From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane blogpost about one of the weirder parts of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons! Since seeing Gary Gygax casually mention that elves didn't have souls a year and a half ago, I've wondered WHY!?!?!?!?
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Every year, I reread the LotR trilogy. This last year's reread amped me up and I started keying Middle-earth 12 miles at a time
Concurrently, without meaning to, I wrote a game to run the hexcrawl
I call it Lore - a Lord of the Rings Adventure Game retroclone
Here's what I think is fun about it🧵
I think it would be the year of Media Consumption, and just packing my calendar with playing/running games.
Also travel, experience culture, visit museums.
Gather inspiration for making things in the future.
I mean, so far in 2026 we've seen 67 new RPG blogs and two new webrings, that I know of!
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!
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Remember 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)
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I think that depends on whether you're hoping to travel to the US anytime soon, and how you would like your next interaction with their border authorities to be!
I think the licorice would be more MÖRK BORG if it *were* an act of bioterrorism, actually.
Songbirds, by Snow, is an OSR and storygame traditions inspired ttrpg about you being the canary (adventurer) in the coal mine (dungeon), you go where others won't trying to help spirits find rest, since the god of death is slacking.
(Basically, I reckon all of these fall in the bracket of alcohol equivalents of Lindt chocolate: it's the proper decent brand name thing, but not "fancy")
Of these, probably the Galway Pipe, Jim Beam, Bailey's, or maybe the Midori? But really, all of these are going to be strongly dependent on whether they actually *like* that type of liquor.
the zine cover for Orestruck,black with a bony bug, aman with a torch inside the cave mouth
the cover for eternal empress. faux vintage cover effect depicting a building with arches, pink text reads “Amanda P The Eternal Empress”
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
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The Starving Saints looks like a Mörk Borg module (complimentary)
further to this: thanks to a gap between projects, i can take on a pro-bono project now!
if you're a marginalised creator with a small project that you'd otherwise be unable to afford to get edited, hit me up. i'll do my normal line/copy editing passes to really polish it for you, at no charge.
Edited dril tweet: turning a big dial taht says "gender" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
Never leaving the GM seat again if this sort of bullshit happens
I think this question very much depends on what you include in "the OSR".
I think the closest I have seen is a subset of OSR folks complaining that some OSR bloggers are writing theory blog posts instead of game content.
One of my favourite shows that nobody talks about, it's incredible
Banger list!
I would also add
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Arrival - Jóhann Jóhannsson
A revised version, more refined and complete with layout, is now available.
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I think this is a failure at the commissioning stage (choosing which books to write/publish) rather than at the marketing stage (choosing how to sell the books you're publishing).
(I largely agree with Marx S's response)
I also gotta say, I don't really think it's bad to use tropes to market books. The tropes are shorthand for the type of story is in the book! What else are you going to say? This book has a good story? Give a summary of the whole plot?
For a moment I thought this might be a comment on current events
Great blog post from Noel about implementing the lessons from a different blog!
Give your characters something to believe in!
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a rocky spire covered in vines reflected across a sea of white water lilies. text: "in a petal unlimited"
a 12-room dungeon map for OSR-styled TTRPG Wyrm. title: "descent". text: "Up here, the wind pushes at your chest like held breath. What little grass finds purchase this high will be gone by night anyway. Below, everywhere: lilies."
four praying knights with hands pressed together in prayer. the knights are copies of each other, each copy is a different color (pinkish, purplish, mintish, goldish). their heads meet in the center, but are covered by a large top-down illustration of a water lily. the background is noisy geometric lines against a black backdrop.
just released my submission for @gilarpgs.bsky.social's WYRM jam!
it's a dungeon set inside a spire on a tranquil sea. each sunset every flower on the sea withers and dies. except for the lilies.
there's plenty of community copies available. enjoy! 🪷
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New Blogpost: Play Is Canon
What are the sources of "truth" about the world of your tabletop setting? For me, the paramount truth derives from play itself. This is my synthesis of blorb and anti-canon.
#osr #ttrpg
Here is a blog post that I wrote with a friend titled "The GM is Dead."
It asks: If we can describe some GMless games as "GMful," how might we describe games like Firebrands?
The post is super short (4 min read), and I think we hit on something interesting despite the brevity.
For referees only!
Nobody every fumbled the bag like Sir Keir Starmer.
Anti-consecrating a can of Rio Tropical as the blood of the Antichrist.