Jeremy Barry Randall
@manicpenguinboy.bsky.social
DM. TTRPG (mainly dnd/ OSR) GM, aspiring quest writer and drawing noob. Dad bodded gym rat.
Putting together a setting - thegrandduchy.net
Putting together a setting - thegrandduchy.net
Five things I learned b/c of #hexcrawl25 no.3 - What needs to be written to run it vs what needs to be written for someone else to run it. I have written multi session adventure lines that were 4 dot points on the back of a receipt. Happily making up stuff as I went.
December 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Five things I learned b/c of #hexcrawl25 no.3 - What needs to be written to run it vs what needs to be written for someone else to run it. I have written multi session adventure lines that were 4 dot points on the back of a receipt. Happily making up stuff as I went.
Five things I learned b/c of #hexcrawl25 no.2 - The value of well purposed factions. The why, the how, the when, the back story. Factions can be such a game changer for everything and are perfect for a location based adventure. Every run through is different.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Five things I learned b/c of #hexcrawl25 no.2 - The value of well purposed factions. The why, the how, the when, the back story. Factions can be such a game changer for everything and are perfect for a location based adventure. Every run through is different.
At the start of #hexcrawl25 I thought - "This won't take long" I finished the overview by August, the actual work began. This may take years to "finish". Maybe the point was never to "finish" But just to make. To write, draw, imagine, create bowls for amazing soup stories to reside in.
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
At the start of #hexcrawl25 I thought - "This won't take long" I finished the overview by August, the actual work began. This may take years to "finish". Maybe the point was never to "finish" But just to make. To write, draw, imagine, create bowls for amazing soup stories to reside in.
Five things I learned b/c of #hexcrawl25 no.1 - How to draw maps. Until this year I have drawn maps, but never ones that were good looking. Just practical lines for me to follow as the GM. This year I drew many different styles for different locations and am quite proud of some of my output.
December 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Five things I learned b/c of #hexcrawl25 no.1 - How to draw maps. Until this year I have drawn maps, but never ones that were good looking. Just practical lines for me to follow as the GM. This year I drew many different styles for different locations and am quite proud of some of my output.
My years long process of getting my drivers license for the second time has ended. Yesterday I drove my self to pick up the physical card and when I returned home I felt like I was on drugs. I may have missed this feeling of freedom.
December 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My years long process of getting my drivers license for the second time has ended. Yesterday I drove my self to pick up the physical card and when I returned home I felt like I was on drugs. I may have missed this feeling of freedom.
Monday Moan - Why would you set up a new platform for hundreds of people to use, then spend months in training, but when the day comes to swap everything to that platform, I can't log in? How was that the stick in the mud? I am trying my best to do good. Just give me the tools. What's your moan?
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Monday Moan - Why would you set up a new platform for hundreds of people to use, then spend months in training, but when the day comes to swap everything to that platform, I can't log in? How was that the stick in the mud? I am trying my best to do good. Just give me the tools. What's your moan?
Just a little kangy and a wolf.
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just a little kangy and a wolf.
Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence
Soviet block apartments as a quest location. Every level the elevator is broken or full of monsters. Each floor has different doors and locks and random encounters. Different suspicious old ladies who want to give you soup or make you help them down the stairs.
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Soviet block apartments as a quest location. Every level the elevator is broken or full of monsters. Each floor has different doors and locks and random encounters. Different suspicious old ladies who want to give you soup or make you help them down the stairs.
I stopped listening to music because of podcasts. And now trying to find good new music is like "Oh yeah they sound like Dillinger except slower" or "Oh sounds like ETID but the guitar tone is too sludging" return to podcasts. But now podcasts are getting samish too. Same drama.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I stopped listening to music because of podcasts. And now trying to find good new music is like "Oh yeah they sound like Dillinger except slower" or "Oh sounds like ETID but the guitar tone is too sludging" return to podcasts. But now podcasts are getting samish too. Same drama.
