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Joshy McFoul

@riseupcomus.bsky.social

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Award-winning TTRPG designer/idiot His Majesty the Worm Out Now! http://hismajestytheworm.games/

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · Mar 20

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

His Majesty the Worm - New-school game, old-school sensibilities. Slice of life gameplay using tarot cards in an infinite megadungeon.

Designing Dungeons Course: Or, How to Kill a Party in 30 Rooms or Less. Step-by-step course on making fun dungeons. Like if Bob Ross taught dungeon design.

Knock! #5. Cover art of adventurer with sword gripping onto crumbling ledge, almost dropping into a swirling abyss below.

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 8h

Oh neat!

Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 9h

Love the lady holding up the sword and brooding dude lingering at her ankles

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HODAG RPG @hodagrpg.bsky.social · 10h

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NOW IT'S HERE!
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And it brought friends
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With the subject line "get spooky!"

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 16h

A small, somewhat indulgent blog post about a framing device that you can use to connect adventurers from all parts of Middle-earth together for your RPGs

You All Meet at a Cottage...

"Now for the most part the children did not often go into the house, but danced and played in the garden, gathering flowers or chasing the...

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Izzy.PumpkiNG | comms open @izzypetersart.bsky.social · 20h

Painterly character cards like this, $40 all week, DM me 🔥

Portrait of a young elf in a red uniform

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Jess Pendley, Werewolf Wrassler 💪🐺 @jesspendley.com · 19h

#ttrpg creating folks, does anyone know if there's a canva template out there that can be used for Drivethru card creation?

(Boosts for reach appreciated 💜)

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JellyMuppet is DOOMSPIRALLING @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 22h

Good heavens and lord this map by @salvaterra.bsky.social for Doomspiral honestly rips. Never been so happy to have such an absurd art piece at the centre of @nickspence.bsky.social and I's game.

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 20h

Oh wait, one more note - in the Castle Automatic you can find and empower Talos, like Sir Arthegall does. Get your own super literal, super strong robot!

Bonus: In Crete, you can visit the cave where Talos lived when he wasn't circumnavigating the island.

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 20h

In the Faerie Queene, a repaired Talos from the depths of mythology was given to the Knight of Justice, Arthegall, by his mother.

Talos is irresistible: invulnerable and strong. But as a robot, he is very literal. He represents the law. Arthegall is the judge who interprets the law with mercy.
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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 20h

In mythology, Talus is a bronze statue that guarded Crete from pirates and invaders. He would run around the island 3 times a day.

He was made by Hephaestus, the forge god, who filled his veins with ichor - god's blood. (How cool is that!)

He was bested by Jason and the Argonauts.

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 20h

From the golem of Prague to the "Spirit Movement Machines" that guard the Buddha's relics, I'm super inspired by stories of early automatons.

The Castle Automatic - my upcoming big dungeon for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM - draws inspiration from one of my FAVORITE ancient robots, Talus.

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Animated bronze Greek statue, art by Oozejar

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 21h

Oh man. I forgot about that *one*.

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WHAT THE
who is this mysterious stranger

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I'm still figuring out the trick of making interesting hexes, but one goal I have is to make little puzzles between the people, their relationships to each other, and the surrounding hexes.

More than just writing good tables to generate NPCs, I want to hand the GM toys to use to play with the PCs.

✦ - OFTEN HERE: 1. Ossie Pie (hobbit - bucktoothed, nervous, baker's apprentice) swears he once saw a ghostly knight riding a pale horse under the full moon northwest of Dwaling, 2. Gaffer Greenthumb (hobbit - well-preserved, bashful, gardener) keeps a garden of prized roses and is too shy to speak to the Widow Peabody, 3. 3d6 members of The Lads Who Don't Do Nothing (a drinking anti-social club) led by Gaffer Quaffer at the Golden Perch looking for a good time, 4. Widow Peabody (hobbit - pinched, nosy, rents rooms) has been dropping hints at Gaffer Greenthumb for months and is annoyed that he's not picking up on them.

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 1d

In the book The Black Cauldron, there is a great class of monster called the Huntsmen of Annuvin. When one died, his power flowed into the rest of them. The fewer there were, the harder they were to kill. Very gameable enemy.

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 2d

There's a snake in my foot

Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 2d

Is something like this what you're thinking of? riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2023/05/conv...

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 2d

What's that dawg doin

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In da woods

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 2d

Happy news! I got in contact with someone who had digital versions of the newsletter of Kay Woollard's smial which ran from 84 to 87, which gave me access to some more of her art.

She did a series of comic strips about a hobbit child called Wilmot who has a catch phrase "I'VE THUNK"

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 3d

Thalassocracy

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 3d

This rules

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 3d

A continuation of my daily writing exercise to key Middle-earth. Here, we visit the North Moors.

The North Moors are lonesome places in the Shire, and the only places where snow falls frequently in the winter. This entry includes another site-based adventure: a tight squeeze to a big treasure!

The North Moors - Middle-earth Hexmap Project

An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. The North Moors ...

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Joshy McFoul @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 4d

You are correct

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