SUN🌞ROT is a cool game that seems to be recreating the muddy evolution OD&D took from wargame to RPG and I've been trying to wrap my head around what it's asking me to do, while painting some fun miniatures: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/08/sun-...

SUN ROT: Inq28 And OD&D Kiss?

While work has kept me from doing a lot of thinking on BX D&D, it hasn't kept me from exploring a latent hobby of mine very close to D&D, wh...

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A reader liked my Law & Order in Dolmenwood so much they filled in all the courts and their locations AND they added them to their own digital calendar for Dolmenwood-- HOW COOL IS THAT!? Blogging works y'all! icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/07/law-...

LAW, ORDER, & DOLMENWOOD: Bringing Courts, Calendars, and Consequences To A Fantasy Setting

Update (2026 08 02): 🗓️ Commenter Centaurion has gone the extra mile and not only created a calendar , but has also included the dates and ...

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How did this game go? We have a saying: “30x30 feet of terror”. It’s when we are trapped in a 30x30ft room & it all goes down bad. That’s how the session went. 0 gold, 0 xp, but Mayfly’s new hireling earned double hazard pay (so really negative gold)

𝖂.𝕯.@icastlight.bsky.social · 4d ago

And speaking of the dread Abbey, Mayfly returns to its demon-haunted halls!

And speaking of the dread Abbey, Mayfly returns to its demon-haunted halls!

Miranda's Patreon is one of my favorites! You get cool monsters like this and a preview of the hell-haunted hall of Nightwick Abbey itself! A banger of a megadungeon that is perfect for modern tables and those who love all thing macabre, grotesque, and clawing its way toward you!

Neon Genesis Episcopalian@inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 4d ago

Over at our patreon we have a gross monster based on a hex I had in my game as redone by Huth. Ewwwwwwww www.patreon.com/InPlacesDeep...

Big thank you to @riseupcomus.bsky.social for the fun collaboration on this! And thanks to Jon Britton @3d6downtheline.com for lending his voice to the whole thing, @bertdrawsstuff.bsky.social for lending their illos, and Gus L @ratkingrpg.bsky.social for the great worksheet!

For my money, they should've hired Matt Hilker to do art for Dark Sun: www.instagram.com/hilkermatt/

This is a must-read series that mixes the Hobbit with Stalker- maybe “Roadside Second Breakfast”- it imagines a dragon’s desolation as a zone: riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/07/burg...

B.U.R.G.L.A.R.s Part 3: 10 Traps

Part 3 of my investigation into "Hobbits have a Roadside Picnic."  Part 1 is here.  Part 2 is here. Traps "I don’t exactly understand your t...

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Great point. And in part I think it’s because we still don’t recognize how culturally impactful D&D was almost immediately and how it shaped generations of fiction and media. Its tropes are so well engrained, reinforced, and old we assume it had to come from some place other than D&D.

Rise Up Comus@riseupcomus.bsky.social · last wk.

"Modern vernacular fantasy ideas get read backwards into a text that is perceived as having originated them but which doesn’t really contain them" is such a good way to put that phenomenon, holy shit. I've always wanted to find the right way to articulate that point.

I’ve said this before and I will again, but given that anime/manga/JRPGs is the past 2-3 gen’s pulp fiction/ Appendix N— BREAK!! Is closer to what many envision in a fantasy adventure RPG and streamlines everything into a d20! Just check out the classes 👇

Reynaldo@naldodrinan.bsky.social · last wk.

People have been talking about advertising your backlog, so while I'm working on START I figured why not talk a bit about BREAK!!'s rulebook in the meantime? So here's a thread on BREAK!!'s Callings (Classes, jobs, etc)

Extry extry read all about it! New fan-made character creator, rules reference, and tarot card generator for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM Guildbook (alpha version) out now: guildbook.arrowed.games

50 ways to leave your lover… and 8 ways to stock the dungeon you’re going to. It’s always nice to find a method that resonates with your adventure flavor and many of these dial up/down monsters and add in obsticles

Exeunt Press 💀🎲@exeunt.press · last wk.

This week I look at a few existing dungeon stocking systems and then propose one of my own. Exploring the many dungeon stocking methods. From Gygax's original tables to my own THORCS! system. www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/dungeon-th... #ttrpg #dungeon #gamedesign #dungeoncrawl

Now my wardolly has a little gang. Original sculpts by @gardensofhecate.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get ‘em painted

Great post from @ratkingrpg.bsky.social in his continuing series on the "pit traps" of OSR maxims. This one discusses "Jaquays your dungeon"- good advice, but its more than just loops. Both are similar, yet the one on the right is superior alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2026/07/jaqu...

