The Failed Careers of Tetragrammatown - or - Failed Careers as Worldbuilding What was your failed career in this strange, industrial, puritanical dystopia?

I've expanded the career list of my weird urban fantasy #osr setting. Through play, it has expanded from 36 entries to 120. What was your career?

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The conversation about what is lost when shortcuts and conveniences are used in TTRPG writing can be extended to OSR mechanics mechanics meant to sand off "rote" aspects of old games. Overloaded encounter dice are the bullet points of game mechanics.
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Ritualised Spellcasting, Meta-Material Components and Performative Witchcraft Put the Meta in Metamagic. Make spells feel uncanny and your players embarrassed. Go suck it B.A.D.D!

This #weirdo #osr player is casting more powerful #spells with this one simple trick! And basically, you're a #soulless husk.

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I remember there was the emoji RPG challenge but I now can't find any evidence for it.

A Paladin in Hell

MIGHT DICE: New House Rule for Fighters Everyone has a fix for the Fighter. Every OSR game. Every blogger. I have . You have. It's a veritable right of passage. I have tried quite ...

Does the world have room for yet another OSR fighter fix? Yes. Specifically this one: traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/03/migh...

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My character has a strength of 28 and the rest of their stats average 7.

I always appreciate comments, they make one feel read, but this slop feels like being un-read, anti-read even.

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War in the Land of Poppies (Campaign Pitch - Afghan Dungeon Crawl) It is October 7th, 1984, and you are a young man in a rural village in soviet-occupied afghanistan. As a man, you have two first names. The ...

Soviet-Afghan War dungeon crawling by BENTHIC ZONE NARCISSUS.
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Soviet Baztiumstan An alternative way to engage with the myths from Chris McDowell's Mythic Bastionland. Context The PCs are Agents of the Party, united by a common Mandate...

This is very cool, Mythic Bastionland but you play as apparatchiks going to sort out a SSR.
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Six Savage Lairs Lo, warriors! In ill caverns, places-weird and ruins-haunted, squat and gibber; lair-lurks, foul fiends, sea-things and stooped troglodytes...

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Check out this fantastic hexcrawl. A brilliant bank of ideas and adventure.

I love caveman stuff! Output-wise, last year was my year of the cavemen.

Where I can I try to do this too.

How do you keep them organised during play? Or is this prep only notation?

All my posts are like this.

And why did you keep it? I normally hover around 12 tabs and by 16+ it feels bad for me, haha. I've had a tab about the colour of 16th and 17th century warship hulls for months.

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Isle of the Scorpions What if Grendel was a fish-man and the Danes were scorpions?

Need three locations for your #hexcrawl fast? Just #bastardise Beowulf
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I don't trust like that.

A terrible shame for #miniature #wargame enthusiasts, but Irregular Miniatures are closing down. I'll be ordering that Benin project I've dreamt of and lots of bits and pieces that no one else does.

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d30 Months of Weird Weather Find within Fantastical Weather Phenomena (with simple and fun mechanics) for your OSR games.

The long-awaited second part to my revolutionary and highly acclaimed weather system #Weather-Calendar/Calendar-Weather has finally arrived! Find within those weird weathers you fantasyheads and #OSR #fiends have been ravenously clamouring for:
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3 saves, we see you.

Haha, wow!

This is nuts, v. cool!