Ben L
@benlaurence.bsky.social
Author of Through Ultan's Door, Downtime in Zyan, and Mazirian's Garden. Creator of the podcast Into the Megadungeon. Links here: https://linktr.ee/ultansdoor Patreon: https://patreon.com/ultansdoor Webstore: https://throughultansdoor.bigcartel.com/
I've been writing a LOT of tables for my Jorune game. For example, I'm doing 2d6 starting equipment by class + d66 trinket table corresponding to the characters home region. I normally find writing tables all but impossible. But I have some advice from some tricks I started using to help. 1/7
OK I've never read green lantern. What are the runs I should read? The weirder and more cosmic the better, but obviously great storytelling or art, whatever is good
Sophomore slump? more like strength to strength
barenuckelavee.bsky.social@barenuckelavee.bsky.social · last wk.Wow the response to my first post was so nice, thank you all! I doubt I'll top that manifesto, but for my sophomore slump, here are some rules for playing elves and dwarves and shit, adapted from my best recollections of that campaign barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/elves-and-ot...
I'm like 90% done with a complete, new rule system for my upcoming Jorune campaign. All that's left is starting equipment and downtime! It's about 40k words! Going to share it with my Patreon on Monday, and then release it bit by bit on my blog.
Watched Heretic. The first 45 minutes were tremendous. After that, not so much. The funny thing is the movie itself suggests an alternate plot that would have been much better, but in the end the movie is too normie to go there. As written, it's kind of a nice critique of New Atheism though.
Rowan, Rook and Decard workers unionize with IWGB Games Worker Union www.rascal.news/rowan-rook-a...
"...this game is just too big. It's impractical. It's silly." — Quinns "I have no idea what people will make of this." — Kieron Gillen "Completely unpublishable." — [publisher name redacted] SEVEN PART PACT HAS 24 HOURS REMAINING www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
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This could be a perfect illustration of the Unrelenting Archon Azmarane, spinner of the skeins of fate, who is often depicted as a crone pulling skeins of thread from her mouth
Pastel Lich@pastellich.bsky.social · last yr.Spinster #voidcall #oldorderarcana #occult #art #illustration #drawing #イラスト
I'll reiterate the real honor was just to be nominated, but of course I'm enormously happy to have won. Thanks everyone for all your support. If you haven't seen what the fuss is about, check out the course. It's free! dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games
it's wild that tolkien named the only half-elf in lotr after a science fiction author who would go on to write dianetics
George Washington's preferred melee weapon was a broadsword, apparently
Day 515, random old school TTRPG art from random book: “Encyclopedia Magica Volume One”, TSR 1994, Arnie Swekel, page 336. #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #d&d #dnd #osr #ad&d #fantasyart #art #ttrpgcommunity #dndart #osrart #monster
Oxnails are massive selled gastropods able to climb walls and swim with ease, able to carry great weights and even several passengers. However, it moves slowly. Name your oxnail. fomoria.com #fomoria #ttrpg
Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇
some truly great ENNIES options this year one of my favorites: the Designing Dungeons Course (@riseupcomus.bsky.social and @icastlight.bsky.social) take a break and give it a look if you do, I think you'll give it your vote 👇
Designing Dungeons Course
The landing page for the Designing Dungeons course.
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Rise Up Comus@riseupcomus.bsky.social · 2mo agoMaking your own dungeon can feel intimidating, but it's just a series of discrete steps. To help make the joy of writing your own dungeon available for everyone, I wrote the Designing Dungeons Course. Please vote it #1 for BEST ONLINE CONTENT in this year's ENNIES! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/
RiP Emmanuel. Another of the old guard has retired, but his legacy has and will endure.
So I've been playtesting a new game / adventure. Working title: MACE OF THE MONKEY KING. Premise: the Monkey King's dropped his mace. It's fallen on a town. Whoops! In its early stages, the adventure has PCs exploring a community hit by a comet. So far we're two sessions in. 1/
A little over two weeks ago I released a jokey blog post about what to expect going into an o/u-like LTRP. Now its time to give Baseline Drift the chunky post-mortem blog treatment as its predecessor with a reprise of my first ever blog post. thegardenbelow.blot.im/voice/expres...
Voice / Expression / Reprise - The Garden Below
Exploring markdown formats, plural identity, and other tools of live text expression in the wake of Baseline Drift.
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Playing the Quiet Year with my wife and elder daughter (17). Her bestie introduced her to it! I cannot believe that she plays in Cataphract games and knows who Avery Alder is. So far it's very fun especially bc my wife isn't into role playing games but can get into this. 🎆
*staring at my 80 page heartbreaker Jorune ruleset manuscript* "Maybe this thing where we try to make the perfect ruleset to run a single campaign...is a mistake?"
My 800 room, 99 section modular megadungeon for Cairn is finally complete! Also, it's PWYW, so anyone can enjoy it. www.fistfulofvalkyries.com/2026/06/ente... #ttrpg #osr #cairnrpg #megadungeon
Suppose I'm using group initiative. Does anyone know of any blogpost or forum discussion of the comparative merits of alternating sides in a sequence of phases i.e. winner moves, loser moves, winner shoots missiles, loser shoots missiles, etc. VS the winner does all their stuff and then the loser?
