Donn Stroud

@donnstroud.bsky.social

RPG designer/writer/publisher.

Where is the power in holy water? The “holy” or the “water?” Is there a holy residue once the water dries? Could you have holy powder derived from holy water? Easier to carry it around. Then just rehydrate it before you need it. Has this been covered before?

Have you checked out Demonic Grimoire by Necrotic Gnome and Exalted Funeral? The tip of OSE Month iceberg, the monolith, etc etc. Anyway, some stretch goals were recently reached and one just so happens to be me creating a Sonic Collage/Soundtrack piece! Super exciting and happy to contribute.

Well, this is live. But more importantly the Demonic Grimoire, the Reason for this Season, the horrible and hellish, your last stop for demonic goodness is cruising along. It’s a great looking book. And there are a ton of amazing looking projects involved. Check them all out.

Abattoir Hymnal

This Demonic Adventure for the Old School Essentials system takes a party into a small pocket dimension of the hells. (A little Hellraiser and a bit of Silent Hill thrown into the Slaughterhouse sausa...

backerkit.com

Looking at the Bestiary of Ruination lately and thinking why didn’t I do tables for undead like I did in Forgotten Rites of the Moldering Dead… Then I remember the last minute need to split the book from the rules due to page count and the zine format I wanted. It would be cool to add that in.

You should read some Leckie. Especially on the porch when it’s finally 47 F after a long winter. This one has assorted stories including some from the Imperial Radch and Raven Tower universes.

Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie

My searching is not so good. Is there such a thing that can find fonts in a pdf? I'm trying to find out where a certain font as used and i'm tired of looking in Affinity Publisher. This is probably a dumb question....

I’ve got a little chest cold and was probably a little feverish last night and that’s most likely why my dream was a repeating of a short story I keep telling myself I’m going to write. Over and over just the initial opening. Maybe it’s finally time to write that thang.

I’m looking to read some newer RPG adventures to smack me about the head and perhaps encourage me to write better adventures. Or more engaging. I don’t know. I feel creatively slumped and need some great example of engaging writing, amazing graphic design, improved organization. Something.