Dougal
@doogface.bsky.social
Glasgow southsider, olympic level nerd - TTRPGer, #foreverDM.
Published my first module on itch!
Currently running D&D, Cy_Borg & Mothership
https://aroomcontaining1d6goblins.substack.com/
https://doogface.itch.io
Published my first module on itch!
Currently running D&D, Cy_Borg & Mothership
https://aroomcontaining1d6goblins.substack.com/
https://doogface.itch.io
Now that Trump has released his digital $Trump currency, does that makes him a crypto-fascist?
Thank you, thank you.
Normal TTRPG posting will now resume.
Thank you, thank you.
Normal TTRPG posting will now resume.
January 13, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Now that Trump has released his digital $Trump currency, does that makes him a crypto-fascist?
Thank you, thank you.
Normal TTRPG posting will now resume.
Thank you, thank you.
Normal TTRPG posting will now resume.
Reposted by Dougal
"You can't do horror RPGs set in the modern day due to technology and modern weapons," tells me two things.
1: You haven't seen a horror movie in the last 25 years.
2: You have a debilitating lack of imagination.
1: You haven't seen a horror movie in the last 25 years.
2: You have a debilitating lack of imagination.
January 7, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"You can't do horror RPGs set in the modern day due to technology and modern weapons," tells me two things.
1: You haven't seen a horror movie in the last 25 years.
2: You have a debilitating lack of imagination.
1: You haven't seen a horror movie in the last 25 years.
2: You have a debilitating lack of imagination.
Reposted by Dougal
When a Warden absolutely, positively, wants to crush characters into fleshy meat cubes and drop them into a stars corona, this module is for you.
#mothershiprpg
#mothershiprpg
Ever wanted to make your players avoid being crushed into a meat cube by dark matter space wasps whilst falling into a star?
Well now you can.
#mothership
Well now you can.
#mothership
On Axionic Wings by Dougal Cochrane by Doogface
ESCALATING DANGER AND DARK MATTER HORRORS
doogface.itch.io
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 AM
When a Warden absolutely, positively, wants to crush characters into fleshy meat cubes and drop them into a stars corona, this module is for you.
#mothershiprpg
#mothershiprpg
Ever wanted to make your players avoid being crushed into a meat cube by dark matter space wasps whilst falling into a star?
Well now you can.
#mothership
Well now you can.
#mothership
On Axionic Wings by Dougal Cochrane by Doogface
ESCALATING DANGER AND DARK MATTER HORRORS
doogface.itch.io
January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Ever wanted to make your players avoid being crushed into a meat cube by dark matter space wasps whilst falling into a star?
Well now you can.
#mothership
Well now you can.
#mothership
I made a horrible Mothership scenario with dark matter space wasps on a ship falling into the corona of a star. Go get it!
#mothership #osr
#mothership #osr
On Axionic Wings
I just released my debut Mothership scenario!
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I made a horrible Mothership scenario with dark matter space wasps on a ship falling into the corona of a star. Go get it!
#mothership #osr
#mothership #osr
Thanks Evlyn. You're the best.
Hey look, a new #Mothership adventure with creepy crawlies, written and published by my friend @doogface.bsky.social
Send your poor non unionized space workers over there (RIP).
doogface.itch.io/onaxionicwings
#MothershipRPG #TTRPG
Send your poor non unionized space workers over there (RIP).
doogface.itch.io/onaxionicwings
#MothershipRPG #TTRPG
On Axionic Wings by Dougal Cochrane by Doogface
ESCALATING DANGER AND DARK MATTER HORRORS
doogface.itch.io
January 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Thanks Evlyn. You're the best.
Reposted by Dougal
New on the Patreon: first monthly set of Art Assets for 2026!
Build your own clunky space-trucker vehicles with this Modular Motherships set of 50 art assets (available for both personal and commercial use with attribution).
www.patreon.com/penflower_ink
Build your own clunky space-trucker vehicles with this Modular Motherships set of 50 art assets (available for both personal and commercial use with attribution).
www.patreon.com/penflower_ink
January 3, 2026 at 10:41 AM
New on the Patreon: first monthly set of Art Assets for 2026!
