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Came For The Pun, Stayed For The Giant Fish Probable Claws is a 16-page adventure for Shadowdark by Jordy Milano of [Normal Press Co.] (https://normalpressco.itch.io/). This is...
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I Swoon For Toads That Swallow Characters The Flooded Greenhouse is a tri-fold adventure in English and Spanish for Mausritter by David M. Alfaro. Mice will explore the titular...
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Being a Review of Titan of the Verdant Maw Turned into a Reflection on Adventure Design Titan of the Verdant Maw is an adventure for Old School Essentials by Daily Ritual...Linked by the ring
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Weird Danger At Sea Cold Blows the Wind is a three spread adventure for FIST:Ultimate Edition by Peter J. Boyle. Players find themselves investigating the strange disappearance...
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Sometimes Less is More Nothing in this post is new. As with anything to do with randomization and tables in the OSR, it’s been discussed to death already. But this is about my...
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Cozy Frigid Fun The Glacial Outpost Atlas is a 23-page system-neutral worldbuilding document written and illustrated by Jessie Archer, publishing as Celestial Flair. It...
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Musings on Maps and Navigation in Lathan's Gold Earlier in the year I spent some time playing through the solo B/X adventures TSR released back in the 80s. While I already...Linked by the ring
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Mayhem at the Faire The Drakenfall Faire is a 16-page adventure for Perils & Princesses written by Destiny Howell with art by Ryan Lynch of Outrider Creative, who also...
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You Can't Go Wrong With a Creepy Derelict Lorac One is an 8-page scenario for Death in Space by HereticZed. Like any good sci-fi horror scenario, it pits unwitting salvagers...
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A mucky Swamp Romp Swamp World is a tri-fold adventure for B/X-like old school adventure games by Brad Kerr and Skull fungus. It's part of their Pamphlet Adventure Tryptich,...
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Let's Solve a Mystery! A Sliver of Evidence is a 16-page adventure for Cairn by Karly Anders. It's an investigative site-based adventure packing a lot into a small package....
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Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a Blog Bandwagon, this time focusing on maps. One of the options is to make something with a map donated by the...Linked by the ring
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Let's Make Poisons More Interesting Work on this post started because I'm tinkering on a dungeon that will involve a lot of poison and before really getting into writing it, I...Linked by the ring
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Never Say No To Vampires Fort-Sanglot is a tri-fold dungeon for OSE by Donjons and Darons. Like last week we're doing a non-English adventure again, but Google Translate does a...
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BEWARE THE TOAD La Venganza del Escuerzo is a a 6-page scenario for Mörk Borg by Kapithan. It is based on the short story El Escuerzo by Leopoldo Lugones. Although published in...
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A wise man once said we don't have enough flying carpets in dungeons. Well I'm here to fix that. d10 types of flying things Carpet - Holds up to 4 people. Really nice silk with...
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Version 0.1 | January 2026 | Luke Simonds (Cats Have No Lord) | CC-BY-SA 4.0 Death & Treasure is a solo adventure game for playing choose-your-own-adventure style dungeons. The...
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This is the third in a series of play reports for a solo campaign of TThe One Ring using the Moria supplement and the solo rules for playing a band of dwarves. I've been...
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This post has been bubbling in my mind cauldron for a while now, and has finally boiled over after reading Mr. Mann's post this morning about adventures that require the...Linked by the ring
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Pleasantly Surprised Temple of the Rotting Priest is an 8-page dungeon for OSE by Michael J. Patrick. A version for D&D 5E was originally published in March 2025, while the OSE...
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In this post I discuss XS2: Thunderdelve Mountain, the last solo-adventure for B/X Dungeons & Dragons published in 1985. This is a follow-up to my playthrough and review of...
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The Failings of BSOLO and the Three-Solution Problems of Quest for Glory This post is, in part, a play report and review of BSOLO: Ghost of Lion Castle, while also being a...
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We're rounding out this Year of the Beta here at Cats Have No Lord with a work-in-progress solo adventure for Mothership. This is inspired by Thousand Empty Light and re-uses...
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GOOD DUNGEON RESERVOIR is a 16-page horror puzzle dungeon for Shadowdark made by Cameron Maas for the 2025 Puzzle Dungeon Jam. And wow is it good! Let's talk about it! The...
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It’s been a busy year here at Cats Have No Lord Headquarters, and I’ll be making a year in review post soon, but I also want to look ahead to goals for next year. A goal for me...
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This is my second play report for Thousand Empty Light, a solo adventure for Mothership. Mozella made it further than my last character. Had a great time. Review and thoughts...
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This is a play report for Thousand Empty Light, a solo adventure for Mothership. I will probably have a review coming once I’ve been able to play more of it. As you’ll see,...
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Quick post to say I've started a podcast called Hairballs & Harpies. This will be an Indie TTRPG discussion podcast talking about games, adventures, and theoretical/conceptual...
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This is the second in a series of play reports for a solo campaign of The One Ring using the Moria supplement and the solo rules for playing a band of dwarves. Here we learn of...
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This is the first in a series of play reports for a solo campaign of TThe One Ring using the Moria supplement and the solo rules for playing a band of dwarves. Here we are...