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Jonathan Newell
@edweirdian.bsky.social
Weird fiction, fantasy cartography, monsters, roleplaying games. Academic credits include A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937. Games credits include Genial Jack, work on Dolmenwood. He/him.


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Fluxcats are strays who fed on the magical trash and mutants of the Midden, Hex's eldritch trash-heap.
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Sigil spinners are dangerous Hexian predators who lust for mage-meat. Capably of draining wizardly knowledge from their prey, they instinctly weave spells into their webs, laying elaborate eldritch traps for future victims.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Happy Halloween everybody!

I've got a new entry in the Hex Guidebook series detailing the necromantic district of Shambleside. Breathe in the reek of embalming fluid and old leather; sip sangwine from Bastien's Blood Bar; bet on the zombie fights in the Rotting Ring. The night beckons...
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Like a water weird, but smaller, meaner, and heavily polluted by alchemical runoff. Introducing the puddleweird.
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Everyone's heard of owlbears. But what about leechbears?
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
For today's Monstrous Monday: the ideologeist, a ghost with unfinished political business, haunting the body politic.
September 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I have a new free post up on my blog and the Bearded Devil Patreon, the first in a series of Monstrous Mondays. This entry describes the clever little necromantic assassin-bugs known as earwights. My plan is to eventually build up posts like this for a bestiary book.
September 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
September 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Omne Vivum Ex Ovo. A dungeon I'm working on for students at my college. A few of its levels pictured here.
June 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Dungeon-as-side-scroller.
December 3, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Dungeons are crime scenes and the adventurers are detectives.
December 3, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Characters and Creeps.
July 9, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Making some maps and tokens.
July 9, 2024 at 12:07 AM
New/old
July 31, 2023 at 12:53 AM