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A witch's familiar, from The Reader's Digest Folklore book

People don't talk nearly enough about how cute 16th Century Witch's Familiars were.

Clip of text exchange: "that funny little detective was asking strange questions again" "lmao don't worry about it babe" "ok ♥ yay ♥"

Pleaser, by Pretty Bitter 10 track album

5 - pleaser by @prettybittermp3.bsky.social Every band on Bluesky is talking about how good this album is and I’m excited for it.

Screenshot of Star Wars D6 RPG, 1st edition rules hack by Jez Gordon.

Screenshot of Star Wars D6 RPG, 1st edition. Creature Generator rules hack by Jez Gordon.

Screenshot of Star Wars D6 RPG, 1st edition. Fate of the Fallen rules hack by Jez Gordon.

Screenshot of Star Wars D6 RPG, 1st edition. The Heart of Star Wars rules hack by Jez Gordon.

Yeah nice, I should send my 1e rules essentials material, streamlines stuff a little more, some new house rules and material.

this summer on I'll Be Pod for Castmas we've got an episode breaking down THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2019), the fourth of three Vanessa Hudgens netflix original christmas movies. A festive look at time travel romance, full of ritual and reward!

I'll Be Pod for Castmas Every July and December, Juliet L'mous and their co-host playwright Katherine Varga take a piece of holiday pop culture and discuss it through the lens of a piece of topical classic literature — like ...

It is one of the four times each year that I encourage all my internet friends (that's you!) to spend some always worthwhile time with @follypersist.bsky.social 's delightful I'll be Pod for Castmas.

If you're already comfortable with Mausritter, then Cairn and other Into-the-Odd-likes will be familiar, and are generally easy to "pick up and play."

Love to see this

Overpowered Overpowered is a solo framework that allows you to quickly play through dungeon crawl modules. Manage your bot’s power, choose your path, and perfect your strategy.

Overpowered does this as a form of prep, but also has a leaderboard.

Thanks! I started it for last year's jam and never quite made it fit, but then I realized I could add Lua for glue. I still think there's plenty of room to remix it though.

Mechcrafting - Benign Brown Beast A MOSAIC Strict framework for giving your character a mech suit. The size and weight of a cinderblock, all three common cores are basically

A #MosaicStrict entry into @diyanddragons.bsky.social 's Second Summer LEGO RPG Jam, now with giant robots.

I think the world would be a better place if people were less worried about avoiding being derivative / unoriginal, and more worried about mulling their inspirations thoroughly and thoughtfully

Time Capsules - Benign Brown Beast Between the formation of earth and the birth of man, the moles built an empire. Its inverted spires plunged deep into the crust, gluttering with dim

A quick hole post for @prismaticwasteland.com 's blog bandwagon.

SCULLY: Mulder you sound insane
MULDER: there’re tallboy diet cokes, I’ve seen them with my own eyes

Interactive Fantasy by James Wallis A journal of game design and narrative systems

Interactive Fantasy, the journal of interactive storytelling that I published in the mid-1990s, is no longer available from DriveThruRPG. However it is now available from itch.io instead: jameswallis.itch.io/interactive-... for the same low price of pay-what-you-want.

Oh no, that's the tricky part. It is really a different name for exactly the same number. In the same way as e.g. "6/6". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999....

Idk enough Gödel 😭. I can say there's no contradiction in a number having two notations, we do it all the time with fractions and decimals.

The Case for Planetary Romance Richard Hescox I feel like planetary romance (sometimes called Sword & Planet, though I think that might be better thought as a subgenre or...

Planetary romance/Sword & Planet is good for gaming and particularly old school gaming
sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

This week on the BREAK!! blog - Fishing, again, but also other things

Basically every new business I’ve heard of in the past five years makes me go: “That should be illegal.”

finally published #CINCO, my homebrew heartbreaker!

my goal was to isolate the character-driven subculture of 5E from the mechanical cruft of that game's rules, making smth more streamlined and dare i say fun 🙂‍↕️💖

featuring gorgeous art by @nornnoszka.bsky.social!!

traversefantasy.itch.io/cinco

CLUMP was one of my favorite pulls from SB 2024. An absurd bureaucratic drama set in an exaggerated corporate megastructure.

What it's Like to Travel The Stars Presumably no one on Earth has yet experienced interplanetary space travel. When the creators of space travel-related media go to describe i...

Space travel in fiction tends to have the feel of other, more commonly experienced forms of travel.
sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/06/what...

A yellow mascot with oddly-placed eyes and a protuberance on the top of its head stands on a wooden deck.

The mascot for the Czech pavilion at the Osaka 2025 Expo is René, a creature of crystal glass, born in the fiery furnace of a glass factory in Bohemia.

Use small fish as bait for bigger fish?

Afterlives - Benign Brown Beast I’ve been thinking about afterlives as places, and especially how they show up in games. In this momentary obsession, I’ve at least partially

Pleased with how this dithering worked out & happy to finally finish off this draft.

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Recovered: Cathedrals - Benign Brown Beast Construction on York Minster Cathedral was finished in 1472, having begun c. 1220. For two-hundred and fifty years, the unfinished cathedral was a

An old post, with old comments preserved.

Ornithologists Journal (Review) - Benign Brown Beast In 2020, two people sent me copies of solo RPGs. (In one case explicitly for review, but in this case that was left unclear.) Solo games were having

I really liked Ornithologists Journal, which is played over many days. I wrote more about it here, although it seems to be gone now. It inspired my own solo game, Itinerarium, which I don't feel is particularly finished. (beast.blot.im/itinerarium-...)

Slush 2025-06 - Benign Brown Beast The earworm in my nostrils. The ringing in my fingertips. I ran into these game design experiences around the same time, and couldn’t shake the

New slushposting.