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Yochai Gal
@yochaigal.bsky.social
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RPGs, folk tales, worker co-ops, a podcast
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Booklet prints well on home printer.
October 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I may have a problem
There copies of Winter's Daughter.
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I also like your other one A LOT
December 30, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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You can now buy Between Two Cairns t-shirts (and mugs!) at Skullboy's (aka Sam Mameli, aka Better Legends) store on cotton bureau! There are three designs. Guess which I like the best?

cottonbureau.com/people/bette...
December 29, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Not an OSR module. A book. Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Her final book, published just before she died. For those who don't know, she was gay, a feminist, a communist, and strongly anti-fascist. Also she loved fairy tales, so I think I'm legally required to read this.
The cover of the 1977 Kingdoms of Elfin, depicting a knight riding a freaking wolf while some angels or fairies or something watch. The interior page of the book, which shows fairies (basically tiny dudes dressed in armor with some trad fairy wings) marching, being led by a trumpeter. There is a nice sunset going on, and tall grass is blocking the view.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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I also received The Curious Creeps in Crimson Creek by @danielharila.bsky.social. It's a hex crawl for Knave 2e. But seriously check out that ART, it ROCKS. I bought it from Dan directly, who also did the art??? These people.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
A zine, The Curious Creeps in Crimson Creek. Depicts a tower on a hill. Reminds me of Picasso's Don Quixote for some reason, I don't know why. SHUT UP I DON'T KNOW ART A spread from the book, open in that nice way that tells you you're right in the middle of the zine. Some nice keying, but damn son look at that art, there's a fucked up clown, a jester, and a perverse take on the soldier from The Nutcracker or something.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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This is Dodenmoor by Jelte Schmitz. It's a marshy setting/dungeon thing that I backed a few years ago and finally arrived. Cover art is by @rollinkunz.bsky.social, who did The Dungenerator, which I love. I want more German OSR stuff please.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Dodenmoor, a zine, shows some badass adventurer types (barbarian/cleric/frog??) riding a snapping turtle graveyard. Skeletons are either along for the ride or trying to attack, it's sick as hell.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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Here we have The Painted Wastelands by @agamemnonpress.bsky.social. Perhaps the most efficiently run Kickstarter I've ever seen, with near daily updates. I'll make this easy for you: if you like Vaults of Vaarn, Electrum Archive, or UVG you'll like this setting a lot.

www.agamemnonpress.com/shop
A giant-ass book. Green trim. Cover is insane, a party of science fantasy adventurers riding a fish robot with a man's face. There is a cat with three eyes for some reason. The corners are equally nuts, bleeding eyes, dragon eyes, eyes with eyes, it's fucked. A spread depicting a man tied to a stone bed while watching a flat screen TV, but these tentacles are coming out of the screen and attached to his face, it's trippy, like I have no Mouth but Must Scream trippy but in pink. The other page has some floating heads, stats, and random tables. Some of the table entries are in all-caps, so you know it's getting serious.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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Next up we have two adventures: Scoundrel's Run and The Corrupt Temple by @starryknightpress.bsky.social. This is old school goodness at its best. I'm excited to run and/or review these at some point. For OSRIC.
I bought these direct from Louis, who was more than courteous.

starryknightpress.com
Two Letter-sized adventures, Scoundrel's Run and The Corrupt Temple. Both have rad art, including broken towers and newly-discovered jungle temples. All that good shit. The corners are bent because USPS is run by someone who owns a competing company and wants to destroy it. Sucks.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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Here we have Ballads of Oræd by @dungeonlust.bsky.social. I don't know how to explain this setting-adventure. It's extremely high quality, coptic bound (!!!), full-color, 230 pages. Stats for Old School Essentials. It's beautiful. It's also a comic.

www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/bal...
Ballads of Oræd. Depicts an elf playing a lute in pink and grey. Baller. A nice spread - Hatchlings of the Waves. Sea Kobolds. Art is a sweet castle maze looking island surrounded by dragons. Bottom panel reveals a crazy cave entrance surrounded by a halo of letters or some shit, I don't know. Depicts a comic from Ballads of Oræd. A lazy man asks someone to watch his shop while he teleports or something. It is pink and green and very weird.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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First up is Desert Angel Fiasco and Imperial Vault 19 by @josephrlewis.bsky.social. These are both older modules Joe wrote for his Dungeon Age setting that have been completely overhauled and fully statted for Cairn. They also have new art, mostly from the author himself!

shorturl.at/22zJ8
Two zines with glossy covers. Desert Angel Fiasco and Imperial Vault 19 (and other dark places). The first has a sick sailboat on the cover, while the other has a freaky looking skeleton monster.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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I finally played Life in Reterra by @ericlang.bsky.social. It's really interesting! Like a hopeful Tetris. I really like the build quality of the components as well, particularly as they are made from mostly recyclable materials.
December 27, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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After nearly a year of waiting and a long trip on a boat, Pauper's Ladder by
@bedsitgames.bsky.social is finally mine!
December 23, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Cavern Shuffle: Maze of the Minotaur is a great Solitaire game. Highly recommended.
December 20, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Oh and the episode is called The Tower of Traps.
December 8, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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My kid is watching thundercats. Besides the amazing Rankin/Bass production and over that top voice acting, there are some straight-up old school dungeon crawls in it.
Let me tell you about Baron Karnor.
December 8, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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What, the people's front of Judea? Splitters.
December 7, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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what's this @perplexingruins.bsky.social?
Soon on the Cairn store! Also, other PR restocks (finally!).
An image of a stack of copies of Tomb of the Three Knights by Perplexing Ruins.
December 2, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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A few people have asked me for my list of muted words on Bluesky. Here it is (see alt-text as well).
1 like get to know me musk TTRPGRising introduce yourself 5 faves self-promo introduce yourself get to know my 5 faves nft critical role hottake hot take pathfinder communist nazi maga
November 30, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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What do we have here?
November 12, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Good ArcaneCon. Thanks to everyone who made it happen, especially Arcane Sword Press who organized the whole thing.

Here's a picture of me, @josephrlewis.bsky.social, Skullboy + his wife Kari at our booth!
November 10, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Yup, I see it now. Very Valin.
November 8, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Finally got Beyond the Pale in the Cairn store!

store.cairnrpg.com/products/bey...
November 6, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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I now sell high-quality copies of the Player's Guide at the Cairn Store. These are slightly nicer than the Lulu version, and don't take a week to print!

store.cairnrpg.com/products/cai...
November 4, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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nah I got it
November 2, 2024 at 11:48 PM