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December 23, 2025

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A Knight at the Opera

Archaeology: Dwarf Class for 5E - I had been playing RPGs for many years before I ever even considered getting into homebrew. Of course, I wasn't *against* homebrew. I routinely took homema...
Crab Dungeon

Carver's Ridge - I dropped into a fugue state for four days and cobbled together this big wilderness pointcrawl! It's a horror adventure through the woods of Washington, ...
Playful Void

Critique Navidad: HyperMall Unlimited Violence - Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I re...
I Cast Light!

NEVER MEET YOUR HEROES: Encountering Infamous Adventurers (2025 Secret Santicorn) - The Nightwatch by Rembrandt An amazing work which is huge! *I participated in the “Purple OSR”’s 2025 Secret Santicorn and received the prompt “Never Me...
Traverse Fantasy

FAQ U: Plagiarism, Part II - There’s a professor at my partner’s graduate school who’s very eager to catch students in the act of academic dishonesty. The class is split up into smal...
Rise Up Comus

The Lifecycle of RPG Publishing - As I've mentioned before on this blog, I'm currently doing a preorder campaign instead of a "traditional" crowdfunding campaign for my first big project ...
Prismatic Wasteland

Castle Claus: The Keep on the North Pole - A Merry Hexmas location: dungeoncrawl through Santa Claus’ castle. Whether you lead an elf and reindeer uprising is up to you!
i'm going to blog here

The Smash Bros Mansion - Art by Port of Zelda on tumblr Howdy, Farmhands! Super Smash Brothers, a fighting game with party game sensibilities, released for the Nint...
Break!!

Buried Kingdom Items (Freebie, Gear) - *Hidden from the sky, scarred by war, and crawling with mysteries, the Buried Kingdoms is perhaps the most enigmatic place in all of Outer World. Over the ...
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

TO DRINK UP THE SEA - *Islands of Weirdhope*, the maritime expandalone to *ECO MOFOS!!*, by the fearsome pairing of David Blandy and Daniel Locke, is currently crowdfunding. ...
PinkSpace

ID Tables - Inspired by the mobile roguelike "Pixel Dungeon," Item Discovery Tables add dual-layer randomization to items (and more!) in any RPG. The post ID Tables ...
mindstorm

Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs - Location-based adventures have a lot going for them. They’re naturally quite atomic in scale, in that each “room” exists mostly on its own, and the GM ru...
Benign Brown Beast

More Erroneous Pictures of Whales - Recently, Project Gutenberg added a new feature. Can you spot it? Let’s look at *Moby-Dick*: [image: A screenshot of the Project Gutenberg page for Moby-...
Goblin Punch

Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...
ONEZERO

Three kinds of wealth abstraction rules - I don't always have the time or the energy to track currency in my elfgames, and although I see the merit in doing so when you're aiming for a specific k...
Borderline Manifesto

Concealability in Cyberpunk 2020: A mechanic at odds. - I love Cyberpunk 2020, and I would be lying if I told you it wasn't an influential work in just about all of my creative projects. Needless to say, in...

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