Sometimes I'm abruptly reminded that the OSR really is just this meme huh
Played in @knightattheopera.bsky.social's EXCELLENT Rivers & Lakes - This is /exactly/ what I love to see in a tactics game, and it was so FLAVORFUL too
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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SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
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New Blogpost: Five methods for dealing with repeated results on random tables #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon
Five Solutions to the Birthday Paradox in Tables — Prismatic Wasteland
When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particularly for random encounter tables.
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I wrote a blog to condense all the fantastic TTRPG blogosphere GM advice I’ve read into something I could easily consult and use. Maybe it’ll be useful for you too! afcbrodie.mataroa.blog/blog/s...
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As the world's leading expert on Skill Challenges I can confirm that this is just better.
Ty@mindstorm.bsky.social · 5mo agoRemember SKILL CHALLENGES? They're back! In blog form! Check out my latest post where I lay out an easy and fun way to handle a complex, tense situation. It works in every TTRPG ever made up until this point and all future TTRPGs (disclaimer: this is a lie) www.mindstormpress.com/quick-stakes...
Hello new followers. I am Amanda P. and I write adventures for roleplaying games including Cairn, OSE, and Mothership. I wrote a solo journaling game called Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard. You can check out my work at my website, as well as: weirdwonder.itch.io www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
If soopersmert is on bsky, I can't find them. But they wrote a rare good post about difficulty, and another post that (through the technology of time travel, clearly) jacked my shit. Post1: ape-encounter.bearblog.dev/dk-king-of-s... Post 2: ape-encounter.bearblog.dev/rpg-difficul...
DK: King of Swing for the Game Boy Advance and Difficulty
DK King of Swing Last night I finished DK: King of Swing for the Game Boy Advance. This was a very odd game, recommended primarily as a piece of Nintendo hi...
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Dwiz@knightattheopera.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew blog post that attempts to span all types of challenge-oriented games, rather than just talking RPGs like I normally do. But there's plenty of RPG stuff in here, too. Discussion questions included at the end. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-...
New blog post that attempts to span all types of challenge-oriented games, rather than just talking RPGs like I normally do. But there's plenty of RPG stuff in here, too. Discussion questions included at the end. knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-...
How to Talk About Difficulty
Artist credit: Jeffrey Hummel Gamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversat...
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After writing koboldpress.com/kpstore/prod... with @prismaticwasteland.com I started codifying "make a formal plan" as a step in my procedures because of the very issue Nick identifies. Especially when playing online, I put plans into WRITING, to serve as our "agenda" for the next stretch of play.
Nick LS Whelan@linkskywalker.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhile working on a more substantive project, I got to thinking about a maladaption I've noticed in many referees. Then a few hours later, a friend of mine did the exact thing I was thinking of right in front of me. So I wrote about it. www.paperspencils.com/referee-sabo...
here's the first in a series of articles about the development of Seven-Part Pact, how it went from 17th century england to a fantastical archipelago, and the important conversations that helped it become what it is now possumcreek.medium.com/seven-part-p...
Seven-Part Pact — Origins (Chapter 1)
The seven greatest wizards in the world convene upon the Faraway Sea, their magic aligned in the service of an ancient Pact. Each governs…
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REVIEW TIME I went in wanting to love this game... Public Access is definitely not for me, but I've learned that (despite my preconceptions) the Carved from Brindlewood system definitely is ~ www.failforward.moe/2026/03/publ...
Public Access is Not What You Think It Is (A Review)
Looping forests. Creepy basements. Crawl spaces whose darkness can't be pierced by your flashlight. Wouldn't it be great to have a game that...
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Seven-Part Pact, my fantastical and ornate TTRPG about the seven most powerful wizards in a fantasy world, is coming this summer to kickstarter!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
Coming soon: Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Jay Dragon about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
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Thoughts on warning iconography from a future yet to come inspired by Ron Cobb's work for Alien (1979). seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2026/03/icon... #diyrpg #ttrpg
Iconography of a history yet to happen
I have long been a big fan of the Semiotic Standard developed for Alien (1979) by Ronn Cobb for "all commercial trans-stellar & heavy eleme...
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Here ANOTHER idea of how to grab some fresh spells. Lizard Wizard magic! puzzledungeon.com/lizard-wizar...
Lizard Wizard magic
Song titles as spell names. Spread a little bit of authorial love for a whole lotta fun.
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As set forth in the ancient scrolls of blogging, I must meet @prismaticwasteland.com's post saying that X is OSR with a response claiming that it is not, in fact, OSR throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/02/poke...
Pokemon isn’t OSR (but I wish it was)
Warren over at Prismatic Wasteland recently made a post titled: “Pokemon is OSR”, and in the storied tradition of bloggers everywhere I am ...
