This week's newsletter has discord discussions, blog posts to read, projects to bookmark and download, play reports, and a poem to feed your soul.

I was able to secure an Interview with the Jack-O-Bear Crypto-Zoologist, Professor Linus Van Pelt, and his companion Charles Brown. Prof. Van Pelt seemed relaxed, but he...

Advantage on Arcana gives us this months prompt Cyclopes, Ettins, Hill Giants, and Ogres for the RPG Blog Carnival and asks that we come up with something that makes those...

Buckle up, this is a long one. BULLSEYE!This is a starting adventure for cramOS TTRPG. Players will engage with different Droids in a settlement, explore Crimson Rock in a...

It bears repeating.In Cath Celdaenn, there are two kinds of dungeons: forts and temples. The former belongs to a warlord (or headless army; or upstart band of celds) and throbs...

 Fleshing out a region that is still weirdly un-fleshed-out. On the northern steppe you may encounter:Nomad HousesA 'house', 'family', or 'clan' - terms the nomads use...

Alongside my Classic Traveller Brainworms I have a healthy dose of Mythras Brainworms. One of the most compelling parts of Mythras to me are the varied Combat Styles that add a...

The one where the halfling hurls hulking halite.

War games are practiced by every society in every fantasy world. War games compose society itself. It is remarkably costly to enact war, even if it costlier still to keep one...

 I am so fucking tired of discourse. I am so tired of people posting inflammatory things on their blogs and social media, and deciphering through secondhand accounts just what...

A class for goblins who turn to giants.

When running an RPG, I often improvise details about the world. And, it is then often true that these details do not make any sense. For example, in a recent Stonetop session,...

Magic is a time abyss. It stretches so wide that the passage of clocks cannot reach the whole of its tapestry: there’s more darkness in the night sky than the remnants of stars...

The penultimate, number nine of the undead! Yet another odd monster to fill a necessary void in my campaign, a different tack when considering how love and attachment can cause...

As adventurers venture further and further into the Odd World with each passing session, it begins to… rub off onto them. They will it to do so themselves. The Odd World (or...

POINTCRAWLING CONSIDER EVERY MOVE. A bad decision can be devastating. Every Scrap matters. INFORMATION HAS TO BE FOUND. Travel Cost or the Burrow ahead are not a given. Let the...

Some things are valuable for their use. Others, for some unique facet of their very nature. Some are valuable because they are value made material. Here's twenty of...

She stared at a blank wall in her apartment. “I love violence,” she said. “I love nothing more than killing, and torture, and eternal damnation for unworthy souls. Tolkien is...

Guest author Scipio202 gives a second set of analyses of mega-Kickstarters, this time focusing on the ultra-whale tier, like the $999 tier that raised $5.5 million for Neon Odyssey.

I will be co-running Marathon Nomic, a 24-hour game of Nomic with Scribble M. Horror on the Gay Beholder OSR Discord server this weekend (the weekend of June 13-14). It is...

Static Shocks and Rubber Bands

We played the eleventh session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as...

Sorry in advance for shooting from the hip. This is a ramble. My friend Ènziramire shared with me a quote by some liberal economist or philosopher—can’t find it, so bear with...

Figuring out why your favorite dice mechanic hasn't been replaced with drawing things out of a bag. Yet.

Inspired by Havoc’s Appendix ❤️‍🔥, the following are the sources that inspire HANDS OF STONE, a novel I am working on. As the novel is currently on the ideation stage, anything...

With only one last key for which to locate a lock, a cadre of daring delvers deigned to descend the depths of Murdicog's Manse once again.

An outpost, three connected burrows, a hidden mystery. Bullseye (settlement)RELIGIOUS. Home of a flock of the Long Vigil, a group of Droids that wait for the Departed Gods to...

Dedicated to Cosmic, my darling contact. A Lost Girl gang dreams of cutting themselves off from all the world, and to make each girl depend on no one but their sisters, yet...

There's been a blog post that came across my desk, about how this is a literary hobby with illiterate hobbyists 1. Some people take issue with the tone, but I would prefer to...

“So tell me,” Gredarius said, “how is Fabiola?” His prodigious waddle bobbed as he spoke. The particular emphasis he gave the word “is” could not have been replicated by any...