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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 20h

#mörktober Day 5: Cape Cross a bone-grey headland where the sea takes payment and a dead beacon exposes what waits below #morktober #osr #nsr #ttrpg

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directsun @directsun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been working on this for some time and with the release of the first three Cairn CAS adventures in Markdown, I thought this was as good a time as any to make a few announcements.

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Just The Games

Reference at the speed of play.

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#mörktober Day 4: Marrow Draw the Marrow, Cut Marrow Dice from the dead and spend them to perform six forbidden workings appendix-g.itch.io/draw-the-mar... #morktober #osr #nsr #ttrpg

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Draw the Marrow by Appendix G

Harvest marrow from the dead and spend them on six forbidden bone-workings for MÖRK BORG

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

THE MONKEY KING'S MANY FACES Just a quick run-through of the many, many shapes Hanuman / Sun Wu Kong takes, around the world, in Southeast Asia---and also a stealth announcement that I will have a new adventure out at the end of the year: slowlorispress.com/post/8295484...

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Old-school Essentials has some real sickos.jpg rules for constructing a castle. Here is a simplified method: Print out this page. Each block costs 1,000 gp for basic construction, or 1,500 gp for a furnished section. Arrange to taste.

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Microblog: Papercraft - Hvem kan bygge den smukkeste Borg?

Here is a copy of an activity from a 1919 issue of the Danish magazine Familie Journal . Click to download the full-sized image Children wer...

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Very useful. It aggregates images from a lot of places that can sometimes be a bit frustrating to sift through

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have a free 10 room island adventure up at the itch page! Have a download, run your table perplexingruins.itch.io/isle-of-the-...

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"How did you get into ttrpgs" I got roped into some kind of chain-letter scheme where you photocopied hundreds of pages of a photocopy of a photocopy of AD&D 2e books, then recruited your friends to do the same. By the time it reached me, THAC0 was barely legible, which did nothing to help

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#mörktober Day 2: Curse Bit late, but no cops here. The Empty Crown is my (free) short module for my sword & sorcery Mörk Borg hack Crush Your Enemies. 6 rooms, tomb, curse and you know the drill. appendix-g.itch.io/the-empty-cr...

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The Empty Crown by Appendix G

A six-room curse dungeon of erased names, stolen grave-goods, and a dead queen who remembers

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#mörktober Day 1: Goat I have Mörk Borg on my mind because of the (very fresh) polish edition, as well as Dolmewood which I run, so here it is, The Crooked Goat: appendix-g.itch.io/the-crooked-...

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The Crooked Goat by Appendix G

A horned, hungry character class for MÖRK BORG, born beneath the gallows.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This month’s design newsletter might have the most jams of any Explorateur in the last two years. October is always a busy month. www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

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The Explorateur: October '26

Monthly jams, critique, theory, and resources for rpg designers.

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I review B5: Horror on the Hill by Douglas Niles, and answer a mootsack question in another Gamer Blast From the Past! We also answer a mootsack question about skills in OSR games. www.patreon.com/betweentwoca...

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B5 Horror on the Hill | Between Two Cairns

Yochai, Brad, and Sam review B5: Horror on the Hill by Douglas Niles, and answer a mootsack question. How do we feel about skills in OSR gam

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great news! I wonder what Ben Robbins is cooking up for the second edition

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The first 3 Cairn adventure series adventures are now available as markdown with image support! You can run them from the browser! cairnrpg.com/adventures/f...

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First Party

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cool thread from the man himself on a frustration of mine: misunderstandings in discussions of move design, how moves work at the table, and games inspired by the move-based PbtA tradition. For me, how results should work always depends on the move, with one key rule: they need to be interesting.

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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 25/02/2025

a reminder that @rascalnews.bsky.social runs the announcement section as a totally free public service for the ttrpg ecosystem -- free to post, free to access, free to browse. we also publish a free weekly newsletter highlighting every announcement. www.rascal.news/tag/announce...

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announcements - Rascal News

Community-submitted press releases and updates from across the TTRPG industry.

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

For someone (like me) still holding on to some concepts from The Forge in the 00s, that's a very refreshing take

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

RuneQuest and the world of Glorantha have had many highs and lows. After flying high in the 1970s, it looked like the 1980s might be even better thanks to a business deal. But in some ways, the game would never recover.

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Sun County & The RuneQuest Renaissance: 1992-1994 – Designers & Dragons

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Explorateur #2 is live and in your inbox. It's a curation of links for #ttrpg designers. November was packed with sharp writing, ideas, and theory, so it was hard to leave anything out. I'll share some of the highlights here on BlueSky... www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

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The Explorateur: Issue #2

Monthly discoveries for tabletop roleplaying game designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A great post, worth reading for anyone who missed it, just like I did - even though I don’t really agree with the conclusion

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I didn’t have time lately to look through the stuff I’ve go, but here are some new(ish) #TTRPG releases that arrived for me in the last few weeks. Not sure when I’ll have time to read them, though!

