Hugh Bongo
@hughbongo.bsky.social
perpetual molt, boy-to-man-to-dirt;—from a good family w/plenty of secrets no doubt
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Hugh Bongo
@hughbongo.bsky.social
· Mar 31
followed @prismaticwasteland.com to @elmc.at's post on Settlements in Sandbox Campaigns. Seed planted in my head about social contracts.
Probed buddies: I need 100 of these, says I.
Result: drive.google.com/file/d/1FoA-...
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/d100...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Probed buddies: I need 100 of these, says I.
Result: drive.google.com/file/d/1FoA-...
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/d100...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Bro, @lukegearing.bsky.social : To Reveal the Secrets of the Anatomy...
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Me proper birthing an abomination to gain the spell extension on this one over and over, don't care what it takes or what my womb looks like after.
The organs will delight, and best believe there will be witnesses.
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Me proper birthing an abomination to gain the spell extension on this one over and over, don't care what it takes or what my womb looks like after.
The organs will delight, and best believe there will be witnesses.
August 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Bro, @lukegearing.bsky.social : To Reveal the Secrets of the Anatomy...
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.
.
Me proper birthing an abomination to gain the spell extension on this one over and over, don't care what it takes or what my womb looks like after.
The organs will delight, and best believe there will be witnesses.
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Me proper birthing an abomination to gain the spell extension on this one over and over, don't care what it takes or what my womb looks like after.
The organs will delight, and best believe there will be witnesses.
also, fukit.
a rangu treehouse; —orangehaired, apelike creatures with toolmaking & weaving capacities—, practicing sketch to digital photoshop transfers for someday, maybe.
a rangu treehouse; —orangehaired, apelike creatures with toolmaking & weaving capacities—, practicing sketch to digital photoshop transfers for someday, maybe.
August 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
also, fukit.
a rangu treehouse; —orangehaired, apelike creatures with toolmaking & weaving capacities—, practicing sketch to digital photoshop transfers for someday, maybe.
a rangu treehouse; —orangehaired, apelike creatures with toolmaking & weaving capacities—, practicing sketch to digital photoshop transfers for someday, maybe.
Hesitate to call it a 'playlog', as
ToC =
/ How AI will fails you
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Faeries have entered my weapons
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/08/sess...
@davidhoskins.bsky.social
@lukegearing.bsky.social if use of be-riddled Swyver is sacrilege, say so.
ToC =
/ How AI will fails you
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Faeries have entered my weapons
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/08/sess...
@davidhoskins.bsky.social
@lukegearing.bsky.social if use of be-riddled Swyver is sacrilege, say so.
Session 10 - Playlog - Corrhéo
As it worked nicely last time and I'm forever a creature seeking habit, I'll offer another ToC. Working Player's Survey of Corrhé...
auguryinmud.blogspot.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Hesitate to call it a 'playlog', as
ToC =
/ How AI will fails you
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Faeries have entered my weapons
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/08/sess...
@davidhoskins.bsky.social
@lukegearing.bsky.social if use of be-riddled Swyver is sacrilege, say so.
ToC =
/ How AI will fails you
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Faeries have entered my weapons
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/08/sess...
@davidhoskins.bsky.social
@lukegearing.bsky.social if use of be-riddled Swyver is sacrilege, say so.
@grinningrat.itch.io — yo, read your anti-frictionless memo on the Rat, and was already thinking about language because of some new characters to my game.
they rolled in with 5 languages and all I could think was I GOTTA ATTACK THAT.
so I wrote this:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ec5n...
they rolled in with 5 languages and all I could think was I GOTTA ATTACK THAT.
so I wrote this:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ec5n...
Language of Corrheo.pdf
drive.google.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
@grinningrat.itch.io — yo, read your anti-frictionless memo on the Rat, and was already thinking about language because of some new characters to my game.
they rolled in with 5 languages and all I could think was I GOTTA ATTACK THAT.
so I wrote this:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ec5n...
they rolled in with 5 languages and all I could think was I GOTTA ATTACK THAT.
so I wrote this:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ec5n...
More from Big Dave, @lukegearing.bsky.social
I took your Grand Unified Theory and applied it. I couldn't hit so many dice pools and stay sane so I tightened it to only d8's.
Re: the Wé, here—
drive.google.com/file/d/1txdU...
And thanks for the seed.
Implemented this eve.
1 success.
I took your Grand Unified Theory and applied it. I couldn't hit so many dice pools and stay sane so I tightened it to only d8's.
Re: the Wé, here—
drive.google.com/file/d/1txdU...
And thanks for the seed.
Implemented this eve.
1 success.
drive.google.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM
More from Big Dave, @lukegearing.bsky.social
I took your Grand Unified Theory and applied it. I couldn't hit so many dice pools and stay sane so I tightened it to only d8's.
