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monster valentine
February 3, 2026 at 5:40 AM
monster valentine
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TTRPG layout designers, please send me your portfolios.
For a client I'm doing some consulting for.
For a client I'm doing some consulting for.
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 AM
TTRPG layout designers, please send me your portfolios.
For a client I'm doing some consulting for.
For a client I'm doing some consulting for.
Dangerously close to writing a fully diegetic “treatise” on poisons for Cairn or something like that.
Had a passing thought about making a poisons system based on the four humors and medieval medicine, but it turns out actual medieval doctors spent centuries thinking through that only to decide you couldn’t explain poisons based just on that and you also needed astrology involved for the stars 1/2
February 2, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Dangerously close to writing a fully diegetic “treatise” on poisons for Cairn or something like that.
PONDER THY BLOGS
765 submissions. And people say blogging is dead...bah!
𝔓𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰
𝔓𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰
The Bloggies 2026 submissions are officially closed. Get ready for the nominations next Monday.
You can get the full schedule and submissions breakdown here:
www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-sub...
You can get the full schedule and submissions breakdown here:
www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-sub...
February 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM
PONDER THY BLOGS
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Hey, get a load of this wizard tower. It's my escape room puzzle dungeon infused with my love for zelda and crystal fantasy. It's almost finished and now it's crowdfunding 🥲
puzzledungeon.com/tower
#zinemonth #osr #dnd @zinemonth.bsky.social
puzzledungeon.com/tower
#zinemonth #osr #dnd @zinemonth.bsky.social
A Familiar Tower
A new escape room adventure for Old-School Essentials. A polished puzzle box dungeon you’ll solve from the inside.
puzzledungeon.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Hey, get a load of this wizard tower. It's my escape room puzzle dungeon infused with my love for zelda and crystal fantasy. It's almost finished and now it's crowdfunding 🥲
puzzledungeon.com/tower
#zinemonth #osr #dnd @zinemonth.bsky.social
puzzledungeon.com/tower
#zinemonth #osr #dnd @zinemonth.bsky.social
Had a passing thought about making a poisons system based on the four humors and medieval medicine, but it turns out actual medieval doctors spent centuries thinking through that only to decide you couldn’t explain poisons based just on that and you also needed astrology involved for the stars 1/2
February 2, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Had a passing thought about making a poisons system based on the four humors and medieval medicine, but it turns out actual medieval doctors spent centuries thinking through that only to decide you couldn’t explain poisons based just on that and you also needed astrology involved for the stars 1/2
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Today I am participating in a Dungeon Inc promo actual play for the Merry Mushmen.
Feeling a bit nervous but it should be ok.
Dungeon Inc is an OSR adjacent game where you play the employee monsters of the dungeon. Reverse D&D hijinxes situation.
Feeling a bit nervous but it should be ok.
Dungeon Inc is an OSR adjacent game where you play the employee monsters of the dungeon. Reverse D&D hijinxes situation.
February 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Today I am participating in a Dungeon Inc promo actual play for the Merry Mushmen.
Feeling a bit nervous but it should be ok.
Dungeon Inc is an OSR adjacent game where you play the employee monsters of the dungeon. Reverse D&D hijinxes situation.
Feeling a bit nervous but it should be ok.
Dungeon Inc is an OSR adjacent game where you play the employee monsters of the dungeon. Reverse D&D hijinxes situation.
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It's Sunday here, and time for this week's review!
This time we're looking at Fort Sanglot, a French tri-fold for OSE.
It's got vampires, and bandits, and twists and turns to surprise your players! I like it!
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-fort-...
#TTRPG #OSR
This time we're looking at Fort Sanglot, a French tri-fold for OSE.
It's got vampires, and bandits, and twists and turns to surprise your players! I like it!
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-fort-...
