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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ugh, REALLY want to back the new crowdfund for The One Ring, but the other half is on mat leave and pay is tiiight. BUT IT'S SO PRIDDY

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Did anyone ever run THE STANDING STONE by John D Rateliff? I remember reading it cover to cover, about 20 years ago, really excited to run it--and never did. Rateliff, incidentally, is a Tolkien scholar, and boy does it show. There's even a little Anglo-Saxon Easter egg! #dnd

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ah yes, September: that month in teaching where you basically have no life (Might be a while till I next get anything done on the blog 😕)

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is gorgeous! I have that book--how did I miss this?!

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Been quiet on the blog . . . Newborn + toddler + return to work = 🤯 Hopefully I can get some writing done soon.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ugh, so sad to hear about Dolly Parton and Tim Curry.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The biggest product I've ever reviewed: GODS OF THE FORBIDDEN NORTH from Pulp Hummock Press. 1,600 pages, three volumes, and probably the most ambitious campaign ever written. I am in awe. #OSE #OSR #GotFN #ttrpgs scrollforinitiative.com/2026/08/12/g...

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Gods of the Forbidden North: A Monumental Achievement – Scroll for Initiative

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Did anyone ever run #DeepHorizon? It's the only one of the original 3rd edition adventures that I never really looked at.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Never have I looked forward to autumn more. I miss rain.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

First in-person session tomorrow since ... 10 May? Three months... Going to be running a beginner game using the Sunless Citadel :) After 25 years it's still my favourite beginner dungeon. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Now where did I put my dice? #5e #dnd #ttrpg @brucecordell.bsky.social

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ok, so Dark Sun is cool, and I loved the original Star Wars d20 games, but I'd sure love it if WotC brought out something genuinely NEW and well-written. Not sure they've done that since, what, Tomb of Annihilation? #dnd

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm extremely impressed so far! But also, no idea how I'm going to review so much material

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've always liked brown dragons. They need to come back. (Art credit: Todd Lockwood)

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's extraordinary that GURPS 4e came out in 2004 and only THIS YEAR are they even 'revising' it.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've been looking through the new #Dragonbane magic book, and boy oh boy it's good. A significant expansion to the game. Hope to get a review done this week!

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Campaign Handbook is 30% off for Christmas in July! $6.97 for 200+ pages of tables and advice for building a complete 5e campaign. Ends Saturday 1 August. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I really miss lore books like these ones from 3rd edition. They're chock-full of inspiration and really make the setting feel real and distinct. #dnd #ttrpgs

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Did anyone ever run City of the Spider Queen back in the day? #dnd

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JP Coovert @jpcoovert.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Still feels crazy that Dragon Town got nominated for an Ennie! Voting is open to everyone, so help a dude out! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 10/07/2026

The ENnie polls are open! Cast your ballot, and pick MAKING ENEMIES as your No. 1 vote for Best Aid/Accessory (Non-Digital) and Best Writing! vote.ennie-awards.co... LOOK AT THIS LITTLE GUY HE WANTS YOU TO VOTE FOR MAKING ENEMIES ARE YOU GONNA SAY NO TO THIS SWEET ADORABLE LITTLE FACE

The cover of Making Enemies: A huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen. Another dwarf cowers in fear.

A fennec-like creature with soulful eyes, fuzzy ears, a big floofy tail, and horrible barbed jaw-flaps that fold out in five directions to reveal a sharp, stabbing proboscis.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A field guide to monsters is an idea that's been knocking around my head for a while . . . But what do you think? Reinventing the wheel, or an exciting new project? #dnd #5e #ttrpgs #osr scrollforinitiative.com/2026/07/10/a...

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A New Project? The Quintessential Guide to Monsters – Scroll for Initiative

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Eh, I wasn't nominated for an Ennie. Looking at the standard this year, though, I'm not surprised!

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 01/07/2026

What, you don't have MAKING ENEMIES yet? @scrollforinit.bsky.social says, "It’s a beast. A monster. A behemoth of the very best kind. It’s a CR 30 epic boss of a book." @polygon.com calls it "a powerful resource that will kickstart the imagination of any game master." GET IT!

