Beneath Foreign Planets
@foreignplanets.bsky.social
OSR blogger. A ponderous and stolid fellow.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com
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I'll be at #Dragonmeet this weekend, you shall know me by my vascularity, my biretta, cloak, cane, (my pet attack-falcon, should security allow it) and generally unpleasant, thuggish attitude.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'll be at #Dragonmeet this weekend, you shall know me by my vascularity, my biretta, cloak, cane, (my pet attack-falcon, should security allow it) and generally unpleasant, thuggish attitude.
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Friend of the #TorontOSR, Jonathan Benn, writes about his approach to creating dungeons. Nice solid advice for people new to creating your own adventures.
Writing New Dungeons
www.benn.ca
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Friend of the #TorontOSR, Jonathan Benn, writes about his approach to creating dungeons. Nice solid advice for people new to creating your own adventures.
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Today I finished transcribing something across into a post - the live module write I did a few months ago. Check out How To Write A Module here! idlecartulary.com/2025/11/19/h... #osr
How to Write a Module: An Incoherent Play-by-Play
A few months ago I decided to write a module live on Bluesky, from woe to go, to show my process and why I keep insisting it’s not hard. A few people asked me to immortalise it here, so I’m reprodu…
idlecartulary.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Today I finished transcribing something across into a post - the live module write I did a few months ago. Check out How To Write A Module here! idlecartulary.com/2025/11/19/h... #osr
My grossest #rpg blogpost to date! Little dudes you can find in #dungeons to #devour!
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/d20-...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/d20-...
d20 dungeon critters you can just snatch up and gulp down
Some proper dungeon bushtucker. Hey, don’t be squeamish, it's free HP. Tables of creatures that adventurers can find and eat in dungeons.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
My grossest #rpg blogpost to date! Little dudes you can find in #dungeons to #devour!
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/d20-...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/d20-...
If you see this post a bird
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
If you see this post a bird
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If you like blog post aggregation, especially for OSR style blogs you should really be following @xaosseed.bsky.social at seedofworlds.blogspot.com?m=1.
According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!
According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!
Seed of Worlds
Seed of Worlds - writings on tabletop RPGs
seedofworlds.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you like blog post aggregation, especially for OSR style blogs you should really be following @xaosseed.bsky.social at seedofworlds.blogspot.com?m=1.
According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!
According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!
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Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Stepladder Tables
I am not certain that I am the first to have this idea. In fact, I most certainly am not; there's nothing new under the sun (especially in R...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Rewatching Magadheera made me again want an #rpg bbeg set a challenge so difficult that, as they watch the PCs struggle and succeed, the villain is so moved they're converted to a staunch ally and friend. I make it sound less than it is, watch the film!
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Rewatching Magadheera made me again want an #rpg bbeg set a challenge so difficult that, as they watch the PCs struggle and succeed, the villain is so moved they're converted to a staunch ally and friend. I make it sound less than it is, watch the film!
Here's a rather unusual class I wrote for your #OSR games 𓅦𓅦𓅦𓅦.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Killer Ostrich and their Retainer, a dual character class
An Ostrich Race as Class for OSR games.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Here's a rather unusual class I wrote for your #OSR games 𓅦𓅦𓅦𓅦.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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Here's my #Frazetta and #OD&D inspired caveman #dungeon lair for #osr games. Easy to insert into a campaign but leans into the pulpy, caveman exploitation genre. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/02/cave...
February 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Here's my #Frazetta and #OD&D inspired caveman #dungeon lair for #osr games. Easy to insert into a campaign but leans into the pulpy, caveman exploitation genre. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/02/cave...
Shall I make yet another caveman dungeon?
November 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Shall I make yet another caveman dungeon?
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Do you want to have animal people without choosing between satanic beastmen and furries? Perhaps consider these unsettling human-animal hybrid from 1827 as an alternative.
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Do you want to have animal people without choosing between satanic beastmen and furries? Perhaps consider these unsettling human-animal hybrid from 1827 as an alternative.
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Big fan of the concept of a Special Room... valuable oilbirds roost high on cave ceiling, scream like demons, can be squeezed to refuel lamp
October 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Big fan of the concept of a Special Room... valuable oilbirds roost high on cave ceiling, scream like demons, can be squeezed to refuel lamp
An unsophisticated collection of Special Rooms for your #osr #dungeons.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/10/thin...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/10/thin...
Thinking about Special Rooms (Notes made during Meetings)
A rough and ready palimpsest of Special dungeon rooms for OSR games.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
An unsophisticated collection of Special Rooms for your #osr #dungeons.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/10/thin...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/10/thin...
If you're not fishing deep in the Lynchian noosphere for game mechanic ideas, will you ever make it as a rpg designer?
Pointcrawls and Overloaded Encounter Dice are rather recent innovations in #RPG 'technology'. Imagine, there are great mechanics yet undreamed off.
What a lovely thought.
What a lovely thought.
October 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you're not fishing deep in the Lynchian noosphere for game mechanic ideas, will you ever make it as a rpg designer?
Pointcrawls and Overloaded Encounter Dice are rather recent innovations in #RPG 'technology'. Imagine, there are great mechanics yet undreamed off.
What a lovely thought.
What a lovely thought.
October 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Pointcrawls and Overloaded Encounter Dice are rather recent innovations in #RPG 'technology'. Imagine, there are great mechanics yet undreamed off.
