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Welcome to cartographantastic hexploration
Welcome to Gnomestones
Old School Indie TTRPGs, now with 45% more gnomes
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🥔 The Potato Game launches 2025
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Gnome with newspaper and tobacco pipe by Heinrich Schlitt (1923)

#gnomes #art #classicalart #fantasy #osr #dnd
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Events Table - Mythic Bastionland Project on Blogstones

gnomestones.substack.com/p/tension-ta...

#mythicbastionland #osr #ttrpg #rpgblog #dnd #events
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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still some edits to be made but good enough to support my new arc!
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Southern Provinces of the Ulfan Empire, Sodortha and Mulnar, Year 638 U

gnomestones.substack.com/p/mapping-os...

#fantasymaps #ttrpg #dnd #osr #hexmaps #art
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Working on a strange version of tension tables for an upcoming blogpost

#ttrpg #gamedesign #osr #dnd #charts
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Next Week: THE RISE OF GNOMEPOLEON

The series so far:

gnomestones.substack.com/p/the-hex-ki...
gnomestones.substack.com/p/mapping-os...
gnomestones.substack.com/p/mythic-bas...

#gnomepoleon #ttrpg #dnd #osr #gaming #hexmaps #history
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Sir Twinewinder is stationed at Ulf’s Mantle. What are the rangers across the valley searching for?

#mythicbastionland #ttrpg #osr #dnd
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Mythic Bastionland character sheet. The adventures of Sir Tollix Twinewinder

gnomestones.substack.com/p/mythic-bas...

#osr #ttrpg #mythicbastionland
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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The results of our Hex Kit Poll and more on this special edition of Gnomestones!!

gnomestones.substack.com/p/mapping-os...

#mythicbastionland #osr #ttrpg #fantasy #maps #dnd
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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HexWars continue here on Gnomestones

Using Mythic Bastionland, Hex Kit, Excalidraw, Sandbox Generator, Tome of Adventure Design, and the Gnomestones Hexwars supplement

gnomestones.itch.io/hexwars-with...

More on substack soon

#osr #ttrpg #dnd #nsr #mythicbastionland #maps #blog #fantasy
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Workshopping the hexwar. Still too hard to read most of the warband numbers.

#gamedesign #osr #boardgames #ttrpg #hexkit #mythicbastionland
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Update on the map question, I’m just putting them next to each other in one larger regional map. I’ll take a look at some of the hex packs and then it’s time to soloroleplay a revolution

gnomestones.substack.com/p/the-hex-ki...

#vivelesgnomes #osr #nsr #ttrpg #dnd #fantasy #soloroleplay #hexmap
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Which of these two maps looks more appealing for a TTRPG campaign to you? Answer below.

This question and more in our review of Hex Kit and further exploration of Mythic Bastionland
gnomestones.substack.com/p/the-hex-ki...

#ttrpg #fantasymaps #rpgblogpost #osr #nsr #gaming #maps
a wacky map, with action and icons a simpler map, with more natural colors
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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New blogpost on Hex Kit tomorrow

gnomestones.substack.com

#osr #mythicbastionland #hexmaps #maps #hexkit #dnd #gaming
October 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I'm taking a look at Hexkit in an upcoming blog post, hopefully we can make something cool. Here's a freebie, just messing around (they're all freebies)

cone.itch.io/hex-kit

#osr #ttrpg #mapmaking #dnd #gaming #art #blogpost
a little fantasy map
October 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The gnome fortress of Gnorsh. They elect leaders with a voting system known as 'Gnomestones'

#ttrpg #osr #worldbuilding #dnd #gnomes #politics
Three towers in the desert
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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We made it to the Crystal Island in @bradkerr.net ‘s The Singing Stones by Session 10. It’s abundantly clear that the adventure hinges on the magical axe’s role as the leader of an all-crystal barbershop quartet.

The players also loved the woolly cave pigs.

#ttrpg #dnd #osr #ose #barbershop
September 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Previously on Gnomestones plays @bradkerr.net’s The Singing Stones, our heroes encounter Otto at The Pale Ship. This time on Gnomestones, our heroes blaze a trail, evade the wyvern, and drink mountain berry wine. Next time on Gnomestones, blood bags attack the camp.

#ttrpg #ose #osr #dnd #gaming
August 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Ah my Valley of the Singing Stones game is about to grow past the original module arc into a regional homebrew campaign. Stress. Any brights ideas to put in the sandbox? We have rival sword orders and a city ruled by four and twenty guildmasters.

#osr #ose #ttrpg #wyvernsongs #d&d #gaming
The wilds of central Zenobia in hexmap form
August 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Half a human, half a gnome, all halfling. Throws his rock. Rocky Bilboa.

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#osr #ttrpg #halfling #fighter #d&d
I’m not sure if Rocky Bilboa is a hobbit, but he’s definitely a halfling.
August 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Things we added to Ranger Otto from @bradkerr.net's The Singing Stones
- call him Åtto (same pronunciation)
- soft spot for the wyvern
- Him and Pig Gristle go way back
- sleeps with one eye open, eats midnight sausage
Quotes: "The destination is what counts, the journey sucks"

#ttrpg #osr #gaming
The Singing Stones (probably). Definitely not a picture of Death Valley taken by National Geographic
August 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Last time on Legend of the Crazy Seawitch Pirate Queen, the crew of the SS Biscuit fought Prince Barthkel’gnu for the elemental plane of water. This time on LCSWPQ, his head explodes from triple bottled sunburst. A PC dies. Next time on L-,they explore the final dungeon.

#art #illustration #ttrpg
Gulliver, a human pirate. He started out full of hope and only cursed once, but after getting twice cursed, possessed by a vengeful plant spirit, drowned, and then abandoning the original curse after it turned out to be the poisoned gift of an angry fish, and then the plant fibers getting ripped out, he looks a little worse off.
August 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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My ttrpg group made these three rival kingdoms during our weekly session. We used discord’s whiteboard app and followed the directions in this resource, free for download.

gnomestones.itch.io/hexwars-with...

#ttrpg #osr #maps #hexmap #design #resources #mythicbastionland #gaming
A homemade hexmap sporting three kingdoms with an unexplored valley between them
August 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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In the world of Gnomestones, Droxama is the healing herb. Rare, growing conditions unknown. No one has figured out how to mash the red leaves into a potion yet.

www.gnomestones.fun/plants

#ttrpg #dnd #osr #gaming #plants #fantasy #nature #art
A small red clumps of leaves
August 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Images from my Mythic Bastionland Jam submission

itch.io/jam/mythic-b...

#mythicbastionland #ttrpg #hexmaps #osr #nsr
August 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM