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Date: Dec. 16, 2025 (A.D.M. 25, Dec. 16-30) Players: Mingkar the Miseable, Black Medium (Black Citadel Games) SummaryAfter his first foray into Murdicog's Manse, Mingkar the...
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Date: Dec. 9, 2025 Players: Zareth (Chaoclypse), Talvthus Alvyal (Oldhawkeyes), Bekhtar Kothar (Jay_zer0), Mingkar the Miserable (Black Citadel Games) SummaryOn a gloomy, rainy...
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This post is partly prompted by Meatcastle Gameware's exhortation to not just post our Spotify wrapped summaries without some kind of commentary, but mostly because I felt like...
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Please forgive me for indulging in a bit of pedantry. I've been brewing up this post for a while -- a recent discussion on the Purple OSR server reminded me of it, but I'm...Linked by the ring
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Another region from my Antarctic Adventure Jam entry. This one's inland, between a populous, settled region & a huge desert. It's less cohesive than I'd like, but it's got 69...
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Contextual note: this hex key is for one of the subregions in my Antarctic Adventure Jam entry. I've been back-porting my hexes from Typst to markdown & figured it was time to...
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I claim that footnotes1 are an under-utilized typographical tool for TTRPG texts, one that I have increasingly adopted2 for my forays into DIY elfgaming. I find it strange &...Linked by the ring
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The Littlest Brown Book has been updated on Itch and on Lulu. The Littlest Brown Book by idraluna-archives New content: Brand new, stunning cover art by Chaoclypse (in the...
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The government has shutdown & I've been instructed not to 'perform work-related tasks' so I'm catching up on backlogged blog posts & projects. Here's a little d66xd66xd66...
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Just a dungeon dressing table; there are many like it but this one's mine. It's arranged so that a 1 on the first die is always some kind of empty room (shout out to this post...Linked by the ring
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As book reviews go, this one's mainly an exhortation to read what I see as a criminally underrated book (I think I would need at least two more readings to 'get' it enough to...
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Tackling Glåugust 2025 with a miscellaneous tidbit for my Antarctic Adventure Jam entry. Prompt: "Fantasy races (like, NASCAR)". First was the noise. A roar of boisterous...
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Start Date: 8/8/1025 End Date: 8/13/1025 Members of The Expedition: Lyra Falsehood (conjurer), Leslie Meow (conjurer), Thorndike Stromulus (vicar), Trombly Escargot...
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Much has been made to the fact that OD&D is a chimerical hybrid of wargame & role-playing game. But there is a secret third game that doesn't get talked about nearly as often:...Linked by the ring
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This is a WIP summary of the factions in my OD&D campaign. I have yet to implement a formal faction system, but wanted to at least map out faction relationships to flesh out...
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In addition to my broader Appendix N list, Borges, Jorge Luis; Tlon Uqbar, Orbus Tertius, The Library of Babel, The Book of Imaginary Beings Citarella, Joshua; Politigram & the...
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BackgroundPrismatic Wasteland recently posted Slush Magic, describing a WIP magic-word system grouped into five 'schools': I never liked D&D’s schools of magic. It just felt a...Linked by the ring
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Earlier this month, my Nomic group concluded a game of Committe Nomic (explained below) after six sessions. Just as I would set down a postmortem on a completed TTRPG campaign,...
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I recently threw together a simple QGIS project for making basic hexmaps. It includes a pre-generated 6-mile hexgrid and preset symbology for common terrain types & landmark...
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I've been re-reading the Hobbit & Lord of The Rings this year, so naturally my latest cartographic hyperfixation was to make a map of Tolkien's paracosm. I had initially...Linked by the ring
- Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project: Two Dungeons of the Trollshaws Rise Up Comus
- Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project: The Shire (Complete) Rise Up Comus
- Eastfarthing - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
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- The Green Fields - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
- A Tour of the Southfarthing - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
- The Marish - Middle-earth Hexmap Rise Up Comus
- On the Road from the Three-farthing Stone to the Bridge of Stonebows - Middle-earth Hexmap Rise Up Comus
- Took Country - Middle-earth Hexmap Project Rise Up Comus
- The North Moors - Middle-earth Hexmap Project Rise Up Comus
- Troubles in the Northfarthing Rise Up Comus
- From Little Delving to Nobottle to Long Cleeve Rise Up Comus
- Five Hexes Around Michel Delving Rise Up Comus
- A Hexmap for Middle-earth Rise Up Comus
- How Do You Handle the "Inside" of a Hex? (George Lucas Special Edition) A Knight at the Opera
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Jumping on a blog bandwagon pitched by Weird Writer of Roll to Doubt. Before a CampaignI always start with maps, usually one of the campaign overworld and one of the main...Linked by the ring
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I was recently leafing through the Basic Fantasy RPG Adventure Anthologies looking for small dungeons to drop into my OD&D campaign. I'm fond of BFRPG, but it is aggressively...
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Start Date: 6/1/25 End Date: 6/8/25 Members of the expedition: Thorndike Stromulus, Village Priest; Frank Furter, Warrior; Trombly Escargot, Veteran; Lyra Falsehood, Seer;...
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Start Date: 5/23/25 End Date: 5/31/25 Members of the expedition: Thorndike Stromulus, Adept; Xeno, Veteran; Trombly Escargot, Veteran; Lyra Falsehood, Medium; Leslie Meow, Seer...
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I recently ran across a neat thread from 2008 on the Dragonsfoot forums where Geoffrey McKinney of Carcosa & Mike's Dungeon/World fame pitched the idea of treating the Holmes...Linked by the ring
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A couple people had suggested making a map of Doggerland, an ice-age region now submerged under the North Sea. The sea level is set to -85 m, roughly the situation in 8,000...
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Previously, I simulated the climate of a terraformed Luna and clustered the results into four biomes. Now, the results have been baked into hexmaps, free for anyone to download...
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In a previous post, I used climate simulation software to model what the moon's climate would be if it had an Earth-like atmosphere (TL;DR: hot & wet). I had hoped to repeat...
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I made a collection of over 100 6-mile hex maps covering most of the Earth's surface. 6-mile Hex Atlas of Earth by idraluna-archives I'm aware of a couple defunct attempts at...Linked by the ring
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Start Date: 3/1/1025 End Date: 3/1/1025 Members of the expedition: Titania Tungsten, veteran, Celery Stemetta, medium, Misophonia Fludd, acolyte, Frank Furter, warrior...