Some Agent Portraits I recently painted for an Impossible Landscape campaign #deltagreen

What makes an rpg cover great? Lots of things! We are spoiled for choice in rpgs. So, this week, I thought I'd show off 15 recent and lesser-known favorites w/ commentary. Let me know your favorites! I want to do a part 2. www.explorersdesign.com/great-book-c...

Step-Dice Rumour Tables (need I say more?) from the always engaging @murkdice.bsky.social. Fun read and something I definitely want to implement in a future scenario. #ttrpg #OSR #MÖRKBORG #tabletop

Today in MurkMail: rumour tech open.substack.com/pub/murkdice... #osr

The d12 table of NPC archetypes that @murkdice.bsky.social wrote are fantastics btw. Definitely check them out! The 12 NPCs you need for DnD and TTRPGs by Murkdice medium.com/p/https-murk...

This month's Explorateur kicks off the design curation with 10 thoughts too small for their own posts! Thoughts like: The path to greatness is paved in cringe. Kill Luke Skywalker as soon as possible. Let Frontier airlines test your book. Your manifesto needs manifestation. Thanks for reading!

What have I been eating to refill my creative battery? murkdice.substack.com/p/what-art-h...

Quote with a game you’re currently playing

There were a whopping 80 blog posts for the latest Random Blogwagon! I round them all up into a rollable table here: #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon

B5 is amazing. I feel so lucky that we’re managing to do Inkvein in B5

What’s the right page size for your rpg project? What options are there? What are the pros and cons? I have some favorites. www.explorersdesign.com/how-to-pick-...

I've written about my inspirations for my 100+ room, Metroidvania dungeon, The Castle Automatic

How many words should we use when prepping/writing #ttrpg adventures? substack.com/home/post/p-...

Share your megadungeon maps. In my case its an Aerostat operating on the Venus like planet of Ishtar ... and something has gone very wrong on board.

If it's a megadungeon, I'll buy it and read it and pine for the day my kids realize the joy of megadungeons.

PHWOAH!

Self Portrait with Tower, Per Janke, digital, 2026

In other news, thanks to the extraordinaire @featherfallflight.bsky.social, the editing is done on "He Who Claimed the Sun", my next Northwoods #OSE module! Proof copies have been ordered. If everthing's A-OK, it should be out within a fortnight!

Share your megadungeon maps people. Show how it all works with pictures!

The House under the Moondial is DTRPG's Deal of the Day! 🎉 Get yours now, for a fraction of its value! (60% off) Tell all your friends about it! I'm so proud of this mystery D&D adventure, and today is the perfect day for everyone to find out why! ;) www.drivethrurpg.com//product/474...

I made some illustration for an upcoming Mothership Pet Companion content called It followed me home. Quite happy with how the dynamic in this piece turned out

We've had this many character deaths!

In which I unbox and review the new (ish) D&D starter set, Heroes of the Borderlands. Does it live up to there legacy of its venerable predecessor? Or is it an offence to the holy memory of E Gary Gygax? The answer may surprise you! idlecartulary.com/2026/06/15/i...

Something different this week, but still #ttrpg related. A weird take on writing consistently murkdice.substack.com/p/how-i-write

I see this come up a lot in the hobby. Folks who tend to assume you are ‘wrong’ because you haven’t been exposed to the ’right‘ ideas. I think it‘s better to assume that someone has come to an opinion having seen the alternatives already, rather than ‘assuming ignorance’ in some way.

I'm launching a Patreon next month wherein I incrementally publish a big weird fantasy sandbox campaign. New hexes and dungeons every month. It's called "These Sorcerous Lands." Please give it a follow. Every Patron gets a kiss (metaphorical). patreon.com/bradkerr

What is a module? An adventure that went to college? @murkdice.bsky.social murkdice.substack.com/p/what-actua...

When a dragon has just 1 hit point and a maze of obstacles, combat is like an open-ended puzzle. The challenge: the player characters only have 1 hit point too—and the dragon has a lot fewer obstacles. A small playtesting update about death without hit points:

Shoggoth

The very first Cairn Press "Double Feature" is now LIVE on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cai...

A chunky d20 table in MurkMail this week! Part of @prismaticwasteland.com’s blogwagon #osr murkdice.substack.com/p/connective...

This is well worth a listen! I'm waiting for the next episode already

Will my nan finally understand what I do now?

I made other Pendragon portrait. This is Sir Cariadoc, one of the player knights in the Under an Iron Sky Actual Play by @glasscannonnetwork.bsky.social

MurkMail is in Explorateur twice this month!

oh good someone perfectly articulated my same petty annoyance

Quality “old man yells at cloud” post.

Today, I share a petty #ttrpg grudge murkdice.substack.com/p/im-tired-o...

Making little character sheets for mounts is super easy, barely an inconvenience! Seriously people really like having dedicated sheets for their horses

Quick doodle inspired by @perplexingruins.bsky.social recent ‘Seek’ piece.

4 Pillar Games, the Ken Whitman-owned website that created AI-generated profiles of TTRPG designers and received massive pushback, has relabeled itself as “Tabletop Game Icons” and insists the content is fact-checked in every image. They also removed a ton of profiles, it seems.

Attention all bloggers: a new blog bandwagon appears! This time the topic is randomness in all its forms. The post includes some random tables to further randomize your ensuing post #osr #ttrpg

For saying I've spent most of the last month lost in the drawing doldrums, this week has been something of a turnaround. Phew.

Dream Tormentor Shaky train drawing on my way towards UKGE

Now that the discourse has died down, and my birding has lessened, I want to talk about lists in rpgs. I like what both sides of the debate make. So, like everything else, "good" isn't about which side you choose but how you execute the idea. If you choose to use lists, use them well.

dungeoneers (2026) #digitalart #rpg #D&D

Page 2 of mini comic after some post analog treatment

Still need to raise funds for a new Computer. Selling more of the collection. DM for details PayPay ( I don’t have Venmo) US only

Working on possible print idea