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Making Enemies — Spy & Owl

A treasury of ideas for inventing all-new abominations for player characters to confront.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We've just had Wyrmling Number Two (yay!) so might be a bit quiet over on the old blog for a while. But hopefully I can keep making things this summer and share them when I can :)

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DriveThruRPG @drivethrurpg.com · 22/06/2026

Deal of the Day is here! Up to 60% for one day! ⚔️ Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands (5e): www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3... 📚 KOBOLD Guide to Magic: www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/1... 🪖 Hammer of Democracy: www.wargamevault.com/en/product/2...

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Really wish Archon Studios did a minis-only pledge for the #HoMM3 board game :( The minis look great, but I just don't have the space for the game tiles!

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

1 million seconds ≈ 12 days 1 billion seconds ≈ 32 years 1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years Just for context as we consider Elon Musk's psychopathic wealth-hoarding.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

New adventure! The Mist Galleries, part two of the Drowned Labyrinth. Perilous catwalks high above the Unfinished Halls, all drowned in a mist that hides everything... Terrified kobolds, a nothic, and a belker! #OSE #OSR #ttrpgs www.patreon.com/scrollforinitiative/posts/mist-galleries-160743459

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The Mist Galleries | Scroll for Initiative

The second keyed zone of the Drowned Labyrinth is now complete! If the Unfinished Halls were about water, the Mist Galleries are about heigh

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I completely agree with this. The more #5e became a kitchen sink setting, the more I bounced off it. Personally, I think core rulebooks plus one is a GOOD limit on a game (eg, core books plus Eberron). Anything more than that starts to dilute the world.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Who remembers the BELKER? They've been extinct in #dnd since 3rd edition, I think—more than 20 years since an official appearance in a Monster Manual. I'm bringing them back, with a twist, in THE MIST GALLERIES, the next level of the Drowned Labyrinth. #OSR #OSE

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 08/06/2026

tapping the sign leavesubstack.com

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

What's REALLY COOL about the Mist Galleries (in my opinion) is that they sit directly above the Unfinished Halls—and there are many places for the two levels to interact. Probably need to use a second colour to make it more readable, though. Suggestions? #osr #ose #ttrpgs #cartography

Backing paper removed to reveal the underlay, the Unfinished Halls.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Skyrim's release (2011) is now closer to the release of Tomb Raider 2 (1997) than 2026.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Oh, it's my anniversary! Six years since I started Scroll for Initiative :)

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The 2nd AD&D Monstrous Manual really is wonderful. I still go back to it for inspiration and lore.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Finally worked out who's at the bottom of the Drowned Labyrinth. He'd been 'the Prisoner' in my notes for ages, and I'd really never decided what that meant. PART 7: what he is, the cult trying to wake him, and why you can't actually kill him. scrollforinitiative.com/2026/06/06/b... #ose #dnd #osr

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It does amuse me that so many of the attempts to 'fix' or 'improve' 5e seem to end up copying something from 4e (eg, creature types, the bloodied condition, simpler cosmologies, non-Vancian spellcasting...)

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Alphastream @alphastream.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy 18th birthday to D&D 4E! On this day in 2008, this teenager set out to fix every mistake its parents made. The edition is getting more love than ever, inspiring games like the Draw Steel, Daggerheart, 13th Age 2E, and more!

The covers of the three 4E core books, the DMG, PH, and MM.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I finally have it! Hennet, the iconic human sorcerer from #dnd 3rd edition. This mini is 26 years old... Now I'm scared about opening it... #minipainting #ttrpgs

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Exciting news! The second part of the Drowned Labyrinth is nearly finished--just needs a map! The MIST GALLERIES are a series of narrow walkways suspended directly above the flooded ruins of the UNFINISHED HALLS. The whole level is entombed in a strange, sentient fog... #OSR #OSE #ttrpgs #dnd

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

After TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS, I have FINALLY completed the obelisk quest in Might and Magic VI. I feel awesome.

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