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The great adventuring party generator Eventually, the adventurers arrive.

New up on Substack (free): The Great Adventuring Party Generator. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Even better, have another character give it to them.

Looking for ideas in your solo rpg session? Give your character a tarot reading.

Wow, but the new Copilot-driven grammar check in Word really hates any writing that's not dull.

Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.

“The middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.”

www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

La Briffe | Ruth Reichl | Substack A newsletter about cooking, eating and making life more delicious. Click to read La Briffe, by Ruth Reichl, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

And as it turns out Ruth Reichl, amazing food critic and amazing writer, is on Substack! open.substack.com/pub/ruthreic...

Cooking blogs count.

Anyone recommend a Substack that’s about surviving and thriving the apocalypse? I’ve got plenty telling me it’s here, but they’re a little thin on what to do.

This stuff was inscribed on my brain at the age of seven and never left.

When I was a little kid I read my mom’s medical encyclopedia obsessively. To this day I occasionally spout weird syndromes without antecedent.

Get lost and find The Wanderer's Bookshop From Johnson OFair - Get lost and find The Wanderer's Bookshop

Hello Wanderer!

I've a new #ZineMonth project coming up!

💙📚The Wanderer's Bookshop📚💙

is a cosy solo* bookshop simulator #ttrpg where you collect stories, read books and find your “white whale”.

Launching February 2nd on 💥Zinetopia 2026 (Backerkit)

tinyurl.com/BookshopRPG
🌈📚 🏳️‍🌈📚🎧 🧣📚

Love this!

#CommissionsOpen - In need of some stuff for a project or whatever? Want a crazy person who has too many thoughts to help you out? Want to pay me up front rather than way down the line like some people?

Take a good look. $300 bucks get you 1k Words + 3 character spot pieces + 1 map; no AI or shit.

Love that cover!

The Banishing by My Name is Richard A ttrpg about reclaiming a culture denied to you by a society of monsters, while walking a path of your own choosing.

Hello new folks, My Name is Richard

I am manifold, like warped stained glass in an abandoned grey stone church

Other than being cryptic I am a writer, coordinator, and art director at Adventure Noises

I am making my own anti-colonial ttrpg, The Banishing! my-name-is-richard.itch.io/thebanishing

Dragon Magazine #67 cover by Jack Crane. A barbarian cuts the turkey with a sword at Thanksgiving while dismayed attendees look on.

Also, this!

Parts of Apocalypse D&D round their way into Dungeon World (something I’m proud of). I’d love to use the #tavernsworn experiment to spur development of game aids (oracles, generators, hook) and ultimately a complete game (or two?). 🧵[end]

Back a while ago I made this thing called Apocalypse D&D—a way of playing D&D using Apocalypse World style moves but keeping as much OD&D foundations as possible. This is a similar project: use Ironsworn as a sturdy foundation upon which to build exactly what I want. 🧵8

Slow play – sometimes I want high adventure, but a lot of the time I want something more meditative. This is to be a game I can play slow or fast; one I can pick up every day and play for 20 minutes or 4 hours—or set aside for a month without losing my place. 🧵7

Play to find out, radically – For me, part of the exploration of play is to find out “what is this game I’m playing?” It’s that Dwarf Fortress thing where suddenly you pivot into building an obsidian wizards tower or turn your fortress into a five-star hotel in the desert. 🧵6

Staying Solo - Oracles, Tables, Encounters: Your Arsenal Against Boredom As a Soloist, you'll want an overwhelming amount of O.T.Es to utilize anytime.

As an aside, this is a really good article that touches on writing your own oracles, and what that choice entails: 🧵5
daydreamofficial.substack.com/p/staying-so...

Rulings, lots of rulings—I’m making the game as I play. This means I’m spending almost as much time (maybe more?) writing custom moves and oracles and writing hooks to spur specific experiences and directions of play. Yesterday I wrote a custom move for “When you host a blowout party…” 🧵4

Layered worldbuilding—asking questions and making the answers part of your world. Ironsworn invites you to go deep on whatever aspect of the game interests you. I could spend a session on a quest to slay a dragon, but just as easily on figuring out exactly how my inn is furnished and equipped. 🧵3

I’m making this game to support a very specific way of playing that I haven’t been able to find in any of the games I’ve tried, to wit… 🧵2

So what is this #Tavernsworn thing I keep talking about?

Tavernsworn is an experimental way of using Ironsworn to play the story of a character who founds a tavern in a fantasy world: Legends and Lattes, The Wandering Inn, The Bear, but also Dwarf Fortress and a touch of Blades in the Dark. 🧵1

Solo play…, #tavernsworn

Hey Josh, what's THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC like?

It's like this, friend. It's like this.

Oh yeah, it’s very much an inspiration!

Ha ha! It’s coming! I’m trying to turn this into a full on Ironsworn hack. Hoping to share some preliminary moves and stuff soon.