Rise Up Comus - CASTLE AUTOMATIC Crowdfunding Now!

Todd, let's chat!

This convo made me have one for breakfast

And as a homunculus, I'm grateful!

For a FOUR pack? Good lord.

Look, I *love* Coors Light. It's cold as the Rockies! But I ain't paying that for it.

Obviously inspired by City of Gold cover

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A fold out game board with panels of information. The cover has the four tarot suits.

A fold out game board with panels of information. The cover has the His Majesty the Worm logo.

A stretch goal has been added to THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC, the new dungeon for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM.

If we get 999 early worms, we'll add an option for discounted Divination Boards!

A Divination Board is like a GM screen that reveals, not obscures, information. Put your tarot cards on them!

I want you to meet...my boyfriend.

It's nice because I'm an unauthorized fan cast I can pull in Silmarillion stuff WILLY NILLY

YO someone get my boy on here! This is a highly anticipated game (by all people of good taste)!

I got as much juice out of "Elves...CLERICS?" in my random elf advancements as I could for the theme.

Hope you get a kick out of it!

Designing Dungeons (dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games) won a gold 🥇and the Middle-earth Hexcrawl (riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/12/midd...) won silver 🥈 for best series!

Thanks to everyone who voted for me!!!

I'd like to say it won't go to my head, but unfortunately it will.

This looks cool!

If you've never read it, my rules for Wizard of Earthsea-esque truthspeaking magic might be up your alley. riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2021/12/true...

Very please Designing Dungeons which I co-wrote with @riseupcomus.bsky.social won best blog series!

And was enhanced by being turned into a podcast by @3d6downtheline.com so now it’s in an even more potable form!

Link 👇

In case anyone missed it, a ton of folks (myself included!) got together to provide 121 (!) audio versions of blog posts:

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Clayton, thanks again for all your hard work here. Both here and with the ENNIES, you've really volunteered a lot of your time to recognize and exalt the work of other hobbyists. 👑

This, too, is OSR.

An introductory chapel spread of a level called the Threshold Tower. A map on the left page and a brief introduction to the main characters on the right.

Two page spread of dungeon rooms. In one room, an eidolon can teach a new talent.

Double page spread detailing a boss-level antagonist called the King of Pentacles

A table called the Meatgrinder, detailing a variety of encounter events that can happen.

The Castle Automatic is a Metroidvania-inspired dungeon for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM.

The first draft of the layout is almost done! We're close to having a sneak preview for Early Worms.

Go get it down from your shelf.

Flip over to p. 154.

Without self shilling too much, Knock! 5 answers this question.

The accomplishment of "We Read the Bloggies" is incredible. In just a few weeks they produces nearly the same number of episodes as Blogs on Tape has in almost 9 years. Bravo to everyone involved, that's incredible.

That's helpful! Thanks!

I have read Weapons of the Gods, but I struggled a bit with understanding this part completely. Do you have a succinct explanation for the tech anywhere?

A Familiar Tower A new escape room adventure for Old-School Essentials. A polished puzzle box dungeon you’ll solve from the inside.

Last 24 hours for my escape room wizard tower A Familiar Tower! Hop on now if you want a puzzle dungeon inspired by Zelda and 80s fantasy. puzzledungeon.com/tower?ref=bsky

A goblin with a pompadour yelling "Vote for Parliamentary Candidate!"

At Pax this past year, I played a goblin named Parliamentary Candidate. My slogan was "VOTE FOR PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE!!!!"

This is relevant because today is the last day of voting for the Bloggies. VOTE FOR DESIGNING DUNGEONS COURSE!!!! for Best Series!

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Did you know it's the last day to vote for the bloggies!? I certainly had forgotten. Also, did you know that John from 3d6dtl narrated the designing dungeons course by @riseupcomus.bsky.social? What a pleasant surprise! Go vote now 😁
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One could say the same thing about the contrast between 1E D&D's art and 5.5 D&D's art.