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Ronan@Thedicepool

@thedicepool.bsky.social

I’m Ronan (he/him,) an RPG enthusiast from Ireland. I run thedicepool.com blog, part of the Woodpaneled.org webring. I write about TTRPGs and related stuff.

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I miss when each class level in D&D had a different title

07.03.2026 12:46 — 👍 961    🔁 205    💬 7    📌 3

The weekly r/osr blogroll is up - now under the gracious stewardship of @leicester68.bsky.social - greatly appreciate them accepting the torch and carrying it onwards.

Come share your great ideas!

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#ttrpg #DnD #bx #OSE #DIYrpg #rpg #GLOG #OSR #POSR #NSR

07.03.2026 05:06 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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CATMAIL #2 Look what the cat dragged in. Monthly project updates, plus curated blog posts and oddments worth your time.

A new link-collecting newsletter has dropped. It's really good. I like that it includes @elmc.at's projects, I'm especially interested in their more robust webring idea.

elmc.at/catmail-2/

04.03.2026 14:55 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

02.03.2026 13:27 — 👍 6330    🔁 971    💬 4    📌 0
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A Perfect Wife (Play Report, Session 3) | goobernuts Get more from goobernuts on Patreon

👰A PERFECT WIFE, SESSION 3👰

The investigators gear up and try a more spiritual approach to find clues about Tet, whose disappearance may be more bloody than first realized.

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02.03.2026 04:12 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

Thanks! So far, I’m just cranking up the old imagination muscles and taking inspiration from science fantasy authors, Star Trek and the OD&D books themselves. I’m trying to only use the tools presented in the text, and there isn’t really a lot of random tables or anything in there.

01.03.2026 14:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Editioning: How to OD&D The Editioning Begins The first session for our Tables & Tales OD&D game is set for next Friday. I think it’s just going to be a session 0 to introduce the game to the players and have them…

Making a new dungeon for OD&D. Come along with me as I rediscover the joy of paper and pen map drawing.

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01.03.2026 14:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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> @covie93.bsky.social

28.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 25949    🔁 5451    💬 247    📌 189

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

01.03.2026 09:48 — 👍 4666    🔁 1072    💬 210    📌 52
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Karl Casey I make music on YouTube as White Bat Audio. All of my releases are copyright safe to use in your creative projects! Just credit me as "Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio" when you use a track. Credit must be given in the video description when my music is used on YouTube.

How cool would it be if Karl Casey wrote some original music for Public Access? He's my go-to listen whenever I'm working on the game. Do yourself a favor: karlcasey.bandcamp.com

27.02.2026 02:26 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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DA2: Temple of the Frog | Between Two Cairns Get more from Between Two Cairns on Patreon

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I review DA2: Temple of the Frog by Dave Arneson and David J. Ritchie, and answer a mootsack question (and then some!).

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26.02.2026 13:16 — 👍 38    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1
Roscommon news story: “Half a century old, Alice’s fridge is still very cool”

Roscommon news story: “Half a century old, Alice’s fridge is still very cool”

Now this…this is journalism

28.07.2024 13:45 — 👍 390    🔁 58    💬 17    📌 9
A photo of the covers of the Pirate Borg Starter Set (Pirate Borg in large red and white lettering, partially obscured by a group of weird characters including a skeleton Pirate, a skeleton conquistador and a couple of zombies,) the source books, Down Among the Dead (sunlight filters down to an underwater scene lit in green. Undead walk the seafloor and shipwrecks litter the background. Down Among the Dead in green and white lettering at the bottom) and Cabin Fever (a skeleton’s tricorn hat-wearing head and shoulders. It holds a clenched fist and fire emerges from its eye sockets to spell out Cabin Fever in red and orange lettering) as well as the Obol coin and Lost Soul patch.

A photo of the covers of the Pirate Borg Starter Set (Pirate Borg in large red and white lettering, partially obscured by a group of weird characters including a skeleton Pirate, a skeleton conquistador and a couple of zombies,) the source books, Down Among the Dead (sunlight filters down to an underwater scene lit in green. Undead walk the seafloor and shipwrecks litter the background. Down Among the Dead in green and white lettering at the bottom) and Cabin Fever (a skeleton’s tricorn hat-wearing head and shoulders. It holds a clenched fist and fire emerges from its eye sockets to spell out Cabin Fever in red and orange lettering) as well as the Obol coin and Lost Soul patch.

A photo of the contents of the Pirate Borg starter set laid out flat together. From bottom to top, wipe-clean character sheets, paper character sheets with skulls for hit points, the cover of the Player’s Guidebook with the title in big white letters and the illustration of a skeletal swashbuckler, the cover of Trapped in the Tropics, the title in orange writing and a picture of ancient skeletons and zombies wandering the jungle beneath a smoking volcano, markers for the character sheets, a set of cards for equipment, a map of a ship caught in vines and lots of folded maps and character and status tokens arrayed around it.

A photo of the contents of the Pirate Borg starter set laid out flat together. From bottom to top, wipe-clean character sheets, paper character sheets with skulls for hit points, the cover of the Player’s Guidebook with the title in big white letters and the illustration of a skeletal swashbuckler, the cover of Trapped in the Tropics, the title in orange writing and a picture of ancient skeletons and zombies wandering the jungle beneath a smoking volcano, markers for the character sheets, a set of cards for equipment, a map of a ship caught in vines and lots of folded maps and character and status tokens arrayed around it.

