Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus

Hello! My name is Josh and I like RPGs. Here's an overview of some of my current projects: His Majesty the Worm - A new/old-school, tarot-based, megadungeon crawler Dungeon Design Course - Make a dungeon with me! Knock! - Adventure gaming bric-a-brac

A blog post about false rumors. Don't use 'em! Well, maybe if you're very good, you can have one or two.

Me, smoking cigars and reading 70-80s Playsboys

😌

A GM habit that I have (that I think is good) is that I'm constantly narrating my thought process to try and make it less opaque to the players. If I can't decide on something through fiat, I'll assign it a chance and say it out loud. "OK, the troll will come back to investigate if I roll a 5-6."

HAPPY TO SEE FASCISM CRUSHED? Why not show your support for 🇧🇷 BRASIL 🇧🇷 and check out my amazing RPG that's 100% brazilian made? The pdf is FREE! ⭐️

I don't usually like false rumors, but if I write one that *is* false (or partially true), the "why" it's false is important. If the NPC thinks the house on the edge of town is haunted, but really it's a Scooby Doo style false ghost, the falseness is an important part of the rumor.

In HIS MAJESTY THE WORM, when you retire a character you start new game+. The amount of XP your retired character had gives you a faux "point buy" option for your next starting character, letting you make combinations you couldn't do using normal character creation.

There's a blog bandwagon about being a good player. I have already answered this question to the best of my ability in a blog post. Bandwagoned by anticipation!

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

"[The wizards] came to kill dragons, they said, but they stayed to rob towns and temples.” “And their great heroes would come among us to test their swords,” Thar said, “and work their ungodly spells." - The Tombs of Atuan

Everyone is so cool and creative.

Fantastic innovate dungeon crawling game with big Metroidvania, Old School D&D, and Darkest Dungeon vibes. Check it out if you haven't already. - GM Eric

eotenas ond ylfe ond orcnéäs swylce gígantas þá wið gode wunnon lange þráge· hé him ðæs léan forgeald. - Beowulf Ogres and elves and spirits from the underworld along with giants who strove with God for a long season - He gave them their reward for that. (The origin of ents and orcs!)

Who is the greatest wizard in all of the Stone Isles? What are the major festivals and what can you do during them? How is the moon fucked up? I answer my 21 worldbuilding questions for my campaign setting, In the House of the High King.

My GM was out this week, but I put together a one shot quickly with Knock!. Goblin with a Ray Gun (by Goblins Don't Wear Shirts) is such a fun module. Unfortunately, not everyone survived.

The Gold Teeth business plan in full: 1. Hey our KS is live (Twitter implodes) 2. Hey our book is available (international shipping implodes) 3. Hey buy it from our webstore (internet implodes)

Ballpoint snail friend for OD&D with @riseupcomus.bsky.social and @emmabell.bsky.social tonight 🗡️🐌

*SPOILER ALERT* In case you need to catch up before watching today’s new episode of Mythic Bastionland, here’s a recap of Episode 14: Ashes to Ashes. TL;DR: it was entirely uneventful and nothing went wrong. 😬

All the resources for playing HIS MAJESTY THE WORM online can be found at www.hismajestytheworm.games/playing-online

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

This is a really cool setting article. Josh was kind enough to list my “Gondor in Earthsea” post as an inspiration, but as a reader I think he’s overstating the case.

In the Stone Islands of the High King, enchanted items are refreshed at the following times: Horizon - When the sun crosses the horizon, night to day, day to night Sun - When the sun first rises Moon - When the first crescent of the month appears Year - A year and one day from its last use

Look how my partner ate their breakfast burrito. Someone send help.

Gygaxian democracy is fun and profitable

A very Merry (and Pippin) #TOLKTOBER to all who celebrate

I've seen enough "realistic" maps in TTRPGs give more more world maps like this

I have passed the marshmallow test. I will diminish, and go into the West, and get two marshmallows.

He speaks the truth.

I reread Wizard of Earthsea on the plane to Tokyo and reread The Hobbit on the way back. This is a very exciting project and I can't wait to read more! #TTRPG #OSE #HallsoftheHighKing

I've been on a tear on my blog noodling on something. Here's a part of it

Stat these guys

You fool! Not even looking where you're going. Just gonna walk straight into another world like that - full of magic and wonder and adventure 😏✨

This is a bonkers cool game.

Castle Ravenloft doesn't fit the bill for a megadungeon, but I say that a megadungeon is five dungeon levels in a trenchcoat, this is what I mean. "Larders of Ill-Omen." "The Rooms of Weeping." "The Court of the Count." This shit slaps. See also the different regions in Castlevania: SotN.

Toucan’t Blog: Cargo for Prigwort Here I expand on @riseupcomus.bsky.social’s ideas on variable stocking of rare shop items, by combining it with the classic pub game “Ship Captain and Crew” #MasterOfFreight #SessionPrep #TTRPG

B/X stocking procedure via a tarot card draw. The distribution of empty/monster rooms is a different, but it could be a useful technique to layout configurations/dungeon morphs.

#mörktober 1: goat this piece was inspired, in part, by @gamefiend.bsky.social's call for more black faces in ttrpg stock art. in that spirit, this piece and any other piece i post this month with "mörktober" in the image is free to use for anything, by anyone (except AI skimmers & chuds.) #art

This weekend, I went to a late showing (9 PM, lol, I'm old) of Eraserhead. I was reminded that I statted The Baby for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/08/his-...