Re: the Wé, here—
drive.google.com/file/d/1txdU...
And thanks for the seed.
Implemented this eve.
1 success.
I took your Grand Unified Theory and applied it. I couldn't hit so many dice pools and stay sane so I tightened it to only d8's.
Re: the Wé, here—
drive.google.com/file/d/1txdU...
And thanks for the seed.
Implemented this eve.
1 success.
Dog day aside: @lukegearing.bsky.social, the fact that Big Dave of Swyvers example text fame showed up at number 6 in the Random Affairs table behind the Duke of Shalshrop sent me absolutely sniggering this eve.
Kudos.
Sincerely hope there is a real Big Dave out there.
Kudos.
Sincerely hope there is a real Big Dave out there.
July 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Dog day aside: @lukegearing.bsky.social, the fact that Big Dave of Swyvers example text fame showed up at number 6 in the Random Affairs table behind the Duke of Shalshrop sent me absolutely sniggering this eve.
Kudos.
Sincerely hope there is a real Big Dave out there.
Kudos.
Sincerely hope there is a real Big Dave out there.
@lukegearing.bsky.social, it was this particular Mien table when I hit my stride with the poetry of Acid Death Fantasy.
I know that's a long way in, but it prompted me to go back and back again.
I know that's a long way in, but it prompted me to go back and back again.
July 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@lukegearing.bsky.social, it was this particular Mien table when I hit my stride with the poetry of Acid Death Fantasy.
I know that's a long way in, but it prompted me to go back and back again.
I know that's a long way in, but it prompted me to go back and back again.
ToC:
/ Session 8
/ 9
/ Retrospective: How AI will fails you
/ Party splitting vs the Cinema
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Player pariahs and the unwelcome antagonism of becoming a cult leader
/ Goodbye
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/07/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development
/ Session 8
/ 9
/ Retrospective: How AI will fails you
/ Party splitting vs the Cinema
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Player pariahs and the unwelcome antagonism of becoming a cult leader
/ Goodbye
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/07/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Session 8-9 - Playlog - Corrhéo
Turn back through time with me. It is 7/2/25. Two sessions have passed; a third is brewing. These sessions have been interconnected. A...
auguryinmud.blogspot.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
ToC:
/ Session 8
/ 9
/ Retrospective: How AI will fails you
/ Party splitting vs the Cinema
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Player pariahs and the unwelcome antagonism of becoming a cult leader
/ Goodbye
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/07/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development
/ Session 8
/ 9
/ Retrospective: How AI will fails you
/ Party splitting vs the Cinema
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Player pariahs and the unwelcome antagonism of becoming a cult leader
/ Goodbye
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/07/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Half as much a test of whether we all need more than one picture in a post to read something long as a response to @mageadvice.substack.com's discussion on hags.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/06/good...
#hags #osr ish #ttrpg
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/06/good...
#hags #osr ish #ttrpg
good hags
V.A. Gatsuk Introduction I saw recently someone post a note on hag covens, on whether hags are still scary . God. Who was it. Explorateur ? ...
auguryinmud.blogspot.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Half as much a test of whether we all need more than one picture in a post to read something long as a response to @mageadvice.substack.com's discussion on hags.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/06/good...
#hags #osr ish #ttrpg
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/06/good...
#hags #osr ish #ttrpg
A month of playtest and a knot in my throat til now.
Corrhéo development goes on. My thoughts follow like so many tuerk slimes, dragging their sticky mass towards the next grate down which to slither.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/05/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development w/ @k87207844.bsky.social
Corrhéo development goes on. My thoughts follow like so many tuerk slimes, dragging their sticky mass towards the next grate down which to slither.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/05/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development w/ @k87207844.bsky.social
SESSION 4-7 - Playlog - Corrhéo
[ Editors note: I've tried my hand at making some footnotes to minimize the amount of errata that regular readers need to sift through. ...
auguryinmud.blogspot.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A month of playtest and a knot in my throat til now.
Corrhéo development goes on. My thoughts follow like so many tuerk slimes, dragging their sticky mass towards the next grate down which to slither.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/05/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development w/ @k87207844.bsky.social
Corrhéo development goes on. My thoughts follow like so many tuerk slimes, dragging their sticky mass towards the next grate down which to slither.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/05/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development w/ @k87207844.bsky.social
Oof this one hurt to write.
Could easily be titled 'how to reduce player agency & bomb on stage a bit'.
But: not everything can be electric and it's worth watching the footage, all the coachs say.
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Could easily be titled 'how to reduce player agency & bomb on stage a bit'.
But: not everything can be electric and it's worth watching the footage, all the coachs say.