Feast your 2 eyes 👀 on the seven parts…

jay Dragon is sleepy@jdragsky.bsky.social · 2w ago

a lot of people were asking for this, weve put previews of the rulebook, the grimoire, and the necromancer's codex up on the seven-part pact kickstarter page so people can get a sense of how the game plays www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

Alternative HIS MAJESTY THE WORM paths but its the four character tropes of Commedia dell'arte: Zanni (clowns) / Wands Vecchi (wealthy old men) / Pentacles Innamorati (young upper class lovers) / Cups Il Capitano (machismo-oozing captains) / Swords

IRL articles doubling as MOTHERSHIP Hooks 02 Growing clones of yourself for organ harvesting. Maybe a twist is PCs are sent to steal said "babies" for someone else who wants that person's particular organs. Misery on misery.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs

‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur

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𝖂.𝕯.@icastlight.bsky.social · 3w ago

I keep meaning to start a thread of present day IRL things that could easily be dystopia MOTHERSHIP elements. So I’ll start now: 01 Betting on clinical trials:

One of the best D&D illos ever

🏰𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🏰@dungeonlust.com · 6mo ago

Art by • Todd Lockwood

Really incredible tool for playing HIS MAJESTY THE WORM online: Crawlspace! Check it out: worm.jmac.org Many thanks to Jason McIntosh for their hard work in setting up this tool. I think it will be a big help for folks playing online!

Trying to get a handle on kitbashing

Did I need a silly foam d20 on sale at Target? No. But it’s now an important household decision making tool.

ENNIES voting final day! If you love dungeons or dungeon-adjacent things, the vote for this free online guide to building more of them! Make them the darkest 🌑, in a tower 🗼, have lunch there 🥪, or fill ‘em with bugs 🐛, however the form make ‘em for PLAY! Kill your friends.. in 30 rooms or less

You have 20 minutes to make undead kobolds interesting & outline a dungeon lord a 24 room dungeon- The Dungeon Design Couse can help! icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/07/rado...

RADOM WIZARDRY DUNGEON: Improving Undead Kobolds with the Dungeon Design Course

DESIGNING (THIS) DUNGEON'S THEME In the last post, I talked about how easy it was to make a simple dungeon that could fit on 2 sheets of pa...

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Even the advertisement for the Designing Dungeons course ENNIE might kill in 30 [clicks] or less! But don’t take my word for it, come see what the hand of my coauthor as wrought! riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/07/cyoa...

CYOA (Choose Your Own Advertisement)

Alas, to be an indie RPG designer is to be both the author, the project manager, the social media, and the marketer (among other things).  Y...

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I keep meaning to start a thread of present day IRL things that could easily be dystopia MOTHERSHIP elements. So I’ll start now: 01 Betting on clinical trials:

Kalshi to allow bets on clinical trials, FDA decisions

July 16 (Reuters) - Prediction market platform Kalshi will start taking bets on the outcomes of clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews, it said on Thursday, making drug-development odds public for

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THE MIDDLE-EARTH HEXCRAWL IS BACK, BABY. I have not been idle with this daily writing exercise. Come visit these troll-haunted lands. Gaze on the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Rhudaur, fight bandits allied with the Necromancer's forces, and explore the still-standing watchtowers for treasure.

The Angle - Middle-earth Hexcrawl

An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project.  Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. Art by Goran Gli...

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Reading through the old Wizardry manual inspired me to throw together a dungeon based on its 19x19 grid using AD&D Appendix A to match Wizardy's roots. Reflecting on it, the Designing Dungeons course can help its predictable elements be punched up: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/07/rand...

Nice update to a great project!

elmcat@elmc.at · 4w ago

official update of rootring state elmc.at/rootring-mon...

Vote for this - it's the sort of thoughtful, free, creative, and helpful tool that reminds me of the best of the long vanished OSR culture. Plus it helps make dungeon adventures.

𝖂.𝕯.@icastlight.bsky.social · 4w ago

Very pleased to be a co-author on this document, & delighted by the ENNIES nomination! The goal was to create an easily accessible aid focused on an often glossed over aspect of adventure RPGs that’s had a recent resurgence- dungeons! A big thanks to @3d6downtheline.com for adding their voice too!

Very pleased to be a co-author on this document, & delighted by the ENNIES nomination! The goal was to create an easily accessible aid focused on an often glossed over aspect of adventure RPGs that’s had a recent resurgence- dungeons! A big thanks to @3d6downtheline.com for adding their voice too!

Rise Up Comus@riseupcomus.bsky.social · 4w ago

Making 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/