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Marsworms @marsworms.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW at Save vs. Worm!! Last year, I finished reviewing every monster in the Fiend Folio; today, I'm returning to that fertile field to find some fiendish fools that failed to find their way into the Folio. There's some genuinely cool monsters in here #OSR savevsworm.blogspot.com/2026/10/fien...

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Fiend Factory Freaks that Failed to Fill the Fiend Folio

Over a year ago, I finished up my series of posts reviewing monsters from the FIEND FOLIO! And YET, something is missing! The Fiend Folio g...

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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Remarkably useful dungeon design resource sersavictory.itch.io/dungeon-gest...

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Dungeon Gestalts by Sersa Victory

36 organizational patterns for dungeons

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the most recent episode of Between 2 Cairns, reviewing B5 - Horror on the Hill, our hosts were befuddled over the conclusion that discussed "subduing the dragon." Dragon subduing is one of the bizarre quirks of White Box OD&D that has been lost to time. A small 🧵of explanation:

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The correct answer is that subduing dragons is fucking awesome, that’s why only dragons. But a cool DM could easily include all other monsters, and this would become a kickass mechanic. Monster capturing! Lastly, I can’t believe this piece of my childhood head cannon fell out of common knowledge.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They think the framework is full of mysteries bc they don’t have all the connections and it’s anti canon. Truth is it’s all holes and loose ideas: I make the needed connections up as rewards, sometimes at the table, and I don’t always remember what I said before.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh god me too. With my current weekly group, I settled on a combo of memory catching oddities they personally latched onto (their mental framework) and my repetition of connecting clues. Bit like a 3+ clue rule: they earn oblique clues every time they inch closer to a mystery through exploration.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If there’s a place for fun Lore, it’s weird elements. Objects and monuments and customs that hint at a bigger world and a deep history to uncover.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I also don’t do pantheons or magic systems anymore. Gods godlings and spirits and magic have to be mysterious to be interesting. So anti-canon lore is fine: “Rules change in the Reaches”.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I used to write tons of Lore and try to work it in. But now I keep it to <2 pages. It informs who and what the evils of the works are doing, rumored world events. The players encounter it as their actions hit against it. For the world to feel real, lore can’t smack them in the face. It’s friction.

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a HUGE contribution to tooling for running games at the table. DirectSun is burying the lede a little. He has made a web template that lets you have clickable maps, preview hyperlinks, and have multiple views of an adventure open at once. This is an incredible resource for GMs!

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is an amazing accomplishment and contribution to the community. Plus, fun to read!

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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 01/10/2026

A lot of people are making their own stuff for Into the Oddish. For those who want to make more types of Pokemon as player characters, I put together some guidelines for how I would design them. It is a lot less formulaic than designing Pokemon as enemies. #ttrpg #osr #pokemon

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Wanting to Be the Very Best Pokémon: Playable Pokémon for Into the Oddish — Prismatic Wasteland

Guidelines for creating playable Pokemon (essentially classes) for Into the Oddish.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy you liked it! I am Updating my resume right now with “Draws like a pirate”.

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Created Wrongly @creativewronging.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

149. The Opal Griffon Rises! by @velocitree.bsky.social An ashy, bloody, island pointcrawl for Pirate BORG 🏴‍☠️ Great map that looks like it was drawn by a pirate, and a pointcrawl wherein every location has a unique, local enemy type; land sharks, feral kids, & carnivorous, drug-addicted seagulls!

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The Opal Griffon Rises! by dreamshrike

Landsharks, Ash, a sandy isle: a deadly one-shot for Pirate Borg.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My players just come back. The kids lose treasure gained. The adults make deals with occult powers. I need a third option though, I like the idea of dying and gifting your stuff!

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girl with Shinigami eyes @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm proud to be included in Yochai's post! In my own writing, I usually make what Yochai calls Object-Oriented Keys, but I'm happy others have wholly embraced LHS as a keying framework. The right key is the one YOU can read and interpret while an audience watches and waits to see what you'll say.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That’s pitch perfect for their little bloodthirsty minds.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My ten years olds are gonna Love that second list. A butcher serving bodies!

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you for the kind words! I was hoping to let the kids run their own adventures and, if they got stuck, having them tell me a place. Then this table for forest, Undercrawl for a dungeon, and I was going to troll your site for city prompts. :)

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026

[ ~ Where grief stirs, spirits linger ~ ] Dive into the kaleidoscopic fantasy of Beneath the Floating World, a Carved from Brindlewood game of psychedelic zenpunk exorcism ~ Uncover twisted truths, face supernatural horrors and navigate your mortal woes . . . sandroad.itch.io/restrain-ref...

