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OSR blogger. A ponderous and stolid fellow. foreignplanets.blogspot.com

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idraluna-archives.bsky.social @idraluna-archives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New maps! I'm a big fan of the idea of tiny, whimsical planets, so I slapped some funky color ramps onto some elevation maps of moons and asteroids. idraluna-archives.itch.io/maps-of-misc...
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Maps of Miscellaneous Minor Moons by idraluna-archives
Hexmaps of various moons and planetoids
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idraluna-archives.bsky.social @idraluna-archives.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/d10-silly-sp... Retro laser guns. Players MUST voice the onomatopoeia or they don't work
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d10 Silly Space Gun Table
            Game idea: Boot Galaxy and The Fear of Dice.[^1] Pick any sci-fi adventure and run it as normal, but every player is armed with a ran...
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 22/09/2026
Creating a new retro clone that only includes the dogshit rules
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is how everyone would their name #rpg characters if they weren't so cowardly foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/09/d200...
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d200 Names - Puritan Style
This dorkish dullard's character names are too powerful, and basically, you're stupid.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm wondering if anyone has made an RPG that uses the pigs from Pass the Pigs.
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Hags @h4gs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
this week on the blog: hags vents some feelings about anthropocentrism. enjoy hags.bearblog.dev/hillfolk/
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idraluna-archives.bsky.social @idraluna-archives.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
On writing terse hex keys for Antarctica Jam idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/three-senten...
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Three-sentence Hexes
Editing the Antarctic Adventure Anthology has precipitated many ideas about how to steer the future of the project. Earlier this year, I wrote a mild pol...
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Get drunk. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/09/meta... #osr
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Meta-Drunkenness aka Drunk in the Dungeon
A rule for when characters start drinking on the job.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Weird Knights. Crude but fun sculpts from the now sadly defunct Irregular Miniatures. Maybe I'll use them for Mythic Bastionland. #miniatures
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elmcat @elmc.at · 23/08/2026
fuck it elmc.at/death-of-a-h...
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Death of a Hobby
Fuck it.
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The Merry Mushmen @themerrymushmen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Working on Knock again! #6
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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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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
- Extreme Dinosaurs - Skeleton Warriors - Noggin the Nog - Noah's Island - The Animals of Farthing Wood - Transformers: Beast Wars - Xcalibur All bangers.
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Creative Wronging @creativewronging.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
64. The Bridge at the End of the World by @foreignplanets.bsky.social A system-neutral science-fantasy hexcrawl through a subterranean spaceship 🦐 20+ hexes through a diversity of artsy biomes in an O'Neill Cylinder, based on Tumithak, a forgotten 1930's pulp serial. Wildly big brained move!
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The Bridge at the End of the World by Beneath Foreign Planets
Minimalist Science-Fantasy Campaign Setting, Hexcrawl and Dungeon
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What's stopping you from putting televisions in your setting? Nothing. Think about it.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The mooks in my next dungeon will be called Chuckleheads.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Lizardfolk should just be dudes covered with lizards.
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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In this episode ill be eating everything i find under my couch. Glory to god the creator. Without Him we are nothing. Alright lets get this couch lifted up. LOTTA cat hair wow. Ok lets get started
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... #osr #Tumithak #Shelk #hubris
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The Bridge at the End of the World
Science-Fantasy Hexcrawl and Dungeon inspired by Tumithak of the Corridors. 22 hexes, an 18 room dungeon, lore - 4 a5 pages. I know how it is 🤷‍♂️
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𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A blog post brave enough to answer the question on everyone's lips: "what if the classic D&D ceiling monster (that's not the cloaker, lurker, or piercer) was actually a psychedelic nightmare squid that imprints its eggs in your subconscious?" traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/07/dark...
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Darkmantles
Chthonic squid monsters floating soundlessly through the Inverted Palace . Conical indigo bodies ringed with crimson eyes; dense membrane we...
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Please #appreciate the Shrew, Giant
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Pissvortex @pissvortex.gorillaradio.show · 15/07/2026
New monkey fancam
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Cats Have No Lord @catshavenolord.itch.io · 14/07/2026
New day, new reminder you can die horribly inside a giant slug in my new adventure
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Everything they told you was a lie. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/07/more... #osr #AppxNJam
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More Lost Books of Appendix N
I did this for you.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#osr rats, are micro hexcrawl settings/adventures worthwhile? Why? And if they are, what are some good examples?
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My entry to last year's #AppxNJam, and winner of the 'spirit, themes and vibe of the Appendix N' category 😏. I really wrestled the title, early on it was actually a Conan tale set in a dried up ocean. beneath-foreign-planets.itch.io/low-tidings
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Low Tidings by Beneath Foreign Planets
Defend a crumbling coastal fort from a sea-witch and her army of blood-thirsty pirates!
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... #hexfills #osr
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The Pretender-Banate of Auric-Nemus
My commiserations, it's more Antarctica hexfills.
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idraluna-archives.bsky.social @idraluna-archives.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Does your hexcrawl need pseudo-realistic fire ecology? Look no fur- What? Where are you going? I just want to talk! idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/wildfires-in...
