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Book of place names, I cannot resist you. A thread 🧵 of my favourites:

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Ringlecrouch East Ripe/West Ripe Seasalter The Shade Sights Sinkertweazel Slede Ooze Smugley Soper's Lane Spittal Wood Standard Hill Thong Three Crutches The Thrift Burnt Barn The Trench Trouts Under River Waterditch Farm Whole Farm Wickhambreux Wildboars Witchling Wood Wormdale Puck's Gutter

I'm a boring fella.

Book of place names, I cannot resist you. A thread 🧵 of my favourites:

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Chillmill Cockshot Coldred Cold Friday Cooling Crump Cuckoldscombe Cutnails Dane John (derived from the word Dungeon) Dent-de-Lion (pronounced Dandelion) Deal Dignash The Douls Eatwell Ebony Elvy Flightshot Force Green Foulmead Four Throws Franks Frog's Hole Bumpit Gore and Gore Green Greatness

Great Lines Greatstone-on-Sea Headcorn Hereson High Brooms Honeychild Hoo All Hallows Impkins Jumping Downs Killing Wood Knole Leaveland The Lynch Musketstone Mustards The Nethergong Pain Street Pean Pett Bottom Pikefish Poison Down Low Poles Poors Punish Wood Ratling (meaning 'Rubbish Slope')

Book of place names, I cannot resist you. A thread 🧵 of my favourites:

mindstormpress.itch.ioPrismatic Pumpkincrawl by mindstormAn autumnal adventure

Aypelton Amber Green Upper Agney and Lower Agney Ballsdown Bardogs Little Backs Bean Beluncle Black Charles Blodebeame Blindgrooms Bold Snoad Wood Great Bounds and Little Bounds Boxted Brattles Breakstones The Bullie Calfstock Castweazel The Chart

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@mindstorm.bsky.social

I've got a special treat today! We organized a collaborative project in @prismaticwasteland.com's discord. Our goal was a hexcrawl project inspired by OVER THE GARDEN WALL. This is the PRISMATIC PUMPKINCRAWL. 31 powderkeg-packed hexes. It's completely free. mindstormpress.itch.io/prismatic-pu...

en.wikipedia.orgCloud Nine (sphere) - Wikipedia

Put your next dungeon in a giant floating sphere. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_N...

It's happening.

Beneath Foreign Planets@foreignplanets.bsky.social

I'm making a zine next year. If I haven't by next Dragonmeet, then you have permission to gun me down in the street like a dog.

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Actual names

@actualnames.bsky.social

Female Bucket England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007

Decapitation implies the existence of capitation.

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idraluna-archives.itch.ioMaps of Miscellaneous Minor Moons by idraluna-archivesHexmaps of various moons and planetoids

New maps! I'm a big fan of the idea of tiny, whimsical planets, so I slapped some funky color ramps onto some elevation maps of moons and asteroids. idraluna-archives.itch.io/maps-of-misc...

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idraluna-archives.bearblog.devd10 Silly Space Gun Table Game idea: Boot Galaxy and The Fear of Dice.[^1] Pick any sci-fi adventure and run it as normal, but every player is armed with a ran...

idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/d10-silly-sp... Retro laser guns. Players MUST voice the onomatopoeia or they don't work

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Prismatic Wasteland

@prismaticwasteland.com

21 Sept

Replying to @dishwasherpossum.bsky.social

Creating a new retro clone that only includes the dogshit rules

foreignplanets.blogspot.comd200 Names - Puritan StyleThis dorkish dullard's character names are too powerful, and basically, you're stupid.

21 Sept

This is how everyone would their name #rpg characters if they weren't so cowardly foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/09/d200...

21 Sept

I think I'll name my villain *Evil Johnson*

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16 Sept

Replying to @icastlight.bsky.social

I'm wondering if anyone has made an RPG that uses the pigs from Pass the Pigs.

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idraluna-archives.bearblog.devThree-sentence HexesEditing the Antarctic Adventure Anthology has precipitated many ideas about how to steer the future of the project. Earlier this year, I wrote a mild pol...

5 Sept

On writing terse hex keys for Antarctica Jam idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/three-senten...

foreignplanets.blogspot.comMeta-Drunkenness aka Drunk in the DungeonA rule for when characters start drinking on the job.

1 Sept

Get drunk. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/09/meta... #osr

elmc.atDeath of a HobbyFuck it.

27 Aug

Weird Knights. Crude but fun sculpts from the now sadly defunct Irregular Miniatures. Maybe I'll use them for Mythic Bastionland. #miniatures

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elmcat

@elmc.at

23 Aug

fuck it elmc.at/death-of-a-h...

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The Merry Mushmen

@themerrymushmen.bsky.social

21 Aug

Working on Knock again! #6

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barenuckelavee.bsky.social

@barenuckelavee.bsky.social

21 Aug

I have a blog now and wrote about playing a bastardized version of OD&D in prison and how the DIY spirit of the OSR is most alive when you don't buy anything at all barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...

barenuckelavee.bearblog.devNO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOUThere is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...

@creativewronging.bsky.social

18 Aug

- Extreme Dinosaurs - Skeleton Warriors - Noggin the Nog - Noah's Island - The Animals of Farthing Wood - Transformers: Beast Wars - Xcalibur All bangers.

