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Dougal

@doogface.bsky.social
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#foreverDM, podcaster, adventure author, psychic vampire sustained by failed saving throws. aroomcontaining1d6goblins.substack.… www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/3… doogface.itch.io

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Dungeons & Possums @dungeonsandpossums.com · 17/09/2026
It's September Blog Carnival season, meaning you can read here an article about MONEY dungeonsandpossums.com/2026/09/sept... I have none in the real world but tons of invented fake money in my imagination. This is the Millennial fate, I guess! Click to enjoy a fully-illustrated d66 table 😊
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September RPG Blog Carnival: The Face of Money - Dungeons & Possums
The September RPG Blog Carnival topic really caught me by surprise! Not only that I obviously didn’t know what it was going to be ahead of time, but because I didn’t expect to be so excited by it. Thi...
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm answering the important questions: what makes an rpg heavy metal? brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/what-makes-a...
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What makes an RPG heavy metal?
Lots of RPGs describes themselves as heavy metal. Today I will dare the task known to be impossible, but which every metalhead is drawn inexorably to do: I w...
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🎃Farmer GaddAAAHH!!!!🎃 @farmergadda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New Blogpost! I'm pulling the trigger on a WIP i've held back for a good while, fulfilling a dream I've had since I was but a young boy... Pretending to be Monkeys or whatever in an expansive recreation of Donkey Kong Island. Normal kid stuff, yknow? farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/dki-he...
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Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft : The Donkey Kong Island Hexcrawl - Introduction & Kongo Jungle
It is, in fact, On.
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 17/09/2026
With a new baby and toddler, The Odyssey (2026) may be the last movie I'll see for a while, but I was still able to glean (or couldn't avoid gleaning) a few lessons from it for TTRPGs #osr #ttrpg
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What The Odyssey (2026) Can Teach Us About Running TTRPGs — Prismatic Wasteland
Every movie has lessons for running your game if you are sufficiently TTRPG-brain-poisoned, but Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) has more than usual.
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WatcherDM (He/Him) @watcherdm.com · 18/09/2026
Two of my favourite things going on here: Vaults of Vaarn and Dougal Cochrane. Get on this podcast while its freshy freshy.
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Episode 2: Vaults of Vaarn
We discuss Vaults of Vaarn  with Andrew Doull and Dougal Cochrane .
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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Episode 2 is out for All Systems Nominal, where we discuss Vaults of Vaarn. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
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Episode 2: Vaults of Vaarn
Podcast Episode · All Systems Nominal · 17 September · 1 sec
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Recently, I have been talking to @andrewdoull.bsky.social on the All Systems Nominal podcast about Vaults of Vaarn by @infrabeige.bsky.social Have a listen! www.allsystemsnominal.net/2026/09/we-d...
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Episode 2: Vaults of Vaarn
We discuss Vaults of Vaarn  with Andrew Doull and Dougal Cochrane .
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That's another episode of All Systems Nominal recorded. Stay tuned for more scifi ttrpg review goodness where @andrewdoull.bsky.social and myself voice our thoughts on Vaults of Vaarn by @infrabeige.bsky.social
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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My “all good sci-fi starts with a meal and ends on a beach” theory seems to have struck a chord with listeners. I’ve made a 1-page sci-fi game that is nothing but meals and beaches. It’s goes as hard as I can make a game this small. half-apress.itch.io/6-meals-in-s...
You are an astronaut. Whatever anyone told you as a kid you couldn’t do, you always succeed at. To succeed at any other action, you must take a drink of water. Fill a glass to the top, now. When the glass is empty you die.
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Waco Matrixo @wacomatrixo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can anyone recommend some TTRPG blog reviewers? I wrote a #mothershiprpg module last year called CRYO-SIQ that I still enjoy running. I'd love to try and send out some review copies and get more people talking about it.
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Mike @deadlygazebo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hey! A doog I know is co-hosting a TTRPG podcast highlighting scifi genres. First episode is talking about Death In Space by Christian Plogfors and Carl Niblaeus. If you enjoy freezing in the uncaring, merciless vacuum of space as much as I do... check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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All Systems Nominal
Games Podcast · Updated Monthly · All Systems Nominal is a podcast about science fiction tabletop roleplaying games, focused on smaller independent TTRPGs.
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WatcherDM (He/Him) @watcherdm.com · 30/08/2026
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a... New ttrpg review podcast!
