I read the Dark of Hot Springs Island and try to make sense of it. I give suggestions for how to play it without slave races and sex slavery.

A Blogwagon for Indonesian-related TTRPG stuff

Just went with a quick sketch today :) RPG A Day 16! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers. This is a company which enters dungeons to...

The Arden Vul Weasels return. A hard return. The Players: At Gosterwick, we ordered good furniture for the hall and decided that we should be living rather frugally this month...

A review of the Chair written by Zach Vaupen (emo sludge) and with art by Zach Vaupen

 Still from Dracula (1931) featuring Frances Dade as Lucy Westenra and Count Dracula as himselfFulfilling my own prompt, reviewing another's blogpost, for Glaugust 2026. I...

Housekeeping note: I missed a couple of sessions, and my original numbering was slightly off, so this is a chance to correct that. I also had to leave a little early, but it...

I love random tables - I like the way they can get me started on something that I'm feeling some "blank page" inertia about, the way they help me get out of a rut or prompt me...

I missed session 2 but Nathan summarised it here. Essentially the gang went south, killed a harpy in control of these derelict buildings called Harpy Towers, and took over,...

(Challenging myself to express this thought in under 500 words) What kinds of obstacles do OSR characters typically encounter? The broad categories of traps, puzzles, combat...

I am a very tall, loud, animated dude in real life. It’s probably cultural to some degree, growing up in a family of Italian-Canadians. Say what you will about stereotypes, we...

Break's over, we're back in Thracia baybeeee. Players & CharactersReferee - Sully Arete, Human Thief - laumry Bomb, Halfling Fighter - Me! Ebane, Human Bard - Tor Parthenios,...

In today's bestiary entries, we have two powerful predators—Thylacoleo, the marsupial lion, and Paludirex, one of the largest crocodylians to…

This Month on Table 46I went to Gen Con this month and wrote up what I did there! A late addition! IsaacIsAfraid has put out a call for Indonesia-related blog posts for...

  This is where I am gonna go through the running of my zurth games and talk about the stuff I am doing as a GM, the rules I am working with, and how I feel about how things...

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A reading informed review of Troika!

GLÅUGUST Challenge 5, #1: Write a location where roughly 80% or more of the language is directly lifted from a single author or poet (they can't be a ttrpg writer, don't be...

Campaign Retrospective of My Campaign 26 clusterfuck and how I hate myself. I fucked up this year. I decided to run a "spinoff" of Wolves upon the Coast called BY THESE WOLVES...

Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #2 is from a list by Prime - "Books as treasure. No spellbooks." A list of books that were scattered throughout the...

    One of the greatest temptations in any budding GM's life is the idea of building up an entire world out of nothing. We'll get into more of that in a later post, but one of...

After about six months of play we had the first run in with starship combat in Classic Traveller. I was excited to finally get to bust out the majority of book 2 and had...

This is a continuation of my entries to the GLÅUGUST 2026 challenges. You can review all previous posts here: GLÅUGUST 2026 - 1 GLÅUGUST 2026 - 2 If you want to follow along,...

I had the lovely privilege of playing in spuk's Ocean D&D game yesterday, and here is a quick recap and thoughts on it. Featuring Blubbub - Level 1 Octopod (Me!) Magnifico -...

Q is for Quandary. Tough decisions and compromises. The lesser of two evils. Trade-offs. You can have a fun game on a railroad, no doubt. I don’t believe you can have an...

Today, in conversation with mandy brown, I realized that prepping slides is neither fun for me nor for my students, but I do it because it's expected. My best classes have been...

I had the great privilege of facilitating a few games of The Wax Marches this week! Thank you to the playtesters, whose blogs will be linked below. As a bottom line up front,...

How has access to Magic influenced Technology in your Setting?

As of this week, I will have spent 6 months in Hell. This will be a sort of report/retrospective on my time playing in Spuk’s ongoing campaign, Sinners, which takes place in...

This guy is really stretching the definition of the word "bludgeoning". The Cleric is the third member of the holy trinity, created back when Arneson’s gaming group realized...