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His Majesty the Worm with Josh McCrowell

Delighted to sit down with @riseupcomus.bsky.social to deep dive into the AWARD-WINNING His Majesty the Worm, dungeon design, and so much more!
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WILL! YOU'RE NOT LIKE A WIZARD, YOU'RE MORE LIKE A SORCERER

The sorcerer:

My favorite Lovecraft story is that one where the narrator was like "Boo hoo there's a generational curse in my family, all the male descendants die super young ever since we were cursed by the Sorcerer" and the Sorcerer just lived in their basement and shot each dude with a gun

re: Job system - you should check out the GLoG. I think there's tech there that you'd want to adapt if you were thinking about this sort of thing in an RPG space.

Rebleet for the weekday crowd

But...it's the champagne of beers!

Getting zonked off the dode or whatever

It's the champagne of beers!

Four middle aged white dudes in the woods

Four goons playing a game. The biggest goon of all is foregrounded.

The same four dudes outside at a brewery.

A 40 of High Life and a game of Sentinels of the Multiverse.

Today, I'm thankful for the homies. In addition to our Sunday game of Mythic Bastionland, our gaming group went on a hike, went to a brewery, played some Sentinels with 40s, and watched a movie. Good weekend.

- a hungry giant

Uh, no, sorry. It's an Adobe-specific technology I'm using.

Just one!

Haha hell yeah

If you're into having a Red and Blue version of a book, check out Name This Alchemical Book. Open it in Adobe Acrobat and find the hidden versions.

One is a subsystem for summoning pocket monsters in HIS MAJESTY THE WORM.

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In terms of mote attrition, it's a fucking bargain on my side.

I'd do a similar trick with Exalted. Grapple an enemy, Soaring Crane Leap into the air for 1 mote, and drop his ass for a buttload of falling damage.

Almond croissant, coffee, prosecco in a garden

Where I'm catching up with blogs this morning

I'm not american but most of my readers are, and right from the jump in 2025 it felt like everything screeched to a halt. All the exit surveys are 'my financial situation changed.' This is my Patreon but it's the same with sales on my shop too.

Random Hobbit Advancement When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what hobbits get. You can either roll a d12 for your cultur...

The last in my series of random advancements - today, hobbits! I mean, er, halflings.

Ostensibly for my Middle-earth Hexcrawl project, here are d50 random level ups for halflings in any fantasy adventure game.

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