Build your own clunky space-trucker vehicles with this Modular Motherships set of 50 art assets (available for both personal and commercial use with attribution).
www.patreon.com/penflower_ink
Build your own clunky space-trucker vehicles with this Modular Motherships set of 50 art assets (available for both personal and commercial use with attribution).
www.patreon.com/penflower_ink
I normally keep my bluesky fairly focused on TTRPG stuff but @iandunt.bsky.social just managed a supreme act of comedy timing with his substack today.
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
I normally keep my bluesky fairly focused on TTRPG stuff but @iandunt.bsky.social just managed a supreme act of comedy timing with his substack today.
Prime requisite experience bonuses suck and many don't use the rule. But what if we fixed it instead?
#osr #OD&D #B/X #D&D
#osr #OD&D #B/X #D&D
The Underdog Bonus
Fixing Prime Requisite Experience Point Bonuses and introducing the Underdog Bonus instead.
open.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
10 TTRPG adventures I want to run in 2026:
You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge
The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford
The Blackapple Brugh
The Ruined Abbey of Saint Clewyd
Dead Planet
Rainmaker
Blood and Salt
Through the Valley of the Manticore
Woodfall
Sailors on the Starless Sea
What's your list?
You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge
The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford
The Blackapple Brugh
The Ruined Abbey of Saint Clewyd
Dead Planet
Rainmaker
Blood and Salt
Through the Valley of the Manticore
Woodfall
Sailors on the Starless Sea
What's your list?
ten RPG adventures I want to play in 2026:
- potter's bay
- aberrant reflections
- the shrike
- brackish
- the dream shrine
- crush depth apparition
- von hynd manor
- sag river extreme cold research facility, alaska.
- masks of nyarlathotep
- [unannounced secret project]
- potter's bay
- aberrant reflections
- the shrike
- brackish
- the dream shrine
- crush depth apparition
- von hynd manor
- sag river extreme cold research facility, alaska.
- masks of nyarlathotep
- [unannounced secret project]
December 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
10 TTRPG adventures I want to run in 2026:
You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge
The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford
The Blackapple Brugh
The Ruined Abbey of Saint Clewyd
Dead Planet
Rainmaker
Blood and Salt
Through the Valley of the Manticore
Woodfall
Sailors on the Starless Sea
What's your list?
You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge
The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford
The Blackapple Brugh
The Ruined Abbey of Saint Clewyd
Dead Planet
Rainmaker
Blood and Salt
Through the Valley of the Manticore
Woodfall
Sailors on the Starless Sea
What's your list?
So, trying to create a trifold pamphlet adventure has been a steep learning curve.
I have so much respect for folk like @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com who make layout look easy. Thankfully I'm getting some solid tuition from Odinson and at least starting to grasp some fundamentals.
#mothership
I have so much respect for folk like @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com who make layout look easy. Thankfully I'm getting some solid tuition from Odinson and at least starting to grasp some fundamentals.
#mothership
December 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
So, trying to create a trifold pamphlet adventure has been a steep learning curve.
I have so much respect for folk like @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com who make layout look easy. Thankfully I'm getting some solid tuition from Odinson and at least starting to grasp some fundamentals.
#mothership
I have so much respect for folk like @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com who make layout look easy. Thankfully I'm getting some solid tuition from Odinson and at least starting to grasp some fundamentals.
#mothership
What a shit day. Said goodbye to one of our dogs for the last time and buried him in the garden this afternoon.
I'll miss that little guy.
Rest in peace, Reuben.
I'll miss that little guy.
Rest in peace, Reuben.
December 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
What a shit day. Said goodbye to one of our dogs for the last time and buried him in the garden this afternoon.
I'll miss that little guy.
Rest in peace, Reuben.
