If you've been reading my blog posts, you can tell I just read Roadside Picnic. What a book! Having just recently come to this genre, this was a handy post to find RPGs that would let me scratch this itch:

Exeunt Press 💀🎲@exeunt.press · 4h ago

Want a TTRPG that has Annihilation / Roadside Picnic / Stalker vibes? I recently updated the list at the end of the Zonecore post: omnes.exeunt.press/p/what-is-zo... #zonecore #stalker #zone #zonepunk #ttrpg

If you have ever wanted to play an RPG where you don't go on no adventures (bothersome things, make you late for dinner) but instead just tend your halfling hole's garden all summer, have I got the game the game for you: Under Hill, By Water riseupcomus.itch.io/under-hill-b...

Under Hill, By Water by riseupcomus

A TTRPG about halflings who don't want no adventures, thank you

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I could say @riseupcomus.bsky.social or Caves of Qud for this one

K. Wroten 🍏@jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · 22h ago

Follow accounts that do things like post a random piece of old school art. This will make your feed have things like random pieces of old school art in them. This makes your feed better. Follow *me* for more hot tips like this.

Jared Dahl@mn-ttrpg-dad.bsky.social · yesterday

Day 521, random old school TTRPG art from random book: “XL-1 Quest for the Heartstone”, TSR 1984, Jeff Easley, page 3. #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #d&d #dnd #osr #ad&d #fantasyart #art #ttrpgcommunity #dndart #osrart

One way to make your fantasy pantheon feel weirder and more resonant with mythology is to make them more LOCAL. Gods cannot hear you if you're not at their specific shrine. Not all gods are known to you. Their blessings must be discovered. Not all gods are for you. Their worship is proscribed.

I love the prose in this post. Also, the City Events and Bounties are very stealable if you need to restock your Worm City.

Wayspell@wayspell.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's the End of the World! Calm down, it's not that dramatic. It's a starting city for your adventurers to set off from as they embark out into an Astral Sea. wayspell.blogspot.com/2026/08/hmtw... #HMtW #HisMajestytheWorm

Always a good time to go on Reading D&D Aloud because I always like talking to game designers about games, but talking to Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan (@mytholder.bsky.social) about Tolkien gaming was especially thrilling.

How Dangerous is Middle-earth? A conversation with Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan & Josh McCrowell Ep 110

Reading D&D Aloud! · Episode

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I think heaven might just be time A chance to listen to every song ever sung A chance to do everything that might be done

Inspiration is everywhere. Here's a three page ad for a defunct cigarette brand from a 88 copy of Playboy that I think is cool.

I revamped the Resources and Playing Online sections of the Worm website to highlight all the fan-created options to support online play. If you're spinning up a game of HIS MAJESTY THE WORM online, check it out: www.hismajestytheworm.games#h.pfuql57d5pt9

His Majesty the Worm

His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small moments of daily life inside t...

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I wish I had read Clayton's introductory advice 7 years ago. And there are some great posts again this month. Check out the pieces by Valeria Loves and To Be Resolved. Plus, incidental companion pieces about play by Murkdice and myself.

Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social · 4d ago

Woke up hungover after winning gold at The Ennies for Best Kiss. Anyway, here’s this month’s Explorateur. Only the freshest links from July. Two really fun reviews. My new favorite podcast. And three thoughts on layout from me in the upfront. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

I'll reiterate the real honor was just to be nominated, but of course I'm enormously happy to have won. Thanks everyone for all your support. If you haven't seen what the fuss is about, check out the course. It's free! dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games

Anyway huge congrats to Girl Frame!!!! To be clear I'm so excited for them I just need everyone to stop putting it down to bring it up

Gold for Online Content goes to Designing Dungeons Course: Or, How to Kill a Party in 30 Rooms or Less, Joshua McCrowell & Warren D

sigh do I gotta make my own one million dollar crowdfunder all by myself??

Luna P.@satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sorry I already called it deathfucker (subtitle: but I barely know her!) but you know the gist

This is me playing HIS MAJESTY THE WORM

Graphic design is my passion.

HODAG RPG@hodagrpg.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hodag's Greatest Hits, all at one booth! -Death Game! -Barkeep on the Borderlands! -The Babylon Lottery! -Into the Oddish! -Campfire Scouts! -Picaro! (Probably, My Eyes are old now) Go tell Tony you want THE HODAG BUNDLE! He won't know what you're talking about, but show him the list above! Yowza!

(Extremely not jealous voice) I hope everyone has a wonderful Gen Con! Someone tell me if I win an ENNIE.

Been hearing about this one in the Discord Zone! big fan!! Check it out!!

Agreeable Chatter@69dinguses.bsky.social · 7d ago

My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...

My good friend Demi is going to be launching a kickstarter. You get to confront xenophobic racists, exploitative capitalists destroying the environment and confront a techbro unleashing a little understood technology. Feels pretty topical! They would love it if you follow their pre-launch page.

Coming soon: Flowers of Fantasy and Fate Issue #1

Olig-Vald, a dangerous micro-hexcrawl for OSE characters of Level 4 and up. 32 letter-sized pages jammed full of gameable material.

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directing baleful psionic energies at lake geneva

The dragon spawns traps: not mechanical ones, but a terrible hell realm of slime that eats your bones and lamps that cast unliving shadows. 10 nasty traps to use for your TTRPGs

The fact that most Animal Shape spells don't need a lot of rules text is a great argument for FKR style resolutions in RPGs

I've been watching the development of this game with great interest!

Agreeable Chatter@69dinguses.bsky.social · 7d ago

My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...

In last night's session of HIS MAJESTY THE WORM, we fought this angler fish with a hand that would put out things we wanted on the shore, then attack us. We gave it a beating, but it swam away. Then later I got eaten by a giant clam.

"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.

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

I made a new guy during my lunch break today. This is Lazlo, an orc I'm playing in our upcoming His Majesty the Worm campaign (a game by @riseupcomus.bsky.social). He hates magic. #digitalart #illustration

The dungeon's rooms change with the tides of the moon. They open like a flower, growing in angles. When the moon is full, there are new rooms unfolded in the space between. When you enter the dungeon, you might suffer "elf time" and lose hours, days, or years.