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"Why megadungeons?" My pitch is that they are a campaign format that concentrates ideas, maximizes novelty, uses familiarity to advantage, and can be run in 2-4 hour sessions. Plus, between Silk Song and Delicious in Dungeon- everyone knows what they are! icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

Nightwick Abbey has such fantastic illustrations, both wicked and whimsical

Perfect for a Halloween 1-shot! And @directsun.bsky.social has done a great job with the digital tools here

Of all the things I want preserved from the OSR, I think this is #1. I think it’s sorta the OSR’s Blackmoor.

My first 5 TTRPGs 1. TMNT: And Other Strangenesses 🐢 2. AD&D 2e 🐉 3. Shadowrun 1e 💾 (many moons pass) 4. Pathfinder 1e 🐉 5. BX D&D 🐉 (bonus: CoC 🔍)

I contributed to this fun autumn themed effort. For my hex you get caught up in racing at the “Turkus Maximus” 🦃 for jugs of hard apple cider 🍎

Ran across a Reddit thread where, after hours of work, a DM realized their key city could not realistically feed itself. And they dropped it. I thought that was a lost opportunity to talk about the role of gods in D&D & do some light worldbuilding: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/10/this...

In the darkness ... he watches you. #TurnBasedThursday #Retrogaming #CRPG

The Designing Dungeons Course has… leveled up! If you are interested in dungeons, please checkout this Ennie-award winning, *free* guild to dungeon design

Currently in @inplacesdeep.bsky.social Cuccangna, the party is armed somewhat like the cover of the Temple of the Frog

I am excited about how these grey ruined walls turned out. Cardboard, caulk, texture roller, black matte rattle can, and two dry brushes of grey

Cost a single (c). I'd put this at the dead end of a very long hallway. In a closet. Or maybe on top of a tall column.

A quick post answering one of @prismaticwasteland.com blogging questions: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/10/huma...

If you are in Minneapolis, go to Twelve Vultures

An excellent post and a format we need to see more of in the blog-o-sphere! (Myself included)

If you like your sword and sorcery with a dose of the weird, it’s a must buy… as it’s said ““tightly efficient value to weight ratio””

Follow the members of 3d6 DTL! • Jon @jon-britton.bsky.social • Mike @deadlygazebo.bsky.social • David @davidkenyon.art • Matt @mattrollshigh.bsky.social • Ted @warduke.bsky.social

Thanks to people's help and some recent paycheques I've able to pay off one of the three months of back rent! Still need help with the remaining two. Every little bit helps! ko-fi.com/O4O8CAE3

My landlord is threatening to move to legal notices if I don't pay the remaining arrears by this friday, Oct 16th. I know pretty much everyone is going through it right now, but anything you can throw my way can help. ko-fi.com/O4O8CAE3

This is good stuff! OD&D campaigns are like good cocktails, solid spirit base plus a 2-3 twists really make potent stuff. Also checkout the other posts in this series!

“But Warren, how did you get your BX MU to such a high level in Nightwick?” Well, always have a hireling around, but let me show you this helpful graphic that summarizes the general strategy…

If a 1 hpBX MU dies, this is that player next PC- the one piece that did survive

Its models like this that drive home how wargaming (as RPGs) are truly folk art.

Like the commitment to realism here and also the little delicate halos around each animal head

If you’ve used these tools you know useful they and how true this output is…

This seems like a great use of tech and a great way for smaller producers to get a leg up over bigger beasts

You always need a ruined keep in your back pocket- where else are those brigands holed up or cult has gone with that abductee. And 37 rooms makes for a solid 2-4 session delve.

Making terrain using grey caulk on cardboard, a stone texture roller, simple black wash, and wooden dowels, popsicle sticks, and clothes pins

Looking forward to trying this out with the knighted frogling PC in my local Nightwick game

Perfect for a Halloween one-shot!

These are some very early screenshots from Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. There's lots of new stuff and many other locations, including 3D dungeons, but these seem to capture the game's aesthetic and atmosphere for me. #ScreenshotSaturday #CRPG #DungeonCrawler

I love @dungeondoll.itch.io small weird dungeon gods: dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/10/gaol...

Need a fantastic illustrator for your project? One who can span horror, fantasy, and sci-fi?

Sometimes death doesn’t have to be an end, here’s a ghost 👻 of a class: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/09/shad...

I like this/jealous of this write up because it establishes the PC in the world, gives the player a couple of goals to aim for, and incorporates more solidly domain building from the start

Hunters, archers, and those seeking vengeance tie a prayer flag (100sp) to the enormous shafts of this skeletal giant. The next arrow loosed is as magic missile.

New magic systems in D&D are often proposed- bah! Vancian magic works just fine, but what is needed is better problems for magic to solve. However, if you're gonna use components, they should enhance spells not be need to cast them in the first place: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/09/magi...

++ THE TRENCH WIRE ROUNDUP ++ This week on The Trench Wire, you'll find all the latest updates for Operation Leviathan, as well as Part 4 of the Creating Slices of Trench Crusade series, which covers how to make submarine-themed terrain for your games: www.trenchcrusade.com/trench-wire/...

MTG Custom Card of the Day

Never thought I’d get super exciting about basing miniatures but here we are. Practicing the dryer sheet/ dry wet wipe marbling technique to create a blood in the water look

Spoiler! One of the Dungeons in Brad kerr's adventure. Map by the amazing Ripley Matthews (olé!). Enjoy! There are plenty of opportunities to die (or worse) a horrible death waiting for you here.