Donn Stroud
@donnstroud.bsky.social
RPG designer/writer/publisher.
My playlist for 2025? Glad you asked:
Ruination Pilgrimage
Netcrawl
Werewolf: the Apocalypse (5th I think)
Weird Frontiers
Ruination Pilgrimage
Netcrawl
Werewolf: the Apocalypse (5th I think)
Weird Frontiers
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
My playlist for 2025? Glad you asked:
Ruination Pilgrimage
Netcrawl
Werewolf: the Apocalypse (5th I think)
Weird Frontiers
Ruination Pilgrimage
Netcrawl
Werewolf: the Apocalypse (5th I think)
Weird Frontiers
Holy shit. Dolmenwood. Like, I never knew how much I would love an encyclopedia style book of different maps of an area. But here I am completely smitten!
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Holy shit. Dolmenwood. Like, I never knew how much I would love an encyclopedia style book of different maps of an area. But here I am completely smitten!
I’m looking to read some newer RPG adventures to smack me about the head and perhaps encourage me to write better adventures. Or more engaging. I don’t know. I feel creatively slumped and need some great example of engaging writing, amazing graphic design, improved organization. Something.
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’m looking to read some newer RPG adventures to smack me about the head and perhaps encourage me to write better adventures. Or more engaging. I don’t know. I feel creatively slumped and need some great example of engaging writing, amazing graphic design, improved organization. Something.
This is the big one. This book is looking really good so far.
Prepare Your Spirit for the Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire
From Exalted Funeral - Prepare Your Spirit for the Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire
www.backerkit.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is the big one. This book is looking really good so far.
OSE Month 2026. Have you heard? Demons and more demons.
I’m doing an adventure that’s heavily influenced by Hellraiser and Silent Hill. It will be fun and gory.
Follow here:
I’m doing an adventure that’s heavily influenced by Hellraiser and Silent Hill. It will be fun and gory.
Follow here:
Abattoir Hymnal: A skin-ripping, flesh-tearing, blood-drenched demonic "good time"
From Psychoda Press - Abattoir Hymnal: A skin-ripping, flesh-tearing, blood-drenched demonic "good time"
www.backerkit.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
OSE Month 2026. Have you heard? Demons and more demons.
I’m doing an adventure that’s heavily influenced by Hellraiser and Silent Hill. It will be fun and gory.
Follow here:
I’m doing an adventure that’s heavily influenced by Hellraiser and Silent Hill. It will be fun and gory.
Follow here:
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OSE Month is coming. I've been working on the DEMONIC GRIMOIRE, coming to Backerkit along with more fine infernal tomes by other old-school luminaries in May. www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
Old-School Essentials Month on BackerKit
Prepare your spirit for OSE Month: a group-collab project led by Exalted Funeral and Necrotic Gnome, featuring a new 176-page OSE book — the Demonic Grimoire — and sister projects from other renown...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
OSE Month is coming. I've been working on the DEMONIC GRIMOIRE, coming to Backerkit along with more fine infernal tomes by other old-school luminaries in May. www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
There are some great TDCs and this one is high up there.
clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
There are some great TDCs and this one is high up there.
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Visit us at U-Con. We got books!
November 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Visit us at U-Con. We got books!
Is anyone using the Partner Shipping Program DTRPG has set up? I'm curious since my lazy butt has never made a website to handle orders.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Is anyone using the Partner Shipping Program DTRPG has set up? I'm curious since my lazy butt has never made a website to handle orders.
Trees are not ready for all this.
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Trees are not ready for all this.
What themes/moods do you keep going back to even though you know you should change it up a little?
My top two are desolation/emptiness/loneliness and this place is going to change you and probably even mess you up.
My top two are desolation/emptiness/loneliness and this place is going to change you and probably even mess you up.
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What themes/moods do you keep going back to even though you know you should change it up a little?
My top two are desolation/emptiness/loneliness and this place is going to change you and probably even mess you up.
My top two are desolation/emptiness/loneliness and this place is going to change you and probably even mess you up.
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Adventures & Pilgrimages is a collection of 9 short adventures for Ruination Pilgrimage, the Medieval Horror Panic Engine RPG.
spacepenguin.ink/collections/...
spacepenguin.ink/collections/...
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Adventures & Pilgrimages is a collection of 9 short adventures for Ruination Pilgrimage, the Medieval Horror Panic Engine RPG.
spacepenguin.ink/collections/...
spacepenguin.ink/collections/...
