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Laidback DMI love <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>. I bet you do, too!Check out some of my <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/handdrawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#handdrawn</a> maps from my ‘Maps For Fantasy RPGs’ packages that you can use in your own projects, royalty free. You can find out more at <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/13989/laidback-dm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/13989/laidback-dm</a><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/cartographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartographer</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dungeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dungeon</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Drawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Drawn</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dnd</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/5e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#5e</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/pathfinder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pathfinder</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Runequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Runequest</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/shadowdark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shadowdark</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Dragonbane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dragonbane</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a>

KevinA predictable cycle in OSR/adjacent circles is that if a new game gains popularity it is followed by the following genre hacks: scifi/scifantasy, mythos, post-apoc (Gamma World-esque or serious), weird west, supers, scifi horror, modern, and maybe something cozy.As a consumer, I'm not complaining but it can feel like checking off checkboxes.It really shows that the massive universal systems were never needed.<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a>

Robin MarxFirst session in a new campaign! The Halls of Arden Vul using OSRIC. I’m playing a human thief with incredibly unremarkable stats!Excited both to try the Arden Vul megadungeon and OSRIC. AD&D 1e is one of the few editions I have zero experience with.<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSRIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSRIC</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a>

Bodo Heye<a href="https://archaeo.social/@mrundkvist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mrundkvist</a> last (probably super busy) workday before the Easter Holidays. Tonight, I have an opportunity to playtest bits of my history-inspired <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a> hexcrawl (Late Medieval Fantastic Campaign: Frisia Orientalis).

Moreau VazhOne thing I do appreciate about <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a> games is the way that magical items have become lateral-thinking engines rather than combat buffs.I've always been horrified by the idea of swords of orc-slaying - Did the wizard who invented that experiment on live orcs?In LOTR elf-made things burn orcs but Mordor-blades poison people and it's a reflection of materials and methods rather than design.Genocidal D&D wizards like South African military scientists gene-hacking sickle-cell anemia.

Stuffed Crocodilettrpg fortunes <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/fortune-fail.webp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><code>fortune</code></a> is one of those classic unix programs that are available on basically all unixoid systems. The only thing it does is “display a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations”, or as the man-page of fortune for debian says: “fortune – print a random, hopefully interesting, adage”. To be fair, the fortune part of the name comes from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fortune cookies</a>. So whatever is printed is not meant to be taken too seriously. You wouldn’t think this is a terribly interesting or even useful program, but people have found uses for it over the last few decades. It might just be used to provide a human element to an otherwise sterile work environment, but I also found it used at least once to provide a noticeable update to an otherwise static website (by printing adages about project management. So the updates were functionally useless, but the program did fulfill an important task). What the program does is this: it takes a file of adages, or sayings, or other small text snippets, and when called prints one of them. You can chose which file you want to take those from, you can choose the length you want your printed text to be, and a few other smaller options. It will determine one and output it. It’s one of those programs that breathes the unix philosophy that a program should do just one thing, but do it well. You might encounter it every time when you log on to a shell, where the admin has configured <code>fortune </code>to print a quote. Or some people have it in their signature for forums or emails. (sometimes connected with something like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><code>cowsay</code></a> which prints a bit of crude ascii art cow (or whatever) saying whatever fortune spit out. <pre><code> ________________________________________/ I could never be a druid, I just don’t \\ trust the trees. They’re too shady. / ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||</code></pre>There are a lot of different fortune files available, from the stock ones that are shipped with distributions, to other projects where you might, e.g. find <a href="https://www.splitbrain.org/projects/fortunes/discworld" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Discworld quotes</a>, or, I dunno, your favorite <a href="https://github.com/JKirchartz/fortunes/blob/master/chuckfacts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chuck Norris facts</a>.Anyway, I was futzing around with our <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/chat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IRC network</a> lately and while playing around with a bot that could use <code>fortune</code>, I realized that there was no actual file available for stuff about roleplaying (or wargaming, or boardgaming, or any gaming for that matter).So I decided to make one.Right now it’s only a small page on <a href="https://campaignwiki.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">campaignwiki.org</a>: <a href="https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage</a> but the idea is to soon enough move that to github and do it on there.If you want to add to the file: the page above is a wiki so you can just add what you want to add. (some people already did). I am looking for pithy sayings, jokes, DM advice, and everything else that might be interesting. Have a great quote about roleplaying games? Maybe even a more or less short story? Just add it on there. Rate this: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/dnd/" target="_blank">#dnd</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/fortune/" target="_blank">#fortune</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/linux/" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/osr/" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/" target="_blank">#rpg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/unix/" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/wargames/" target="_blank">#Wargames</a>

NathanAny <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Traveller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Traveller</a> supplement discuss how a post-capitalism TL, or private ownership divergent society might operate?Is there like a "Beyond Capital" article for Traveller?<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a>Thanks!

J. Alan HenningFrom Knight at the Opera: Urban Gameplay Part 5: Breaking Ground (without breaking your back), <a href="https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/03/urban-gameplay-part-5-breaking-ground.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/03/urban-gameplay-part-5-breaking-ground.html</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a>

lumipateEnding the day after the publication of my first adventure and I'm quite surprised with the amount of views and downloads it got! I hope those of you who got it are enjoying the read, and I invite you to leave reviews on the page!For those who haven't seen it yet, I'll make your search easier and leave this here: <a href="https://12sidedgoblin.itch.io/fairy-dust-in-altellas-tea-house" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://12sidedgoblin.itch.io/fairy-dust-in-altellas-tea-house</a><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a>

lumipateFairy Dust in Altella's Tea House is out!This is a FREE OSR adventure, with a cosy vibe, that you can easily slot into your ongoing fantasy campaign! Get it at <a href="https://12sidedgoblin.itch.io/fairy-dust-in-altellas-tea-house" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://12sidedgoblin.itch.io/fairy-dust-in-altellas-tea-house</a><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/selfpromo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfpromo</a>

martinAlso, to defeat the dragon, first produce an accurate sketch of the dragon's armour. Take it to a safe to identify which mastersmith's handiwork it is. Track down the (presumably) long ruined dwarven kingdom. Fight through it to find the secret plans, and identify the weaknesses deliberately installed by the dwarves as a safeguard against draconic aggression. <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dragons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dragons</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/hobbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobbit</a>

martinIt suggests an opportunity for an enterprising party to act as a go between dwarven smiths and a dragon, taking a cut of the vast sum charged - another way of "looting" the dragon.Or pretend that you are there for legitimate business, but instead scouting out weaknesses or just stealing treasure.But then if these deals happen every few centuries, these tricks will have been played before, and so even honest parties will meet suspicion from the dragon.<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dragons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dragons</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/hobbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobbit</a>

martinAlso the next sentence is "[Dragons] can't make a thing for themselves, not even mend a little loose scale of their armour."Which suggests that Tolkien's thought is maybe that dragon's scales are not grown but built??In Chapter 12, Smaug says "I am armoured above and below with iron scales and hard gems".All of which may just be poetic language from Tolkien. But what if it isn't? What if dragons commission armour from master smiths?<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/hobbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobbit</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dragons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dragons</a>

martinIt really makes sense of D&D groups that award XP for loot even before selling it - clearly all denizens of fantasy worlds can just see the value of treasure hovering above it in yellow numbers.(2/2)<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/hobbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobbit</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dragon</a>

martinI am rereading The Hobbit. Here is Thorin talking about dragons:"Dragons steal gold and jewels ... and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed they hardly know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually have a good notion of the current market value" (pg 28 in my Harper Collins paperback).I love the idea of monstrous dragons who hoard valuables for no reason... But of course know how much it goes for on eBay. 😂(1/2)<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/hobbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobbit</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dragon</a>

1 tripod in 3 trenchcoatsand in fact Links to Wisdom wiki also is still available on here (I spent so much time on that place tryign to find interesting <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/osr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#osr</a> content)<a href="https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/LinksToWisdom/HomePage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/LinksToWisdom/HomePage</a>

WhidouToday was session 83 of our <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/UVG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UVG</a> campaign. The caravan came up with a plan to save the solar system involving painful head grafting, resurrecting a dead black hole, impersonating envoys from the biomechanical tumor space station, gathering the 12 witches that brought magic to the world, stealing a city-worth of soul energy, sowing dissent in a communist city-state, and escorting a megasloth back to its natural habitat.<a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a> <a href="https://ludosphere.fr/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a>

XenogragAn alternative to IGO UGO combat<a href="https://therecouldhavebeensnakes.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/an-alternative-to-the-standard-igo-ugo-combat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://therecouldhavebeensnakes.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/an-alternative-to-the-standard-igo-ugo-combat/</a><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DnD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DnD</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BlogosphereFinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlogosphereFinds</a>

Moreau VazhInteresting piece about the <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a> as a 'tradition' and how a lot of younger gamers look on YouTube personalities as mentors. This explains a lot... and not in a good way.<a href="https://wardagainstevil.com/2025/03/10/the-shared-tradition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wardagainstevil.com/2025/03/10/the-shared-tradition/</a>

XenogragLow Prep Faction Play<a href="https://mediumsandmessages.bearblog.dev/low-prep-faction-play/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mediumsandmessages.bearblog.dev/low-prep-faction-play/</a><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DnD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DnD</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSR</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BlogosphereFinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlogosphereFinds</a>

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