Scribble M. Horror (Pseud.)
@scribblemhorror.bsky.social
i have a blog of course are you kidding who do you think i am
www.imaginaryhistory.org/scribblesandhorrors
not an OSR guy
www.imaginaryhistory.org/scribblesandhorrors
not an OSR guy
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Ilya Kabakov
Untitled, Colored pencil on paper
MoMA
Untitled, Colored pencil on paper
MoMA
February 6, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Ilya Kabakov
Untitled, Colored pencil on paper
MoMA
Untitled, Colored pencil on paper
MoMA
what the hell is a "AI summarize" option doing in Notepad
i thought i was safe smh
i thought i was safe smh
February 6, 2026 at 5:49 AM
what the hell is a "AI summarize" option doing in Notepad
i thought i was safe smh
i thought i was safe smh
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossa...
Will Crowther's 1976 Colossal Cave Adventure, the OG text adventure game.
He was an avid caver, he and his wife hung out all the time in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, doing surveys of it and exploring it and doing pretty much the first computer-assisted cave maps
Will Crowther's 1976 Colossal Cave Adventure, the OG text adventure game.
He was an avid caver, he and his wife hung out all the time in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, doing surveys of it and exploring it and doing pretty much the first computer-assisted cave maps
Colossal Cave Adventure - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:32 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossa...
Will Crowther's 1976 Colossal Cave Adventure, the OG text adventure game.
He was an avid caver, he and his wife hung out all the time in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, doing surveys of it and exploring it and doing pretty much the first computer-assisted cave maps
Will Crowther's 1976 Colossal Cave Adventure, the OG text adventure game.
He was an avid caver, he and his wife hung out all the time in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, doing surveys of it and exploring it and doing pretty much the first computer-assisted cave maps
The only true OSR game is The Realm of Yolmi.
RPG talk.
Theres a segment of the OSR who insist that Traveller, Runequest and now Dragonbane/DoD are "OSR" which seems to be from a sort of "These games are good, I like OSR therefore any game I like must be OSR".
Then they link to manifestos stating that skills and settings are not OSR.
Theres a segment of the OSR who insist that Traveller, Runequest and now Dragonbane/DoD are "OSR" which seems to be from a sort of "These games are good, I like OSR therefore any game I like must be OSR".
Then they link to manifestos stating that skills and settings are not OSR.
February 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The only true OSR game is The Realm of Yolmi.
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The more I read, the more I think OSR is a complete misnomer. A kind of taxinomical waste bin that is either so broad as to be a useless analytical tool; or so narrow as to be misapplied to works that are at best iterative, but not in any way revivalist.
February 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
The more I read, the more I think OSR is a complete misnomer. A kind of taxinomical waste bin that is either so broad as to be a useless analytical tool; or so narrow as to be misapplied to works that are at best iterative, but not in any way revivalist.
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Paul Nash, 1913. “A Drawing.”
#drawing #penandink #watercolor #crayon #pencil #chalk #1910s #PaulNash
#drawing #penandink #watercolor #crayon #pencil #chalk #1910s #PaulNash
February 4, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Paul Nash, 1913. “A Drawing.”
#drawing #penandink #watercolor #crayon #pencil #chalk #1910s #PaulNash
#drawing #penandink #watercolor #crayon #pencil #chalk #1910s #PaulNash
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Weight being measured in coins and all coins weighing the same really reinforces my belief that early DND images gold as a kind of naturally growing... Thing.
Part fungus, part mineral
Part fungus, part mineral
February 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Weight being measured in coins and all coins weighing the same really reinforces my belief that early DND images gold as a kind of naturally growing... Thing.
Part fungus, part mineral
Part fungus, part mineral
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Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it
I made a blog post about a dungeon map I'm retiring from my underworld: www.imaginaryhistory.org/scribblesand...
February 5, 2026 at 5:02 AM
I made a blog post about a dungeon map I'm retiring from my underworld: www.imaginaryhistory.org/scribblesand...
hyperfixation project is going well
February 4, 2026 at 6:47 AM
hyperfixation project is going well
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February 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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I made this drawing when I was fourteen
February 4, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I made this drawing when I was fourteen
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My dreams of a Nomic - D&D hybrid are closer than I thought.
Now you've done it. We're just going to have to revert to the OG of parliamentary procedures…
😆 Finally a game that enables Fiat by committee.
😆 Finally a game that enables Fiat by committee.
