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Appreciate the shoutout!

I’m looking forward to these!

NIGHTWICK ABBEY: The Purple Eater of People, Session 124 Want to learn more about the world of Nightwick from Miranda? You can follow her blog  here  and the ongoing development of Nightwick Abbe...

Our 124th session in the horrid halls of @inplacesdeep.bsky.social Nightwick Abbey megadungeon! #osr #megadungeon

icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/08/nigh...

Put up a blog post today explaining a little more of the thought process around designing my entry for the 2025 #appendixnjam #appxn: icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/08/taba...

Call out to the skeleton, "Hey! You need help?"

And KNOCK! 5 is fantastic for it. I was happy to get my copy the last couple of days and it was nice to see one of my better blog posts featured in it a long with a couple of more writings

Love that this @mothership.bsky.social game was being pulled off at Gen Con. I love running games at cons, but these sorta events really make the experience special. More like this!

But I wanna charge thousands of hearts with this stuff-- with creativity.

Not with, like, lightning, which we do in Nightwick a lot.

You would have made their day 💯

The *free* Designing Dungeons courses also focuses on something DM University seeminglydoes not— dungeons

A basic unity of play but also a foundational structure that strengthens DM/PC skills

Cost is 2 sheets of graph paper, 1 for a map, 1 for a key. 💥 great Friday Night D&D

Did you send them to the Shadow Realm?

Kid: I play Teddy Dare!
Clayton: I play Luur Eater of Souls!!

That's high praise as there are several good ones! I don't think I'll win any layout awards, but glad the idea drew your attention.

TABALDAK'S GEAS by Warren D. Trap in the villa of an inscrutable & unscrupulous mage, the only way out rests under the baleful gaze of The Eye!

Link: warren-d.itch.io/tabaldaks-geas

TABALDAK'S GEAS- just submitted to the #AppendixN Jam!

"Who has misfortune thrown into this trap’s jaws?"

PCs are trapped in a 23-room dungeon villa with dream-mad lords, hungry familiars, pallbearer bees, while trying to get past an ever-watchful guardian to get a deck of many things and freedom!

GREAT POST! Taxes are a great opportunity to explain certain quirks of the fantasy adventure environment. AND gives a reason for thief PC to do thief things- like avoid taxes or move good/weapons through channels that don't tax.

Vaults of Vaarn Second Edition The second edition of Vaults of Vaarn, the acclaimed science-fantasy adventure game.

Vaults of Vaarn 2E is now live on Backerkit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

More RPG books that look like this, please

We're approaching the end of this season of Blogs on Tape. This will be the last full week of posts, but they're some real bangers.

Today: Spell FRIEND and Enter by @mindstorm.bsky.social

blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/07/28/e...

HELL IS REAL and you can find out how it's a megadungeon on the patreon Huth and I have!

Roadside Picnic
Hyper Light Drifter
The Incal

I kinda think SAGA would fit here too, in terms of its cast heterogeneity and physical makeup

Sid Smith, reporter Arkham Tattler, on the case! 🦑🔍—👀

There comes a point in every DMs life when players start using Phantasmal Force 🌬️ & your table conversations are never the same again 😔

Ha! No wonder I thought "Vaarn really speaks to me" given I could check off ~60-70% of the titles or authors.

Not surprisingly, adventure design, like other creative efforts, benefits from stepping away after a strong creative burst that has cooled.

i.e. I hate my dungeon less upon review in the morning after I've burned through an inspiration burst into dissatisfaction the night before.

I enjoy mapping but I might be a sicko. GMs do have to flex to what energize their groups. But no one said you have to give the whole map. NPCs have relevant pieces. One piece is a medieval style painting. Another piece is an older version. Map once assembled is still missing a key room.

I totally agree: icastlight.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-...

This is nice because it allows the thief to take advantage of out-of-rank positioning they might find themselves in due to scouting.

But it also encourages the out-of-rank risk *because* they can take advantage of it.

The Magical Carousing is in the Serpent Song “DMG” I made but when I have time I’ll update the post!

Often MU mentors are "spell givers"- a lesser form of "quest giver"- there to serve PCs. A missed opportunity! So in this post I tried to flesh them out & give boons, banes, & reasons the Crown/Church haven't ☠️ them: icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/07/prac...

Invaders of Atlantis (Early Access) by Explorers Design A pulp-inspired micro adventure to loot an Atlantean submersible.

My first retro adventure is live for the Appx N jam. It's inspired by Robert E Howard stories (specifically The Devil in Iron) and Tales from the Crypt magazines.

Atlanteans have raided the surface for millennia, but now the invaders have become the invaded!

explorers.itch.io/invaders-of-...