Drafting for the @goblinarchives.itch.io Liminal Horror Summer Jam continues, aiming for playtests next month.

Roses are red, Violets die from exposure,

Balloon Fiesta week, which means that for balance I have to post what it looks like from the perspective of my two dogs.

Started drawing up a Mythic Bastionland realm using @wuggy.bsky.social art assets, and pulling from a... generous interpretation of local geography.

Despite the jet lag had a lot of fun running BLACKOUT at #betweentwocons for some of the Cairn Press team. (Why does the OSR/NSR attract so many tall people? Are Americans just better supplied with nutrients and sunlight?a)

Now that I've had a chance to look at them, I should credit the excellent job that Logan @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social (via their Fistful of Ink printing house) have done with the physical copies. If you want to stock some (especially if you're in the UK) get in touch!

BLACKOUT is my first module for Mothership, taking your crew underground to restore a colony power supply, and finding some unexpected things... Featuring art by @emo-sludge.com pointlessmonument.itch.io/blackout

Continuing last night with my Cairn 2E playtest, alongside Dragonbane, Mothership, 5e, Numenera and Grant Howitt's Reverse Beastmaster (Been using the little battery tealights to track torches recently and they're great)

Behold, the choices of a man who has never owned a console my9games.com

Sadly you just missed out on appearing in the Mail over the weekend

It is unfair of the media to report on my work in progress hexcrawl in such a negative way

East Bristol Adventurers finishes the year with a strong indie selection: @gshowitt.bsky.social one-pager Christmas is Coming (with Santa hats) @nohr.se Cy_Borg Dolmenwood @jasoncordova.bsky.social Brindlewood Bay - Jingle Bell Shock @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com Mothership (VR Dead with Xmas DLC)

Was thinking about how rail locomotive wheel arrangement Whyte notation (0-6-0, 2-8-2 etc) resembles a character/creature statblock. And then part of my brain went "or it could be a fully narrative system"

Finally making progress on the Cairn puzzle dungeon, hopefully out by the end of the year

Note that the Alexander one does have this campaign map with a very stealable early 60s style to it

New monster manual and adventure module appeared in our little library yesterday

Writing a Cthulhu by Gaslight scenario for playtesting next week, in advance of taking it to the @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social mini-convention in early October. Adapting real world places to horror scenarios is always an entertaining way to approach design.

Snail Fancy, by @feralcharlie.bsky.social and @alexcoggon.bsky.social is a perfect interactive one shot for your OSR/NSR system of choice. The PCs spiraled from shoplifting hats to feeding someone to a giant snail and unleashing an ecological catastrophe on the local borough.

Small dungeon studies to try and zero in on a style for a Cairn 2e adventure

We look at the dog and go "when he starts working he can put it towards that" or a variation thereof.

A 'full indie' meetup this evening as we had the start of a Dune (@modiphius.bsky.social) campaign, @gshowitt.bsky.social Pub Crusade, a 7th(!) session of @riseupcomus.bsky.social His Majesty The Worm and a final playtest of my own module for @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com Mothership

@wyrdscience.bsky.social It seems someone even lore pedantic than me was motivated to write in...

The Spaniel Knight Property: Lead of great pulling, Frantic steed (does not tire) Ability: Steal Shoes Passion: New smells

Tonight it was @bastionland.bsky.social Electric Bastionland running @n8hps.bsky.social Astral Curse of the Iron Gnomes, coming down to a crucial DEX save. (Off camera, Session 2 of @riseupcomus.bsky.social His Majesty the Worm, alongside 5e and Call of Cthulhu: Order of the Stone)

More dungeon entrances should have: - Graffiti - Barricades - Litter

Ran @norgad.bsky.social Dead Weight this evening - superb module, all new Mothership players (first non-D&D ttrpg for one of them) and they had an absolute blast

Presence - Led Zeppelin (1976)

My OSE mini campaign continues alongside its 5e equivalent and a Savage Worlds one shot - but what's that hiding in the corner? Why it's @jasoncordova.bsky.social The Between kicking off Season 2 with the Factotum and Explorer returning from Season 1.

Or if not a ghost, then...