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Session 3 - Playlog - Corrhéo
Mind, come hither. We must speak of the Dread Session 3. The Dread Session 3, end of the Trilogy. Dread Session 3 whose notes took me less ...
auguryinmud.blogspot.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Oof this one hurt to write.
Could easily be titled 'how to reduce player agency & bomb on stage a bit'.
But: not everything can be electric and it's worth watching the footage, all the coachs say.
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Could easily be titled 'how to reduce player agency & bomb on stage a bit'.
But: not everything can be electric and it's worth watching the footage, all the coachs say.
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #development
In the ongoing interest in rich NPC lives. Secrets are all the rage.
Citing @elmc.at, @weirdwonder.bsky.social, and Anne of DIY & Dragons, who I haven't found here yet.
Le résultat: drive.google.com/file/d/1wOKV...
Le blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/brew...
Citing @elmc.at, @weirdwonder.bsky.social, and Anne of DIY & Dragons, who I haven't found here yet.
Le résultat: drive.google.com/file/d/1wOKV...
Le blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/brew...
April 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In the ongoing interest in rich NPC lives. Secrets are all the rage.
Citing @elmc.at, @weirdwonder.bsky.social, and Anne of DIY & Dragons, who I haven't found here yet.
Le résultat: drive.google.com/file/d/1wOKV...
Le blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/brew...
Citing @elmc.at, @weirdwonder.bsky.social, and Anne of DIY & Dragons, who I haven't found here yet.
Le résultat: drive.google.com/file/d/1wOKV...
Le blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/brew...
As ever, so exhausting, so satisfying. Tracing my footsteps in lead. And with leaden eyes, get'd to bed.
Actual Play of Corrhéo mucks on with more swamp time among the coypu:
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #playtest #development
Actual Play of Corrhéo mucks on with more swamp time among the coypu:
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #playtest #development
SESSION 2 - Playlog - Corrhéo
Yes, again, we'll get into the details but: Should I assume that you're going to read S1 Playlog and just drop you right into the mix and me...
auguryinmud.blogspot.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
As ever, so exhausting, so satisfying. Tracing my footsteps in lead. And with leaden eyes, get'd to bed.
Actual Play of Corrhéo mucks on with more swamp time among the coypu:
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #playtest #development
Actual Play of Corrhéo mucks on with more swamp time among the coypu:
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/04/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #playtest #development
If you see this: "shame comes in the wake of a pride" in 3 lines or less
April 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you see this: "shame comes in the wake of a pride" in 3 lines or less
followed @prismaticwasteland.com to @elmc.at's post on Settlements in Sandbox Campaigns. Seed planted in my head about social contracts.
Probed buddies: I need 100 of these, says I.
Result: drive.google.com/file/d/1FoA-...
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/d100...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Probed buddies: I need 100 of these, says I.
Result: drive.google.com/file/d/1FoA-...
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/d100...
#osr #ttrpg #development
March 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM
followed @prismaticwasteland.com to @elmc.at's post on Settlements in Sandbox Campaigns. Seed planted in my head about social contracts.
Probed buddies: I need 100 of these, says I.
Result: drive.google.com/file/d/1FoA-...
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/d100...
#osr #ttrpg #development
Probed buddies: I need 100 of these, says I.
Result: drive.google.com/file/d/1FoA-...
Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/d100...
#osr #ttrpg #development
The vibe I bring to the dungeon
March 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The vibe I bring to the dungeon
@lukegearing.bsky.social had me searching the hell a winklepicker was...
thanks for that. not sure what to do with those shoes or anyone in 'em.
spose 'contact them' would be an appropriate reaction
thanks for that. not sure what to do with those shoes or anyone in 'em.
spose 'contact them' would be an appropriate reaction
March 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
@lukegearing.bsky.social had me searching the hell a winklepicker was...
thanks for that. not sure what to do with those shoes or anyone in 'em.
spose 'contact them' would be an appropriate reaction
thanks for that. not sure what to do with those shoes or anyone in 'em.
spose 'contact them' would be an appropriate reaction
Woof. Took a sec to write this.
#osr #ttrpg #playreport
Corrhéo was our #hexplore24 project.
Using as much of @goblinpunch.bsky.social, @traversefantasy.itch.io, & @falsemachine.bsky.social 's advice to make game as tangible & weirdtrue as possible.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #playreport
Corrhéo was our #hexplore24 project.
Using as much of @goblinpunch.bsky.social, @traversefantasy.itch.io, & @falsemachine.bsky.social 's advice to make game as tangible & weirdtrue as possible.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/sess...
SESSION 1 - Playlog - Corrhéo
Don't zoom in yet. I'll zoom in eventually. Here's my tables. I took five of my hours and two Micron pens and a ruler and this fancy jour...
auguryinmud.blogspot.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Woof. Took a sec to write this.