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All Systems Nominal
Games Podcast · Updated Monthly · All Systems Nominal is a podcast about science fiction tabletop roleplaying games, focused on smaller independent TTRPGs.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New sci-fi TTRPG review podcast alert, folks! In the inaugural episode of All Systems Nominal, myself and @andrewdoull.bsky.social review Death in Space. Give it a listen, and if you like what you hear, share, like and subscribe! All signal boosts welcome to get this off the ground!
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Co-hosting a podcast was not on my to-do list this year, but when Andrew asked if wanted to join him reviewing sci-fi TTRPGs, I couldn't say no. We spoke for the first time whilst recording the premier episode and reviewed Death in Space. Get it in your ears here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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All Systems Nominal
Games Podcast · Updated Monthly · All Systems Nominal is a podcast about science fiction tabletop roleplaying games, focused on smaller independent TTRGPs.
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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tfw you get into 1h 20m of the recording and realise you’ve only covered one third of the book.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Reader, we started a podcast about it. Watch this space.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 11/08/2026
Maps as data and graphs, part 1. www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/maps-as-data
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Building a better vocabulary for maps
Part 1 of a series on making better maps by thinking about them as graphs and data, based on a talk I gave at Harrisburg University.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This made my day. Thanks for the glowing feedback and I'm glad this was a hit with you. I have a deep and abiding fondness for sword and sorcery, so this was a joy to put together.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So... this happened. tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p...
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Barrow of the Five Kings | tenfootpole.org
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Blown away by the positive responses on this. The whole experience has been so fun and upbeat.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
6 people sitting down to play in my west marches Gradient Descent campaign tonight. Two have never played Mothership before. Two of them are absolute wrecks after their last dive and have 19 and 14 stress respectively as well as the doomed and deflated conditions. PITY THEM.
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Shodan
ALT: Shodan
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#appxnjam is in the voting period and entries can be found here, as well as any entries that don't have a rating yet! Entries are rated on writing, visuals, gameability and theme. Please pitch in and rate some submissions, especially any unrated ones! itch.io/jam/appx-n-j...
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Submissions to Appx. N Jam 2026
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Cats Have No Lord @catshavenolord.itch.io · 02/08/2026
Remember Itch has a handy link to take you to the jam entries that haven’t gotten many (or any) ratings and comments yet. Make sure to give a look to the work from newer folks in the scene that might get missed, not just the big names. #TTRPG #OSR
Screenshot of the Appendix N Jam page with red line and arrows around the link that says “Help rate submissions that have few ratings”
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 29/07/2026
This is why we don't need genAI. Just keep drawing, one day you're gonna kill it.
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Joseph R. Lewis @josephrlewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hey gang, if you missed my Kickstarter but you're at GenCon, head to the Arcane Library booth at 2464 because I sent them a (very) small number of proof copies of the new zines! Grab them if you can! #osr #dnd #ttrpg
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Luke Gearing @lukegearing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
directing baleful psionic energies at lake geneva
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This, all this.
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3d6 DTL @3d6downtheline.com · 30/07/2026
Stalwart 3d6 DTL community member and all-around good person @demielgato.bsky.social is launching an #OSE zine on Kickstarter soon! First 32 pp issue is Olig-Vald, a micro-hexcrawl crammed with gameable material. Go sign up and show them your support! #TTRPG www.kickstarter.com/projects/365...
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Coming soon: Flowers of Fantasy and Fate Issue #1
Olig-Vald, a dangerous micro-hexcrawl for OSE characters of Level 4 and up. 32 letter-sized pages jammed full of gameable material.
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Demi ElGato @demielgato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My new OSE zine: Olig-Vald will be live on ks on August 3rd www.kickstarter.com/projects/365... A micro hexcrawl adventure for OSE characters of level 4 and up. Monsters, dungeons, spells, a detailed town with unique (and uniquely horrible) NPCs and more! #ttrpg #ose #osr #dnd
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Coming soon: Flowers of Fantasy and Fate Issue #1
Olig-Vald, a dangerous micro-hexcrawl for OSE characters of Level 4 and up. 32 letter-sized pages jammed full of gameable material.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My good friend Demi is going to be launching a kickstarter. You get to confront xenophobic racists, exploitative capitalists destroying the environment and confront a techbro unleashing a little understood technology. Feels pretty topical! They would love it if you follow their pre-launch page.
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Coming soon: Flowers of Fantasy and Fate Issue #1
Olig-Vald, a dangerous micro-hexcrawl for OSE characters of Level 4 and up. 32 letter-sized pages jammed full of gameable material.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Myself and Demi Elgato submitted a joint entry for the Frontier Scum summer jam. doogface.itch.io/mud-and-mist...