I'll miss that little guy.
Rest in peace, Reuben.
Homebrewed adventures I made and ran this year:
Frontier Scum - Faster, Velociraptor! Kill, Kill!
Mothership - Last Voyage of the Demeter
Adventures I'm working on to publish:
Pirate Borg - Devils of Danger Cay
Shadowdark - A Certain Vintage
OSE - The Lichward Isles
Mothership - On Axionic Wings
Frontier Scum - Faster, Velociraptor! Kill, Kill!
Mothership - Last Voyage of the Demeter
Adventures I'm working on to publish:
Pirate Borg - Devils of Danger Cay
Shadowdark - A Certain Vintage
OSE - The Lichward Isles
Mothership - On Axionic Wings
Favourite adventure modules I ran this year:
Down Bad
Desert Moon of Karth
Gradient Descent
Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch
Knight of the Corpse Trials
Hoard of the Sea Wolf King
The Iron Coral
Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen
Winter's Daughter
Buried in the Bahamas
Rotblack Sludge
Welcome to the Ring
Down Bad
Desert Moon of Karth
Gradient Descent
Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch
Knight of the Corpse Trials
Hoard of the Sea Wolf King
The Iron Coral
Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen
Winter's Daughter
Buried in the Bahamas
Rotblack Sludge
Welcome to the Ring
Games run this year:
Mothership(Karth, Gradient Descent), OSE/Dolmenwood and CY_BORG PbP
5e/Shadowdark/wyrd&wild homebrew
5e
Blades in the Dark
Mörk Borg
Pirate Borg
Cairn
Shadowdark
Mothership
Into The Odd
Death In Space
Frontier Scum
Black Sword Hack
OSE
Played:
CY_BORG
Mausritter
I did good.
Mothership(Karth, Gradient Descent), OSE/Dolmenwood and CY_BORG PbP
5e/Shadowdark/wyrd&wild homebrew
5e
Blades in the Dark
Mörk Borg
Pirate Borg
Cairn
Shadowdark
Mothership
Into The Odd
Death In Space
Frontier Scum
Black Sword Hack
OSE
Played:
CY_BORG
Mausritter
I did good.
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Homebrewed adventures I made and ran this year:
Frontier Scum - Faster, Velociraptor! Kill, Kill!
Mothership - Last Voyage of the Demeter
Adventures I'm working on to publish:
Pirate Borg - Devils of Danger Cay
Shadowdark - A Certain Vintage
OSE - The Lichward Isles
Mothership - On Axionic Wings
Frontier Scum - Faster, Velociraptor! Kill, Kill!
Mothership - Last Voyage of the Demeter
Adventures I'm working on to publish:
Pirate Borg - Devils of Danger Cay
Shadowdark - A Certain Vintage
OSE - The Lichward Isles
Mothership - On Axionic Wings
Favourite adventure modules I ran this year:
Down Bad
Desert Moon of Karth
Gradient Descent
Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch
Knight of the Corpse Trials
Hoard of the Sea Wolf King
The Iron Coral
Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen
Winter's Daughter
Buried in the Bahamas
Rotblack Sludge
Welcome to the Ring
Down Bad
Desert Moon of Karth
Gradient Descent
Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch
Knight of the Corpse Trials
Hoard of the Sea Wolf King
The Iron Coral
Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen
Winter's Daughter
Buried in the Bahamas
Rotblack Sludge
Welcome to the Ring
Games run this year:
Mothership(Karth, Gradient Descent), OSE/Dolmenwood and CY_BORG PbP
5e/Shadowdark/wyrd&wild homebrew
5e
Blades in the Dark
Mörk Borg
Pirate Borg
Cairn
Shadowdark
Mothership
Into The Odd
Death In Space
Frontier Scum
Black Sword Hack
OSE
Played:
CY_BORG
Mausritter
I did good.
