Two big announcements this New Year for me. First, the latest issue of The Explorateur is out. It has two of my favorite blog posts I've ever written in it (Including a YouTube read through! Wild!) www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat... It also has my second announcement...

10/20. Martin Grip, Symbaroum illustrations (yes, all of them, but this one is a favourite)

9/20. Richard Anderson.

Uh oh. I don’t want to work with Triffids.

8/20. Dawn at the Temple, Jason Scheier.

7/20. Pandemonium, John Martin.

MurkMail’s last post of 2025! #ttrpg #osr

6/20. Vision of Death, Gustav Doré

5/20. War, Grady Frederick

I wrote about my plans for 2026, both under the @cairnrpg.com umbrella and Between Two Cairns. newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/

Some quick ink doodles, haven’t painted with ink for a while so I’m rusty haha

4/20. Fantasyscape, Peter Trúchly

In these dark times, be kind to your loved ones and cruel to your enemies. Eat and drink what you can. Sacrifice and chant to dead gods. Hail Satan and rejoice. It’ll all be over soon.

3/20 Alan Lee’s Battle of Helm’s Deep

Holiday haul #ttrpg #osr. Some delightful stuff.

2/20. Isle of the Dead, Arnold Böcklin

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I discuss our favorite module reviews from the year. That's right: it's the Cairnies 2025! www.patreon.com/posts/146425...

Next year for me: MÖRK BORG (playtesting Inkvein and potentially another top secret project) Mythic Bastionland (I’ve got all the prep done, just need the time to play) CY_BORG Liminal Horror

Sure, you know about Vancian Magic, but what about Jackian Magic? (Someone please finish this design.) www.explorersdesign.com/jackian-magic/

20 paintings that have influenced you. 1/day. No review. No comments. Just art. April Gornik’s Big Storm Light. Oil on linen.

Hello, PDF games cheap now WINTER SALE very good!! please buy thanks bye bye itch.io/s/175165/win...

Here is a map of one of the new dungeons that you can delve in the final version of Downrooted! If that is something that sounds cool to you, then make it happen be contributing to the funding! eucatastrophic.itch.io/downrooted

I will just comment briefly to say I’m aware of the republished book. I’d reiterate that Vaults of Vaarn is published under Creative Commons and the book text encourages you to remix, edit, reuse the content.

Today in MurkMail… we burn down Dolmenwood murkdice.substack.com/p/lets-burn-... #osr

You’d have thought the meta-ness of writing a megadungeon where the scary thing is Ink would have dawned on me sooner. Perhaps my pen and I need to examine our symbiosis.

New Dungeon (in blog form): Castle Claus, or The Keep on the North Pole A Rankin Bass Christmas-themed dungeon for the Merry Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. Possibly one of my more high effort blog posts to date #osr #ttrpg

99% of rpg zines and books should have page numbers. And that's just the start. There's actually a lot of technique and intentionality behind things like page numbers, running headers, etc. Let me know what you think! www.explorersdesign.com/designing-si...

Grimdark is a cool genre for #ttrpgs, including when we take it seriously. Here’s why #osr

Critique Navidad! What do you get when you hire a university to write the most comprehensive history of a civilisation to support a module, and illustrate it better than most children’s history books? You get Carved in Stone, a module about living among the picts! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/13/c...

Our @morkborg.com caving megadungeon INKVEIN is coming Spring 2026, published by @spacepenguinink.bsky.social. Get the free quickstart guide, a 16 chamber dungeon right now when you sign up for launch notification www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #osr #ttrpg

Had a nice drawing session this afternoon! Came up with this 6x8 on tomoe river paper Calling it “first watch”

This holiday season, give your favorite creators the perfect gift: attention. A 5-star rating, a product review on Exalted, or even a share on Reddit. www.explorersdesign.com/critmas-2025/

Turns out, there's only 12 kinds of NPC in existence: murkdice.substack.com/p/the-only-1... #ttrpg #osr

Death in Space (a sci-fi sandbox where you’re always in peril) Blades in the Dark (I mean come on, Blades) Liminal Horror (rules lite investigative horror) Cy_Borg (a Borg and a cyberpunk game, two with one stone) Honourable mention: Mythic Bastionland. Only missed out because it’s fantasy.

We're at 450 followers now for our @morkborg.com megadungeon INKVEIN! Let's see if we can make it to 500 by the end of this week, reposts appreciated! #osr

hey at Dragonmeet/Muppetmeet I met a nice person (man?) who said he was running or putting together an agency for TTRPG con workers and con GMs? I lost their card! If you are that person, or know who that is, can you please tell me so i can recommend your services?

I am opening a shop

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I review Fragments of the Floating City by Will Jarvis, and answer a Mootsack question. www.patreon.com/posts/fragme...

Turns out the easy part of being a creative is doing the creative work It's all down hill when you open google sheets and think about shipping :)

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...

I am also following! Love some Mork Borg.

We've been live for just over 2 hours and there's already 200 people following our @morkborg.com megadungeon project Inkvein www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... Madness!

Going to be awesome!

Look at this beauty by the amazing @murkdice.bsky.social ! So exited for this

Our @morkborg.com caving megadungeon INKVEIN is coming Spring 2026, published by @spacepenguinink.bsky.social. Get the free quickstart guide, a 16 chamber dungeon right now when you sign up for launch notification www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #osr #ttrpg

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.

Only three days left to back Junk City & the 15 other awesome Mausritter Month projects! To finish out the month I'll be streaming tomorrow with @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social and @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com for a double-feature Q&A! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFFd...

Hello Mork Bork-ers. Foil covers have arrived. Three days left before late pledges close. Pick up a copy before that happens and you'll take advantage of a free foil cover, free mini zine, free stickers, and (with the bundle) an extra gatefold scenario + 9 encounter cards.

I had fun at PAX Unplugged! I played over 20 hours worth of games and went out to the local taverns every night. How did I do it all? That’s proprietary, but you can instead read all about the games I played #osr #ttrpg

I just published my first Mothership module: Twinkle Twinkle little star The module will have your crew investigating a solar research ship orbiting a dying star, can you figure out what happened, and will you complete their mission? Available now on itch! personable.itch.io/twinkle-twin...