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March Gift Horse: The Mothership Review | Zzarchov Kowolski Get more from Zzarchov Kowolski on Patreon

One of my design heroes has written some incredibly wonderful praise of mothership, highlighting things a lot of people don’t talk about. I’ve got the warm butterflies.

www.patreon.com/posts/152467...

Want to play #Daggerheart completely with cards? You can, with fun mini-games too: dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/03/dagg...

I should've called it Disco & Dragons Elysium. Or should it be Dungeons & Disco Elysium?

First hour, I'm loving it so far~

Esoteric Ebb title splash at the beginning of the game

I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons Elysium. I mean... Esoteric Ebb.

Mythic Bastionland w/Chris Mcdowall Part 1 YouTube video by Plus One Exp

Let's SEEK THE MYTHS

www.youtube.com/live/YJzDmb-...

We live!

There's always going to be some minor thing in any other occasion that somehow become a huge challenge when fasting during Ramadhan. One of those minor things is someone's opinion on the internet.

Review - The Drakenfall Faire Mayhem at the Faire The Drakenfall Faire is a 16-page adventure for Perils & Princesses written by Destiny Howell with art by Ryan Lynch of Outrider C...

Weekly Review!

We're looking at The Drakenfall Faire, a fun one-shot for Perils & Princesses by @dhowl37.bsky.social and @outridercreative.bsky.social.

A fun time at the faire can quickly turn into chaos with some magical dragons.

blog.catshavenolord.page/review-the-d...

#TTRPG #OSR

Screenshot of Dust II from Counter Strike

A game jam where everyone makes a TTRPG dungeon, but it has to match the paths and layout of the CS Dust II map.

#ttrpg #gamejam #dust2jam

Dredge Quick & Drown by Juniper Harper Lark A Game of Silt, Salt, and Verse by J.H.Lark

The playtest for Dredge Quick and Drown is live, for free, on my itch! Its a game sort of like if you took the Southern Reach Trilogy and set it on the edge of Ankh Morpork. Its also about the only part of Dark Souls that matters: the poison swamps.

juniper-h-lark.itch.io/dredge-quick...

Rating Every Room in White Plume Mountain — Prismatic Wasteland I review every single room (and some non-rooms) in the original funhouse dungeon and describe what makes them work or not work and what is worth stealing for your dungeons and what you should avoid, a...

I rate every room in White Plume Mountain (X out of 5 Stars) and explain why each room does, or does not, work and how you can take these lessons into designing your own dungeons, be they of the funhouse variety or not
#osr #ttrpg

Not sure how many of my research and writing goals I'm going to accomplish this year. Still finishing up two big projects. RACE & THE CTHULHU MYTHOS remained on pause. Two manuscripts are with the publisher, where they've been since last year, no ETA for publication.

Still, 1 like = 1 research goal

2+ years of mourning and I'm ready to finally run a campaign for my favorite Tabletop RPG. I know he would have wanted me to run it again and finally finish it.

Woke up this morning thinking about Masks of Nyarlathotep. It just so happens that it's my late friend's birthday, one of the players from my earlier Masks of Nyarlathotep run. I decided to open a game ad in my community to look for players for my Call of Cthulhu: Masks of Nyarlathotep 2nd run.

Fake article headline. "Opinion by Michelle Cottle" "Is the Cure to Modern Loneliness Searching for Cryptids with Friends?"

Call of Cthulhu campaign about a bunch of lonely people off the internet coming together to search for monsters and finding themselves –just before the swirling vortex of madness consumes them all.

CATMAIL #2 Look what the cat dragged in. Monthly project updates, plus curated blog posts and oddments worth your time.

New month, new newsletter. Talking about why I didn't blog this month haha

Also including a ton of links to posts I found interesting!

elmc.at/catmail-2/

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/

Video Games Are Dying (But Actually For Real This Time [Except Maybe Indies But You Know]) It's 8 p.m. on March 3rd 2026, a little over 24 hours from the conclusion of the Marathon Sever Slam - No not that Marathon , instead its n...

//oolala two posts in one day cultural critique op-ed eat your heart out - - -

VIDEO GAMES ARE DYING
/for real this time
//except for indies but you know

:: a measured observation ::

www.failforward.moe/2026/03/vide...

Its nearly 4am my time, so im not gonna get it up on itch today, but im happy to announce the playtest ashcan of DQ&D is formatted and finished and ready to publish!

The Play Reports Improv, Play Culture, and Authority

Started thinking about player improv and what the hell that means!

theplayreports.com/posts/player...

#ttrpg #blog #improv #play

A hooded woman looking through various tomes with a glowing crystal providing her light. She's tired. We all are.

A thread of non-obvious things that either influenced BREAK!! and/or make for good BREAK!! inspiration in my opinion. I am going to add to this as I think of new ones (or maybe even find them)

Gallows Corner - A Peasants' Revolt RPG Rise up, ye pitiful commons! Throw off your shackles and take up the call: there is a brighter future beyond the noose!

We're in the final eight hours for GALLOWS CORNER!

Our print files are being finalised tomorrow and delivered on Thursday, so backers will have copies in hand by the summer.

Make sure you get your copy by backing today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/thr...

Aldi's Razor | Jay Dragon (& Friends) Get more from Jay Dragon (& Friends) on Patreon

i keep getting into (enjoyable and fun) arguments about the nature of games that can run the risk of getting lost in the sauce with overly broad definitions, so i invented a lil logic tool
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I think it's kinda rude to complain about the reading voices of non-professionals just donating their time and effort, so you can listen to the blog posts.

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

Why don't the monsters simply eat the people? I was reading Pikliz Dungeon's most recent post and thinking about one of the contradictions of the Jewelsea that I haven't yet resolved - why does a world f...

I wrote a bit about why a wilderness full of scary monsters and complex societies can coexist in my Jewelsea setting - table46.bearblog.dev/why-dont-the...

#osr #nsr #posr #rpg

They're blogs! Of course they're long winded.
Start paying me for them and I'll start editing.

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

I just realized the gun is censored lol