#osr #ttrpg #playreport
Corrhéo was our #hexplore24 project.
Using as much of @goblinpunch.bsky.social, @traversefantasy.itch.io, & @falsemachine.bsky.social 's advice to make game as tangible & weirdtrue as possible.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/sess...
#osr #ttrpg #playreport
Corrhéo was our #hexplore24 project.
Using as much of @goblinpunch.bsky.social, @traversefantasy.itch.io, & @falsemachine.bsky.social 's advice to make game as tangible & weirdtrue as possible.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/sess...
Know any good blog posts or supplements about PCs developing group strongholds, mercenary company outposts, or, more generically, integrating into local communities as habitants rather than rovers?
Happy to pore over both crunch or philosophy as provided. System unimportant.
Gracias.
#osr #ttrpg
Happy to pore over both crunch or philosophy as provided. System unimportant.
Gracias.
#osr #ttrpg
February 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
One of the most generative, mad-maxxian images @k87207844.bsky.social managed to create was C-28's Elgerhig, who haunts the wastelands of Corrhéo with his merry Manse.
Indexing goes on, more n' more like a table of contents.
Concision concision concision, they chant.
#osr #ttrpg #development
Indexing goes on, more n' more like a table of contents.
Concision concision concision, they chant.
#osr #ttrpg #development
February 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
One of the most generative, mad-maxxian images @k87207844.bsky.social managed to create was C-28's Elgerhig, who haunts the wastelands of Corrhéo with his merry Manse.
Indexing goes on, more n' more like a table of contents.
Concision concision concision, they chant.
#osr #ttrpg #development
Indexing goes on, more n' more like a table of contents.
Concision concision concision, they chant.
#osr #ttrpg #development
For you and about you, @falsemachine.bsky.social .
Thanks for the time, the words. A tip of my velvet cap.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-re...
#osr #ttrpg #review
Thanks for the time, the words. A tip of my velvet cap.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-re...
#osr #ttrpg #review
I Read Part of FALSE MACHINE
It's fairly easy as a new old comer * to any hobby to be delighted when you enter a group and find there are people just like you. As ...
auguryinmud.blogspot.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
For you and about you, @falsemachine.bsky.social .
Thanks for the time, the words. A tip of my velvet cap.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-re...
#osr #ttrpg #review
Thanks for the time, the words. A tip of my velvet cap.
auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-re...
#osr #ttrpg #review
Spent the last few days away from the writers pen indulging in some #mixedmedia #art
Feel different now, so that's good.
Maybe just older.
Feel different now, so that's good.
Maybe just older.
February 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Spent the last few days away from the writers pen indulging in some #mixedmedia #art
Feel different now, so that's good.
Maybe just older.
Feel different now, so that's good.
Maybe just older.
More Year Two #osr #ttrpg #development — Corrhéo indexing rolls on.
We tried for three landmarks per hex, a hex a week. Some weeks there were only two. Fun to see where the gaps lie. Fun to remember trying to keep up.
There was one night I just stared at a tourist's guide to Venice and wrote.
We tried for three landmarks per hex, a hex a week. Some weeks there were only two. Fun to see where the gaps lie. Fun to remember trying to keep up.
There was one night I just stared at a tourist's guide to Venice and wrote.
January 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
More Year Two #osr #ttrpg #development — Corrhéo indexing rolls on.
We tried for three landmarks per hex, a hex a week. Some weeks there were only two. Fun to see where the gaps lie. Fun to remember trying to keep up.
There was one night I just stared at a tourist's guide to Venice and wrote.
We tried for three landmarks per hex, a hex a week. Some weeks there were only two. Fun to see where the gaps lie. Fun to remember trying to keep up.
There was one night I just stared at a tourist's guide to Venice and wrote.
Me and @fatcharlie.bsky.social and @kweekwegg.bsky.social and SL (srlangston99.wixsite.com/cafe-cadet/c...) putting out a ZINE. Felt good to feel pages today.
Thing doesnt have any #ttrpg #osr elements yet but should, could, will? I got a big enough hand in there I think so.
Patreoners get it. ✌️
Thing doesnt have any #ttrpg #osr elements yet but should, could, will? I got a big enough hand in there I think so.
Patreoners get it. ✌️
January 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Me and @fatcharlie.bsky.social and @kweekwegg.bsky.social and SL (srlangston99.wixsite.com/cafe-cadet/c...) putting out a ZINE. Felt good to feel pages today.
Thing doesnt have any #ttrpg #osr elements yet but should, could, will? I got a big enough hand in there I think so.
Patreoners get it. ✌️
Thing doesnt have any #ttrpg #osr elements yet but should, could, will? I got a big enough hand in there I think so.
Patreoners get it. ✌️