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@realbagel.bsky.social
ttrpg related things mostly
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Spine is probably the best TTRPG I've read or played all year, and — unbelievably — it's a solo TTRPG. Find out how this remarkable piece of work changed me, even as I changed it! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/30/i...
I Read Spine
I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…
idlecartulary.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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🎶HODAG'WEEN COMES ONCE A YEAR!
NOW IT'S HERE!
NOW IT'S HERE!

HODAG MAG-TIME! 🎶
October 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I wrote a piece for the Lesbian With Teeth blog, on why lesbian literature has so many transgressive, Avant Garde and genre-pushing work and why it does so by being Like That.

lesbianwithteeth.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/g...
Guest post: A Feminine Apocalypse Does It Raw
This post is a guest contribution from Lhuzie Fénix. One may recoil at defining something by what it is not, to think that is poor practice. However, that is just dishonest. Artistic movements are …
lesbianwithteeth.wordpress.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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So, #DANGERCLOSE is a bit hard to pin down in terms of gameplay/game design influences - to a degree where I'd even go as far to claim that it's a pretty new kind of game.
Maybe a better way to define it, is by looking at the feelings and vibes it tries to evoke:
October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Psy-yi-yi
October 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New project announcement! TRIANGLE U, with lead designer Noel Warford!

Check out a short teaser of the setting and some information in our public post below, then join in playtesting our first mission by signing up for the Patreon!

Class starts Monday.

www.patreon.com/posts/triang...
September 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
(4 years ago) so Many out of frame takedowns youtu.be/Enx-iZ47pC8
September 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I think grappling is my calling
September 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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not only is this covered in Building a Binder, it’s the first point of the blark ttrpg values list
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
lets take back the net through an era of self hosting spurred on by the amount of eWaste microsoft is creating through their dropping of windows 10 support.
September 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Great Pirate Era
toastedblogel.jofrank.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Today my new adventure Orestruck is officially released! Return to the Tannic Forest to confront monstrosities, both magical and mundane.

Itch weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck
DrivethruRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

@spacepenguinink.bsky.social spacepenguin.ink/collections/...
September 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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A roundup of the biggest blog bandwagon ever: over 69 different bloggers wrote about their Appendices N and I collected and categorized them all for you
#osr #ttrpg
Bandwagon Roundup: The Appendices Ns
Over 69 (!) bloggers came together for the largest bandwagon of the year and I round them all up for your perusal
prismaticweekly.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Fuck. I’m so sick of the “violence has no place in American politics…”

Motherfucker, violence IS American politics.
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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CW: domestic violence

Hey folks, I’m visiting family, and we’re helping a neighbor escape an abusive relationship. Please pitch in if you can and please give this a signal boost! I’m mostly RPG-focused on here, but I’m not on any other social media and this is very important gofund.me/ba07656c3
Donate to Help Ken Get Home Safe, organized by Shelley E
Hello friends, I'm helping a neighbor: a young gay man escaping a violent and controlling partner who… Shelley E needs your support for Help Ken Get Home Safe
gofund.me
September 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
toastedblogel.jofrank.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Late night entry to the Appendix N blog bandwagon. Discussing one of my favorite fantasy trilogies The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon.
Appendix P: The Deed of Paksenarrion
I have a deep and abiding love for roleplaying games in general, they have been my chief hobby for at least a decade, and I have been playing them since I...
billhook.bearblog.dev
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Gave the blog bandwagon a shot! toastedblogel.jofrank.com/posts/indexj/
toasted-blogel
toastedblogel.jofrank.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Redux of an old post of mine that was borderline unreadable, but which had a nugget of wisdom worth salvaging.

There are two totally different types of hexcrawl and nobody else seems to have pointed this out before.

knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
How Do You Handle the "Inside" of a Hex? (George Lucas Special Edition)
[Context for this post: this is a re-write of an old post of mine I wrote back in 2021. I wasn't happy with my explanation, and it's filled ...
knightattheopera.blogspot.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I wrote about AD&D's assumption that characters with strongholds "will desire mazelike dungeons" beneath them. Retired adventurers, in their boredom, long for the dungeon! By constructing such dungeons of their own, they perpetuate the cycle of ruination upon which adventuring careers are built.
Retired Adventurers Long for the Dungeon
From the AD&D 1e DMG, page 106: It is an assumption that high-level player characters with strongholds "will desire some dungeon mazes" bene...
forlornencystment.blogspot.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Where have I been all this time? Mostly doing nothing, but I also made a game. Check it out, it's PWYW on Itch.

fedmar.itch.io/x-in-6
X-IN-6 by Fedmar
a rules-light dungeon crawler
fedmar.itch.io
September 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
managed to hit strength score 12 for 3 reps
September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I've got 4 Ennies! Let me put them to work...FOR YOU!

I'm also going to start doing Pokémon and Magic proxies soon!
September 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Blog Post Time! I've written up an Adventure site, featuring a quaint little storefront run by a friendly Farmer! What dark truths lie in his sordid past? And what's with the weird sheep?

Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/knickk...
Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft : The Knick-Knacker Barrel - An Adventure Site for your Fantasy Game of Choice
Farmer Gadda's opened a business, won't you come on in and stay awhile?
farmergadda.neocities.org
August 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM