Apart from that, one of my major interests are tabletop role-playing games - another form of oral storytelling which IMO is a worthy successor to the oral storytellers of old.

#ttrpg #dnd #pnpde #pathfinder

Horrifying new monster drop: TARDY THE MAN-PONY
https://randomencounters.tumblr.com/post/820446946879799296/encounter-tardy-the-man-pony

HD 3, AC 13, MV 5 (15"), Morale 5, Kick 2d6, Bite d3 & Save vs Cooties or Wigged Out. 1 in 6 can summon lightning or rainstorms 1/day.

#ttrpg

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Figure of a very nice brown roan horse, with a distressing human man's face instead of the horse head. Box shows "Tardy, the Man Pony" fleeing from a fire & storms?

@Nerdberg A follow up and thoughts about #TwilightSword #ttrpg:

The System is fast, fun to play and easy to explain. The battles are nice, the random monster actions keep the players on their toes.

Also the setting is _CUTE_! It is a nice change from all these grim dark worlds we played in.

It is easy to run (we did not use all the rules) and feels a bit video gameish, (monsters evaporate and drop loot). But the loot tables and monster parts and the cooking is fun too.

I hope we will continue this adventure at one point.

#pnp

Found this earlier today, a fan made a free conversion of the first Dark Sun box set for Shadowdark.

https://archive.org/details/dark-sun-sd-1.0/Dark%20Sun%20SD%201.1/mode/1up

#DarkSun #ShadowDark #DND #TTRPG

I just realised I have 229 paid patrons for my #DnD zine, d12 Monthly. I hadn’t actually looked for a while.
https://yumdm.short.gy/YUMDMpatreon

Thanks to everyone who supports my work - I really appreciate it! #DungeonAndDragons #TTRPG

@dreamup To me a scenario is a wargame setup, a "scene" with terrain & forces. An adventure has a storyline, or several locations, people, & events, not just battle.

TSR's naming for adventure was "module", but almost nobody else used that.
#ttrpg

Once again, @mhd reminded me of an old RPG. If you take GURPs CONAN and you add science, you end up with Masters of the Universe RPG.

Which was already made in the 80s, by FASA, but it was a terrible game, sort of made for kids, sort of a RPG but crossed with a board game and without a referee.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr #conan #heman

I wonder if Conan has had the most variations of game systems made for the setting?

I dug into the old 80s TSR Conan box set. The rules for healing are, if you rest, you gain a bunch of points back tied to some ability score.

There is a medicine skill, if someone does a medicine check on you, you heal at double the usual rate.

So, knowing the people I play with, what this would result in, is the group will do one combat, get hurt, and then retreat back to town and heal up.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr #conan

I blame @mhd for making me go look for the old old GURPs FANTASY rules I had in the early 90s?

Oh boy, that cover. How did that 80s haircut Richard Marx impersonator get in such a predicament!

I spent time reading through the skills and it is slim pickings and not much help.

And now I had to think of Richard Marx, which is not something I wanted to do tonight.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #gurps

Where are your adventures taking you this weekend?

#ttrpg

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A swashbuckler with a rapier and dagger faces a barbarian with a very large sword.

Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan's AMA is live now on r/rpg!

Stop by to ask about Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition, Merryshire Detective Club, game design, writing, or whatever else you've always wanted to know.

See you there!
#TTRPG #AMA

Link: https://bit.ly/4ePR8sd

Merryshire’s Planned Mysteries Are Delightfully Weird #ttrpg #MysteryRPG #TabletopGaming

I'm working on a new "world" for a new D&D sandbox campaign. I'm aiming for a gentler, simpler world with streamlined lore. There's limited strife between people, but lots of dangerous wilderness, ancient ruins, and a primordial evil that spreads corruption. #TTRPG #DnD

After a long hiatus the fine NerdRPG group at @Nerdberg will meet again. Tonight I will run a #TwilightSword game for the first time!

#pnpde #ttrpg

Brains trust... Is there a thing out there that I can get for free (ish) that gives me the chat/discussion capability of Discord, plus wikilinked documents, plus document comments/questions, plus file storage?

Also:
- no US hosting, and probably/preferably Europe
- not owned or influenced by bros or billionaires
- ideally I don't have to self-host and deal with database fuckery and risk of being interfered with by script kiddies and such

My use case is providing materials to a group of #ttrpg players geographically remote from me.

Thursday Night AWBO S4: Love, Oaths and Babysitting

#ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG

http://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/06/25/thursday-night-awbo-s4-love-oaths-and-babysitting/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Worked on reducing my RPG backlog by skimming Modiphius's Dishonored RPG (probably a humble bundle pick up?). First time seeing Modiphius's 2d20 system which I found pretty neat, if a fair few moving parts. The rest of the RPG I didn't find too interesting tbh, felt like not as good Blades in the Dark.

https://stackofgoats.studio/blog/rpg-backlog-2/

#ttrpg #backlog

This RPG Exists Because Of Dessert #ttrpg #MysteryRPG #TabletopGaming

I love my hand-drawn maps for my #DnD campaign world. They aren’t fancy, but they are mine and I know them well. #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG

A Cozy Detective RPG With Real Campaign Depth #ttrpg #MysteryRPG #TabletopGaming

RPG tip from the archive: Use narrative ability checks when fleeing or chasing enemies.

#dnd #ttrpg

Mars: The OTHER OD&D Setting
https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/05/mars-other-od-setting.html?m=1

#blogospherefind #dnd #ttrpg

Blog of Forlorn Encystment: AD&D's Most Expensive and Irritating NPC
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2026/06/ad-most-expensive-and-irritating-npc.html?m=1

#ttrpg #blogospherefind #osr #dnd

d20 Shitty Spaceport Bars – Idraluna Archives
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/d20-shitty-spaceport-bars/

#blogospherefind #ttrpg

our grenzland.club shared #unix server (check it out: https://grenzland.club/ ) has a #snac instance running that I have meant to do something with for a while.

talking about the #OSR LinksToWisdom wiki today I was thinking about how to actually get informed when something new shows up on there. Et voila: the @linkstowisdom account, which posts any changes to the wiki once an hour.

#ttrpg

Kelek does not look quite so evil in demeanor in the official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons coloring book.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #osr #80s

Miss Marple Meets Bucolic Fantasy #cozy #ttrpg #fantasy

RPG tip: Narrate quickly and get to the characters' decisions and actions fast.

#dnd #ttrpg

RPG tip: Every new region has its own internal politics into which the characters can get tied.

#dnd #ttrpg