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Arden Vul Weasels – Sixteenth Session - The Weasels get lucky again! We followed the mysterious corridor, finding a division that led into a magically lit fountain room, with a crouching white ma...
1 day ago
Rise Up Comus

Making a Dungeon Patch - Sausage Making - Per this post last week, I have issued a challenge to start writing chunks of a dungeon as a creative exercise. The Worm community is calling this elemen...
2 days ago
The Soloist

🎲 Solo September - ENNIES and Fallout go solo, Substack finds Games, plus new releases, crowdfunding campaigns, and our return from summer break.
4 days ago
Traverse Fantasy

Pokémon Ranger Paradigm - We love to chase the idea of tabletop Pokémon, or Tablemon if you will. It’s like Pokémon but with your imagination. Who doesn’t want to escape the pixel...
5 days ago
Prismatic Wasteland

True Names in Elf Games - 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...
5 days ago
Explorers Design

The Explorateur: Issue #23 - Monthly jams, critique, theory, and resources for rpg designers.
1 week ago
Was it Likely?

the resurrectionist dracula, and Other Stories - mad kings and sad vampires my best friend forever i'm paying glaugust dues i'm playing elfin blues. these ones are fun I think, I'm particularly fond of the...
1 week ago
Indie Game Reading Club

Welcome to the Indie Game Talk Club - We’ve been threatening to do a podcast for years. That time has finally come. Let us know what you think: email us at hello@indiegamereadingclub.com. Meet ...
1 week ago
Failure Tolerated

Mothership Month 2026 - *Mothership Month is coming November 1 - November 30,* back to our regularly scheduled timeslot. With one big caveat: *No crowdfunding this year.* I don...
2 weeks ago
False Machine

The Common Store of Monsters - I am slowly grinding my way through the re-writes for Veins of the Earth. As part of the re-write I have re-organised the ‘Pariahs of the Earth’ monsters ...
1 month ago
Fail Forward

Authenticity - *[this is generally a non-gamey post so you've been warned]* Who is the real you? Is it that gorgeous girl, whose killer wings coax a "you have beautiful...
1 month ago
All Dead Generations

"Jaquays Your Dungeon" - Another OSR Maxim - Be Cautious of Maxims As I've written before, the "OSR" loved its maxims, short phrases that try to describe shared principles and act as a way of mutual...
1 month ago
Knight at the Opera

Why I closed up shop - Feel free to dismiss everything I say here as just the mad ramblings of a man in the middle of a meltdown. If you want a quick explanation, you can always ...
1 month ago
Technical Grimoire

Stonetop GM Notes - - Reading The Rulebook(s) - Prepping For the First Session - Session Two Prep - Session 2 Love Letters - Session 3 Prep - T...
1 month ago
Sam Sorensen

June 27th Megagame: Super-Diplomacy - The evening of Saturday, June 27th, 2026, some friends and I—including Walid from Dead Letters and ty from *OVER/UNDER*—are running a megagame version of...
2 months ago
Pointless Monument

I Ran: The Dose Makes The Poison (Using Mothership) - *A rescue (note: definitely not a kidnapping) on an art deco pharma lab with multiple ticking clocks — I ran The Dose Makes The Poison and these are my t...
3 months ago
Mindstorm

My Favorite Map - Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a blogwagon, this time about maps, and I’ve got to land this hot air balloon before the deadline ...
4 months ago
Weird Wonder

I went to GaryCon 2026 - *and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet* Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked...
5 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...
5 months ago
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
6 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Sacrament of the Minotaur - This is the first of a small series of posts which will be about how I am running Luke Gearing’s *Gradient Descent *in my Mothership home campaign. This ...
7 months ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Rings Of Reminder - It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been. I am still not over stuff t...
8 months ago
Hendrik Biweekly

In 2025 I played twenty-nine role-playing games - The year is almost over, and I didn't do a *lot* of blogging here, regrettably. Turns out I can't really juggle a day job, a crowdfunding campaign, and a ...
8 months ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

tricks taught: risk, thought, and the Marxist (un)truth of myth in Sukumaland - *a matched pair of mabindas (Sukuma articulated dance figures) on a performance cord* “*For revolutionary consciousness is subjective consciousness...
1 year ago
Sachagoat

BLOGGIES 2024 Concludes! - The Bloggies 2024 have come to a close, and what an incredible celebration of TTRPG blogging it has been! A phenomenal range of talent, creativity, and p...
1 year ago
Bones of Contention

Folie à Trois: Trophy Gold - Below is a shared review of *Trophy Gold (2022)*, a fantasy adventure game designed by Jesse Ross and published by The Gauntlet. Although it is informed ...
2 years ago
Permanent Cranial Damage

Carrion - *Carrion is the endless city. Time began in* *Carrion, and in Carrion shall it end.* *When the world was new, the Hornèd* *Mother's child, the demiurge Cann...
8 years ago

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