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Wildfires in A Hexcrawl
This post on reddit, asks how to rule a forest fire started by player characters. My day job involves running long-term forest growth and wildfire simula...
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 26/06/2026
There were a whopping 80 blog posts for the latest Random Blogwagon! I round them all up into a rollable table here: #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon
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Random Blogwagon Roundup — Prismatic Wasteland
In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"If you cast a spell on a goblin that prevents it from dying of old age and then wait 1000 years, you get what I would describe as a really ugly, flightless dragon that breathes bad smells rather than fire" - Lyandoov the Liar
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I have a sneaking suspicion this dude just might have been a goblin; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobelin...
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Gobelinus Person - Wikipedia
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alice @dungeondoll.itch.io · 16/06/2026
blog post: a dubiously historical 2d6 combat maneuver system for #od&d, inspired by the "man-to-man" combat tables from Chainmail, and the Turn Undead ability! "What does my helmet do?" it stops you from getting smacked in the head. dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/06/od-c...
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od&d combat maneuvers
Among classed characters, only fighters can attempt maneuvers. They can only be used on humanlike targets. A maneuver is...
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Hags @h4gs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
three questions for every world builder: 1) what's the equivalent of inshallah? 2) what's the equivalent of mashallah? 3) what's the equivalent of bismallah?
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Dank Dungeons @dankdungeons.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Appx. N Jam 2026 page is live! Sign up to participate! @itch.io #gamejam #osr #dnd #pulpfantasy itch.io/jam/appx-n-j...
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Appx. N Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-01 hosted by Dank Dungeons. A list of fantasy and science fiction literature that inspired Dungeons & Dragons. Featuring authors such as Robert E Howard, Fritz Li...
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A novel worldbuilding method for generating interesting religions by focusing on the behaviour of the believer first. Inspired by the writing of @mindstorm.bsky.social and for @prismaticwasteland.com's Random blogwagon. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/06/deus... #osr #ttrpg #worldbuilding
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Deus Ex Verbum: Interesting Religions, Dogmas, Sects and Philosophies via Wiktionary
If a religion is what its followers do, then start with a single verb and extrapolate. Religions, Dogmas and Sects generated via Wiktionary.
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Fedmar @behindthehelm.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Sixty (60) guns (for shooting). behindthehelm.bearblog.dev/d60-guns/
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D60 GUNS
Written for Into the Odd and adjecent systems. Merchant’s Maid (d6 Bulky): Unwieldy shotgun with a vast array of pouches and satchels stapled onto the stock...
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Played my first game of 5e today 😕. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! I was getting 3.5 flashbacks. The rules really do foster bad play culture, so much checking out. A real sense of danger and side-based initiative would have done wonders and that's just the start of it. Ouch!
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For the first time ever, by popular demand, all my posts relating to #cavemen are collated under one tag 🫈 foreignplanets.blogspot.com/search/label...
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
My latest #dungeon for #OSR games is now on itch. Check it out. beneath-foreign-planets.itch.io/pity-the-cav...
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Pity the Cavemen by Beneath Foreign Planets
A miserable dungeon of pulp savagery and oozing body-horror.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A miserable #dungeon of savage pulp fair and oozing body-horror. 28 keyed areas over 5 pages, including the map, magic items and monsters. It's also #free. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/05/pity...
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PITY THE CAVEMEN - an OD&D Horror Dungeon
A miserable dungeon of pulp savagery and slimesome body-horror.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A self mortification ritual I encourage everyone to undertake. I was permanently altered by the process. Perhaps, even, for the better!
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I've finally been inducted into the exclusive #osr blogging secret society *ROOTRING*. Check out my #brick! rootr.ing/blog/160
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rootring
rooted in blogs, linked in a ring — discovery for ttrpg blogs
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I don't write posts people want, I write what they need. I present; foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/05/nom-...
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NOM-DE-GROTTE ~ d200 Caveman Names
A caveperson nominalia.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A bunch of hexes, bad guys, bad satire. My small part of an #audacious #OSR project of behemothic proportions. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/05/unde...
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Beneath an Oily Shadow
Weird fantasy hexes for the Antarctic Adventure Jam.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What am I even doing?
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
What peak worldbuilding.
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idraluna-archives.bsky.social @idraluna-archives.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trying to come up with a gimmick for all the monsters (these are the only ones) idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/my-odd-encou...
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My OD&D Encounter SOPs
I've been running Murdicog's Manse with the Underworld & Wilderness Adventures dungeon encounter tables. These provide nothing aside from the type of monster...
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Last 4 #rpgs played: - OSR homebrew - Mazerats - Mythic Bastionland - OD&D domain pbp I have a taste.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A reminder to check this out. It's so good it makes me want to vomit.
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Not too recently, I tried to write a wargame in the fashion of Turnip28 but for ancients with the point of divergence being Typhon defeating Zeus. It used handfuls of dried beans, painted with nail polish as two-sided dice (mainly 0/1, but some -1/+2 and other such binary gimmick results), but alas.
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