Divine, Machine and Flesh

Maus Haus: House-Rules for Elementary Schoolers As promised, a follow-up post on my house-rules for playing Mausritter with my elementary-age children, derived from negotiating with my ki...

Our Haus rules for playing Mausritter with young kids: derived via negotiation with my elementary schoolers, at great cost. dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/04/maus...

Refine it The coalface of minimalistic design

Today in MurkMail we’re talking about refinement in game design murkdice.substack.com/p/refine-it #osr

Space Gits: Here Come The Bastards The designer of GASLANDS brings you a bunch more crazy crap for SPACE GITS, the dexterity miniatures game of drunk-ass space orcs.

The follow on book to Space Gits is funding now. The Kickstarter ends soon. I love everything about the game—it is bananas. Check it out.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pla...

The Belle of the Bog - Taller Tales | DriveThruRPG Welcome to the proud steam boatBelle of the Bog! A mirthful adventure site for Dragonbane and other old-school roleplaying systems. Join the strange captain and mysterious crew of the raucous steamboa...

In honor of Nerd Camp 2026 where some good friends and I go play games in the woods for a weekend, Belle is 50% off!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
tallertales.itch.io/the-belle-of...

I've also topped up the Itch community copies if you just want to take a peek.

#ttrpg #osr #camping #sale

Majority of Americans Ignore This Simple Trick to Eliminate Mice

I blogged again!

A crafting system with all the fun and none of the work...because I've done the work for you!

Enchantments! New items! One easy roll a week! Perfect for any table, especially open ones.

Check it out, give me feedback and share!

hardboiledfantasyland.blogspot.com/2026/04/craf...

FANTASY/ELRIC.GIF

THE THING FROM THE SWAMP by Chris Bissette A B-Movie MODULE for Mörk Borg

THE THING FROM THE SWAMP is trashy creature horror for Mörk Borg. B-movie fun with actual teeth. It's on sale, too.

https://loottheroom.itch.io/swamp-thing

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Dead Renaissance - The Waves of the OSR | Snow Get more from Snow on Patreon

Just posted this essay about the OSR, but more so about how TTRPGs have created their own genres and these things we consider cliques or movements are actually greater extensions of what TTRPGs have done unique from other mediums.

www.patreon.com/posts/155858133

Vibe ✅

The Most BROKEN Class in AD&D!?!?!? One of the central maxims of the OSR is that the answer is not on your character sheet. "Builds" as such aren't really a thing, between ...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane blogpost where I share the most BROKEN class in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons! It's not wizard, fighter, or even Elf, but rather a fanmade alternate take on the ninja that's good at making maps.

magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/04/ad-m...

Writing Modules For Cairn Writing adventures for Cairn RPG is very similar to writing for other OSR systems, with a few additional tweaks. Before reading further, see my previous post...

As a follow-up to last week's post about writing modules, I wrote another post on writing adventures for Cairn, and how that might be different than other OSR systems.

newschoolrevolution.com/writing-modu...

Wow, what’s the duelist getting up to on their turn?

Quick Stakes For Tense Situations Quickly create and adjudicate tense situations.

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)

www.mindstormpress.com/quick-stakes...

FANTASY/SKUL_XBN.GIF

killitwithfirerpg.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-li...

A sorcerer in dark robes and a mask with ink tendrils flowing between their hands

We've reached the Inkdrake stretch goal and a whole new region is getting add to the book (I'm literally working on it right now). The best time to back our IMMENSE
@morkborg.com megadungeon was yesterday, but today is next best. The Inklock commands you!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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...

Season-ing my game world Right now I’m running a game of The Drowned Isles, a setting / ruleset I wrote to play a bunch of OSR adventures. There are plenty of inspirations for the game, but one its earliest seeds is an attempt to write a game about where I’m from. Of course, I’m not from an archipelago infested with seafaring magical adventurers. But I’ve tried to infuse a little New Jersey into this far-future science fantasy.

New blog post about weather / season rules: fools-pyrite.com/posts/season...

Null space booklet

Null space gig work packet

NULL_SPACE physicals are here! The basic rules are a square-bound stapled booklet, while GIG_WORK; is a little folio containing four Jobs.

(links downthread)

a demonic troll walking through a pile of human bones

an orc assassin diplomat

cover for the owlmanac - a group of anthropomorphic animal adventurers react to a looming owl spirit

mouse thief attempts to steal the gem eyes from a cat demon statue. a rat cultist operates a glowing magical orb on an altar in front of the cat statue

Happy #portfolioday

Human-made Toronto based traditional ink drawings for your games and stories

#osr #ttrpg #indieartist

I'm reading through Wolves Upon The Coast again to get a sense for the tone before I start writing The Dragon Isles expansion. This thread is highlighting some of my favourite bits of @lukegearing.bsky.social's writing from it.

We’re VERY close to unlocking this stretch goal in the Fomoria Kickstarter, and I really hope we reach it. Our freelance writers gave us their rates, and with this stretch goal, we won’t pay it, we’ll pay it tripled.
Fomoria.com

The Budget Bestiary by James Holloway Old-school monsters made from found items.

Of all the things I've made, the Budget Bestiary remains one of the ones I'm proudest of. The digital version is PWYW, and if you want to claim it for free, please do. It's all about making models from found materials and using them in games.

james-holloway.itch.io/the-budget-b...

If you followed the KS for Public Access, it seems like Kickstart likely hasn't given you the customary 48hr warning.
If not, let Jason know.

Regardless, you don't have a lot of time left to back!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

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

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

What if each dungeon turn took 10 real life minutes, and you were mandated to have a 2 hour game?

Wonder what design space that would give you.

My favourite poem about watching vehicles crash at 600 mph in BeamNG.Drive