Beneath Foreign Planets

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OSR blogger. A ponderous and stolid fellow. foreignplanets.blogspot.com

In this episode ill be eating everything i find under my couch. Glory to god the creator. Without Him we are nothing. Alright lets get this couch lifted up. LOTTA cat hair wow. Ok lets get started

A blog post brave enough to answer the question on everyone's lips: "what if the classic D&D ceiling monster (that's not the cloaker, lurker, or piercer) was actually a psychedelic nightmare squid that imprints its eggs in your subconscious?" traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/07/dark...

Darkmantles

Chthonic squid monsters floating soundlessly through the Inverted Palace . Conical indigo bodies ringed with crimson eyes; dense membrane we...

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three questions for every world builder: 1) what's the equivalent of inshallah? 2) what's the equivalent of mashallah? 3) what's the equivalent of bismallah?

Played my first game of 5e today 😕. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! I was getting 3.5 flashbacks. The rules really do foster bad play culture, so much checking out. A real sense of danger and side-based initiative would have done wonders and that's just the start of it. Ouch!