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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 15d
"Why megadungeons?" My pitch is that they are a campaign format that concentrates ideas, maximizes novelty, uses familiarity to advantage, and can be run in 2-4 hour sessions. Plus, between Silk Song and Delicious in Dungeon- everyone knows what they are! icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
WHY MEGADUNGEONS? A Campaign Structure for Modern Lives
Why Megadungeons? Over on the Prismatic Wasteland Discord, a member asked essentially, "Why megadungeons?" This is a good perennial questi...
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 5h
Appreciate it!
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 9h
Hireling die a lot in old-school games and often without a lot of consequence. Ktrey helps you change that!
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ktrey @ktrey.bsky.social · 9h
Heh, Gnarly Undead and Wergild both show up in my little "Consequences for Hireling Death" table:
d12 Table featuring ideas for Consequences of Hireling Death, including a hit to Reputation, Price Increases, the family requesting a Deodand, the Body, Wergild...or even some more exotic situations like haunting by Poltergeists/Revenants.
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 22h
Your hexcrawl's new lunar calendar
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Jez Gordon @jezgordon.bsky.social · 1d
From David Finlay, on FB's Australian Meteor Reports group.
"I get triggered every time I hear an Australian reporter say “Harvest Moon” or “Strawberry Moon”, names taken from the northern hemisphere. So I created a Full Moon Calendar with local descriptions. What do you think?"

Love it.
Screengrab of a post from Facebook's Australian Meteor Reports by David Finlay with the text "I get triggered every time I hear an Australian reporter say “Harvest Moon” or “Strawberry Moon”, names taken from the northern hemisphere. So I created a Full Moon Calendar with local descriptions. What do you think? If you like it share it with your friends…it’s on my personal profile or just copy the image." Beneath is a table titled Australian Full Moon Calendar with the columns Month, Moon Name, Seasonal Significance: January - Fire Moon (Waru Moon) February - Cicada Moon (Galanga Moon) March - Dragonfly Moon (Ngummama Moon) April - Emu Moon (Murawung Moon) May - Banksia Moon (Wallum Moon) June - Wombat Moon (Goolung Moon) July - Echidna Moon (Jana Jana Moon) August - Wattle Moon (Mulga Moon) September - Magpie Moon (Kurraka Moon) October - Firefly Moon (Jalngay Moon) November - Flame Tree moon (Bullawai Moon) December - Goanna Moon (Tingka Moon) Footer text: Created by David Finlay, TikTok @wouldyouliketoknowmore
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 1d
Hagfish Hall 'bout to get reeeal tough...
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 1d
Now we are getting to the 🍖 of Clayton's ENNIES debrief. This post provides a boots-on-the-ground view of judging and offers general tips for applicants. 🏆Gold, people, gold!🥇
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 1d
Sean might have written one of the best "DMGs" with the Warden's manual, so I'm gonna have to check-in on MOTHERSHIP does a campaign setting.
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Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 1d
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Work in progress cover of an upcoming boxed set for Mothership RPG entitled Prospero's Dream. There's a cyberpunk crime lord named Yandee on the cover, along with various other NPCs from the award winning adventure, A Pound of Flesh.
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 2d
Always fantastic to have someone take the time, blood, sweat, and tears to explain a process. Wonderful to get this four-part insight!
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 2d
I love award shows. It's no secret. It's why I've spent months writing, refining, and trying to distill my Ennies judging experience.

It's a 4-part series (I know, I know). One article a day. Today's lays out my goals and puts the focus on awards in general.

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-1/
The Awards Debrief 2025
An in-depth look at the Ennie Awards, its process, design, and role from the perspective of one former judge.
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 2d
CoC 8th should change half its skills to be crimes:

35% Kidnapping
60% Assault & Battery
25% Burglary
Ect

I think would help drive home the PCs shift from law abiding citizens to crazies using any means to stop a supposed greater evil
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 2d
🦑🔍👀

Time for Sid to crack this case & figure out why this kid was turned into some sorta “battery”
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 2d
🦑🔍👀

Time for Sid to crack this case & figure out why this kid was turned into some sorta “battery”
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 2d
I work with my hands…
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 3d
Brewing up HIS MAJESTY THE *LEARN*

Very nice downtime tables for all magical school games.
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Night of the Living Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 3d
I've been running a Magic School game using HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. This has obliged me to house rule the hell out of it. Here are the downtime actions to represent your extracurricular activities.
Magical School Downtime Actions
During my weekly game, I have been running a magical school game using His Majesty the Worm. Following my copy and paste manifesto ethos , I...
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 3d
Over the Garden Wall is generally fantastic, but this scene always really makes me laugh
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 3d
75% of my approach to old-school fantasy adventure games
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 4d
One of my favorite adventures!
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Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 4d
The first stretch goal has been unlocked! 🌟

The Adventure Zine will now also contain an updated and re-illustrated version of The Rot King's Sanctum!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/emielboven/durf
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 4d
Carouse, Carouse! is out!

I love all these newsletters each with their own view of the old-school DIY scene.

Nicely done y'all!
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Personable | Markus @personable.bsky.social · 7d
New month, new Carouse, Carouse! More gameables, reviews, opinions, and a veritable cornucopia of blog posts!

www.carouse.blog/october-2025...
October 2025 - The Most Spookiful Time of the Year
The last vestiges of summer are leaving the northern hemisphere, and pumpkin season is starting to get going, so the Carousing Collective is once again here to bring you the best in RPG blogging for y...
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Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 5d
DURF Expanded is now live on Kickstarter! 🔥

www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 6d
These feel particularly Dolemenwood encoded!
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 6d
A nice list, I’ve done something like this at con games to great effect by saying you have X relationship with the PC to the left of you.

I’ve even included weird ones like “You inexplicably look exactly like the PC to your left but are not a doppelgänger, twin, or sibling” & got triplets that way
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Reynaldo @naldodrinan.bsky.social · 6d
This week on the BREAK!! blog - turns out, you didn't all meet in a tavern.

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Starting Social Bonds (Freebie)
This week's entry is a preview of a small portion our next supplement START - namely, one of the procedures included in the section for fl...
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Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 14d
If I were to do a discord for trans fems who like old (pre-wotc) versions of D&D and like Big Dungeons in particular, would anyone be interested in that
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 9d
That’s generally in the downtime in the week between dungeon delving.
Some crafting is best done only by NPCs because it’s low-overhead and it’s a reason PCs shouldn’t piss off the town

But here is my stab at cooking/crafting: icastlight.blogspot.com/2024/07/deli...
DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON: Let the Players Do The Creative Cooking
But seriously, " D-in-D" IS a good manga Jumping again on the gravy train that is Delicious in Dungeon posting. Here is a post by Grinni...
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 9d
So sorry KC! Please let us help if we can and if you need anything.
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 9d
Nice! Blog it!

Good questions, I’ll have to update the post with ‘em
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 9d
Otherwise, I am not arguing that megadungeons are superior to citycrawls or pointcrawls but they are not archaic nor *inferior* to those modes (or other campaign structures) and provide advantages.
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 9d
The fruit void here is both "physical" as in exploiting the building structure & contents and "social" the various factions needs/wants/secrets/poximites. All while being much easier on DM prep & PC keeping track of things because of repeated exposure to similar elements
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𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 9d
E.G. 1st floor of Versailles is smaller than a city, but reasonable to contain 2-4 factions, yet, you'd lose detail if you reduced these 30 rooms to a point crawl of its 6 or 7 major areas (denoted by the major headings). The detail provides a fruitful void for player actions/unexpected outcomes
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