What a lovely thought.
What a lovely thought.
I've been writing about SPECIAL #dungeon rooms but Traipse has beat me to it and at a much higher #quality. What a #champ. traipse.hexarcana.com/2025/10/the-...
The 10 types of special rooms
"A Special is anything not exactly a trap, but placed for special reasons." Moldvay Basic pg. B52 Traps, monsters, secret doors, and treas...
traipse.hexarcana.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I've been writing about SPECIAL #dungeon rooms but Traipse has beat me to it and at a much higher #quality. What a #champ. traipse.hexarcana.com/2025/10/the-...
If HP really is a character's ability to defend themselves you should be really leaning into that. Being very sad should lower your HP, some really scary thing that triggers your flight/freeze response should too, you should lose HP for a poor night's sleep. Defending a child should raise your HP.
October 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If HP really is a character's ability to defend themselves you should be really leaning into that. Being very sad should lower your HP, some really scary thing that triggers your flight/freeze response should too, you should lose HP for a poor night's sleep. Defending a child should raise your HP.
10 horror movies known only to me:
⚜️ Fleur-DIE-lis
🇰🇾 The Cayman Islands Killer
🏕️ Camp Cacochymical
🦷 Gnathic Gnathic
🔪 The Gullskinna
🤘 Sin for Satan (the long lost video nasty)
🦹 Necromancer ('69)
🦹 Necromancer ('23)
🧘♂️ Recording Naraka
🕴️He Floats!
⚜️ Fleur-DIE-lis
🇰🇾 The Cayman Islands Killer
🏕️ Camp Cacochymical
🦷 Gnathic Gnathic
🔪 The Gullskinna
🤘 Sin for Satan (the long lost video nasty)
🦹 Necromancer ('69)
🦹 Necromancer ('23)
🧘♂️ Recording Naraka
🕴️He Floats!
10 horror movies to get to know me by
🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon
🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon
10 horror movies to get to know me by
🪡 May
🩸 Nosferatu '22
🩸 Nosferatu the Vampyre
🩸 Nosferatu ‘24
🌸 Midsommar
💀 Blood Quantum
🩰 Suspiria '77
🐝 Candyman
🐅 Manhunter
🌲 Antichrist
🪡 May
🩸 Nosferatu '22
🩸 Nosferatu the Vampyre
🩸 Nosferatu ‘24
🌸 Midsommar
💀 Blood Quantum
🩰 Suspiria '77
🐝 Candyman
🐅 Manhunter
🌲 Antichrist
October 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
10 horror movies known only to me:
⚜️ Fleur-DIE-lis
🇰🇾 The Cayman Islands Killer
🏕️ Camp Cacochymical
🦷 Gnathic Gnathic
🔪 The Gullskinna
🤘 Sin for Satan (the long lost video nasty)
🦹 Necromancer ('69)
🦹 Necromancer ('23)
🧘♂️ Recording Naraka
🕴️He Floats!
⚜️ Fleur-DIE-lis
🇰🇾 The Cayman Islands Killer
🏕️ Camp Cacochymical
🦷 Gnathic Gnathic
🔪 The Gullskinna
🤘 Sin for Satan (the long lost video nasty)
🦹 Necromancer ('69)
🦹 Necromancer ('23)
🧘♂️ Recording Naraka
🕴️He Floats!
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I wrote about the prevalence of monster poaching, egg-snatching, and giant beaver slavery in AD&D, why it's even more Evil than it sounds, & why that has kind of fun gameplay implications, plus some musings about how much you might be able to sell a mind flayer brain for.
The Monster Economy of AD&D
AD&D's most endangered creature. We all know that larger towns and cities will usually have a market for dragons . That is, it is generally ...
forlornencystment.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I wrote about the prevalence of monster poaching, egg-snatching, and giant beaver slavery in AD&D, why it's even more Evil than it sounds, & why that has kind of fun gameplay implications, plus some musings about how much you might be able to sell a mind flayer brain for.
Having lots of fun with hexfriend.net
October 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Having lots of fun with hexfriend.net
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There's like, two blog posts I really put in a lot of professional research for (and the rest is my stupid ideas off the braindome):
Horror in RPGs
And
Coziness in RPGs
If either interest you, check 'em out, why not?
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2021/09/advi...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2022/01/c-o-...
Horror in RPGs
And
Coziness in RPGs
If either interest you, check 'em out, why not?
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2021/09/advi...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2022/01/c-o-...
Advice for Running Horror Games
The advice here was written for a side project I struck up work on this week called The Manse of Bad Memories. After chewing on what "horro...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There's like, two blog posts I really put in a lot of professional research for (and the rest is my stupid ideas off the braindome):
Horror in RPGs
And
Coziness in RPGs
If either interest you, check 'em out, why not?
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2021/09/advi...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2022/01/c-o-...
Horror in RPGs
And
Coziness in RPGs
If either interest you, check 'em out, why not?
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2021/09/advi...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2022/01/c-o-...
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IMO, the d16 is the great lost die. The missing link between d12 and d20. Oh, what might have been. One weeps to dwell too long upon this.
September 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
IMO, the d16 is the great lost die. The missing link between d12 and d20. Oh, what might have been. One weeps to dwell too long upon this.
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