Reading a twenty page article about Zuggtmoy for “work.”

Wizard Carriage There’s a contest on DndBeyond promoting the new Stranger Things box set, “What’s in the Bag of Holding? A Welcome to the Hellfire Club Homebrew Item Contest.” The gist is, make a thematic magic it…

The making of the Wizard Carriage, a silly magic item folkvangr.blog/2025/10/25/w...

But the memories you could have made!

Silly hats!

I honestly can’t wait to see these.

But no one’s Good in 40k.

Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels Among Adolescent and Young Adult Men in the USA - PubMed Testosterone deficiency has a prevalence of 20% among adolescent and young adult (AYA) males. Although previous studies have shown that total testosterone (TT) levels are declining in the population c...

Here’s the first google result, if you really want to know. They might be weird about the issue but they aren’t making it up. It’s pretty thoroughly documented. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32081788/

The look on the lizard guy’s face really says it 😂

I called that pair of covers, “When You Both Bring the Same Thing to the Potluck.”

The year I stay home, boo! Have a good one!

Appendix Ehhnn I’m late to the party for the Appendix N blogwagon, but that’s fine. A fair criticism can be levied at modern Dungeons & Dragons that it has become self-referential. It no longer pulls from myt…

I jumped on the blogwagon and wrote about my Appendix Ehhnn folkvangr.blog/2025/10/14/a...

Forgotten Tower of Sudoku

Running Against the Cult of the Reptile God I spent most of September writing a forty room, heavily interconnected dungeon for a freelance project. That was a good time and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. When I say heavily intercon…

I blogged about running Against the Cult of the Reptile God recently in 5e, partly just to get back on the blogging horse. folkvangr.blog/2025/10/12/r...

They’ve been together for hundreds of years, you know they’re open.

5e has no mechanism for tracking time during dungeon exploration. There’s no framework to place random encounters in.

For wilderness encounters, if characters are getting a long rest every night, random encounters lose their mechanical purpose.

Simpler games I want to play: Mothership, Shadowdark, Frostgrave etc

Equally or more complicated games: Kill Team, OSE/Dolmenwood, AD&D

I either want a simpler game, a different aesthetic and play experience, or nostalgia or historic interest. But not, “the same end, but done differently.”

I rolled the dice and backed, but please get a US distributor, please.

I was very surprised to see them dig back into Dark Sun. I guess that means anything’s possible!

My entire reaction to the CR news:

“What would you have been if you had lived in the Middle Ages?”

Camille Paglia: “A nun!”

Miniatures Roundup I didn’t get much painting done during that stretch of writing I did this spring, but I did get some done beforehand, and I’ve been trying to get more done since. A grumpy cleric from EC3D This guy…

Back to blogging, some of the miniatures I’ve painted over the last nine months. folkvangr.blog/2025/08/20/m...

I mean, this right here:

Did you see me going on about this recently? I’m not usually for space X-Men, but this arc (specifically #165) is when I feel the book made a massive leap and really became X-Men, if you know what I mean.

Evocative, gameable elements that make me want to use them right now and fire up my imagination, making expansion and elaboration easy.

The giant is easy to miss!

Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
All the… GenCon you do

Now apply this logic to eating meat in the first place.

I have to agree. I read this recently and felt like it was fine, but roughly half of what I would need to actually run it. A lot of implication that doesn’t yield game-able content. “There’s a village of weirdos with rich customs! … But make it yourself.” And yes, the swamp witch thing! Strange.

I’ve been trying to figure that out myself. Anthony Joyce-Rivera wrote the Will of Orcus

Yes, there was something published online a few years ago about “good drow cities that you didn’t know about but have always been there” connected to a Drizzt novel. I don’t think it’s made it into game material yet. Maybe the new FR books this fall.