xaosseed
@xaosseed.bsky.social
Pokes at numbers, plays TTRPGs, CET timezone
Blog: https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/
Blog: https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Wrote a bit about if O/U is a wargame. Also:
- IC, OOC and a secret third thing
- the role of violence in games with a small amount of violence
- a comparison to games that are mostly about politics but not necessarily role playing
#Over/Under
Wrote a bit about if O/U is a wargame. Also:
- IC, OOC and a secret third thing
- the role of violence in games with a small amount of violence
- a comparison to games that are mostly about politics but not necessarily role playing
#Over/Under
Blog
seedlinggames.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
seedlinggames.com/blogging/ove...
Wrote a bit about if O/U is a wargame. Also:
- IC, OOC and a secret third thing
- the role of violence in games with a small amount of violence
- a comparison to games that are mostly about politics but not necessarily role playing
#Over/Under
Wrote a bit about if O/U is a wargame. Also:
- IC, OOC and a secret third thing
- the role of violence in games with a small amount of violence
- a comparison to games that are mostly about politics but not necessarily role playing
#Over/Under
Scramble to the end of #hexcrawl25 challenge from @maatlock.bsky.social - from 10% down to on target with 1. interference from the neighbour hexes, 2. harbingers of the out-of-hex threats and 3. stuff from play at the table
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/hexc...
#osr #diyrpg #dnd #ttrpg
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/hexc...
#osr #diyrpg #dnd #ttrpg
Hexcrawl '25 scramble for the finish
For Hexcrawl25 , taking the challenge on I settled on the whole super-hex = 40-mile, hexes are 10-mile, sub-hexes 2.5 mile as my working sca...
seedofworlds.blogspot.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Scramble to the end of #hexcrawl25 challenge from @maatlock.bsky.social - from 10% down to on target with 1. interference from the neighbour hexes, 2. harbingers of the out-of-hex threats and 3. stuff from play at the table
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/hexc...
#osr #diyrpg #dnd #ttrpg
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/hexc...
#osr #diyrpg #dnd #ttrpg
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The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures.
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures.
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
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Coming next year for OSE Month is Dinner with the Damned, the third and probably final funnel for OSE by the Afterthought Committee.
Primary writing by @gendershrug.bsky.social, additional writing and layout by me, art by @egallagher.bsky.social.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
Primary writing by @gendershrug.bsky.social, additional writing and layout by me, art by @egallagher.bsky.social.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Coming next year for OSE Month is Dinner with the Damned, the third and probably final funnel for OSE by the Afterthought Committee.
Primary writing by @gendershrug.bsky.social, additional writing and layout by me, art by @egallagher.bsky.social.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
Primary writing by @gendershrug.bsky.social, additional writing and layout by me, art by @egallagher.bsky.social.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
Leafwander herbalists festival for the ruin-filled swamplands (RPG Blog Carnival )
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/leaf...
#ttrpg #dnd #blogcarnival #osr #diyrpg
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/leaf...
#ttrpg #dnd #blogcarnival #osr #diyrpg
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Leafwander herbalists festival for the ruin-filled swamplands (RPG Blog Carnival )
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/leaf...
#ttrpg #dnd #blogcarnival #osr #diyrpg
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/leaf...
#ttrpg #dnd #blogcarnival #osr #diyrpg
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Some morning coffee ICYMIs:
RPG Blog Carnival: Feast of Five Days
🎪 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/nove...
A Zine Storage Binder
📚 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/a-1-...
🟢 Heavy Metal Library Unlocks KS
dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/the-...
Click, share, do whatever you do with blogs I guess 😅
RPG Blog Carnival: Feast of Five Days
🎪 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/nove...
A Zine Storage Binder
📚 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/a-1-...
🟢 Heavy Metal Library Unlocks KS
dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/the-...
Click, share, do whatever you do with blogs I guess 😅
November Blog Carnival: Feasts & Festivals - Dungeons & Possums
This month's RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted by the wonderful Of Dice And Dragons and the theme is feasts and festivals. I'm a fan of festivals and holidays in RPGs; I love to invent them and often ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Some morning coffee ICYMIs:
RPG Blog Carnival: Feast of Five Days
🎪 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/nove...
A Zine Storage Binder
📚 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/a-1-...
🟢 Heavy Metal Library Unlocks KS
dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/the-...
Click, share, do whatever you do with blogs I guess 😅
RPG Blog Carnival: Feast of Five Days
🎪 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/nove...
A Zine Storage Binder
📚 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/a-1-...
