Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 24/07/2026foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... #osr #Tumithak #Shelk #hubrisforeignplanets.blogspot.comThe Bridge at the End of the WorldScience-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 🤷♂️ 2166
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A 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...traipse.hexarcana.comDarkmantlesChthonic squid monsters floating soundlessly through the Inverted Palace . Conical indigo bodies ringed with crimson eyes; dense membrane we... 141
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I haven’t checked but has anyone done a comparative study of the Gamma World dice flowcharts & the CCRU Numogram 171
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Angine de Poitrine makes me suspect I’m going normie, because historically I’d be all over a trendy math rock duo in kooky costumes but something about them... like I’m sure I can find enjoyment in their music if I really try but I put it on and immediately feel this visceral nausea-like repulsion 010
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026A series of illustrations based on the prompts I got here. 15925
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Blogged about getting your players to make imaginary friends traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/06/frie...traipse.hexarcana.comFriendship Simulator: a Procedure for Friends and ContactsThe same way equipment and gear help you get things done in the dungeon, friends and contacts help you get things done in the city. What thi... 271
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Here's how you make a pun-based magic item cool: after you get an idea and give it mechanics, change the name. The Petard of Hoisting (everything in the blast radius is thrown 30' into the air) is hard to care about. But call it an Earth Reviler and suddenly it's awesome 140
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Underrated dungeon inhabitant: big guy that follows you around 030
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Session number whatever of the party testing a key on every single lock they find, not realizing it opens a door the thief picked months ago 020
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 23/06/2026People who talk about Todd Hayne's SAFE (1995) are correct about the chilling plot and oppressive atmosphere, but no one mentions how it has one of the most unsettling minor characters ever put to film 000
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A friend runs an Index Card RPG campaign at the game shop he works at. Asked me what he should do about a player who came in one day wanting to use a 30-page homebrew class. My advice: "if he can get it to fit on an index card, he can use it." 130
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 31/05/2026A 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...foreignplanets.blogspot.comPITY THE CAVEMEN - an OD&D Horror DungeonA miserable dungeon of pulp savagery and slimesome body-horror. 0207
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Setting lore post 🏰📜🕯️ traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/05/the-...traipse.hexarcana.comThe Inverted PalaceThis is what I sent my players as a little backstory for the big dungeon at the center of our campaign: The Inverted Palace On clear days, ... 161
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 14/05/2026As a kid I always waited until the bathtub completely drained before I got out so I could pretend, as the water lowered around me, that I was emerging as a synthetic organism from some sort of birthing vat 030
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 17/04/2026When PCs get a bounty on their heads, you need cool+colorful characters to hunt them down. Here are six: traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/04/1d6-...traipse.hexarcana.com1d6 Bounty HuntersSix villains who hunt wanted PCs or whoever the PCs are hunting. Dead or alive, always. 1. Lolelia Rakva Her skin is a beautiful pastel bl... 082
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Yamantaka // Sonic Titan deserved the kind of career King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has 010
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Melville once wrote of Moby-Dick: “it is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables & hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it.” I hope one day something I write can be described the same way 020
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I actually really like alignment (L-N-C of course, I don't care for G and E) but every OSR game plays like it doesn't exist. I endeavor to find a way to make it more relevant in my games and yet every attempt has left me wanting. This is my curse. 150
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The conversation about what is lost when shortcuts and conveniences are used in TTRPG writing can be extended to OSR mechanics mechanics meant to sand off "rote" aspects of old games. Overloaded encounter dice are the bullet points of game mechanics. traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/03/work...traipse.hexarcana.comWork, Shortcuts, and ShortcomingsMy marble visage wrinkles with an Ozymandian sneer when I read the countless posts advocating the disposal of this rule or that procedure be... 152
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Illustrations like these are important for kids because they feed the part of the mind that craves the grotesque. You learned the pages you never turn to, save for when compelled by morbid curiosity... better to be occasionally distressed by a picture in a kids book than anesthetized by cocomelon 090
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Picture this: Carcosa but the visual inspiration is old school Tokusatsu 3287
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The only remotely good Harry Potter-adjacent thing is Wizard People Dear Reader and that's only because of the amount of times Brad Neely gets to say "lo." Period end of story. 040
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Does the world have room for yet another OSR fighter fix? Yes. Specifically this one: traipse.hexarcana.com/2026/03/migh...traipse.hexarcana.comMIGHT DICE: New House Rule for FightersEveryone has a fix for the Fighter. Every OSR game. Every blogger. I have . You have. It's a veritable right of passage. I have tried quite ... 071
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Working on a doc for my players about unlockable classes. One of the classes is unlocked by discovering it exists. 050