#TTRPG #OSR
Review: Fort Sanglot
is a tri-fold dungeon for by . Like we're doing a non-English adventure again, but Google Translate does a fine job of conveying the meaning of it. ...
blog.catshavenolord.page
February 1, 2026 at 6:23 AM
It's Sunday here, and time for this week's review!
This time we're looking at Fort Sanglot, a French tri-fold for OSE.
It's got vampires, and bandits, and twists and turns to surprise your players! I like it!
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-fort-...
#TTRPG #OSR
This time we're looking at Fort Sanglot, a French tri-fold for OSE.
It's got vampires, and bandits, and twists and turns to surprise your players! I like it!
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-fort-...
#TTRPG #OSR
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Toucan’t Blog: Where Does Mausritter Exist?
Brad Kerr famously doesn’t read blogs, so I feel safe quoting him out of context and starting some lighthearted beef
Brad Kerr famously doesn’t read blogs, so I feel safe quoting him out of context and starting some lighthearted beef
Where does Mausritter exist?
Between Two Cairns recently released an reviewing and around the 41 minute mark, they got stuck on the “human issue” that comes up anytime someone who does...
toucant.bearblog.dev
February 1, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Toucan’t Blog: Where Does Mausritter Exist?
Brad Kerr famously doesn’t read blogs, so I feel safe quoting him out of context and starting some lighthearted beef
Brad Kerr famously doesn’t read blogs, so I feel safe quoting him out of context and starting some lighthearted beef
@mattcolville.bsky.social this might actually make me buy it
I wonder if they need art for that OSR Draw Steel Thing...
February 1, 2026 at 8:16 AM
@mattcolville.bsky.social this might actually make me buy it
Realized the main thing holding me back from this is mapping, but also that Donjon exists, so I’ve got a big ass map now and it’s time to get to work
I think it might be time to write a megadungeon. Feeling aimless today in my free time now that I finished the most recent dungeon I was working on. It’s nice to have a bit of writing to chip away at in small chunks when I can.
February 1, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Realized the main thing holding me back from this is mapping, but also that Donjon exists, so I’ve got a big ass map now and it’s time to get to work
It's Sunday here, and time for this week's review!
This time we're looking at Fort Sanglot, a French tri-fold for OSE.
It's got vampires, and bandits, and twists and turns to surprise your players! I like it!
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-fort-...
#TTRPG #OSR
This time we're looking at Fort Sanglot, a French tri-fold for OSE.
It's got vampires, and bandits, and twists and turns to surprise your players! I like it!
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-fort-...
#TTRPG #OSR
Review: Fort Sanglot
is a tri-fold dungeon for by . Like we're doing a non-English adventure again, but Google Translate does a fine job of conveying the meaning of it. ...
blog.catshavenolord.page
February 1, 2026 at 6:23 AM
It's Sunday here, and time for this week's review!
This time we're looking at Fort Sanglot, a French tri-fold for OSE.
It's got vampires, and bandits, and twists and turns to surprise your players! I like it!
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-fort-...
#TTRPG #OSR
This time we're looking at Fort Sanglot, a French tri-fold for OSE.
It's got vampires, and bandits, and twists and turns to surprise your players! I like it!
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-fort-...
#TTRPG #OSR
I think it might be time to write a megadungeon. Feeling aimless today in my free time now that I finished the most recent dungeon I was working on. It’s nice to have a bit of writing to chip away at in small chunks when I can.
February 1, 2026 at 6:00 AM
I think it might be time to write a megadungeon. Feeling aimless today in my free time now that I finished the most recent dungeon I was working on. It’s nice to have a bit of writing to chip away at in small chunks when I can.
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This does not include Blog Series and Best Debut Blog. Those are dessert.
February 1, 2026 at 4:39 AM
This does not include Blog Series and Best Debut Blog. Those are dessert.