The cover of Cabin Fever (a skeleton’s tricorn hat-wearing head and shoulders. It holds a clenched fist and fire emerges from its eye sockets to spell out Cabin Fever in red and orange lettering)

The cover of Cabin Fever (a skeleton’s tricorn hat-wearing head and shoulders. It holds a clenched fist and fire emerges from its eye sockets to spell out Cabin Fever in red and orange lettering)

The cover of Down Among the Dead (sunlight filters down to an underwater scene lit in green. Undead walk the seafloor and shipwrecks litter the background. Down Among the Dead in green and white lettering at the bottom)

The cover of Down Among the Dead (sunlight filters down to an underwater scene lit in green. Undead walk the seafloor and shipwrecks litter the background. Down Among the Dead in green and white lettering at the bottom)

My Pirate Borg Starter Set, Down Among the Dead, Cabin Fever Kickstarter from @limithron.bsky.social got fulfilled today. Just look at all the beautiful stuff in that start set box. Yaar!

23.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Any sort of interest at all is appreciated!

22.02.2026 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Editioning: From OD&D to 5E 2024 Bloggies Inspiration I have read a lot of TTRPG blogs in the last few weeks, dear reader. I imagine the chances are good that you have too, if you’ve been following the Bloggies awards over on Expl…

New post on the dice pool dot com! Gonna play every edition of D&D from OD&D to 5E 2024 over the next year or so. I’m calling it The Editioning. This post is about the motivation and the practicalities of such a challenge. Looking forward to this taste test!

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22.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Guys being Dudes

21.02.2026 03:20 — 👍 7726    🔁 1851    💬 114    📌 243
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On the seventh anniversary of THIS image, here's a funny story about the elephants, Naomi Wolf and the absurdity of online nostalgia.

20.11.2023 11:49 — 👍 1314    🔁 605    💬 21    📌 199

VOLITION - You got up from this floor because of a holy vow you made sixteen years ago. With *me*. To wake up exactly 07:30 every morning until the day you die.

20.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 73    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 2
Image of Bluesky trending box listing off:
1. SCOTUS Tariffs
2. Epstein Case
3. Letterboxd
4. Eric Dane



(I cheated, by the way. Prince Andrew was #4, Eric Dane was #5. I fucking cheated, I did it. I had to do it. You needed me to do it.)

Image of Bluesky trending box listing off: 1. SCOTUS Tariffs 2. Epstein Case 3. Letterboxd 4. Eric Dane (I cheated, by the way. Prince Andrew was #4, Eric Dane was #5. I fucking cheated, I did it. I had to do it. You needed me to do it.)

(Billy Joel voice)

20.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 64    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 0
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The Bloggies 2026 A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

Thank you to everyone who voted. And a big thank you to all of the writers, designers, and players who shared their ideas with us this past year.

Next week we have the less-competitive, more-celebratory half of The Bloggies: Best Debut Blog, Best Series, and Best Overall Post.

Find it here 👇

20.02.2026 13:51 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Bloggies Breakdown: Round 4 The Bloggies Tournament is over. Here are the 2026 champions...

It's done. The Bloggies Tournament, and the first half of The Bloggies, are officially complete. It was a tight race, but the winners are...

🧵👇 (Thread attached)

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20.02.2026 13:51 — 👍 58    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 8
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fall back into place

06.12.2025 21:18 — 👍 3007    🔁 793    💬 19    📌 6

Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons

17.01.2026 04:31 — 👍 2678    🔁 547    💬 32    📌 10

It gave us the great Disco Elysium Vance video:

09.11.2025 01:03 — 👍 1779    🔁 438    💬 16    📌 32

63) Public toilets should be split into three: men, women and transphobes.

03.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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A Gorillaz short film by The Line studio is coming on February 27 on Youtube : "The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God".
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20.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 4908    🔁 1537    💬 29    📌 120
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Bloggies Breakdown: Round 3 After the third Bloggies Blog Bath: Who won? And by how much?

We're in the final round of The Bloggies gladiatorial arena. You can find the results (with pie charts!) and round 4 voting form in the link below.

There was a significant uptick of votes this round. Neat.

19.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 48    🔁 33    💬 0    📌 14
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The Bloggies 2026 A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

Final round. VOTE!

www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-202...

20.02.2026 00:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A pie chart from the fourth round of the Bloggies. It's 50% and 50%.

A pie chart from the fourth round of the Bloggies. It's 50% and 50%.

A pie chart from the fourth round of the Bloggies. It's 51.1% and 48.9%.

A pie chart from the fourth round of the Bloggies. It's 51.1% and 48.9%.

The Bloggies. The Bloggies never changes.

154 votes. Let's get it to 200.
Voting form here: forms.gle/sGnGSLvHe7Mx...

19.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
A meme with text: 'Give your players a “disintegration gun.” What it actually does is shoot people into the future. In the final session all the people they shot with it blink into existence around them at once.' Followed by a comment: 'OP please change your url.'

A meme with text: 'Give your players a “disintegration gun.” What it actually does is shoot people into the future. In the final session all the people they shot with it blink into existence around them at once.' Followed by a comment: 'OP please change your url.'

I once tried something like this in a game I ran, but it unknowingly sent enemies to a pocket dimension. When the foes finally escaped, angry and united, chaos ensued, but it was glorious.

#ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgsky

19.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 134    🔁 12    💬 9    📌 2