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barenuckelavee.bsky.social

@barenuckelavee.bsky.social
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Reformed gamer, blogging at barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev

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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More on my prison-inspired setting for sort of OD&D barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/the-clog/
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THE CLOG (Oubliette D&D)
STARTING IN THE CLOG You don't start in a tavern. Taverns imply surplus. Surplus implies sunshine. You start where the falling stops. The architect...
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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More on my prison-inspired setting for sort of OD&D barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/the-clog/
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THE CLOG (Oubliette D&D)
STARTING IN THE CLOG You don't start in a tavern. Taverns imply surplus. Surplus implies sunshine. You start where the falling stops. The architect...
1175
barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another blog post, this time it's troika backgrounds barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/troika-backg...
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SIX BACKGROUNDS DREAMT BY AN INSOMNIAC (Troika)
I haven’t been sleeping much, so I wrote some Troika! backgrounds instead. They are mostly concerned with bodily fluids, cosmic mistakes, and terrible jobs. ...
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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My advice for referees: read a fucking book barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/inspiration-...
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INSPIRATION, NOT SETTINGS
A setting book is a coffin. It arrives glossy and heavy, three hundred pages packed with royal lineages, racialized taxonomies, ancient history, and satel...
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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
here are some optional rules for combat barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/killing-avoi...
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KILLING AND AVOIDING BEING KILLED
Combat works basically however you can remember it from OD&D, as best as you can remember. You won't be able to look up a rule so you aren't tempted. The fol...
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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Welcome to Hellbox: a desolate, terrible planet to add to your Traveller campaign. It works just as well for Mothership too barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/welcome-to-h...
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WELCOME TO HELLBOX (Traveller)
There are no noble rebellions against evil galactic empires in Classic Traveller. Classic Traveller is about mud, rust, and most of all the crushing weight o...
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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wow the response to my first post was so nice, thank you all! I doubt I'll top that manifesto, but for my sophomore slump, here are some rules for playing elves and dwarves and shit, adapted from my best recollections of that campaign barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/elves-and-ot...
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PRETENDING TO BE AN ELF AND OTHER INHUMANS
Played a game inside. The rules were scraped together from a fading memory of B/X and scratched onto the back of commissary receipts. The dice were made of f...
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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I have a blog now and wrote about playing a bastardized version of OD&D in prison and how the DIY spirit of the OSR is most alive when you don't buy anything at all barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...
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NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU
There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...
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