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 11/03/2026A common thing in JRPGs and other video games you don't see so much in fantasy TTRPGs is when monsters are a relatively recent phenomenon in the setting. It's either implied or outright stated that everything was fine and placid until the BBEG appeared, and now there are monsters everywhere 150
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I heard 1d6 flies buzz when I died 3162
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Reading @idraluna-archives.bsky.social's Zurth hexcrawl and I'm thrilled. There's like a minimum of 10 good ideas per page. I'm Zurthpilled. I'm a Zurthhead. I'm standing on the street asking strangers if they heard of Zurth 161
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈Catomika- Open for work!! @categerbasi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Orc raiders 12432117
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈elmcat @elmc.at · 04/03/2026New month, new newsletter. Talking about why I didn't blog this month haha Also including a ton of links to posts I found interesting! elmc.at/catmail-2/elmc.atCATMAIL #2Look what the cat dragged in. Monthly project updates, plus curated blog posts and oddments worth your time. 02411
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The Coen brothers have such a talent for creating overwhelming malicious and magnetic villains 011
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Hot take on a niche topic: Carousing MISHAPS are better than general "carousing tables." The drift from rolling on a table of silly mishaps if you fail your save(/whatever) to just having a general table you roll on every time a PC carouses has watered down what makes carousing fun. 140
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 25/02/2026If you're ever worried about your settlements being underprepped, remember that people used to run years-long campaigns with Wilderlands of High Fantasy which described towns like this: 2215
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I'm glad someone has the courage to speak out against Boblin the Goblin because that has got to go 152
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Oh, you thought The Bloggies were over? The Bloggies haven't ended. They might never end. Vote in the Bonus categories this week! Ballot: forms.gle/d6YbnUqiuypv... www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/explorersdesign.comThe Bloggies 2026A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games. 14826
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 23/02/2026My home game is fairly orthodox human-centered BX, but now a different group wants me to run for them I'm going totally opposite. Play whatever you want. Sexy vampire. half-demon. Human-size mech with tiny pilot. Sentient pile of worms. Hell yeah. Just no bards. 130
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈David Blandy makes games sometimes @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Ten Types of Special Rooms is in the final! Vote for that and both entries with Colonial in the title if you want a special prize (my admiration) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comThe Bloggies: Round 4Welcome to The Bloggies. You're currently voting in the forth and final round of the tournament! All five categories are included. You'll be voting on each matchup in the five categories. What are The... 011
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The 10 Types of Special Rooms is in round three? Can we keep the dream alive? Only with your support. Join me on the path to glory. WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS. 193
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Something I like about the Dying Earth series is that Jack Vance calls deodands and grues and the like half-men. Much stronger than D&D's "humanoid." Calling orcs half-men has a kind of haunting & tragic weight to it whereas calling them humanoids sounds like you're about to bring out the calipers 060
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 16/02/2026The Tichnertime says: "You hear the man! Voting has begun!! Tick tock!!!" "The Tichnertime" sculpture is one of my favorite pieces from Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg, whose wonderful art graces my bloggie-nominated post The 10 Types of Special Rooms. Vote for it in the THEORY category! 121
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Every now and then I think about how the design note for Adelle from Final Fantasy Tactics A2 must have been "make her as catgirl as possible without actually making her a catgirl." And I love it. 031
Reposted by 𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈matara @mataramg.itch.io · 13/02/2026Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals should be the template 1132
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 12/02/2026In a stunning reversal of the civilizational transition from orality to literacy, the bloggie nominees are becoming audio. Thank you @directsun.bsky.social for the stellar job narrating my post! You navigated my tongue-twisting typos with admirable alacrity. podcast.bloggies.orgpodcast.bloggies.orgWe Read The Bloggies (@WeReadTheBloggies) • ActivityWe’re volunteers turning Bloggies-nominated blog posts into audio. So you can enjoy them anywhere, in a more accessible format. 1102
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 09/02/2026My new game prep style is to thoroughly prepare only 80% of what I need and then vibe out the rest at the table. 120
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Do yourself a favor and check this out. It's fascinating. And not just because the author has exquisite taste in blogs. 050
!["A prestige version of a character class is available to players who run a character of that class to level 4 or satisfy in-game conditions as that class. Here are some examples:
Acrobat (Thief): Survive a fall of 30’ or more.
Assassin (Thief): Slay an assassin initiate and take their place.
Druid (Cleric): Renounce your god, burn down a church, and wander the wilderness for 6 months.
Illusionist (Magic-User): Acquire a totem from the Place of Shadows.
Paladin (Fighter): Find a holy sword and complete the quest it bestows you.
Ranger (Fighter): Slay or subdue a beast of legend.
Slayer (Cleric): Accept a blood-curse in order to slay a demon or undead foe.
[the following sentence is in white font, highlighted to make it visible] Paramander (Fighter): discover the Paramander and take up their cause.
Classes not listed here may also become available over the course of the game."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s5xsthk5bfxq4p3hoea47l3i/bafkreicia5rnt77oapaysaxrppiuvn7ud3yufhzdj5yixip7okkgyds2yq)
