are marking your trajectory, the ports you have called at, as a maker. 1/

Thread by Leo (whose Vaults Of Vaarn was one of the works pilfered from) about why attribution is important (because not doing it just impoverishes your own art).

Lore lives in the tables, as @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social has talked about recently. What memento does your Avatar carry with them across the 5 Million Worlds?

The Wretched has seen a massive uptick in sales recently, which I'm very happy about. If you haven't checked it out yet it's currently on sale, which seems like an excellent excuse to give it a go. https://loottheroom.itch.io/wretched

Oh hey, I published this blog post yesterday about how to build a #MothershipRPG campaign based around a search and rescue ship trawling a few star systems for distress signals. Totally my own initiative, and not for any other reason that will become apparent in a future Ansible Uplink episode.

Getting my money’s worth out of this Canva account before this hyper fixation passes

ugh. hi

talking about this in the dice exploder discord but kinda interested in what the rabble thinks from a TTRPG perspective, what is the difference between a mechanic and a rule and do we actually care about that difference?

The Mouth Of Winter is yawning open, spitting out another chapter for your delectation. It's day 14. loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025

If you are a fan of the BlueSky OSR feed Yochai created, that I now manage, please consider donating for its upkeep costs! The service we use has created this convenient page where you can donate directly to paying for the feed’s hosting. blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/save.vs.to...

Thanks for everyone's support, Mud Ghost Estate Redux have reached 100%! ✨ With under 24 hours left, can we push it a bit further? 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

I was offered to buy an ad in Sweden’s major rpg magazine’s Christmas issue and because I make informed financial decisions I got myself a full-pager. “Gifts for all naughty kids”, it says. And then big: “Yellow Christmas.” Now please buy stuff at pittrapshop.com to help me fix this.

We'll spin our yarns in Tales from the Locker #1, a #PirateBorg anthology. #OSR ⚓ The Temple of Atlach-Nacha - Lars White ⚓ The Cartographer's Den - Alexander Jatscha-Zelt ⚓ Island of 1,000 Corpses - Philip Reed ⚓ Tusked Raider Class - Ed Bourelle ⚓ Quartermaster's Corner - Tyler J. Stratton …

Get 4 issues of Wyrd Science, the world’s best currently published tabletop game magazine that is mainly about RPGs but also covers boardgames & wargames & films & bands & books & art & toys &, well, you get the idea, for just £25 and treat someone you love to THE GIFT OF READING this Christmas!

Literally this

This is very exciting. Patrick's Snail Knight stories are some of my favourite writing he's done. Patrick's shared the first three stories again, all worth reading. For reals

I come to you like Paul Revere on the back of a liger. The Bloggies are coming! Like, share, and subscribe. www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...

Happy Critique Navidad, Moon Rings! Is this solo game about witches seeking the ending of a cursed moon a stellar journalling game, or something else entirely? Find out! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/04/c...

🤖Mecha? 🔥 🐭In Mausritter?? 🔥🔥 🦾Using stickers? 🔥🔥🔥 🧑‍💻By Laurie? 🔥🔥🔥🔥 👩‍💻And Kayla?? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Mine and @ratwave.uk 's new game, with art by @foletto.itch.io is in its last 40 odd hours. This game is gonna be pretty brilliant so I would recommend backing while you still can. A late pledge is a great pledge. Etc... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Let's talk items. First up; the flow staff! You can see it in the trailer. The flow staff folds in to fight and out to fly; both in the game and on the sheet. But it's weaker than most heavy weapons. All illustrated items have mechanics on the back. Never look up a magic item effect again.

Haven't picked up The Mouth Of Winter yet? Here's chapter one to whet your appetite. loottheroom.uk/the-mouth-of...

Agonizing over whether to draw tokens or paper minis for my OD&D monster project. Both have major pros and cons! Personally, I'm leaning towards tokens - they're much faster to make with a hole punch, flat pack easily and (I think) convey more character! ...But the spectacle of the paper minis...

Well it’s all over. What an amazing ride. Thanks so much to my man @daniellocke.bsky.social all the writers and everyone on the discord, and every single person that has made this a reality. Now I sleep. Or I wish I could.

Read about our new brick and mortar location coming to Walker's Point in Milwaukee this winter (paywalled - support local journalism!) urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/12/02/a...

Subscribe to my newsletter, you'll probably only get 4 emails a year since that's how often I seem to remember to send emails buttondown.com/seedling/arc...

Well we got this one. And the next one, an extra A5 card to assist solo play! There’s still 38 minutes to get on board.

👀 If @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social and I get to our next stretch goal, I’ll be making all the Mecha and Kaiju art in ISLANDS OF WEIRDHOPE beautiful full colour! 🎨🌈 🙌Maybe you can help us by spreading the word. 👇👇👇 www.backerkit.com/c/users/2055...

🌺A PERFECT WIFE, WEIRDING PEOPLE OUT🌺

Ach, now look what you’ve done! From seeming impossible, we’re now only £294 from all 12 Kaiju and Mecha being illustrated in full colour… could we?

Thank you @grinningrat.bsky.social for having us on your channel! Nate asked me to talk about the (brief) history of Golem Productions, crowdfunding RPGs, our Pirate Borg adventure, and where we’re heading. Enjoy! #OSR #NSR #TTRPG grinningrat.substack.com/p/interview-...

dragonmeet haul! was lovely seeing so many friends across various communities that i play with under one roof

was gonna play the tears from stone module i just got but didn't get to start because i was having too much fun drawing my character, storm rot. back this game so we get more mermons!

right, it's done. I've turned off all paid tiers on our website (bar the $10,000 a month Immortal one) & every feature, review & interview on there is now free to read (at least until I kill the site) that's over 150 articles covering everything from Warhammer to Wanderhome, Paranoia to Pendragon

Only one to 300!

Mystery solved. Joel Golby shared a Christmas gift guide on Twitter and included The Wretched, and I've sold a bunch of copies of the back of it. Talk about stuff you like. It makes a difference.

Only 2 more to go… !

It’s the final day, and it’d be nice to get to 300 backers.

Does the moon look big to you?

Quite a solo #ttrpg haul in the post today! Dead Letter Society & The Almanac of Sanguine Paths by @montfordtales.com ASTROPRISMA by @crescentchimera.bsky.social Substratum Protocol by @pandiongames.com Home by @deepdark.games Really been looking forward to all these! ...

I am looking for suggestions for some indie sci-fi skirmish wargames that are rules light and require very few miniatures. No campaign, just skirmishing. Rules light enough, and quick enough, that I could play it with an 8 year old. I know Space Weirdos, what else is there? #boardgames #wargames