The cover for beneath the floating world ~ Featuring an onryo-esc figure above two silhouetted exorcists

The beginning of character creation rules

The center fold describing the parallel Day and Night phases of play

The 12 Exorcist Moves that can each define a character

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are two pieces of tech that I have found really useful while building the Middle-earth Hexcrawl. As near as I know, they're innovations (although nothing is really new), so perhaps you would like to hear them! The first is called GEE BILL, WHY DOES YOUR MOM LETY OU HAVE TWO ENCOUNTER TABLES 🧵

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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m errrr. I’m on YouTube? Well, I kinda had to for showing off Inkvein. Check out a look-through and tour of perhaps the biggest @morkborg.com adventure ever made #osr www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrtp...

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The biggest MÖRK BORG adventure ever made

YouTube video by Murkdice

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, and Knock, a beautiful series of books that are edited ttrpg blog posts with art.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Luka Rejec for sure (Ultraviolet Grasslands) and Pirate Borg and that art book that was nominated for an Ennie this year? Someone help me out there.

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Agreeable Chatter @69dinguses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Turn your #OSR modules into a pick-up-and-play party game with RAID Array Mischief! All you need is a deck of cards and a set of dice to explore tombs and dark forests as a shapeshifting robot with a punch-card memory. Available now on itch! dadstep.itch.io/raid-array-m...

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RAID Array Mischief by To Be Resolved

Exploring yesterday's adventures with tomorrow's technology...today!

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is the world Real? dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/09/ever... Or a dream? dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/09/ever... On either path lies power. At night our minds flail at the cracks between universes.

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Every master a king

"When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, kn...

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Created Wrongly @creativewronging.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sorry to be spamming this again, but I haven't had a single writing commission since I made that original post in May, so if anyone is interested in taking any part of this off my hands (or hiring me for game work), that would be lovely 🙏 Also, shares of the below appreciated #TTRPG #PF1e 🎲

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Great insight, wow this IS a parable. Really about many things: GM burnout, frustrated novel writing, being flexible. I find shared storytelling a selfless act, one where finding satisfaction from doing it the right way is key for long term persistence as a GM.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wonderful! I look forward to the take (even if you don’t like it), and this thread you made is wonderful—it needs to go on a blog and be preserved. If you do not have one, you could guest post on any our blogs I bet, but if no one else offers, I am happy to help host it.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am tenterhooks every time I check this thread. If you have time to throw The Opal Griffon Roses! Onto the pile, many thanks. I appreciate the honest feedback.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I tend to do the latter (with a very loose short superstory) so my interpretation was coming from there. I hold character choices > story > oracles (eg character lucky high roll). An attack is an action/choice and primacy goes to choices. A roll is an oracle: story over oracle, when there is need.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey W I had to think a bit before replying. I agree IF the DM was aiming towards a fixed outcome all along. But if instead they were riffing all along, folding novel events into the superstory, and only got rigid at the end? Then it just sucks and is only a case of freezing up at a key moment.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thank you! I went to bed trying to decide if I wanted to blog rpg stuff or a poem, then woke up and decided fun prose was the order of the morning. Besides I feel faith does that sometimes for people—just shakes everything and demands to be listened to, reason be damned.

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I don’t like it when they say gods are faith constructs, because often that is lazy storytelling. If you take that through to its logical conclusion though, I think it gets interesting again. Example: dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/08/ever...

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Every cleric a saint

"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." -...

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thought experiment: what if powerful clerics in RPGs had more in common with the Music Man than Mother Teresa? Faith is power and you should grab it. Tell em good ol Saint Velo saved you. dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/08/ever...

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Every cleric a saint

"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." -...

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Also very true. Single point failures are not good design. But fudging, like jaywalking, is only a sin if you get caught or do it all the time. Why place a loyalty to facts over the story resolution? This DM who doesn’t do it anymore, do you think they are happy their Blorb card is still valid?

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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I feel this short Q&A from Secret Passages #1 has a couple of good lessons embedded in it:

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is why HP should not be blorb (fixed) if the story needs it. Why ruin your game over verisimilitude no one can see? Just double his HP im the moment and keep talking. The archer still lowered him by half, woop.

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Agreeable Chatter @69dinguses.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG is now live on Itch! Cadastre is a highly re-playable tarot-powered RPG for 3 players. Meet your 19th-century survey crew and brave the frontier as you plot a treacherous border region. dadstep.itch.io/cadastre-a-l...

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Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG by To Be Resolved

A tarot-powered tabletop game about borders and the surveyors who draw them

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Velocitree @velocitree.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just discovered this thread and I am blown away by the thoughtful reviews, thank you!

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