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Remember SKILL CHALLENGES? They're back! In blog form! Check out my latest post where I lay out an easy and fun way to handle a complex, tense situation. It works in every TTRPG ever made up until this point and all future TTRPGs (disclaimer: this is a lie) www.mindstormpress.com/quick-stakes...

Checklist for Making a Cool Monster Vampires are undeniably cool. I break down what makes them so cool and how that can be applied to designing other monsters to make them almost as cool as a vampire #osr #ttrpg

I have to admit a something shameful. The first time I ever encountered it, I just typed /roll 1d66 into roll20. 😔

How do you write a fighter class that's interesting? How do you take standard fantasy and make it fresh? How do you frame campaign setting details without giving reading homework? How do you set up a long-term campaign from session 0? Here's my pitch: riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/09/knig...

a good year to get resident evil tattoos just sayin

This is such an interesting post about something I've felt a bit in my own prep. Too much signposting creates the same sort of table habits that too much railroading does. Good read, since we don't typically talk about this 'mirror' of railroading!

With a new baby and toddler, The Odyssey (2026) may be the last movie I'll see for a while, but I was still able to glean (or couldn't avoid gleaning) a few lessons from it for TTRPGs #osr #ttrpg

Annual repost of my garden wall post just because I really like it

I had to have a regular coke instead of coke zero today and yeah, it still tastes like literal mold to me? Not an exaggeration, it's not terrible or anything, but it genuinely has a moldy taste! (I'm so brave for this one)

These are the blogposts made for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon, from 17th of August to 10th of September. I used the opportunity to rally the Indonesians and international TTRPG hobbyists to create gameable blogpost related to Indonesia. Enjoy! afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-t...

some hellenistic sculpture studies i did + the references. traditional ink lines + procreate paint

hearing Nathan Fielder got Amanda Seyfried for the documentary: "my god... he's going to Rehearse this"

I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque. Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...

I'm building a boxed set It will integrate all my previous works into a single sandbox world Sign up here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/laz... #TTRPG #RPG #TabletopRPG

I have made using True Names for fae and demons compelling and gameable, which some said was impossible. Also, this is part of both the ongoing Name and Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagons #ttrpg #osr

I issue you a challenge: Write your dungeons in 4-5 room elemental building blocks. Try writing a dungeon patch every week for a month. Post your dungeon patches on your blog so your friends can use them. Take dungeon patches from your friend's blogs. Make your megadungeons like a quilt.

Last December, Nova lost her father to a years-long battle with lung cancer. Today, we’re releasing The Man And The Mountain, her eulogy for him. www.dinoberrypress.com/shop/p/the-m...

Blades of Thesus: a webapp that outputs a cheatsheet for Blades in the Dark. You select which of the Deep Cut mods you want to install, and it subs out and fixes the appropriate rules. The community can also publish their own mods which can be installed and generate new reference booklets.

I wrote a manifesto. It's mostly for me, but maybe it can be for you too! seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...

Sam has created something magical with Dice Exploder- it was the impetus for my passion for games blossoming. I'm so thankful for all the work he's put in. I'm stoked to carry the show forward! Great season coming up, and I'm thrilled to show you all what I have brewing for the future of the show

Some really good GMing advice here, all about confidence!

your favorite spell from that 80s game and what is not elmc.at/it-aint-blorb/

I now have copies of Nyarlathotep's Liegemen and the Sea Weed! It's a "Baywatch Meets Lovecraft" adventure with killer writing by @nightnoon.games and art from the GOAT @betterlegends.bsky.social. Grab a copy! #ttrpg #osr www.prismaticwasteland.com/shop/p/nyarl...

I love my spouse so much and he runs a very cool blog did you know??? It's called mindstormpress.com

I'm in this!

Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG is now live on Itch! Cadastre is a highly re-playable tarot-powered RPG for 3 players. Meet your 19th-century survey crew and brave the frontier as you plot a treacherous border region. dadstep.itch.io/cadastre-a-l...

So this is the exact game @nornnoszka.bsky.social and I made: CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT (They're playing The Siren and The Mortal)

Released for Astronaut Mission Jam: DENIAL_OF_SERVICE; is my newest NULL_SPACE job! Investigate a sabotaged automated shipyard and try not to get Fucking Killed by the saboteur who did it. binary-star-games.itch.io/denial-of-se...

If you like dungeons, you REALLY gotta get in on this. Castle Automatic is amazing, but for me the big draw of pre-ordering is the Big Map. It's so detailed and evocative it just BEGS to be explored. Plopping that bad boy on the table is like injecting NOS right into your Dungeon Crawling Engine.

Some thoughts on running the Ramanan Sivaranjan Awards for Excellence in Gaming.

today's the final day to back seven part pact! we're $110k shy of a million dollars, which is goddamn crazy, and i am so blown away by everyone's incredible support www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

greek myths (spot art I am posting shortly to here : www.patreon.com/c/ABestiarya... and comradery.co/amandalee (free to use for your books & games & etc)

My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...

NEW BLOG POST!!! A distillation of my deeply held beliefs on elfgame design, evolved from my previous posts on setting design which suffer from early onset linkrot, and confusingly enough ending with me talking about Deathbringer for 2 paragraphs? But not really. Gaze upon my works, ye mortals.

Websites that allow The Slop but let you filter it out (like Cosmos and Artstation) should have the filter turned on by default with a small button that says "SHOW ME THE TRASH!" and when you click it your computer explodes.

Cyberrats in Space is LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! Get this game of fast, tactical combat, revenge in space, and giant rats in giant mechs! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

"You know you're in for something special when you're making your little mutated rat and you discover that, YES, you can strap on three (3) jetpacks at the same time. This is the high-octane, loaded-cybernetics rat game you've been looking for!" — @mindstorm.bsky.social on the original Cyberrats