idraluna-archives.bsky.social
@idraluna-archives.bsky.social
OSR blogger & speculative cartography enthusiast. Blog: https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/ Itch: https://idraluna-archives.itch.io/
Finally got to play Mandog by @gromb.bsky.social -- here's a report from an extremely fun session, plus a mini-review. idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/mandog-sessi...
Mandog Session 1: Silent Night of The Lambs
I had the privelege of running the module Mandog by Gromb for some friends this weekend. It's been on my module bucket list for a long time and I'm happy to ...
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Chicken bones from lunch used as ballast, butterflies glimpsed at 5,000 feet — Travels in the Air (1871 edition) gathers remarkable tales from the early days of ballooning, accompanied by more than 100 beautiful illustrations: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/travels-in-the-air
this week on the blog: hags vents some feelings about anthropocentrism. enjoy hags.bearblog.dev/hillfolk/
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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A post that resonates very strongly in ways I can't quite articulate, and even though I don't always adhere to what it propounds. Straining against a voluntarily adopted constraint is essential.
Scribble M. Horror@scribblemhorror.bsky.social · 2w ago
Reflecting on my first brief Classic Traveller campaign idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/odradeks-dri...
Odradek's Drift Reflections
I wrapped up my first brief Classic Traveller campaign this week. I had a huge amount of fun running it and am extremely grateful to everyone who showed up t...
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I normally avoid risking psychic damage by looking at my old blog posts, but I have to laugh at the optimism of this to-do checklist from my first Antarctica post
Finished Morrowind for the first time recently and was compelled to do this
The Littlest Brown Book now has an Italian translation! idraluna-archives.itch.io/the-littlest...
Italian Translation
The Littlest Brown Book now has an Italian translation thanks to the incredibly hard work of Francesco Catenacci ! Buon divertimento!...
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Seeing some discourse about D&D... My advice? Play a real game, like baseball
I have a blog now and wrote about playing a bastardized version of OD&D in prison and how the DIY spirit of the OSR is most alive when you don't buy anything at all barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...
NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU
There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...
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Following these session reports has been so much fun -- really honored that Stella chose to run my first and only published setting :)
Stella Joy@500poundsofnothing.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 4w agoI have now done ten session on my zurth hexcrawl. I just sort of take assessment of what I like with the campaign so far and what I don't like. https://poundsofnothing.evilgoblin.wedding/2026/08/zurth-hobs-retrospective-1.html
2026 and each year following is the year of Classic Traveller. Here is a redone version of the simplified combat matrix from the Judge's Guild Referee Screen that is cleaner and easier to reference to. Thank you Havoc for making it pretty! unturned-hovel.itch.io/classic-trav...
Classic Traveller 1977 Combat Matrix by Unturned Hovel
This a reference to make running Classic Traveller faster, for the 1977 version of the rules.
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have you heard about the new, art-focused dungeon encounter generation system on the block?? that's right, it's.... DUNGEON DOODLE!!! chaoclypse.blot.im/dungeon-doodle
DUNGEON DOODLE - Chaoclypse
Here’s a fun way to make custom creature encounters for your dungeons! This method is focused on using art to visualize the creature, and only
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Draft rules for fleshing out encounters with the law in Classic Traveller idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/crime-punish...
Crime & Punishment in Odradek's Drift
Problem Statement: Classic Traveller players are always breaking the goddamn law. '77 Traveller is pretty vague about how to handle planetary justice systems...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Fanny Machine - The machinery https://www.wikiart.org/en/frantisek-kupka/fanny-machine-the-machinery-1928
Working on an update for STAR MARAUDERS: Peril & Plunder on the Stellar Sea. Plus, an adventure. btw: There's a Space Dungeon available on my blog! gourd-dwarf.bearblog.dev/cosmic-castle/
COSMIC CASTLE - Star Marauders Dungeon
Mysteriously, The Cosmic Castle Appeared A dungeon for use with Star Marauders: Peril and Plunder on the Stellar Sea One month ago, to the day, Princes...
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![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