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Mud and Mist in Sugar Creek by Doogface, Demi Elgato
A muddy, misty, rainy point crawl for Frontier Scum
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Someone just posted this on my recent adventure submission to the Appendix N Jam and I have a huge goofy smile on my face right now.
I adapted this for my ongoing campaign and ran this earlier today for three players and we had a blast. This had just the right amount onf content for one session of gaming. And material was very thematic and consistent throughout. The timer worked really well that the PCs got to see the whole island but were still forced to make some hard choices in the end.

5/7 would and will play again.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Foolishly agreed to do this after getting overexcited writing for the Appendix N Jam. Only have a week to get my shit together and am frantically drawing floor plans in sepia tones.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Felt black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth. Might delete later.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I made a thing for the Appendix N 2026 game jam! My assigned title was The Lemurian Larder so naturally I wrote and laid out 4 A5 pages of heart-eating Hyborian Black Sword Hack hex crawl. Grab a copy for free and stab a few Stygian jackals whilst bellowing Crom! #osr #appendixN #blackswordhack
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THE LEMURIAN LARDER by Doogface
An adventure in the Hyborian Age for Black Sword Hack
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I'm trying so hard to come up with a joke about Tantalus. It's so close, I can almost taste it. Oh well.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I came up with a joke about Procrustes, but it's probably time to put it to bed.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Apropos of nothing in particular, this looks like a sweet miniature and you should buy it.
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Count Binface | Troublemaker Games
By agreement with the human behind Count Binface, we are able to bring you this28mm "Heroic Scale" Miniature of the greatest parody politician in the post-truth universe! £3 from each purchase of Coun...
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Law and Order in Dolmenwood: I tried layout how the structure of sheriffs, bailiffs, and capital pledges might be organized in Dolmenwood, what exceptions there would be, and a small trial procedure: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/07/law-...
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LAW, ORDER, & DOLMENWOOD: Bringing Courts, Calendars, and Consequences To A Fantasy Setting
Initially, I thought  Dolmenwood  was going to be a hazy, dream-like, amorphous setting for D&D with talking animals, but it turns out its a...
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Christian makes some of the best Borg content. His zines are hands down some of my funnest experiences running #MörkBorg and #CY_BORG (For Profit Abduction is still my favourite - write more party crawls, Christian!)
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hello everyone, I've published a new Dolmenwood adventure. It centres around exploration of a barrow that contains ghostly antagonists, hidden passages, traps, magic hazards, and a LOT of history of a conflict between men and fae. You can download it here: www.drivethrurpg.com//product/574...
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just for fun, I wrote a one page Shadowdark dungeon where every single room key is a H.P. Lovecraft story. Why? Because I can. www.drivethrurpg.com//product/574...
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I feel seen.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Still Dolmenwood-ing. I'm hoping to release a piece next week. Been noodling some magic items for it and really pleased with their vibe.
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hive mind, give me your best suggestions for dungeon dressing, murals, and grave goods in a barrow. Theme: mighty chieftains. Strong celtic/cwrnus/Slainé vibe. Big on antlered head dresses, wickermen, sacrifice and murdering trolls and giants. Anachronisms like chariots or steel are fine.
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E.S. Wynn (Ellie_Valkyrie) @ellievalkyrie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My 800 room, 99 section modular megadungeon for Cairn is finally complete! Also, it's PWYW, so anyone can enjoy it. www.fistfulofvalkyries.com/2026/06/ente... #ttrpg #osr #cairnrpg #megadungeon
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Don't sleep on this one folks, it's a banger. @yochaigal.bsky.social @bradkerr.net @betterlegends.bsky.social you should definitely check this one out.
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Demi ElGato @demielgato.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My PWYW campaign setting for OSE “Danger in the Delta” is finally available! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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Danger in The Delta - Possum Print Games | DriveThruRPG
Danger in the Delta is a fantasy sandbox and hexcrawl adventure setting. Culturally influenced by the peoples of Western Africa, Eastern Europe, and Japan. What's included: A brief introduction to and...
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Dougal @doogface.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Yesterday one of my mothership players shot another with a rigging gun to prevent them tumbling into the drive plume of a starship. This was followed by hurried debate of how to remove the harpoon to patch the punctured space suit. The injured player got impatient and ripped it out like a badass.
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Aaronacious @aaronacious.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Mork Borg I don't know I don't play ttrpgs
A picture of Robin Williams as Mork from Ork, smiling into the camera. Overlaid poorly onto about a third of his face is Patrick Stewart's face when he's Locutus of Borg
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