Nael Fox -> Pax U
@sfxprb.bsky.social
TTRPGer, excellent cook, barely managing dad, home maker, internet ditherer, Philadelphian. Anti-chud.
Here for rad art, cool ideas about RPGs, and to harass OSR luminaries with posts about food.
He/him
Here for rad art, cool ideas about RPGs, and to harass OSR luminaries with posts about food.
He/him
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How to make OSR play unfun
An examination of bad OSR behaviors
billhook.bearblog.dev
Wrote a new #OSR focused blog post about how both players and GMs can make the play style more fun. With thanks to @magnoliakeep.itch.io, @serket08.bsky.social, and @dodo-decahedron.bsky.social.
billhook.bearblog.dev/how-to-make-...
billhook.bearblog.dev/how-to-make-...
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New Blogpost: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf — Prismatic Wasteland
I love pretending to be an elf just as much as the next guy, but it pales in comparison to the joys of pretending to be a mouse with a sewing needle sword at my side.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New Blogpost: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
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haven't eaten in a couple days
haven't been able to get groceries could anyone please please help me with at least $20
paypal.me/vvaite
venmo@vvaite
i'm really sorry but im desperate
haven't been able to get groceries could anyone please please help me with at least $20
paypal.me/vvaite
venmo@vvaite
i'm really sorry but im desperate
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
haven't eaten in a couple days
haven't been able to get groceries could anyone please please help me with at least $20
paypal.me/vvaite
venmo@vvaite
i'm really sorry but im desperate
haven't been able to get groceries could anyone please please help me with at least $20
paypal.me/vvaite
venmo@vvaite
i'm really sorry but im desperate
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The Anti-'Black Friday' Anti-Sale continues. My prices are increased buy I'll be donating to food banks (instead of to ky bank account).
Www.duckandcrow.com and
duckandcrowpress.itch.io
Buy nerd stuff, feed folks, and screw the GOP.
Www.duckandcrow.com and
duckandcrowpress.itch.io
Buy nerd stuff, feed folks, and screw the GOP.
OSR stuff to cause a RUCKUS | Duck and Crow Press
Duck and Crow press makes system-agnostic OSR adventures and supplements.
Www.duckandcrow.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The Anti-'Black Friday' Anti-Sale continues. My prices are increased buy I'll be donating to food banks (instead of to ky bank account).
Www.duckandcrow.com and
duckandcrowpress.itch.io
Buy nerd stuff, feed folks, and screw the GOP.
Www.duckandcrow.com and
duckandcrowpress.itch.io
Buy nerd stuff, feed folks, and screw the GOP.
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I’m in need of more options for old-school pig-faced orc miniatures!
Lucid Eye’s are too beefy, Warp’s are delightful but I have had a bad time with 3D printing, and Otherworld stuff is hard to find.
Lucid Eye’s are too beefy, Warp’s are delightful but I have had a bad time with 3D printing, and Otherworld stuff is hard to find.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I’m in need of more options for old-school pig-faced orc miniatures!
Lucid Eye’s are too beefy, Warp’s are delightful but I have had a bad time with 3D printing, and Otherworld stuff is hard to find.
Lucid Eye’s are too beefy, Warp’s are delightful but I have had a bad time with 3D printing, and Otherworld stuff is hard to find.
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What I have been up to and a digression re: my current rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation. weirdwonder.bearblog.dev/a-yawn-from/ #osr
A yawn from the void
Today is a grab bag.
I am finishing up my next adventure and preparing to run a minimum viable version of it at PAX Unplugged. I am tempted to make my ow...
weirdwonder.bearblog.dev
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What I have been up to and a digression re: my current rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation. weirdwonder.bearblog.dev/a-yawn-from/ #osr
War in England is difficult to conceptualize as an USian because I always forget how *small* Great Britain is.
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
War in England is difficult to conceptualize as an USian because I always forget how *small* Great Britain is.
Realized last night that by Forest Law Enforrested areas didn't necessarily have any trees, they were just places for The King to hunt deer or whatever. In fact that area I was planning on running my game has very little in the way of trees.
Now I just have to decide if I give a shit.
Now I just have to decide if I give a shit.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Realized last night that by Forest Law Enforrested areas didn't necessarily have any trees, they were just places for The King to hunt deer or whatever. In fact that area I was planning on running my game has very little in the way of trees.
Now I just have to decide if I give a shit.
Now I just have to decide if I give a shit.
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I CANNOT RECCOMEND THIS EPISODE ENOUGH!!1!!
An all-timer for those looking to "break in" to the production side of the hobby, or just be more engaged with making art that actually gets seen.
ANOTHER HOME RUN FROM WS/CLAYTON!
An all-timer for those looking to "break in" to the production side of the hobby, or just be more engaged with making art that actually gets seen.
ANOTHER HOME RUN FROM WS/CLAYTON!
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I CANNOT RECCOMEND THIS EPISODE ENOUGH!!1!!
An all-timer for those looking to "break in" to the production side of the hobby, or just be more engaged with making art that actually gets seen.
ANOTHER HOME RUN FROM WS/CLAYTON!
An all-timer for those looking to "break in" to the production side of the hobby, or just be more engaged with making art that actually gets seen.
ANOTHER HOME RUN FROM WS/CLAYTON!
I have like 15 Wikipedia tabs of medieval England open and it's all @rrookstudio.bsky.socials fault.