Rules & Roberts by molleindustria
A democratic roleplaying game
molleindustria.itch.io
February 2, 2026 at 11:08 AM
My dreams of a Nomic - D&D hybrid are closer than I thought.
This discussion of OSR is really interesting, there are lots of good points, but I'm intrigued by this insistence that "game design on the fly" is inherently improper or outside of the story of the game being played.
Nomic is a game where the whole story of the game is "game design." Why not rpgs?
Nomic is a game where the whole story of the game is "game design." Why not rpgs?
What's happening in that passage, which the author seems to be totally unaware of for some baffling reason, is that they're doing game design ON THE FLY - they're figuring out if a character can hide in a box when you should already have procedures on that because the game is about doing Alien!
February 2, 2026 at 10:32 AM
This discussion of OSR is really interesting, there are lots of good points, but I'm intrigued by this insistence that "game design on the fly" is inherently improper or outside of the story of the game being played.
Nomic is a game where the whole story of the game is "game design." Why not rpgs?
Nomic is a game where the whole story of the game is "game design." Why not rpgs?
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Mechanics are these amazing little mental machines - little bits of text that run in your brain and use random numbers or tokens or points or whatever to generate story. They are NOT the enemy! They're your lever, your wrench, your fulcrum, your inclined plane, everything you need to tell a story!
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Mechanics are these amazing little mental machines - little bits of text that run in your brain and use random numbers or tokens or points or whatever to generate story. They are NOT the enemy! They're your lever, your wrench, your fulcrum, your inclined plane, everything you need to tell a story!
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this is what incenses me, like, please...fuckin...play literally any other game I am begging you osr types
i call the osr a mind virus created by satan to destroy TTRPGs as an art form and I'm not joking, it has destroyed one or two generations of talent completely
i call the osr a mind virus created by satan to destroy TTRPGs as an art form and I'm not joking, it has destroyed one or two generations of talent completely
January 22, 2026 at 1:34 AM
this is what incenses me, like, please...fuckin...play literally any other game I am begging you osr types
i call the osr a mind virus created by satan to destroy TTRPGs as an art form and I'm not joking, it has destroyed one or two generations of talent completely
i call the osr a mind virus created by satan to destroy TTRPGs as an art form and I'm not joking, it has destroyed one or two generations of talent completely
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I enjoy that the reason there are so many random castles in the wilderness in OD&D is for tax avoidance
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I enjoy that the reason there are so many random castles in the wilderness in OD&D is for tax avoidance
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I enjoy the deterministic procedures in OD&D, something that has been lost in favour of stochastic elements. Knowing that a wizard will put a geas on a party if they can't pay up gives a heap of concrete info about how the game world operates
January 25, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I enjoy the deterministic procedures in OD&D, something that has been lost in favour of stochastic elements. Knowing that a wizard will put a geas on a party if they can't pay up gives a heap of concrete info about how the game world operates
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does anyone else hate making maps for dnd? I Especially hate making dungeon maps, shit is fucking MISERABLY boring and also really difficult
January 11, 2026 at 3:55 AM
does anyone else hate making maps for dnd? I Especially hate making dungeon maps, shit is fucking MISERABLY boring and also really difficult
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We're making dungeon poems now y'all. Just the barest hint of dungeon with no maps or tables, sorry, but also not sorry.
charvus.itch.io/shining-stat...
It's a pocketmod, it's pages for screen-viewing, it makes sense? No scratch that last one. There is birdsong down there in the Earth.
charvus.itch.io/shining-stat...
It's a pocketmod, it's pages for screen-viewing, it makes sense? No scratch that last one. There is birdsong down there in the Earth.
Shining Static Dungeon by charvus
dungeon poem
charvus.itch.io
January 31, 2026 at 8:49 PM
We're making dungeon poems now y'all. Just the barest hint of dungeon with no maps or tables, sorry, but also not sorry.
charvus.itch.io/shining-stat...
It's a pocketmod, it's pages for screen-viewing, it makes sense? No scratch that last one. There is birdsong down there in the Earth.
charvus.itch.io/shining-stat...
It's a pocketmod, it's pages for screen-viewing, it makes sense? No scratch that last one. There is birdsong down there in the Earth.
This Bsky account exists solely to proselytize about Nomic to TTRPG folk.
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM
This Bsky account exists solely to proselytize about Nomic to TTRPG folk.