Maine - Here is your alternative to Platner.
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TTRPGer, excellent cook, barely managing dad, home maker, internet ditherer, Philadelphian. Anti-chud. Here for rad art, cool ideas about RPGs, and to harass OSR luminaries with posts about food. He/him
Maine - Here is your alternative to Platner.
Variegated Vocabularies for Limited Languages
Ten Lists for making some methods of communication more interesting with word constraints
(Common, Speak with the Dead/Plants/Animals, Thieves Cant, Alignment Languages, Divination, and Telepathy)
blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/03/vari...
Want to play #Daggerheart completely with cards? You can, with fun mini-games too: dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/03/dagg...
A copy of wyrd science with a pair of googly eyes and a big mouth stick on it
Oh no, top cognitive and brain science researchers at Wyrd Science Inc. believe that Wyrd Science, the best tabletop game magazine in the world, may have developed consciousness & all this βprint is deadβ talk is making it anxious
Maybe you should buy a copy so this little chap doesnβt feel so sad
And to prevent any "oh it's just mid-gesture frame take out of context" you can see full motion here bsky.app/profile/patr...
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Recap of our Arden Vul session from back in December. Hopefully more regular updates start now!
If ever there was a time to respond with compassion, honesty and hope to "Join me or you will die", it's now.
They want us to hate each other. They draw maps and laws and have us fighting over scraps of nothing to keep us apart.
No person on this planet is my enemy. Only ideas. Only systems.
March Radness, Day 7.
DUNGEONS buries ZOMBIES and moves ahead for its chance at redemption. Today, we go back to the Main Bracket, in the Game Systems Division, for a bloodmatch between two veterans:
YAHTZEE vs CHESS!
(Join the vote! It's free!)
www.patreon.com/posts/march-...
Weekly Review!
We're looking at The Drakenfall Faire, a fun one-shot for Perils & Princesses by @dhowl37.bsky.social and @outridercreative.bsky.social.
A fun time at the faire can quickly turn into chaos with some magical dragons.
blog.catshavenolord.page/review-the-d...
#TTRPG #OSR
It's a good post though!
www.patreon.com/posts/agains...
This post is secretly about "Systems Matter", but intelligently never says so.
This gave me a chuckle. It's always nice to be linked to though, innit.
All it takes is urban planners to give half a shit and a miniscule percentage bump in investment.
The suburbs around here (Philly) have putrid bike infrastructure. Everything is between a highway and a stroad and there's no bike lanes.
I mean, there are seasons that are bad for biking everywhere. There are also places with infrastructure that's truly hostile to bicyclists. But having and using a bike doesn't mean you have to get rid of your car, it just gives more options.
Brutally difficult?
Tbf, that's only been available in print for less than a year.
The point stands though, RPG books are often longer than they should be. Especially frustrating when they're missing something essential, but waste a bunch of words on something I don't need.
Just finished up a blog post about how I prepared for, and continue prepping for my Shadowdark/ Caverns of Thracia campaign. If you're like me and prefer improvisation and light work to Blorb and legwork, give it a read. Hell, give it a read anyway!
billhook.bearblog.dev/building-out...
Stock market tanking again today and oil *way* up. What's crazy is Trump could've just rode out the current regression to the mean on inflation, combined with an apparent productivity boom. Instead, did the opposite of econ 101: kicked out workers, reduced immigration, started wars of choice.
Quick questions for TTRPG publishers that Iβve asked privately but itβs been a bit:
1. If a form of coverage (AP/review/other) has transformed your sales overnight, what was it?
2. If you could wave a wand & have one creator/creative/media outlet praise or play your TTRPG, what would you wish for?
Shocked. I'm shocked. Look how shocked I am. :/
And using the pic of DT and JE hanging out with PB is just the right editing choice. #ProsecuteTheEpsteinPedofiles
www.salon.com/2026/03/04/d...
Mileships book by Ian McQue and Jim Rossignol
World Book Day, is it? Hereβs one the mighty @rossignol.bsky.social and me made earlier
I rate every room in White Plume Mountain (X out of 5 Stars) and explain why each room does, or does not, work and how you can take these lessons into designing your own dungeons, be they of the funhouse variety or not
#osr #ttrpg
I give up on the scan for now, forgot what a nightmare this blue is to match but please enjoy this photo of my new drawing:
elliptic curve cryptography (δΈε±±θοΌ
I can't believe I didn't know untill today that Wyclef had flipped Stayin Alive so fucking cleanly.
βFirst off, I donβt know what a βNintendoβ is."
The creator of PokΓ©mon-meets-OSR game, Into the Oddish, is serious about parody and won't let legal threats cramp creativity.
//oolala two posts in one day cultural critique op-ed eat your heart out - - -
VIDEO GAMES ARE DYING
/for real this time
//except for indies but you know
:: a measured observation ::
www.failforward.moe/2026/03/vide...
I need to hit 70% of this funding goal to afford my #epilepsy medication each month. Without it, my health is at risk.
If you enjoy my videos, livestreams, and Bluesky posts, I hope you'll consider pitching a few dollars my way. Every single donation helps. #mutualaid
Always pinging @riseupcomus.bsky.social with Hobbit nonsense.
Cloud Empress hardcovers spilling from its boxed set in the top left corner, surrounded by Graftbound Press zine games: Glatisant, The Peddler's Prize, Precious Things, and Bonds Between.
New games are in! Cozy Dragons, Arthurian legends, and more from @graftbound.bsky.social + @worldsbywatt.bsky.social's Cloud Empress (now in hardcover!) available at your favorite gaming rat store! π π π