OSR blogger. A ponderous and stolid fellow.
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Beneath Foreign Planets
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three questions for every world builder:
1) what's the equivalent of inshallah?
2) what's the equivalent of mashallah?
3) what's the equivalent of bismallah?
A self mortification ritual I encourage everyone to undertake. I was permanently altered by the process. Perhaps, even, for the better!
Played my first game of 5e today 😕.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! I was getting 3.5 flashbacks. The rules really do foster bad play culture, so much checking out. A real sense of danger and side-based initiative would have done wonders and that's just the start of it. Ouch!
For the first time ever, by popular demand, all my posts relating to #cavemen are collated under one tag
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A miserable #dungeon of savage pulp fair and oozing body-horror.
28 keyed areas over 5 pages, including the map, magic items and monsters. It's also #free.
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My latest #dungeon for #OSR games is now on itch. Check it out.
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I've finally been inducted into the exclusive #osr blogging secret society *ROOTRING*. Check out my #brick!
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A novel worldbuilding method for generating interesting religions by focusing on the behaviour of the believer first. Inspired by the writing of @mindstorm.bsky.social and for @prismaticwasteland.com's Random blogwagon.
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Written for Into the Odd and adjecent systems.
Merchant’s Maid (d6 Bulky): Unwieldy shotgun with a vast array of pouches and satchels stapled onto the stock...
A miserable dungeon of pulp savagery and oozing body-horror.
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A game jam from 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-01 hosted by Dank Dungeons. A list of fantasy and science fiction literature that inspired Dungeons & Dragons. Featuring authors such as Robert E Howard, Fritz Li...
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A miserable dungeon of pulp savagery and slimesome body-horror.
Herein I read the monster manual entries from OD&D in order and try to parse them into groupings and categories that let me use them at the table.
Every attempt to read OD&D is some sort of bizarre self mortification ritual. It's not the text itself, it's the grappling with it that's important.
Herein I read the monster manual entries from OD&D in order and try to parse them into groupings and categories that let me use them at the ...