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Catch ‘Em All while you can! In commemoration of the 30th anniversary, I’m heistfunding a Poképocalyptic game based on Into the Odd. I call it INTO THE ODDISH! You can pre-order it now (until ???) #ttrpg #pokemon #osr
Into the Oddish is Heistfunding Now — Prismatic Wasteland
Pre-Order a Pokémon tabletop roleplaying game parody of Into the Odd with Vileplume Mountain, a funhouse dungeon adventure.
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THE BLOGGIES!!! Please vote for the DESIGNING DUNGEONS COURSE for Best Blog Series! This totally free series provides a step-by-step course to follow along with to create a 30 room dungeon from scratch. Vote here 👉 forms.gle/d6YbnUqiuypv... Why I think you should vote for me 👇
My five posts about The Seven-Part Pact have been nominated for Best Series at this year's Bloggie Awards. You can now listen to all of them at We Read The Bloggies. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...
[Series] Seven-Part Pact: Time (Part 1), by Dwiz
Bloggies 2026 Nominee (Series Category): Seven-Part Pact: Time by Dwiz (A Knight at the Opera) Series: Seven-Part Pact Narrated by Dwiz Episode Links: The Seven Part Pact by Possum Creek Games Old Men Running The World: The Seven Part Pact: the First Actual GM-Full Game A Knight at the Opera: Gritty Realism: Adventuring in Weeks, Not Days Under Hill, By Water by riseupcomus
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i was super inspired by @knightattheopera.bsky.social and @forlornencystment.bsky.social’s posts about mapping to incorporate similar dynamics into my pirate game and i felt the best way in my context was to make maps and mapping into a resource 🗺️ traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2026/02/stat...
Stationery & Maps
Basically: I was inspired by Dwiz’s post about how ‘ the maze game ’ of charting sites was central to early D&D in contrast to later approa...
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VALIDATION VINDICATION CORROBORATION EXONERATION
Woefully Encysted Creature@forlornencystment.bsky.social · 7mo agoI wrote about player mapping in dungeons in AD&D, specifically about how the dungeon map enables expedited travel along mapped routes, allowing not only a quick escape from the dungeon to rest, but also a quick route back into the dungeon to continue exploration on subsequent delves. #D&D #AD&D #OSR
Hwæt, readers of blogs! The time is at hand! Arm yourselves for this great battle of good (post I liked) versus evil (post I didn't really like (no offense, Sam))!
Sean McCoy@sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 7mo agoALRIGHT. Writing rooms in pairs has moved on to the second bracket. Help me destroy @samsorensen.bsky.social ‘s excellent post about dev editing by voting now! DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS
My five posts about The Seven-Part Pact have been nominated for Best Series at this year's Bloggie Awards. You can now listen to all of them at We Read The Bloggies. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...
[Series] Seven-Part Pact: Time (Part 1), by Dwiz
Bloggies 2026 Nominee (Series Category): Seven-Part Pact: Time by Dwiz (A Knight at the Opera) Series: Seven-Part Pact Narrated by Dwiz Episode Links: The Seven Part Pact by Possum Creek Games Old Men Running The World: The Seven Part Pact: the First Actual GM-Full Game A Knight at the Opera: Gritty Realism: Adventuring in Weeks, Not Days Under Hill, By Water by riseupcomus
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My 2nd episode of We Read the Bloggies is up, a recording of my post "Look Before You Leap." I'd like to thank my D&D players for volunteering to read my dreadful script for your entertainment. Please enjoy this bit of amateur theatre with a side of theory slop. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...
[Advice] Look Before You Leap, by Dwiz
Bloggies 2026 Nominee (Advice Category): Look Before You Leap by Dwiz (A Knight at the Opera) Narrated by Dwiz and friends!
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The Bloggies Nominees are here! We are 1 week away from voting, so I need everyone's help spreading the word. Congrats to all the nominees and blogs submitted—this last year was incredible. Forming the lists was equal parts rewarding and painful. www.explorersdesign.com/this-years-b...
This year's Bloggies Nominees
Over 90+ blog posts. And a surprise category for 2026.
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I wrote up some thoughts on this a while ago: idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/the-mapping-... In general, I'm one of the weirdos who like the painstaking process of player-mapping & calling out room dimensions, for the reasons given in the post.
The Mapping Game
Much has been made to the fact that OD&D is a chimerical hybrid of wargame & role-playing game. But there is a secret third game that doesn't get talked abou...
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Hijacking this strat today knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/02/navi...
Navigation Games
Dungeons & Dragons began as a game about exploring mazes, trying not to get lost as you navigate spaces with complicated layouts. At some p...
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Sean McCoy@sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 8mo agoI get my good ideas out of the way at the beginning of the year so I can take the rest of the year off.