Chain Stocking the Hex Map — Prismatic Wasteland A new method for procedurally generating the terrain of a hex map that adds some level of “memory” to the otherwise disconnected random tosses of the oracle dice.

Bluesky CENSORED me yesterday by just fucking up and not working, but here is a new blog post where I propose a procedural method for generating hexcrawl terrain, inspired by both Mausritter and the original DMG
#osr #ttrpg

Fullstack Refereeing A framework for thinking about refereeing as Backend, Frontend, and Runtime, so you can diagnose play problems instead of solving the wrong ones.

Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs.

I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!

elmc.at/fullstack-re...

going to test this out in the near future with dolmenwood

my first blog post of 2026, as well as my first one in four months!

a few years ago i wanted to run a humans-only campaign, so i turned elves/dwarves/halflings into different human cultures

here's the building blocks of how i did it with elves

i had what i can only describe as a ttrpg nightmare, which is a first for me

since i recently mentioned the time two dozen bees stung me as a child, i'll do another one

i ate an entire popsicle stick when i was 15

april in northern minnesota is a month of microdosing winter against your will

i wonder how long it'll take me to to recover from the immense psychic damage of last week being 50°f (10°c) to now getting 9 to 15 inches of snow over the next three days

psi*run is a huge influence of mine. from the concept of first say to the really tight otherkind dice outcomes that reinforce the genre themes, it's an exemplar of story games.

if any of that peaks your interest, check this out

three adventurers sneak out of an arched corridor into a large stone hall, the walls of which are dotted with banners, paintings, shields and a stone grotesque face. a rectangular pool of liquid flows in the centre of the floor before them. above them, stairs lead up to a mezzanine and balcony, guarded by a statue-like figure of magically-animated plate armour with a glowing, horned helmet and wielding an enormous trident. also there's what looks like a spike trap on the landing halfway up the stairs

in the manse of siqis

#dungeoncrawl #dungeon #wizardtower #fantasyart #fantasy #osr #nsr #ttrpgart #rpgart #art

i'm just glad i'm not allergic to bees so we all get to find out the answer to "what if the kid from My Girl was built different?"

(yes i've made that joke before. i kinda looked like him when i was a kid, it'll never stop being funny to me)

you'd think getting stung by a couple dozen bees as a kid would have made me afraid of them, but it's the opposite. now i'm so relaxed when i see a bee. what's he gonna do, go get 20 or 30 of his friends? big whoop

thank you!!

my first blog post of 2026, as well as my first one in four months!

a few years ago i wanted to run a humans-only campaign, so i turned elves/dwarves/halflings into different human cultures

here's the building blocks of how i did it with elves

Beast Dream Crystal Ashcan by Zargo Games A new way to befriend monsters and go on grand adventures

I just released a new #ttrpg game for the first time in almost two years! It's the ashcan version of my new, simplified version of Beast Dream, called Beast Dream Crystal! I hope to be able to afford art, layout, and editing for it in the near future zargogames.itch.io/beast-dream-...

they said i could never finish a draft that was half a year old, but i live to prove my haters wrong

they said i could never finish a draft that was half a year old, but i live to prove my haters wrong

thank you!

i finally finished a blog post i started writing last september

what if elves were human?

they all feel pretty much the same in quality now, but back when the only video games you had ever played in your life were those atari games, the differences between them felt like miles instead of inches

it's a testament to the pervasiveness of received wisdom that the reputation stuck

Figures of Light YouTube video by Crash of Rhinos - Topic

wouldn't have guessed in a million years that i'd be listening to a new crash of rhinos song, yet here we are

one of the greatest to ever do it

a bunch of ttrpg enthusiasts/creators follow me on here bc of my osr sicko shit (blog, supplement for od&d) and i just hope they realize i am also a little freak about story and trad games too

finally, i can stop playing games while looking at them through my phone's camera and an instagram filter

the word itself or what the spell does?

not sure about the latter, but it's a latin word that means "defender, protector; former master (of a freed slave); advocate"

something nobody warns you about is that if you listen to powerman 5000 or watch a certain smashing pumpkins music video at an impressionable age, you might grow up to love steampunk

i also think it'd be cool if more games took a shadow of yesterday/into the wild blue wonder approach to characters and dice

no reason whatsoever this is a reply to the above post

i would like to see more ttrpgs that have both binary and tiered rolls. sometimes the obvious outcomes are succeed or fail, and other times it's apparent what degrees of success/failure are in play

anyway, you'll never guess what i was working on this morning