Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)

Ea-nāṣir Must Die! is out now! Thanks @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Copy/Paste Co-op and @plusoneexp.bsky.social for making this full release happen! A Bronze Age sword & sorcery house crawl adventure for 3–5 players, inspired by the historical figure and meme, Ea-nāṣir. Links below! #ttrpg #osr

A meditation about the meaning of art and artist, after a visit to the Malaysian National Art Gallery and its vast collection of wayang kulit shadow puppets, learning more about the life and practice of the legendary puppeteer Pak Dollah Baju Merah: slowlorispress.com/post/8316254...

They call me and my friends "HERETICS" and "CULTISTS" in the local TTRPG scene afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/being-called...

🚨NEXT COOL ADVENTURE ALERT🚨 The next new hotness by power couple @isaacisafraid.bsky.social and Citaaticat!

We will be launching Bastion Elysium in Indonesia at a local ren fair 🔥 Hopefully we can launch it internationally soon 🙏 44 pages (incl. covers), four political factions, a murder mystery, an apartment crawl, weird & quirky NPCs, and heavily inspired by Disco Elysium! #ttrpg #osr

I never knew I needed this omg

This writer is worth your attention. I do not know them, but wish I did. zanzi.bearblog.dev/beasts-in-th...

We will be launching Bastion Elysium in Indonesia at a local ren fair 🔥 Hopefully we can launch it internationally soon 🙏 44 pages (incl. covers), four political factions, a murder mystery, an apartment crawl, weird & quirky NPCs, and heavily inspired by Disco Elysium! #ttrpg #osr

And now for something completely different. My entry for the "How to Be a Good Player" bandwagon. www.explorersdesign.com/50-excuses/

ALL THE WAY DOWN: A COSMIC TURTLE MEGADUNGEON is now LIVE on Kickstarter! This has been SUCH a labor of love from everyone and we all want nothing more than to get a cool as hell book into your hands. Please show your support if you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Update on the use of AI text in Chaosium Community Content programs @drivethrurpg.com. TL/DR: Don't use it in our programs. AI is not art. It is theft from you and every writer who has gone before you, repackaged dishonestly and shamelessly as original. www.chaosium.com/blogupdate-o...

I need her in my life. I need this game. But EA, Kushner, and Saudi Arabia fucked it up. Liara 😭

Fuck EA. Fuck Kushner. Fuck Saudi Arabia.

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

I wrote an essentially system-neutral freelancing/notoriety/faction system for my next project, and I think it's nifty enough to be highlighted separately: dicegoblin.blog/freelancing-...

forgot to update blogmap for only a few months. so i updated it now graph.elmc.at

campaign prep??? elmc.at/thirty-quest...

And an update on Indonesia www.bbc.com/news/article... Yes, the forest fires are still happening. It's heavily affected our country and even our neighboring countries like Malaysia and Singapore. You can find more links below.

Yes! Let me write an adventure for Year 100 Million B.C. 🙌 I want to bring Weird Fiction to this feral prehistoric #ttrpg! My idea for Cave of Cold Smooth Walls is what if Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is set in a prehistoric setting. Want the adventure? Back Year 100 Million B.C. now! #osr

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Cave of Cold Smooth Walls is a Weird Fiction adventure for Year 100 Million B.C., inspired by Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. It will be written by IsaacIsAfraid (The Knight Errant, Ea-nāṣir Must Die!, Bastion Elysium).

Ok. I'll yap a bit more about Year 100 Million B.C. The next stretch goal is an adventure by the very talented @isaacisafraid.bsky.social!!! You want that, right?

Just in time for Halloween and its associated genre tropes, and on the heels of The Forgetting of Lockwood Manor by Cairn Press. @maximlowe.com knocks it outta the park again. maximlowe.itch.io/666

Looking for (free) spooky Cairn backgrounds to play as in your upcoming Halloween games? I've got you covered! (Also included are 6 spooky spells, relics, and a new potion-making mechanic. Positively spine-tingling!) ☠️ 🎃 🕸️ maximlowe.itch.io/666

God, Bioware was some of the best to ever do it.

After having a literal year of lead up and still ending up cramming it together last minute, the Liminal Horror Halloween scenario is here. Come join a costume party at a “haunted” sanitarium where the ghosts are the least told your concerns. goblinarchives.itch.io/locked-in

If it weren't for BioWare games, I wouldn't be working as a Narrative Designer/Game Writer now. I wouldn't be playing TTRPGs. That's how much of an impact their games are for me.

THE HOUR OF DARKNESS IS COME YOU CAN HOLD IT IN YOUR HANDS HOTEL DRACULA A VAMPIRIC HOTELCRAWL FOR LIMINAL HORROR GET IT NOW #TTRPG #OSR spacepenguin.ink/products/hot...

I have improved the Designing Dungeons Course (dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games) with the Just the Games widgets (games.puzzledungeon.com). Now, the site has an expanded left navigation bar, persistent popout windows on hover, and a dice tray in case you want to randomize your procedures! Check it!

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

There are other "20 questions for campaign settings," but this one is mine. Because I am who I am, it's tarot themed.

The markdown version of CAS-4: The Forgetting of Lockwood Manor has been added to the Cairn website, including lovely art by @robbiaburns.bsky.social. cairnrpg.com/adventures/f...

I'm with you! It's the AI who sucks and should have to wear a sign. Not us. We're just being normal.

we didn't put a "no AI" part of our kickstarter page because it seems so completely obvious with all the stuff we make but i'm seeing this on all these campaigns now. it's making me very sad!!! why do we have to wear the signs!!!!

Halloween

This week, I'm returning to my thoughts on freelance. What the heck should I be charging if I wanted to do this full time? www.explorersdesign.com/hireling-you...

This game is genuinely so fucking cool.

This is out now, in the latest issue of America’s favorite games magazine The International Player’s Review!

Its my kid's birthday (aka DNGN CUB) this week - so I'm trying to get a little extra money together for his birthday party and gifts! So 5 lifetime tickets are back! Please consider helping out (or at least reposting!)

This week on Dice Exploder @weirdwonder.bsky.social talks with me about designing NPCs. We focus on the context of writing adventures / modules, but a lot of what Amanda said I took straight into my GMing. I could do a whole series on this one topic, take a listen!

Turns out, this is my #666 post on the blog, and you know what that means... Delta Green minimalism scenario vaguely related to the Apocalypse of John and everyone's favorite mangled gematria! If anyone actually manages to run this, I'm impressed as hell throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/10/mini...

Rangers of a Broken World is now live! Inspired by Final Fantasy X, the Xenoblade Chronicles, and Magic Knight Rayearth, the vibe is post-apocalyptic fantasy without the grimdark. You are divinely chosen. Rebuild the land, fight the Horrors, and seed sparks of hope. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...