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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 19d

"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-...

WHY MEGADUNGEONS? A Campaign Structure for Modern Lives

Why Megadungeons? Over on the Prismatic Wasteland Discord, a member asked essentially, "Why megadungeons?" This is a good perennial questi...

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 21h

"Dungeon?" which represents a dungeon-like adventure that may not adhere to the classical design pillars but feels "dungeoney"

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 21h

Clayton sticks the series landing with a call for more focused RPG awards. I agree bc I love idiosyncrasy.

How about the Golden Pit Trap award focusing on dungeon design categories are best dungeon: Small (<30 room), Dungeon (30-50), "Lungo" (51-116), and Mega (117+ bc that's Thracia's size) And..

Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 1d

The last article in my Awards Debrief is up. What even is the point of an award show? Should anyone care?

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-4/

Where do rpg awards go next?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part four. What's the point of an award show? And what do we want to see in the future?

www.explorersdesign.com

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 22h

Literally a table for everything... life imitates @ktrey.bsky.social

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 23h

“Like Red Sonja fronts a rock band…”

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 1d

Love the new issue of Wyrd Science for covering Castle Rat!

It’s a great issue and you should grab it. Also because it has good coverage Possum Creek Games x Steve Jackson union.

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

Because games don’t exist in isolation we’ve introduced Sidequests, the new section of the magazine where you’ll find writing on everything from bands like Castle Rat through to fantasy inspired art exhibitions by artists like Jean Jullien…

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to an interview with the band Castle Rat

A photo of the new issue of Wyrd Science open to a piece on French artist Jean Jullien’s exhibition Juju’s Castle

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 1d

MOTHERSHIP

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic! A revamped Designing Dungeons workbook. A nice way to organize thoughts around dungeon creation.

Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 2d

Cool resource built in Google Sheets shared on the Worm discord this morning. Adventurer sheets and player-facing materials for the guild. Monsters and resources for the GM. Even the Designing Dungeons workbook recreated in Google Sheets.

Useful for Wormheads!

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

His Majesty the Worm character sheet in Google Sheets

City actions for the GM screen in Google Sheets

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 2d

2024 Thoughts: Here I am OSR-pilled, like “how WOULD I escape with those just those items?” I think prick the guard with the poisoned serpent's fang and stuff the bread in their mouth to muffle the screams as I hold them against the cell door

2025 Reflection: That's pretty rad. I'd still do that.

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 2d

Want to know how dungeon crawls work in His Majesty the Worm?

High Shelf Collective 🔜 PAX Unplugged‬ ‪ @highshelfcltv.bsky.social · 2d

🪱 TONIGHT, 8:30PM EST - 🚨 NEW SERIES ALERT! 🚨

Meet the Reachers as they explore the City at the Center of the World and try to strike it rich in our new campaign of ‘His Majesty The Worm’, created by @riseupcomus.bsky.social, & GM’d by @supposed.name! #ttrpg #AP

#Twitch: twitch.tv/highshelfcol...

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 3d

Alright here is some D30 action! And a very useful table of fancy NPCs so here are your Nobel houses

xaosseed @xaosseed.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by @prokopetz.bsky.social post that on hospitality obligations of the wealthy and "you’re missing an opportunity if you never talk about the Guests" - d30 guests to enliven your noble courts, great houses and wizards manses

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#dnd #diyrpg #ttrpg

d30 Entertainingly Weird Guests

Inspired by @prokopetz making the point that "hospitality was a major part of a wealthy household’s basic social obligations" and "at any gi...

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 4d

Appreciate it!

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 4d

Hireling die a lot in old-school games and often without a lot of consequence. Ktrey helps you change that!

ktrey @ktrey.bsky.social · 4d

Heh, Gnarly Undead and Wergild both show up in my little "Consequences for Hireling Death" table:

d12 Table featuring ideas for Consequences of Hireling Death, including a hit to Reputation, Price Increases, the family requesting a Deodand, the Body, Wergild...or even some more exotic situations like haunting by Poltergeists/Revenants.

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 4d

Your hexcrawl's new lunar calendar

Jez Gordon @jezgordon.bsky.social · 4d

From David Finlay, on FB's Australian Meteor Reports group.
"I get triggered every time I hear an Australian reporter say “Harvest Moon” or “Strawberry Moon”, names taken from the northern hemisphere. So I created a Full Moon Calendar with local descriptions. What do you think?"

Love it.

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 4d

Hagfish Hall 'bout to get reeeal tough...

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 4d

Now we are getting to the 🍖 of Clayton's ENNIES debrief. This post provides a boots-on-the-ground view of judging and offers general tips for applicants. 🏆Gold, people, gold!🥇

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 5d

Sean might have written one of the best "DMGs" with the Warden's manual, so I'm gonna have to check-in on MOTHERSHIP does a campaign setting.

Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 5d

wip

Work in progress cover of an upcoming boxed set for Mothership RPG entitled Prospero's Dream. There's a cyberpunk crime lord named Yandee on the cover, along with various other NPCs from the award winning adventure, A Pound of Flesh.

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 6d

Always fantastic to have someone take the time, blood, sweat, and tears to explain a process. Wonderful to get this four-part insight!

Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 6d

I love award shows. It's no secret. It's why I've spent months writing, refining, and trying to distill my Ennies judging experience.

It's a 4-part series (I know, I know). One article a day. Today's lays out my goals and puts the focus on awards in general.

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-1/

The Awards Debrief 2025

An in-depth look at the Ennie Awards, its process, design, and role from the perspective of one former judge.

www.explorersdesign.com

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 6d

CoC 8th should change half its skills to be crimes:

35% Kidnapping
60% Assault & Battery
25% Burglary
Ect

I think would help drive home the PCs shift from law abiding citizens to crazies using any means to stop a supposed greater evil

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 6d

🦑🔍👀

Time for Sid to crack this case & figure out why this kid was turned into some sorta “battery”

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 6d

🦑🔍👀

Time for Sid to crack this case & figure out why this kid was turned into some sorta “battery”

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 6d

I work with my hands…
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx0E...

𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 7d

Brewing up HIS MAJESTY THE *LEARN*

Very nice downtime tables for all magical school games.

Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 7d

I've been running a Magic School game using HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. This has obliged me to house rule the hell out of it. Here are the downtime actions to represent your extracurricular activities.

Magical School Downtime Actions

During my weekly game, I have been running a magical school game using His Majesty the Worm. Following my copy and paste manifesto ethos , I...

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 7d

Over the Garden Wall is generally fantastic, but this scene always really makes me laugh

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 7d

75% of my approach to old-school fantasy adventure games

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 7d

One of my favorite adventures!

Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 7d

The first stretch goal has been unlocked! 🌟

The Adventure Zine will now also contain an updated and re-illustrated version of The Rot King's Sanctum!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/emielboven/durf

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 8d

Carouse, Carouse! is out!

I love all these newsletters each with their own view of the old-school DIY scene.

Nicely done y'all!

Personable | Markus @personable.bsky.social · 11d

New month, new Carouse, Carouse! More gameables, reviews, opinions, and a veritable cornucopia of blog posts!

www.carouse.blog/october-2025...

October 2025 - The Most Spookiful Time of the Year

The last vestiges of summer are leaving the northern hemisphere, and pumpkin season is starting to get going, so the Carousing Collective is once again here to bring you the best in RPG blogging for y...