Bonus Post - What's in the Arm Hole? A d100 table of consequences, written for the Blog Bandwagon of the theme HOLES.

From the team at CAROUSE, CAROUSE! A blog bandwagon special.

Do you dare place your arm in the Arm Hole? 🫱🕳️

#osr #rpg #blog

AI should be the one that has to work an email desk job, and I should be the one that spends all day drawing pictures and hallucinating

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

A very cynical and unfair take on what is a universal practice by publishers and IP holders. It makes sense to put all your IP under one department for licensing purposes. E.g., Disney does it; you deal only with DCP for all FRANCHISES (not series). You don’t go directly to Pixar or Lucasfilm.

One of my favourite OSR adventures of the year, Sharky, is currently half-price. Great time to grab it 🦈

This one here: tamasuna.stbbs.jp/ri/pearl/s4l...

I found a replay for Pearl Seed and this dungeon grid thing has caught my attention. Does it use cards to generate a dungeon?

I hope you keep refining this. Its a great little system.
Roll to attack can sometimes end up as one of those autopilot rolls and this is a nice way to keep it fresh and interesting.

Here’s a great little dice-rolling system that brings some physicality to attack rolls.

Hey thanks for checking it out. The HD for the drinks are explained in the brewing section. They’re the number of d6’s to roll and the target for success is in square brackets.

The resource score is up with the alewife category, below their age roll.
I should probably organise it a bit better…

Some cool hexcrawl adventures here

What it takes to get a drink around here A WIP generator for historical alehouses in the 12th Century.

I put together a generator for an early medieval alehouse.

townscrier.bearblog.dev/what-it-take...

playing around with heraldry

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Your Summer Assignments Kick back with a cold drink, write some game stuff and read some blogs.

Going to kick back and relax all summer? WRONG! You are going to read and write TTRPG stuff starting right NOW. Here are your assignments
#osr #ttrpg

Some great stuff this issue by some talented writers. Worth checking out!

Screenshot of the TrueRef Gesture Tool.

Remember, the TrueRef timed gesture tool is 100% free!
🤍 trueref.art/trueref-gest...

I put some color on my inktober illustration from last year!

【 #art #oc 】

The Idle Digest #7 Idle Cartulary's Digest for May 2025

Gather your hot water bottles, drinking chocolate and angry music and snuggle up with this month's Idle Digest! It covers my writing, and the writing, releases and crowdfunding campaigns that I think are noteworthy from the month of May! open.substack.com/pub/idlecart...

The Village of Hommlet is Too Much: Minimalist Location Sketches for Sandbox Prep Something I often struggle with when creating a sandbox is the level of detail to give to each location, and at what point in the process to...

I wrote about the level of detail I put into my keyed locations when prepping a large, original sandbox for play. What is the optimal amount of information to allow for a big picture view of a region without getting burnt out on the specifics?

A Hill To Die On - Playtest by monodestoyer An OSE adventure for Levels 2-4

In the spirit of @prismaticwasteland.com's year of the beta, I’m releasing a playtest of my first OSE Adventure, A Hill To Die On. Grab it here: monodestoyer.itch.io/a-hill-to-di...

an ink line art drawing digitally colored. a few strangers hanging out in a diner at 3am. The inviting light of the diner's interior pours into the cold dark cyberpunk city surrounding it. based on the famous painting by Edward Hopper

yay it's done!
⭐🪐☕Space Nighthawks 🚀🐱🥞🌃

the print is up too www.inprnt.com/gallery/spac...

The ‘R’ stands for ‘Respect’.

lil tip: draw "ugly" pillows in your character's house to instantly make it 10x more homey.

in general add patterns to pillows, it always makes for a more cozy illustration

Looks amazing. I’m getting ‘Kill 6 Billion Demons’ vibes.

This is actually perfect. Thanks for the link!

Do you know who the creator is? I wouldn't mind grabbing a copy if its available online. Looks like my kinda jam.

"formless star", clay models of characters with various propellers on their heads are stood in a row in front of a starry background.

Anemo, a red character with a big orange nose and a green anemometer on their head is stood in front of their spaceship.

Finding the animal "Lighthorse", which looks like a lighthouse with legs, and a head made out of transparent cones of light. "Stands at the coastline to act as a beacon, however it has difficulty discerning a puddle from an ocean. said to be proud of its red stripes."

Inside the spaceship, the character Turbine, who is green and has buck teeth, is saying "They say if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life. Seems I may be the only worker here."

Formless Star is out now!

Travel to a mysterious ever-changing planet and gather data on the animals that live there.

There's 60 different creatures to find, all with unique behaviours and descriptions!

Get the game for free (or pay what you want) here!
splendidland.itch.io/formless-star