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The arena went silent as the hooded spearmen grunted. At his feet, a corpulent wart goblin, blood spurting from its throat. The gladiator glanced towards the emperor’s balcony, looking for the signal to put the poor creature out of its misery.

I’m finally selling my Gibson Les Paul Standard 1995 Cherry Sunburst if anyone is interested. I don’t play these days. Had it from Musical Exchanges in Birmingham from new. It’s in very good condition. UK located.

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Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Areas of Knowledge

Areas of Knowledge are the skill system for Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir and the Scimitar System. The beauty is that anything that can be applied to a test,…

https://monkeyblooddesign.co.uk/2026/01/30/jewel-delvers-of-nagor-kadir-areas-of-knowledge/

Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Ghostgates One of the objectives of the Scimiar System is for multi-genre play— Whilst Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir focuses on technology based in a medieval fantasy world, it introduces Ghostgates allowing travel between worlds and time. We wanted the Scimitar System to support play across multiple genres where characters from a lower technology medieval fantasy world can pass into a high technology alien world, and vice versa.

Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Ghostgates

One of the objectives of the Scimiar System is for multi-genre play— Whilst Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir focuses on technology based in a medieval fantasy world, it introduces Ghostgates allowing travel between worlds and time. We wanted the Scimitar System…

Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Ancestries Ancestries There are 10 ancestries to play, each bringing its own strengths and weaknesses: Clan Raggad Dwarf These short and stocky humanoids are considered tall at 4-1/2 feet. They favour plaited beards and facial markings to distinguish their clan allegiances. They are usually dour and short tempered, but their demeanour changes when discussing mining, gold, ale, and stonework. Dwarves have slightly longer lifespans than humans, commonly extending to 120 years.

Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Ancestries

Ancestries There are 10 ancestries to play, each bringing its own strengths and weaknesses: Clan Raggad Dwarf These short and stocky humanoids are considered tall at 4-1/2 feet. They favour plaited beards and facial markings to distinguish their clan…

Anyone else going to #OrcaCon? We'll be there this weekend and look forward to sharing the latest Mice of Legend updates, like this 200+ page omnibus edition.

Cover art: @servsci.bsky.social
Layout: @monkeyblood.bsky.social

#dnd #osr #osric #seattle #ttrpg #shadowdark

Introducing Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir Project Scimitar has evolved. The Scimitar System’s first publication has now got its final name—Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir. I’m currently working my way through the bestiary and vehicles/mounts section, but the core rules are solid and standing up well in play-testing. Let’s introduce some of the rules in bite-size posts! Attributes Characters have six Core attributes and six Secondary attributes, as follows:

Introducing Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir

Specialists in cloaks of protection.

Project Scimitar Project Scimitar has been known by many things over the years. It's roots started in variations of Darkest of Tales, Gate Punks and Malefica, and whilst those things still exist as work-in-progress projects, they have all evolved into a game using what I am calling the multigenre Scimitar System, and this is its first game Project Scimitar (until I get closer to a commerical release and rename it).

Project Scimitar

And updated to switch out AI placeholders to empty art placeholders or my own art!

Want to have a play with Project Scimitar and see what we're up to? Download the WIP playtest rules and setting map here:
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Scimitar Ancestries! Hell yeah!

Also, this got cropped from a longer post (grrr max word count)…

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Yeh that’s the current plan :)

My main issue is that I’m not social enough for social media, so it doesn’t work well for me anyway. I’m probably wasting such a lot of time being on any social media at all.

Cheers buddy! If the Bluesky follower (170) count beats the X follower count (1,920), I'll switch :)

Well, I was posting to 18* different social media outlets, since everyone left G+ and went all over the place haha!
It's time to trim it right back and stop wasting time on low ROI feeds :) Love you too :D

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I’ve had pleasure helping Bart in his recent project. He’s a stand up guy! Check out his latest project!

Dungeon Domains: Codex Carcerum

19+ endlessly expandable dungeons for Shadowdark, 5e, Mörk Borg, Pathfinder, Forbidden Lands & other fantasy tabletop RPGs!

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I’m super proud of Ryecroft—A dangerous cemetery crawl for OSE. Can’t wait to start getting physical copies out the door and into hands and on gaming tables!

Midderstore The Midderstore is a high quality storage box with additional functionality. Use to store all your Midderlands, or even non-Midderlands-related loose products, such as Midderzines, maps, bookmarks,…

For those with a bunch of Midderlands-related maps and zines, you can now get the latest Midderstore box to keep them in one place 😀

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Yeh, I lived for that game for almost 2 years back when I was young and innocent. Stayed for the US server merge, then I think I got as far as the Level 20 cap

Eberron didn't click for me until I started playing DDO Online: Stormreach back in 2006

I've been busy moving house and just catching up on the ENnie nominations... Stoked to have worked on the following:
The Shrike, Silverarm (cartography)
Slay & Plunder, Nwyvre Press (layout)
RuneQuest: Lands of RuneQuest – Dragon Pass, Chaosium Inc. (some cartography)

Get your Elder Signs ready…

Character sheet and creation for the 3Ten System game Darkest of Tales (development in progress)

This is the cover art I did for The Midderlands Expanded. A really simple piece that asks questions about what could be going on. Did he get on the roof through the window or is he waiting for someone come out of the window? I love art that does that.

It'll work right now. Shhh... don't tell anyone!

The Midderlands has been knocking about for a few years now, the green infused OSR setting from @monkeyblood.bsky.social. It's a grim (and very British) setting with lots of weird creatures, great content & tools. Comes in original & expanded flavours with plenty of supporting material.