Dougal

My first 5 titterpigs in the order I played them: 1. Basic D&D Red Box (1983) 2. Advanced Fighting Fantasy 3. AD&D 2nd Edition 4. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition 5. Call of Cthulhu 5th Edition Also hit up MERP, Rifts/Robotech/TMNT, WEG Star Wars and Paranoia shortly after.

Crazy to think 10 months ago this was all I had for a Sliver of Evidence and now it’s 60 pages and being published by Cairn Press!! Idk man that just seems kinda nuts! 🥜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cai...

Its so satisfying to hear the outcomes of the situations you've written!

Its always nice to start the day hearing that your Black Sword Hack adventure slaughtered half a group of barbarians and sorcerers.

I am a happy boy today. Placed 8th in the Appendix N Jam 2026 and came first in the Gameability category and placed second in Theme. This was my first jam and couldn't be more pleased with the results. Super excited to see if any of the judges dug my work too.

I'm in this one. Pick up some great value spooky adventures while you can!

Actually got to PLAY tonight. Spent several happy hours crawling some barrows of Barrowmaze in a shadowdark game run by @watcherdm.com Looted two barrows, went back to town, caroused, cheated at cards, ended up in the stocks with a hangover having turnips thrown at me. I regret nothing!

Season 2 of Ansible Uplink begins with a TIME WARP episode! @weepingstag.bsky.social joins to review the 1983 Classic Traveller module: Adventure 9: Nomads of the World-Ocean by Andrew and William Keith.

It's September Blog Carnival season, meaning you can read here an article about MONEY dungeonsandpossums.com/2026/09/sept... I have none in the real world but tons of invented fake money in my imagination. This is the Millennial fate, I guess! Click to enjoy a fully-illustrated d66 table 😊

I'm answering the important questions: what makes an rpg heavy metal? brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/what-makes-a...

New Blogpost! I'm pulling the trigger on a WIP i've held back for a good while, fulfilling a dream I've had since I was but a young boy... Pretending to be Monkeys or whatever in an expansive recreation of Donkey Kong Island. Normal kid stuff, yknow? farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/dki-he...

With a new baby and toddler, The Odyssey (2026) may be the last movie I'll see for a while, but I was still able to glean (or couldn't avoid gleaning) a few lessons from it for TTRPGs #osr #ttrpg

Two of my favourite things going on here: Vaults of Vaarn and Dougal Cochrane. Get on this podcast while its freshy freshy.

Episode 2 is out for All Systems Nominal, where we discuss Vaults of Vaarn. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

That's another episode of All Systems Nominal recorded. Stay tuned for more scifi ttrpg review goodness where @andrewdoull.bsky.social and myself voice our thoughts on Vaults of Vaarn by @infrabeige.bsky.social

My “all good sci-fi starts with a meal and ends on a beach” theory seems to have struck a chord with listeners. I’ve made a 1-page sci-fi game that is nothing but meals and beaches. It’s goes as hard as I can make a game this small. half-apress.itch.io/6-meals-in-s...

Can anyone recommend some TTRPG blog reviewers? I wrote a #mothershiprpg module last year called CRYO-SIQ that I still enjoy running. I'd love to try and send out some review copies and get more people talking about it.

Hey! A doog I know is co-hosting a TTRPG podcast highlighting scifi genres. First episode is talking about Death In Space by Christian Plogfors and Carl Niblaeus. If you enjoy freezing in the uncaring, merciless vacuum of space as much as I do... check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a... New ttrpg review podcast!

Co-hosting a podcast was not on my to-do list this year, but when Andrew asked if wanted to join him reviewing sci-fi TTRPGs, I couldn't say no. We spoke for the first time whilst recording the premier episode and reviewed Death in Space. Get it in your ears here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Tfw you get into 1h 20m of the recording and realise you’ve only covered one third of the book.

Reader, we started a podcast about it. Watch this space.

Maps as data and graphs, part 1. www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/maps-as-data

This made my day. Thanks for the glowing feedback and I'm glad this was a hit with you. I have a deep and abiding fondness for sword and sorcery, so this was a joy to put together.

So... this happened. tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p...

Blown away by the positive responses on this. The whole experience has been so fun and upbeat.

Remember Itch has a handy link to take you to the jam entries that haven’t gotten many (or any) ratings and comments yet. Make sure to give a look to the work from newer folks in the scene that might get missed, not just the big names. #TTRPG #OSR

This is why we don't need genAI. Just keep drawing, one day you're gonna kill it.

Hey gang, if you missed my Kickstarter but you're at GenCon, head to the Arcane Library booth at 2464 because I sent them a (very) small number of proof copies of the new zines! Grab them if you can! #osr #dnd #ttrpg

directing baleful psionic energies at lake geneva

This, all this.

Stalwart 3d6 DTL community member and all-around good person @demielgato.bsky.social is launching an #OSE zine on Kickstarter soon! First 32 pp issue is Olig-Vald, a micro-hexcrawl crammed with gameable material. Go sign up and show them your support! #TTRPG www.kickstarter.com/projects/365...

My new OSE zine: Olig-Vald will be live on ks on August 3rd www.kickstarter.com/projects/365... A micro hexcrawl adventure for OSE characters of level 4 and up. Monsters, dungeons, spells, a detailed town with unique (and uniquely horrible) NPCs and more! #ttrpg #ose #osr #dnd

Someone just posted this on my recent adventure submission to the Appendix N Jam and I have a huge goofy smile on my face right now.