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Hrm, High Tech has a pretty good selection of the first 3. And for the last one... well, I guess you'll have to wait to find out. 😁

The Automata chapter has this covered.

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Working on the last 3 chapters of the item section of the Treasure Overhaul. What Genre / Special items would you like to see? More details on Patreon (free): www.patreon.com/posts/treasu...

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1d20 Lost Treasures. Where are the other 10? On Patreon, along with a treasure map generator and other useful tables. www.patreon.com/posts/treasu...

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

American state theology is... peculiar.

Dec 22, 2022 tweet from then president Joe Biden, which reads "We have a lot of obligations as Americans, but we have only one sacred obligation: To prepare those we send to war and care for them and their families when they come home."

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Draft Goblin Market page / handout from the Treasure Overhaul. Special deal, toady only.

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

👍 I like to include little mistakes like that as copy protection (is what I tell myself). 😁

Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Druidic magic items are a bit tricky, conceptually, but I think this is a pretty solid list.

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The Summons chapter of the Treasure Overhaul is available for free on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/monste... 100 of the weirdest entities in the OSR, ready to help your players solve problems in unconventional ways (or trade one problem for an exciting new problem).

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Monster Overhaul - Summons | Coins and Scrolls

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The Automata chapter of the Treasure Overhaul is now available on Patreon. 3 compact pages of steampunk / cogfop / weird west / inadvisably advanced technology goodness. www.patreon.com/posts/146326...

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Want a compact 3-page dungeon generator? Get it on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/144804... Empty rooms, traps, special rooms, room treasure, and plenty of helpful tips, all in a highly compressed utility-focused format.

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Ooh, and it has a technical name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canitie...

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Canities subita - Wikipedia

Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Off the top of my head, I can push that back to 1835: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viy_(st...

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Viy (story) - Wikipedia

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Riley V @vandalorum.itch.io · 27/11/2025

At last, I have acquired another legendary tome for my library. 📚 The Monster Overhaul, A Practical Bestiary by @skerples.bsky.social is what all manner of monster manuals wish to be when they grow up. 👹 #bestiary #monstermanual #ttrpg #ttrpgs

Cover shot of The Monster Overhaul, A Practical Bestiary by Skerples

Interior shot of The Monster Overhaul depicting a maniacal magic-slinging eye tyrant above the chapter heading: “A Wizard Did It!”

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elmcat @elmc.at · 26/11/2025

Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky? elmc.at/mapping-the-... To check out the graph directly follow this link: graph.elmc.at

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Mapping the Blogosphere

An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🙏CHAPTER SERF🙏 I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight. PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt... 1/

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It's been long enough since I read it, and in a probably out-of-date translation, that I have no definite thoughts. A comment pointed out that it's a plausible influence, but that it a) has minimal influence on Oriental Adventures b) gets a writeup in Dragon 54 by Joseph Ravitts.

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Theoretically, the PCs could enter room A, grab the lucky high-roll treasure, leave, level up, return, enter room B, grab the second high-value treasure, etc. But this would require the PCs not to push their luck, the GM to be lenient, and no restocking.

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

True, but too much treasure is less of a problem than too little treasure, thanks to the XP cap. "A character should never be given enough XP in a single adventure to advance more than one level of experience." Since mundane gear is cheap, it only really affects hirelings and side projects.

It seems that both B/X and M&TA are using a capped system for jewellery values, instead of AD&D's upgrading/runaway system. AD&D and M&TA are segregated (one type of treasure/coin per result), B/X is additive (base of silver + chance of gold + chance of magic items).

Resembles, but isn't the same. I think M&T is using its own methodology. Here's Level 5. Many more magic items than in either AD&D or B/X, and some of the entries are doubled up.

@icastlight.bsky.social OK, here's the Level 1 table in the same format. It's not pre-rolled AD&D results (the values are off) and it's heavily coin-weighted.

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It is tricky to balance with the "low chance / high value" option in the mix. Sure, X rooms at Y average value is easy enough... but if 5% of rooms are somewhere between 20x and 50x the average value... And if the PCs miss that one room...

Getting lots of use out ofthis post icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-... by @icastlight.bsky.social and Lungfungus' tables.

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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

More charts! I'm looking into various "room treasure" tables. Once again, the average value is misleading. Gems + jewellery dominate if present.

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Happen Upon, a Traveling Merchant is representing us at Hal-Con in Halifax, Nova Scotia this weekend. We know how much authors and publishers like booth pictures, so here you go:

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Poor Zort the Hireling running in circles while another apprentice tries to fashion a head-mounted reading stand...

Ah! That makes sense! I was wondering where this mental image was coming from. I thought it was a goofy horror film, but it might have been this game. Probably even more annoying in D&D though. Imagine the party trying to feed the poor wizard a sandwich...

It's one of those mobile finish lines, but the book's structure is complete. Now it's just a matter of filling in the last few sections. I have played The Binding of Isaac, yes. But I think IOUN stones predate it by some margin.

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

128 pages of the Treasure Overhaul, now available on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/143059... Page after page of never-before-seen WIP items, spells, and the entire Sage chapter.

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Today, come with me to the Marish: the boggy and fertile farmland at the eastern borders of the Shire. Visit Farmer Maggot (you will not be his strangest guest) or see if you can unravel the mysteries of the haunted Deephallow House.

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The Marish - Middle-earth Hexmap

An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. The Marish is a ...

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I've put (non-magical) luxury good lists in the Sage chapter. Inventing names for famous pieces was a lot of fun.

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Because if I move Horns out of Tools and into Instruments (with Drums), I can put Figurines into Tools and still have... 19 sections. But it is progress. 😁

Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Hrm, I have those pencilled in for a Bard-ish section, but you're right, those are mostly generic/classless enough that I could move Drums to a new Instruments page... It's like a sliding block puzzle made of tables. Eventually I'll find the right configuration.

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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It really was! That horse was basically Daniel Radcliffe in "Swiss Army Man". A raft, a passage-blocker, wolf-bait...