Mothership(Karth, Gradient Descent), OSE/Dolmenwood and CY_BORG PbP
5e/Shadowdark/wyrd&wild homebrew
5e
Blades in the Dark
Mörk Borg
Pirate Borg
Cairn
Shadowdark
Mothership
Into The Odd
Death In Space
Frontier Scum
Black Sword Hack
OSE
Played:
CY_BORG
Mausritter
I did good.
Still running Mothership and CY_BORG (nearly finished this one) play by post .
12 x Hexcrawl game
3 x Phandalin 5e game
1 x Blades in the Dark
1 x Mork Borg
1 x Pirate Borg
2 x Cairn (Trials/Witch Well)
1 x Shadowdark
1 x Mothership
1 x Into The Odd
12 x Hexcrawl game
3 x Phandalin 5e game
1 x Blades in the Dark
1 x Mork Borg
1 x Pirate Borg
2 x Cairn (Trials/Witch Well)
1 x Shadowdark
1 x Mothership
1 x Into The Odd
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Favourite adventure modules I ran this year:
Down Bad
Desert Moon of Karth
Gradient Descent
Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch
Knight of the Corpse Trials
Hoard of the Sea Wolf King
The Iron Coral
Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen
Winter's Daughter
Buried in the Bahamas
Rotblack Sludge
Welcome to the Ring
Down Bad
Desert Moon of Karth
Gradient Descent
Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch
Knight of the Corpse Trials
Hoard of the Sea Wolf King
The Iron Coral
Darkness Over Nijmauwrgen
Winter's Daughter
Buried in the Bahamas
Rotblack Sludge
Welcome to the Ring
Games run this year:
Mothership(Karth, Gradient Descent), OSE/Dolmenwood and CY_BORG PbP
5e/Shadowdark/wyrd&wild homebrew
5e
Blades in the Dark
Mörk Borg
Pirate Borg
Cairn
Shadowdark
Mothership
Into The Odd
Death In Space
Frontier Scum
Black Sword Hack
OSE
Played:
CY_BORG
Mausritter
I did good.
Mothership(Karth, Gradient Descent), OSE/Dolmenwood and CY_BORG PbP
5e/Shadowdark/wyrd&wild homebrew
5e
Blades in the Dark
Mörk Borg
Pirate Borg
Cairn
Shadowdark
Mothership
Into The Odd
Death In Space
Frontier Scum
Black Sword Hack
OSE
Played:
CY_BORG
Mausritter
I did good.
Still running Mothership and CY_BORG (nearly finished this one) play by post .
12 x Hexcrawl game
3 x Phandalin 5e game
1 x Blades in the Dark
1 x Mork Borg
1 x Pirate Borg
2 x Cairn (Trials/Witch Well)
1 x Shadowdark
1 x Mothership
1 x Into The Odd
12 x Hexcrawl game
3 x Phandalin 5e game
1 x Blades in the Dark
1 x Mork Borg
1 x Pirate Borg
2 x Cairn (Trials/Witch Well)
1 x Shadowdark
1 x Mothership
1 x Into The Odd
Still running Mothership and CY_BORG.
12 x Hexcrawl game
3 x Phandalin 5e game
1 x Blades in the Dark
1 x Mork Borg (rotblack sludge)
1 x Pirate Borg (buried in the bahamas)
1 Cairn (Knight of the Corpse Trials)
1 x Shadowdark (cursed scroll 3 gauntlet)
1 x Mothership homebrewed depth crawl
12 x Hexcrawl game
3 x Phandalin 5e game
1 x Blades in the Dark
1 x Mork Borg (rotblack sludge)
1 x Pirate Borg (buried in the bahamas)
1 Cairn (Knight of the Corpse Trials)
1 x Shadowdark (cursed scroll 3 gauntlet)
1 x Mothership homebrewed depth crawl
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Games run this year:
Mothership(Karth, Gradient Descent), OSE/Dolmenwood and CY_BORG PbP
5e/Shadowdark/wyrd&wild homebrew
5e
Blades in the Dark
Mörk Borg
Pirate Borg
Cairn
Shadowdark
Mothership
Into The Odd
Death In Space
Frontier Scum
Black Sword Hack
OSE
Played:
CY_BORG
Mausritter
I did good.