Two books on the table: Ave Nox - A system-neutral mega dungeon of forgotten history and folly, and Wind Wraith - a generative wavecrawl setting toolkit

Two RPG books on the Table: Cryptid Creeks and Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow

Two books on the table: polish one Hen! Za Corny Groń - Przewodnik Awanturniczy, and Wonderland - A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting

One book and two zines on the table: Beyond the Pale in the middle, The Dream Shrine on the left, and Fabien's Atelier on the right

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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

How Jennell Jacquays rocked the dungeon design world, continued from part 1. In part 1 we talked about some major premade dungeons that predate Thracia and what each added to the craft. Let's now move to how Thracia both combined and completely evolved these concepts.

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Great thread on early dungeon design

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A 25% tarif? That will increase the price of approximately 85% of all TTRPGs, and that's accounting for people switching to US printers.

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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 26/11/2024

The Wizard of Oz had the ideal D&D party composition: • character whose entire personality is having a pet (human ranger) • character that makes more sense in another setting (warforged fighter) • a furry (tabaxi bard) • character who wanted to play as a monster (scarecrow)

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Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 26/11/2024

A new 100+ page WIP version of DURF Expanded is now up on my Patreon! This version includes: - New art - Reworked travel procedure and magic - Rules for converting other OSR creatures www.patreon.com/emielboven

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I can't talk about exactly what these are yet but I've had the okay to say that I'm working on them, so I guess I get to add another dream gig to my portfolio now

A screenshot of my portfolio website showing a section titled "Freelance Writing & Game Design". A single row of text beneath this shows that I've been working on two forthcoming adventures for the Discworld roldplaying game.

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Trans rights are human rights

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.bsky.social and I review six pamphlets from Stockholm Kartell, and answer a question from the mailbag. shows.acast.com/between-two-...

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Stockholm Kartell Pamphlets | Between Two Cairns

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Questing Beast/ Ben Milton / the Knave guy is now being sponsored by a publisher that had a "Meltdown sale" to celebrate 'triggering the libs' after the US election; 47% off (and, side bonus, AI image to advertise). This is not his first foray into this shit. His defense is "No Politics"

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 20/11/2024

Hey ya'll, I'm Iko, I design The Lost Bay, RPG set in 199X + I run a publishing house and webstore + host a podcast, speaking of which a new interview episode is out with @amandalee.bsky.social ❤️ Get it on Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... On Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/66Si...

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Amanda Lee Franck, Crush Depth Apparition, Vampire Cruise

Podcast Episode · The Lost Bay Podcast · 11/20/2024 · 39m

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Introduce yourself with your top 5 #TTRPG picks. 1. The Between 2. Wonderhome 3. Apocalypse World: Burned Over 4. Frontier Scum 5. Masks: A New Generation

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Oozejar 🍯 @oozejar.com · 18/11/2024

Mausritter setting "Whiskers in the Wind" by @hlashbrooke.bsky.social is the first time (that I know of) monsters from the Illustrated Bestiary found their way into a published module 🐭 I share the art credit with @salvaterra.bsky.social and @louiems.bsky.social 🎨 And it's got a bathtub review! 🛁

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Super rad stuff. Makes me regret missing out on Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam! As a kid I had many adventures with Wolfpack, Black Knights and Lion Knights

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Undying Sands, Bottled Sea, and Hexcrawl Toolbox are all amazing, so that’s an auto-pledge from me!

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I might try to mash this with Mercator trading rules (which I tried already to mash with UVG, and gave up)

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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 19/11/2024

When you are gift-shopping for a tabletop roleplaying game obsessive, most of the recommendations are for more TTRPG books or more dice, when they probably already have plenty. Here are 20 gift ideas that aren’t just more TTRPG books or dice! #osr #ttrpg

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D20 Tabletop Roleplaying Game and D&D Gift Ideas that Aren't Just More TTRPGs (or Dice) — Prismatic Wasteland

When you are shopping for a tabletop roleplaying game obsessive or D&D fan, most of the recommendations are for more TTRPG books or more dice, when they probably already have plenty. Here are 20 gift ...

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I definitely cooled down on lethality, but telegraphing danger does a trick for me. I've tried several different solutions for lingering injuries including those by Skerples, as well as stuff taken from several OSR/OSR-like games, and nothing really worked long term

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Inspired by other designers—I finally decided to launch a monthly curation of blogs, pods, and more for game designers on Explorers Design. Get design inspiration, blogs, videos, podcasts, and more. Vetted, looted, and curated. Algorithm-free. More below 👇🧵 www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

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The Explorateur: Issue #1

Monthly discoveries for tabletop roleplaying game designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

If you always mean to add ALT text but you forget until it's too late, there's a toggle to prevent that in the accessibility section of your settings!

Screenshot of my settings screen. The accessibility section with “require alt text before posting” is highlighted by a hand drawn dark pink oval drawn around it.

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is a season where people could use a break, so here's 68 cozy TTRPGs at any price you'd like. Get relaxing, heartwarming, and comfortable tabletop games from 50 designers all in one bundle. itch.io/b/2754/cozy-...

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Patrick Stuart finally doing Veins of the Earth - Remastered is pretty big news!

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David @proton31.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

In which I once again try to inject some anarchist thought into the discourse by using the ideas from Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything TTRPGs. Take a trip to ancient Mesopotamia and the Inca Empire to look at how game texts might be used today

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Bureaucracy, Ritual and Games

Proto-Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boar...

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Luke Boniecki @lukeboniecki.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My relationship with Blades is complex. I definitely prefer lighter FitD games, but I will never say no to more content from John Harper!

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