Furiosa as a quest line - Return home. Not a module type I have run, but fascinating. Returning with treasure. A breakout module where the reward is safety or resolution. Levelling up to find a way out. Encouraging loyalty within a system. Sabotage to escape. Possibilities. #osr #rpg
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Using lyrics as quest seeds. - The arctic monkey riots. A faction plans to kidnap the monkey in the midst of a riot. And many more. #osr #dnd #quests #ttrpg
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Using bands for Quest Seeds.
Roll on the band table using the name as the BBEG of a quest. Or NPC to help. (This is an example not fully written out)BBEG / NPCThen roll on the song / album title table to find your quest. (more…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today." - Robert Jordan
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today." - Robert Jordan
An old temple stood here long ago but only the front door still stands engraved with runes no longer known. But it is a doorway to a cache of dreams and power. After rededication and consuming the right stuff, an entrance can be found. Four themes. Traps. Treasures. Beasts. #ttrpg #dnd #osr
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New Mad Max as a module. It showed the beauty of a nuanced BBEG. The balance of tension between the three locations and the mad recklessness of the rampaging destroyer. The players could align with one or the other to take out the threat. Or join the threat in destroying everything. #osr #rpg
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I watched the new Mad Max. I constantly evaluated it through the lens of "A great adventure module." Three bases. Multiple factions. A hero levelling up through aligning with different factions or being kidnapped. Tension. Terrible decisions (or rolls). A great setting. A literal sandbox. #osr #rpg
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb
Assassin’s Fate
Nighteyes: ..let us die as wolves!
Fitz: What would you have me do, chew off my own leg?.... my teeth are wrong, and I’d likely bleed to death before I escaped.
N: Then why did you suggest it?
F: I was being sarcastic.
N: Oh. Bee was not sarcastic. I enjoyed that about her
Nighteyes: ..let us die as wolves!
Fitz: What would you have me do, chew off my own leg?.... my teeth are wrong, and I’d likely bleed to death before I escaped.
N: Then why did you suggest it?
F: I was being sarcastic.
N: Oh. Bee was not sarcastic. I enjoyed that about her
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Assassin’s Fate
Nighteyes: ..let us die as wolves!
Fitz: What would you have me do, chew off my own leg?.... my teeth are wrong, and I’d likely bleed to death before I escaped.
N: Then why did you suggest it?
F: I was being sarcastic.
N: Oh. Bee was not sarcastic. I enjoyed that about her
Nighteyes: ..let us die as wolves!
Fitz: What would you have me do, chew off my own leg?.... my teeth are wrong, and I’d likely bleed to death before I escaped.
N: Then why did you suggest it?
F: I was being sarcastic.
N: Oh. Bee was not sarcastic. I enjoyed that about her
"Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world." Fool's Fate
I should probably read them again.
I should probably read them again.
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world." Fool's Fate
I should probably read them again.
I should probably read them again.
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Deadhouse Gates -
"Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."
#quotes
"Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."
#quotes
November 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Deadhouse Gates -
"Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."
#quotes
"Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."
#quotes
“You could never be my envy. You could never be my jealousy. A world with out you is a world I could only wish for”
The tomb stone of a mass grave.
#parkwaydrive - using metal lyrics for quest seeds. #osr #dnd #rpg
The tomb stone of a mass grave.
#parkwaydrive - using metal lyrics for quest seeds. #osr #dnd #rpg
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“You could never be my envy. You could never be my jealousy. A world with out you is a world I could only wish for”
The tomb stone of a mass grave.
#parkwaydrive - using metal lyrics for quest seeds. #osr #dnd #rpg
The tomb stone of a mass grave.
#parkwaydrive - using metal lyrics for quest seeds. #osr #dnd #rpg
The two modes my GMing comes in. 2 - have four notes. Start (tie in) two encounters vaguely understood. End (natural for the session to conclude) have a dungeon handy. Three quest ideas. No names. Assume you will
Improvise most. Giggle a lot. Try to be serious. #osr #ttrpg #dnd
Improvise most. Giggle a lot. Try to be serious. #osr #ttrpg #dnd
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This year was my first attempt at inktober. I was this many days in before I realised #morktober existed. What is wrong with me?
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This year was my first attempt at inktober. I was this many days in before I realised #morktober existed. What is wrong with me?