Zak H. | Bommyknocker Press
@bommyknocker.bsky.social
Loveable oaf Blog: https://bommyknocker.bearblog.dev Itch: https://bommyknocker-press.itch.io
This post has been back of brain for a couple weeks. A quick tool for generating leverage and motivations for RPG characters. billhook.bearblog.dev/quick_levera...
Quick Character Leverage
I've been running Night Tripper recently. It's fun, you should do the same. Broad strokes, it's a space opera/pulp game in the style of Classic Traveller wit...
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For those asking if you could buy just the PDFs for Into the Oddish, the answer is now "yes, here is the itch page". Go grab it #osr #ttrpg #pokemon prismatic-wasteland.itch.io/into-the-odd...
Into the Oddish by Prismatic Wasteland
TTRPG where you play as pocket-sized monsters in a Pokapocalyptic world
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Can players share in the burden of creation and still feel the joy of discovery? Landmark, Hidden, Secret may hold the key. #osr #blog
Let Players Generate Your NPCs
Subcreation for all!
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Is the world Real? dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/09/ever... Or a dream? dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/09/ever... On either path lies power. At night our minds flail at the cracks between universes.
Every master a king
"When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, kn...
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Turn your #OSR modules into a pick-up-and-play party game with RAID Array Mischief! All you need is a deck of cards and a set of dice to explore tombs and dark forests as a shapeshifting robot with a punch-card memory. Available now on itch! dadstep.itch.io/raid-array-m...
RAID Array Mischief by To Be Resolved
Exploring yesterday's adventures with tomorrow's technology...today!
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hilanderrpgs.bearblog.dev/zlda-dark-fu... I've dreamt of a sci-fi Zelda for a long time. This is the power of TTRPGs folks. #osr
ZLDA: Dark Future
Tri-force Rebels
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An encounter for Troika I made using an old piece of Greenpeace art, hope you like it! cacatuca.bearblog.dev/heavenly-wha...
Heavenly Whale
a perilous encounter for Troika! RPG I just found this old french advertisement for Greenpeace, and just went on to add some text over it.\ Hope you like...
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Pill bug. Lozenge worm. Syringe beetle. Bag of medicinal spiders
The Knight's Tour is the route a chess knight would have to take to visit each square of the board exactly once. A knight moves 2 squares on 1 axis & 1 in the other. It has inspired experimental literary forms, like Sanskrit poems that can be read left to right or by jumping syllables like a knight.
80s Japanese game art clearly influenced by Moebius, Druillet, Corben, etc. slaps so hard. This is one of my favorite illustrations ever.
I issue you a challenge: Write your dungeons in 4-5 room elemental building blocks. Try writing a dungeon patch every week for a month. Post your dungeon patches on your blog so your friends can use them. Take dungeon patches from your friend's blogs. Make your megadungeons like a quilt.
The Elemental Level of Megadungeon Construction
There was a post on Facebook (cess pit that it is) that I found really inspirational. Here's a screenshot so you don't ritually defile yours...
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I have made using True Names for fae and demons compelling and gameable, which some said was impossible. Also, this is part of both the ongoing Name and Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagons #ttrpg #osr
True Names in Elf Games — Prismatic Wasteland
Rules for learning and using True Names against fey, demons and other sorts that preserve player agency. Also a brief note about animals in human form. For the Name and Indonesian Blogwagons.
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Finished Castle Cutaway Illustration for OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE
Thoughts on using the Chainmail "Man-to-man" table for OD&D, plus a draft combat ruleset based on a recent post by @dungeondoll.itch.io idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/chainmail-co...
Chainmail Combat for OD&D: A Reflection
In my ongoing Murdicog's Manse Antarctic Hexcrawl campaign, I decided to try resolving combat using a derivative of the Chainmail "Man-to-man" combat matrix,...
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Throwing my contribution to the Indonesia blogwagon out there: The Orangutan, a being for Cairn, including a bit of possible diegetic advancement. Hope you all enjoy! personable.blog/orangutan/
The Orangutan
A being for Cairn.
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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...
Blades of Thesus: a webapp that outputs a cheatsheet for Blades in the Dark. You select which of the Deep Cut mods you want to install, and it subs out and fixes the appropriate rules. The community can also publish their own mods which can be installed and generate new reference booklets.
hilanderrpgs.bearblog.dev/zlda-dungeons/ A very quick but sort of effective guide to making zelda-like dungeons. #OSR
ZLDA: Dungeons
Puzzle Fungeons
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hilanderrpgs.bearblog.dev/zlda-winters... Proving the method of my previous dungeon-building post for ZLDA. An ice-themed zelda-like dungeon for the #OSR
ZLDA: Winters Deep (Dungeon)
Proving the Method
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Forgotten Engines is ready! 65 pages of robots, rayguns, fungoids, dinosaurs, cryo-sleep, moon lasers, looters, techno spells, malfunctions, prehistory, cyborg apes, exploding batteries, and psychic tree ferns for The Black Hack or other OSR games. periapt-games.itch.io/forgotten-en... #TBH10th
Forgotten Engines by Periapt Games
Gonzo sci-fi technology for The Black Hack
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Hey friends, I wrote a thing. Maybe you can relate? What happens to your passion when you strip desire away?
Buddhism in a Bottle
A couple months ago, I started using a GLP-1 for weight loss: Zepbound, specifically. One of the Temu Ozempics. I’ve fought my weight my entire life. As I get older, the fight gets harder. It’s har…
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Book of Fuligin is a weird sci-fantasy comics anthology in honor of Gene Wolfe that me and a bunch of excellent artists created in 2022-24. I realized that many people who follow me here don't know about it, so it's time to change that.
The next time you sit down to start writing a list of 10 gods and 1 evil god, stop. Don't do that. Do this instead. Get 3-6 friends who play RPGs that aren't part of your current campaign. These are your setting's gods. riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
The gods are the gay people that live in my phone
Sometimes I kvetch about how boring I find fantasy pantheons that are just Greek gods with a bad coat of paint. Sometimes I've blogged abou...
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Mothership Month 2026 is going to be all about play. We need time to catch up on our projects (for once) and you need less to spend money on. I hope you'll join us.
Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG is now live on Itch! Cadastre is a highly re-playable tarot-powered RPG for 3 players. Meet your 19th-century survey crew and brave the frontier as you plot a treacherous border region. dadstep.itch.io/cadastre-a-l...
Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG by To Be Resolved
A tarot-powered tabletop game about borders and the surveyors who draw them
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Inspired to write up an Earthsea-style hexcrawl. Rules and first isle are up: octopusink.blot.im/the-isles-of... octopusink.blot.im/the-eastern-...
The Eastern Reach - The Isle of Nont and Surrounding Isles - Octopus Ink Games
(Note: Hex key numbers are temporary while I figure out how to fit this into a larger map. Icons denote points of interest, but there are many
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