🟢 Heavy Metal Library Unlocks KS
dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/11/the-...
Click, share, do whatever you do with blogs I guess 😅
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#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own.
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
How to Replicate Over/Under
A Guide to Live Text Roleplay
www.valerialoves.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own.
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
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He might of forgotten, but this is where I stole the idea for the Some Weird Sin srd
someweirdsin.github.io
someweirdsin.github.io
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
He might of forgotten, but this is where I stole the idea for the Some Weird Sin srd
someweirdsin.github.io
someweirdsin.github.io
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Zedeck has finished his weird freaks of 40K RPG. Hells yeah. This game feels perfect for kitbashing. Just need the lightest trappings of rules for using minis.
Spent the last two weeks working on this, missing deadlines and not answering messages---but this thing was in my mind like a psychic worm; I just had to get it out, you know?
Process notes and extra thoughts here: slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...
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Process notes and extra thoughts here: slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...
2/
CHAPTER SERF
CHAPTER SERF is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the backgrounds of the art.
Full PDF downloadable...
slowlorispress.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Zedeck has finished his weird freaks of 40K RPG. Hells yeah. This game feels perfect for kitbashing. Just need the lightest trappings of rules for using minis.
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🙏CHAPTER SERF🙏
I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
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I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
1/
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🙏CHAPTER SERF🙏
I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
1/
I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
1/
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Over at ALL DEAD GENERATIONS, Gus (@ratkingrpg.bsky.social) writes about how common obstacles vs. say puzzle rooms are a key part of dungeon design. This is reinforced by how many 1st & 2nd-level MU spells are about getting around these common blocks: alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2025/11/dung...
Dungeon Design Note: Obstacles Support Exploration
Less Combat ... More Obstacles I’ve been talking about dungeon crawling as a play style here for years, and I’m not alone among RPG blogger...
alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Over at ALL DEAD GENERATIONS, Gus (@ratkingrpg.bsky.social) writes about how common obstacles vs. say puzzle rooms are a key part of dungeon design. This is reinforced by how many 1st & 2nd-level MU spells are about getting around these common blocks: alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2025/11/dung...
Using @elmc.at blogosphere analysis to try and get a sense of blogging scene vibrancy tl;dr: based on community participation in jams and challenges and continued appearance of 'big idea' posts - blogosphere not dead yet.
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/quer...
#dnd #osr #ttrpg #blogs #diyrpg
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/quer...
#dnd #osr #ttrpg #blogs #diyrpg
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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For perhaps the first time ever I’ve been beaten to the punch in sharing my own post 😅
"But I want to sound some alarm bells about the influence that these platforms are having on the TTRPG space, and the push toward professionalization that could crowd out smaller artists."
October 2025 TTRPG Crowdfunding Retrospective
October: big month for Kickstarter, not so much for Backerkit, and Gamefound is around too I guess. Here's the raw data , let's dive in: 181...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
For perhaps the first time ever I’ve been beaten to the punch in sharing my own post 😅
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If you like blog post aggregation, especially for OSR style blogs you should really be following @xaosseed.bsky.social at seedofworlds.blogspot.com?m=1.
According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!
According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!
Seed of Worlds
Seed of Worlds - writings on tabletop RPGs
seedofworlds.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you like blog post aggregation, especially for OSR style blogs you should really be following @xaosseed.bsky.social at seedofworlds.blogspot.com?m=1.
According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!
According to (incomplete) data they've linked 4900 blog posts and counting over the years. Almost 5x the next highest number!
Review: Home Reforged - a game of dwarves delving the dark to restablish outposts; tight old-school style with some nice mechanical twists.
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
#dnd #ttrpg #osr #zine #review #kickstarter
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
#dnd #ttrpg #osr #zine #review #kickstarter
Review: Home Reforged
tl:dr; a game of dwarves delving the dark to restablish outposts; tight old-school style with some nice mechanical twists. Where did this c...
seedofworlds.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Review: Home Reforged - a game of dwarves delving the dark to restablish outposts; tight old-school style with some nice mechanical twists.
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
#dnd #ttrpg #osr #zine #review #kickstarter
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
#dnd #ttrpg #osr #zine #review #kickstarter
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NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
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The preorder for my next ONE RING rpg supplement, HANDS OF THE WHITE WIZARD, is up!
freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-one...
freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-one...
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The preorder for my next ONE RING rpg supplement, HANDS OF THE WHITE WIZARD, is up!
freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-one...
freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-one...