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@orthopraxy.bsky.social
Dyslexic educator, hiker, and TTRPG writer. Deputy Editor at Sprigs and Kindling. Blogs at https://orthopraxy.bearblog.dev/ Check out my modules 'Raven's Loft', 'The Yaksha's Sigil', 'Thrown Voices', and 'For Every Flower, A Garden'
I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque. Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...
How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?
A survey on campaign length and lethality
valerialoves.com
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
one of the more embarrassing strangely common video game fandom behaviours is holding onto resentment over specific IGN reviews decades later. you are 29 years old bro you gotta led the sonic unleashed review go
The Canadian Chronicles are coming soon… three tales of horror for Call of Cthulhu, made and set in Canada 🇨🇦 and releasing at KamCon! The scenarios are written by Francis Acquarone, Patrick Chandler, and myself.
This seems cool www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Wicked Good Adventures: Big Adventures from the Smallest State - West Warwick Public Library | DriveThruRPG.com
Adventurers Wanted! The Game Masters of the West Warwick Public library need heroes! Gather your dice, your friends, you
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Getting some writing/editing done today and thinking about The Old Times. The cafe I do game stuff at hasn't updated their sign in forever. I used to read blogs, scroll Twitter, and lurk G+ while drinking coffee here. G+ and Twitter are gone, but coffee and blogs have a way of sticking around.
Pe Metawe Plays Season 4 is here! From September-December, we'll have three different GMs running three different campaigns: Dungeon Crawl Classics with GM Mike, Urban Shadows with GM Shannon, and Cosmere with GM Ethan! (1/2)
Me, the vile "OSR" gm to my unsuspecting players:
Triblast28@triblast28.bsky.social · 3w ago... I'm with them, this does look pretty cool
I released a new adventure on my Patreon. "Where the Black Fern Grows." Cover illustration by @munkao.bsky.social www.patreon.com/BradKerr/pos...
Tonight! At the art house: Double Feature baby, let's go! I Saw the TV Glow and Camp Miasma back to back. I've heard very good things about Camp Miasma, I'm excited to see it.
If we compare Dungeon Crawler Carl to Solo Leveling, and read them both in the context of their popularity, we get a fascinating study on what our society is currently hungering for in their fiction and why the concept of dungeon crawl might be uniquely desirable. #dungeoncrawlercarl 1/10
Perennial reminder that the big corporation does not care about you and there are better alternatives.
Here's my contribution! I talk about the Indonesian Language and it's role when we play TTRPGs!!! Please take a look!! redforroseline.nekoweb.org/blog/IndoBlo...
IndoBlog1: Indonesian Language
I talk about the Indonesian language, why it's surprisingly easy for English speakers to pick up, and how we use it to seamlessly codswitch during our TTRPG sessions.
redforroseline.nekoweb.org
Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 4w ago17 August 1945 is the Independence Day of Indonesia. I'm not celebrating that. I am celebrating the Indonesian TTRPG scene and any Indonesian TTRPG stuff by calling for an Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon! afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-t...
I have a blog now and wrote about playing a bastardized version of OD&D in prison and how the DIY spirit of the OSR is most alive when you don't buy anything at all barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...
NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU
There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...
barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev
Sprigs & Kindling is hosting a free online writing retreat! November 9–15, 2026. This is a free week of writing, designing, playing, learning, and hanging out with other people who make and love CfB and Trophy TTRPGs. To register fill out the form linked on our website! sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
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Morning #YEG tabletop nerds! A reminder to keep the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 4 free for Hack n' Yak! Come hang out with your fellow designers, aspiring or otherwise, and enjoy conversation and snacks in whatever ratio you prefer! Love to see you there!
You have been misled. It's a setting, and it rules. valerialoves.com/wages-of-sin...
Wages of Sin Gave Me a Midlife Crisis
Should I just run Mothership for the rest of my life?
valerialoves.com
When your analytics say this about your latest blog post but none of the posts you've made about it have gained traction 😬😬😬 Somebody's sharing it, somewhere... But who??
New Blog Post: On the Eve of the Masquerade Wherein I try to "review" Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green but really review the person I was when I read it This one is messy and personal--I don't apologise orthopraxy.bearblog.dev/on-the-eve-o...
On the Eve of the Masquerade
A Review of Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green that is really a review of the Person I Was when I first read it According to my DriveThruRPG purchase h...
orthopraxy.bearblog.dev
if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · last mo.This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