Mothership(Karth, Gradient Descent), OSE/Dolmenwood and CY_BORG PbP
5e/Shadowdark/wyrd&wild homebrew
5e
Blades in the Dark
Mörk Borg
Pirate Borg
Cairn
Shadowdark
Mothership
Into The Odd
Death In Space
Frontier Scum
Black Sword Hack
OSE
Played:
CY_BORG
Mausritter
I did good.
Into The Odd
Mothership
Pirate Borg
Eat the Reich
Mothership
Pirate Borg
Eat the Reich
If you wanted to run say, four different games that weren't Dungeons & Dragons in hopes of showing people the breadth of the TTRPG hobby, what games would you run for them? Assume that they are sort of familiar with 5E.
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Into The Odd
Mothership
Pirate Borg
Eat the Reich
Mothership
Pirate Borg
Eat the Reich
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I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
What is an OSR? - The Garden Below
a post about not knowing what the OSR is.
thegardenbelow.blot.im
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
Players, I have lived by this code as I traumatised you and your characters for decades, surely this was not a shock
Ladies and gentlemen of the OSR...
Motion to make this the First Amendment to the Principia Apocrypha and other such OSR and NSR guides to play, courtesy of @lukegearing.bsky.social
All in favour say aye?
#osr
Motion to make this the First Amendment to the Principia Apocrypha and other such OSR and NSR guides to play, courtesy of @lukegearing.bsky.social
All in favour say aye?
#osr
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Players, I have lived by this code as I traumatised you and your characters for decades, surely this was not a shock
Ladies and gentlemen of the OSR...
Motion to make this the First Amendment to the Principia Apocrypha and other such OSR and NSR guides to play, courtesy of @lukegearing.bsky.social
All in favour say aye?
#osr
Motion to make this the First Amendment to the Principia Apocrypha and other such OSR and NSR guides to play, courtesy of @lukegearing.bsky.social
All in favour say aye?
#osr
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ladies and gentlemen of the OSR...
Motion to make this the First Amendment to the Principia Apocrypha and other such OSR and NSR guides to play, courtesy of @lukegearing.bsky.social
All in favour say aye?
#osr
Motion to make this the First Amendment to the Principia Apocrypha and other such OSR and NSR guides to play, courtesy of @lukegearing.bsky.social
All in favour say aye?
#osr
You know you're running Mothership right when a player opens a door, views the contents of a room, and then messages the group with this:
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
You know you're running Mothership right when a player opens a door, views the contents of a room, and then messages the group with this:
Can confirm.
Dinosaurs plus cowboys equals
Dinosaurs plus cowboys equals
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Can confirm.
Dinosaurs plus cowboys equals
Dinosaurs plus cowboys equals
Tonight I will be attempting to run Frontier Scum as the good lord and @makedatanotlore.itch.io intended by making my scum outlaw players fight, run from or be devoured by dinosaurs.
#frontierscum #morkborg
#frontierscum #morkborg
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Tonight I will be attempting to run Frontier Scum as the good lord and @makedatanotlore.itch.io intended by making my scum outlaw players fight, run from or be devoured by dinosaurs.
#frontierscum #morkborg
#frontierscum #morkborg
It's not every day that as a GM you get to go full monkey's paw on a wish for apotheosis. A fitting finale for Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch!
Thanks for a great ride @sahlen.bsky.social and @nohr.se
#morktober #morkborg
Thanks for a great ride @sahlen.bsky.social and @nohr.se
#morktober #morkborg
October 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It's not every day that as a GM you get to go full monkey's paw on a wish for apotheosis. A fitting finale for Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch!
Thanks for a great ride @sahlen.bsky.social and @nohr.se
#morktober #morkborg
Thanks for a great ride @sahlen.bsky.social and @nohr.se
#morktober #morkborg