SprintingOwlDesigns@sprintingowl.bsky.social

Okay. You have unfortunately been hit with the curse that makes you adapt a work you liked as a kid into a ttrpg. What thing are you adapting?

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Created Wrongly

17 Aug

Replying to @creativewronging.bsky.social

64. The Bridge at the End of the World by @foreignplanets.bsky.social A system-neutral science-fantasy hexcrawl through a subterranean spaceship 🦐 20+ hexes through a diversity of artsy biomes in an O'Neill Cylinder, based on Tumithak, a forgotten 1930's pulp serial. Wildly big brained move!

beneath-foreign-planets.itch.ioThe Bridge at the End of the World by Beneath Foreign PlanetsMinimalist Science-Fantasy Campaign Setting, Hexcrawl and Dungeon

16 Aug

What's stopping you from putting televisions in your setting? Nothing. Think about it.

16 Aug

The mooks in my next dungeon will be called Chuckleheads.

16 Aug

Lizardfolk should just be dudes covered with lizards.

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Truckstop Vigilante

@brenthor.bsky.social

2 Aug

In this episode ill be eating everything i find under my couch. Glory to god the creator. Without Him we are nothing. Alright lets get this couch lifted up. LOTTA cat hair wow. Ok lets get started

foreignplanets.blogspot.comThe Bridge at the End of the WorldScience-Fantasy Hexcrawl and Dungeon inspired by Tumithak of the Corridors. 22 hexes, an 18 room dungeon, lore - 4 a5 pages. I know how it is 🤷‍♂️

24 July

foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... #osr #Tumithak #Shelk #hubris

traipse.hexarcana.comDarkmantlesChthonic squid monsters floating soundlessly through the Inverted Palace . Conical indigo bodies ringed with crimson eyes; dense membrane we...

24 July

I blame Luke Gearing for my hubris.

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@traipsehex.bsky.social

22 July

A blog post brave enough to answer the question on everyone's lips: "what if the classic D&D ceiling monster (that's not the cloaker, lurker, or piercer) was actually a psychedelic nightmare squid that imprints its eggs in your subconscious?" traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/07/dark...

@pissvortex.gorillaradio.show

23 July

Please #appreciate the Shrew, Giant

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Pissvortex

15 July

New monkey fancam

Defector@defector.com

New monkey! New monkey! There's a new monkey! defector.com/new-monkey-n...

defector.comNew Monkey! New Monkey! There’s A New Monkey! | DefectorMany new species have been announced this week. There are new mites from Saudi Arabia and a new weevil from Japan. There are new midges from China and new spiders from Brazil and China. There is a…

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Cats Have No Lord

@catshavenolord.itch.io

14 July

New day, new reminder you can die horribly inside a giant slug in my new adventure

Cats Have No Lord@catshavenolord.itch.io

Appendix N Jam submission is up. Push your way through multiple sphincters to pull lost treasures from an interdimensional, treasure-eating, giant slug. #TTRPG #OSR catshavenolord.itch.io/crypt-crawle...

catshavenolord.itch.ioCrypt Crawlers of Mictlan by Cats Have No LordAn Interdimensional Slugcrawl for Old School Adventure Games

foreignplanets.blogspot.comMore Lost Books of Appendix NI did this for you.

12 July

Everything they told you was a lie. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/07/more... #osr #AppxNJam

4 July

#osr rats, are micro hexcrawl settings/adventures worthwhile? Why? And if they are, what are some good examples?

beneath-foreign-planets.itch.ioLow Tidings by Beneath Foreign PlanetsDefend a crumbling coastal fort from a sea-witch and her army of blood-thirsty pirates!

2 July

My entry to last year's #AppxNJam, and winner of the 'spirit, themes and vibe of the Appendix N' category 😏. I really wrestled the title, early on it was actually a Conan tale set in a dried up ocean. beneath-foreign-planets.itch.io/low-tidings

2 July

I now find myself wrestling with another new title, and I'm sure I'm not the only one 🤼‍♂️. Good luck all! 🙏

foreignplanets.blogspot.comThe Pretender-Banate of Auric-NemusMy commiserations, it's more Antarctica hexfills.

28 June

foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... #hexfills #osr

28 June

- fight the CIA - do guerilla warfare - do a giant slug's bidding - drink fermented zebra milk - eat sloth and deep-fried butterfly - do opium - dig for gold - work out with the strongest man on earth - make zombies - whoops, get a wife and child - become Lisan al-Gaib - play beer pong

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idraluna-archives.bearblog.devWildfires in A HexcrawlThis post on reddit, asks how to rule a forest fire started by player characters. My day job involves running long-term forest growth and wildfire simula...

27 June

Does your hexcrawl need pseudo-realistic fire ecology? Look no fur- What? Where are you going? I just want to talk! idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/wildfires-in...

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Prismatic Wasteland

@prismaticwasteland.com

26 June

There were a whopping 80 blog posts for the latest Random Blogwagon! I round them all up into a rollable table here: #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon

prismaticwasteland.comRandom Blogwagon Roundup — Prismatic WastelandIn 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!