This mini adventure was just a pdf for a long time. Now it’s physical!
November 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This mini adventure was just a pdf for a long time. Now it’s physical!
On podcast and say “I don’t know, nothing really excites me” then babble excitedly for the next 50 minutes about everything.
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
On podcast and say “I don’t know, nothing really excites me” then babble excitedly for the next 50 minutes about everything.
Spanish edition by @outremerediciones.bsky.social!
October 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Spanish edition by @outremerediciones.bsky.social!
Near finished cover I think. Just needs the Panic Engine logo. But this is a nice reveal of the new Ruination Pilgrimage title logo done by @alderdoodle.bsky.social.
October 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Near finished cover I think. Just needs the Panic Engine logo. But this is a nice reveal of the new Ruination Pilgrimage title logo done by @alderdoodle.bsky.social.
Between the Zothique KS and Mothership Month and so many other crowdfunding rpg things that seem to have dropped today I’ll just be over here with head spinning and finger twitching.
October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Between the Zothique KS and Mothership Month and so many other crowdfunding rpg things that seem to have dropped today I’ll just be over here with head spinning and finger twitching.
Saw this at an antique store. Thought of my friend @grandscheme.bsky.social and @benlaurence.bsky.social when I saw him.
September 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Saw this at an antique store. Thought of my friend @grandscheme.bsky.social and @benlaurence.bsky.social when I saw him.
Man, my friend has a crazy little book/record/game shop in Ypsilanti and I took a pic of these a week back. Some great covers!
September 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Man, my friend has a crazy little book/record/game shop in Ypsilanti and I took a pic of these a week back. Some great covers!
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I'm working on a group project as part of mothership month, its shaping up to be pretty cool.
Today is also a public holiday in the upside down, so ask me anything about this project and I'll answer it
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Today is also a public holiday in the upside down, so ask me anything about this project and I'll answer it
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Prepare for wetwork in Flatline on the Blocks, a 20-block space station district at death's door from a team of veteran creators, for Mothership RPG
From Spinal Crux Warriors - Prepare for wetwork in Flatline on the Blocks, a 20-block space station district at death's door from a team of veteran creators, for Mothership RPG
www.backerkit.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I'm working on a group project as part of mothership month, its shaping up to be pretty cool.
Today is also a public holiday in the upside down, so ask me anything about this project and I'll answer it
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Today is also a public holiday in the upside down, so ask me anything about this project and I'll answer it
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Do people like using calendars for gaming worlds? Like if it has holidays, moon cycles, random weather rolls for each month.
September 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Do people like using calendars for gaming worlds? Like if it has holidays, moon cycles, random weather rolls for each month.
Did you know there’s a heraldic crest to use on 3rd party Ruination Pilgrimage products. It’s brand new so you probably didn’t even know yet. @alderdoodle.bsky.social is a pleasure to work with and talented AF.
September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Did you know there’s a heraldic crest to use on 3rd party Ruination Pilgrimage products. It’s brand new so you probably didn’t even know yet. @alderdoodle.bsky.social is a pleasure to work with and talented AF.
Eeeesh, how embarrassing. I'm still catching dumb mistakes from some books that have been out for a year and a half.
September 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Eeeesh, how embarrassing. I'm still catching dumb mistakes from some books that have been out for a year and a half.
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This week is the last chance to get a late pledge in for The Secret of the Night Market for Perils & Princesses by @scenefour.bsky.social before orders lock on Friday. Also last chance to fill out your survey and get your rewards on time if you've already backed!
Pre-order The Secret of the Night Market on BackerKit
A fairy tale role-playing adventure for Perils & Princesses
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August 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This week is the last chance to get a late pledge in for The Secret of the Night Market for Perils & Princesses by @scenefour.bsky.social before orders lock on Friday. Also last chance to fill out your survey and get your rewards on time if you've already backed!
Oh snap! Getting your Ruination Pilgrimage along with a vast array of other Panic Engine products just got way easier.
Ruination Pilgrimage Bundle
Ruination Pilgrimage is a Panic Engine Game of horror, plague, warfare, and demons set in a medieval age. This bundle collects all three core books: The Ruination Pilgrimage core zine, as well as the ...
www.tuesdayknightgames.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Oh snap! Getting your Ruination Pilgrimage along with a vast array of other Panic Engine products just got way easier.