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I have like 15 Wikipedia tabs of medieval England open and it's all @rrookstudio.bsky.socials fault.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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New Blogpost! I like Trains, and I think they're incredibly useful for your TTRPG Elfgames! I've written up some theoryslop about your many options and reasons for adding in a choo choo.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
New Blogpost! I like Trains, and I think they're incredibly useful for your TTRPG Elfgames! I've written up some theoryslop about your many options and reasons for adding in a choo choo.
Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/i-like...
Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-li...
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Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-li...
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This article is surprisingly good, and if I were still teaching my yearly into-to-game-design class I would assign it
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g...
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g...
Game design is simple, actually
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…
www.raphkoster.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This article is surprisingly good, and if I were still teaching my yearly into-to-game-design class I would assign it
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g...
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g...
One of my favorite drawings from my daughter. For some reason (delightfully) android photos will frequently remind me of it.
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
One of my favorite drawings from my daughter. For some reason (delightfully) android photos will frequently remind me of it.
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Oh my, you can turn off that stupid rude tag.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Oh my, you can turn off that stupid rude tag.
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I dug through AD&D to find out: where are all the high-level NPCs? I talk about why it's an important question to ask & do some number crunching using an average AD&D city & some demographic figures I made up. It's better than nothing!
Where are AD&D's High-Level NPCs?
This is a question I've pondered quite a bit in my exploration of AD&D. Theoretically, my assumption would be that there's nothing to restri...
forlornencystment.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I dug through AD&D to find out: where are all the high-level NPCs? I talk about why it's an important question to ask & do some number crunching using an average AD&D city & some demographic figures I made up. It's better than nothing!
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In which I talk about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (again) and try talk about a couple of OSR games in terms of reward rather than just punishment!
In which I talk about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (again) and try talk about a couple of OSR games in terms of reward rather than just punishment!
Letting your players win is GOOD (and what Mythic Bastionland has to do with it)
Like most people who have played it, I'm a Mythic Bastionland evangelist. I want to put an example of my thesis from the title at the start ...
meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com/2025/11/lett...
In which I talk about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (again) and try talk about a couple of OSR games in terms of reward rather than just punishment!
In which I talk about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (again) and try talk about a couple of OSR games in terms of reward rather than just punishment!
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N = Number of times I tell my cat "Hey! Don't be a jerk."
N+1 = Number of times my cat is, in fact, a jerk.
N+1 = Number of times my cat is, in fact, a jerk.
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
N = Number of times I tell my cat "Hey! Don't be a jerk."
N+1 = Number of times my cat is, in fact, a jerk.
N+1 = Number of times my cat is, in fact, a jerk.
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AYO! The new #Tombpunk book, Shallow Graves, is currently live on KS & *I* wrote the titular adventure for it! 🌙🕷
Please do me a favor, and share this far & wide, in the hopes that its success will lead to more opportunities to write with/for other wonderful people's #TTRPG projects 🎲 #OSR
Please do me a favor, and share this far & wide, in the hopes that its success will lead to more opportunities to write with/for other wonderful people's #TTRPG projects 🎲 #OSR
Shallow Graves: Cult of the Moon Spider for Tombpunk RPG
All-new adventures, Stick Figures, and a reprint for the lo-fi, high-chaos roleplaying game TOMBPUNK!
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I like to collect a list of my player’s traumas in order to utilize them against the party most effectively. I know I’ve won when they all reach for the X card at the same time.
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I like to collect a list of my player’s traumas in order to utilize them against the party most effectively. I know I’ve won when they all reach for the X card at the same time.
I'm not at all familiar with Pikmin, but this is a really cool (and light) way of adding leveling and variation to Mouseritter hirelings.
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I'm not at all familiar with Pikmin, but this is a really cool (and light) way of adding leveling and variation to Mouseritter hirelings.
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Come see me at PAXU and sight up to play Echoes of the Veil (EotV), a fast cinematic cyberpunk TTRPG based on Forged in the Dark and hack of CBR+PNK 🦾
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Come see me at PAXU and sight up to play Echoes of the Veil (EotV), a fast cinematic cyberpunk TTRPG based on Forged in the Dark and hack of CBR+PNK 🦾
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I'm joining Ryan over on The Weekly Scroll to talk about the dos and don'ts of self-promotion and marketing. Leave us some questions in the comments!
And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
Following up on his wonderful article linked below, Clayton will be joining me on Friday to discuss promotion and marketing in tabletop games. We'll be hitting a variety of topics but if you have any questions let us know in the comments!
Join us live Friday at 10am pst
twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
Join us live Friday at 10am pst
twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm joining Ryan over on The Weekly Scroll to talk about the dos and don'ts of self-promotion and marketing. Leave us some questions in the comments!
And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
Favorite dipping sauce recipe for frozen Bao.
1 part sesame oil
2 part scallion ginger sauce
8 part chicken stock
6 part light soy
3 part mirin
3 part black vinegar
1 part sesame oil
2 part scallion ginger sauce
8 part chicken stock
6 part light soy
3 part mirin
3 part black vinegar
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Favorite dipping sauce recipe for frozen Bao.
1 part sesame oil
2 part scallion ginger sauce
8 part chicken stock
6 part light soy
3 part mirin
3 part black vinegar
1 part sesame oil
2 part scallion ginger sauce
8 part chicken stock
6 part light soy
3 part mirin
3 part black vinegar