Sometimes a cat shows up in an empty pot outside your house screaming and all you can do is let it in to be the cutest thing all over the house
February 1, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Sometimes a cat shows up in an empty pot outside your house screaming and all you can do is let it in to be the cutest thing all over the house
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You all seemed to think it was funny, and despite its utter failure to end all discourse forever I would be failing to big myself up appropriately if i didnt put forward "What is an OSR" for your consideration. My other nominations in the thread below :)
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
February 1, 2026 at 1:14 AM
You all seemed to think it was funny, and despite its utter failure to end all discourse forever I would be failing to big myself up appropriately if i didnt put forward "What is an OSR" for your consideration. My other nominations in the thread below :)
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
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Inspired by @elmc.at's post this week, I wrote up my own framework for how to handle knowledge questions in RPGs -
table46.bearblog.dev/knowledge-ge...
#nsr #osr #posr #rpg
table46.bearblog.dev/knowledge-ge...
#nsr #osr #posr #rpg
Knowledge, General and Specific
I've been thinking about knowledge this week, prompted by Elmcat's . It's a great framework for thinking about how to provide characters with knowledge that ...
table46.bearblog.dev
January 31, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Updated the blog map with the first data set of 2026.
graph.elmc.at
here is what it looks like if you filter for this year
graph.elmc.at
here is what it looks like if you filter for this year
January 31, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Updated the blog map with the first data set of 2026.
graph.elmc.at
here is what it looks like if you filter for this year
graph.elmc.at
here is what it looks like if you filter for this year
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Sure, why not? I am pretty fond of this post I did on designing obstacles for OSR play: widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/a-lock-with-...
January 31, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Sure, why not? I am pretty fond of this post I did on designing obstacles for OSR play: widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/a-lock-with-...
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No more rolling for random weather. Your calendar and the weather are one and the same. In this blogpost I present a full year of weather, with simple mechanical effects for #osr games. I particularly like the water drinking rule for the month of Scorch.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/01/cale...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/01/cale...
Calendar-Weather/Weather-Calendar
"Why must the Weather change?"
The weather and the calendar are one and the same.
13 Weather-Months of 4 weeks each. 364 days. No randomisation
foreignplanets.blogspot.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
No more rolling for random weather. Your calendar and the weather are one and the same. In this blogpost I present a full year of weather, with simple mechanical effects for #osr games. I particularly like the water drinking rule for the month of Scorch.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/01/cale...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/01/cale...
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Last day to nominate posts for the bloggies. If you need some suggestions I posted a few of my nominations every day in this thread the past month.
January 31, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Last day to nominate posts for the bloggies. If you need some suggestions I posted a few of my nominations every day in this thread the past month.
For goblin week, have this passage from One for the Morning Glory.
This is the description of goblins that has stuck with me more than any other. Everything they do is a corruption and mockery of how things are done in the world above.
This is the description of goblins that has stuck with me more than any other. Everything they do is a corruption and mockery of how things are done in the world above.
January 31, 2026 at 10:41 PM
For goblin week, have this passage from One for the Morning Glory.
This is the description of goblins that has stuck with me more than any other. Everything they do is a corruption and mockery of how things are done in the world above.
This is the description of goblins that has stuck with me more than any other. Everything they do is a corruption and mockery of how things are done in the world above.
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Dropping on Monday on DrivethruRPG: PAMPHLETS @skullfungus.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Dropping on Monday on DrivethruRPG: PAMPHLETS @skullfungus.bsky.social
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It’s done! 101 entries for 14 rooms, but it’s done. Still needs proofreading and playtesting, but this thing will be ready to see the light of day soon.
Let me know if you’re interested in playtesting an old school choose-your-own-adventure dungeon.
#OSR #TTRPG
Let me know if you’re interested in playtesting an old school choose-your-own-adventure dungeon.
#OSR #TTRPG
The problem with writing a choose-your-own-adventure style dungeon is the number of entries you have to write skyrocketing as you deal with all the possible conditions. I’ve only done 4 rooms of this latest one so far and I’m nearing 60 entries dealing with the possibilities for each.
January 31, 2026 at 10:21 AM