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 · 30/07/2026This is sort of what The Picture of Dorian Gray is about 030
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I always thought it was crazy you could be a 1 HD guy and fight dragons and werewolves and hydras no problem but a giant shrew is somehow so scary a single attack from one makes you flee in terror 210
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
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 06/07/2026On the other hand, my heart breaks every time I ask someone about a thing I found core to a book and they go "oh, I didn't get that part..." When I read good a book I want to devour every single word the author thought to put on the page. 010
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 06/07/20261 and 3 are two sides of the same coin, which sounds corny and woo but unfortunately is true. 2 could be correct but it's conjecture how much of an impact it had. 4's the long shot. 000
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 · 16/06/2026In many games this is covered by the reaction roll! But I like the idea of collapsing morale and reactions into a single roll, allowing for more variability in how you determine results 110
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 · 02/04/2026Yeah I frequently have alignment come up in my game's setting, but it could still have much more impact in the system. Mechanical weight compliments narrative. Also tangential but IMO fascism is much more Chaos than Law; both ultimately come down to "the world can burn as long as I get mine" 010
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 · 27/03/2026People seem to have a lot of trouble grasping that "when I was younger these games felt different" is a lead-in to a broader discussion not just some stand-alone argument 000
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The Spawn of Shub-Niggurath gurgles menacingly as it approaches 181
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 26/03/2026You arrive at a village ruled by『the Unapproachable Radiance』 and see this. What do you do 191
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 · 25/03/2026The original version of the generator in Strategic Review #1 has the line "If no room is beyond a door check again on TABLE I. 30' after passing by or through a door." No idea why Gygax turned that into something significantly more complicated but that's AD&D I suppose. 011
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Appendix A made a lot more sense to me when I realized it's just rolling on Table I and treating Tables II-VIII like subtables for when you get a result that isn't "Continue Straight." The whole thing is meant to procedurally generate a dungeon as you play, which Gygax isn't super clear about 010
𝔗ℜ𝔄ℑ𝔓𝔖𝔈 @traipsehex.bsky.social · 18/03/2026You're framing of the issue as a "maladaption" is spot on. I think the source of the issue is the common wisdom that it's the players and not the ref who should describe what the PCs do. The false-start "what do you do?" question doesn't do anything to preserve player agency 1170
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 · 14/03/2026Hell yeah. Pale Fire's one of my favorites as well. Should be required reading for anyone interested in games/books/game books 110
