Juniper
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I have a blog now? Because all the people playing #over/under have them and now I want one too. Check it out here: thegardenbelow.blot.im
First post is about the difference between character voice, narrative voice, and player voice, and its told in those voices because i am, in fact, like that
First post is about the difference between character voice, narrative voice, and player voice, and its told in those voices because i am, in fact, like that
I think sometimes its important to draw a dragon the way your 9 year old self would have appreciated. Look at her. Shes dreadful. What a splendid beast.
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I think sometimes its important to draw a dragon the way your 9 year old self would have appreciated. Look at her. Shes dreadful. What a splendid beast.
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customs official: anything to declare?
Jenny Holzer: [taking a deep breath]
Jenny Holzer: [taking a deep breath]
December 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
customs official: anything to declare?
Jenny Holzer: [taking a deep breath]
Jenny Holzer: [taking a deep breath]
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There's an 85% chance someone will become a DM within 3 months of learning the word "psychopomp" simply so they have a venue to use it more naturally. There are many such words like this - troubling, cursed words that should not be spoke or even taught.
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
There's an 85% chance someone will become a DM within 3 months of learning the word "psychopomp" simply so they have a venue to use it more naturally. There are many such words like this - troubling, cursed words that should not be spoke or even taught.
Many are asking, what is the first of the three fragmentary blog post you're going to share from DQ&D's development? Good news. You need wonder no longer. Its a list of three games played by children in a city the game isnt even set in. Enjoy.
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thegardenbelow.blot.im/three-games-...
Three Games that Matchgirls Play - The Garden Below
An introduction to three children’s street games from DQ&D.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Many are asking, what is the first of the three fragmentary blog post you're going to share from DQ&D's development? Good news. You need wonder no longer. Its a list of three games played by children in a city the game isnt even set in. Enjoy.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/three-games-...
thegardenbelow.blot.im/three-games-...
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pls imagine a blog post from me arguing in all apparent seriousness that it is a sign of how bad times are that portal fantasy (go to a magical land and then come back to yr kinda fine normal life) has been replaced in pop culture by isekai (die, and then be reincarnated somewhere you can succeed)
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
pls imagine a blog post from me arguing in all apparent seriousness that it is a sign of how bad times are that portal fantasy (go to a magical land and then come back to yr kinda fine normal life) has been replaced in pop culture by isekai (die, and then be reincarnated somewhere you can succeed)
DQ&D:
What if your only spellcaster class was a blue mage that learned spells by firing off an lich's unravler shot that psychically scars a person in return for their earthsea style true name? What if that spellcaster is also a tree? What if one of your player character options just is a monster?
What if your only spellcaster class was a blue mage that learned spells by firing off an lich's unravler shot that psychically scars a person in return for their earthsea style true name? What if that spellcaster is also a tree? What if one of your player character options just is a monster?
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
DQ&D:
What if your only spellcaster class was a blue mage that learned spells by firing off an lich's unravler shot that psychically scars a person in return for their earthsea style true name? What if that spellcaster is also a tree? What if one of your player character options just is a monster?
What if your only spellcaster class was a blue mage that learned spells by firing off an lich's unravler shot that psychically scars a person in return for their earthsea style true name? What if that spellcaster is also a tree? What if one of your player character options just is a monster?
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"i like scary movies and loud music and pro wrestling and skateboarding games" is something you should be hearing from your snot nosed cousin but instead it's coming from a beautiful woman, and that's magical to me
December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"i like scary movies and loud music and pro wrestling and skateboarding games" is something you should be hearing from your snot nosed cousin but instead it's coming from a beautiful woman, and that's magical to me
Draft DQ&D True-Witch class rules live from my lunch break. What if the only caster in your game was a blue mage, and what if it was also a tree?
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Draft DQ&D True-Witch class rules live from my lunch break. What if the only caster in your game was a blue mage, and what if it was also a tree?
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New post! This time about a way to navigate hexflowers that I've been exploring this evening, and applications for a friends' dreadful OSR game that she's working on.
open.substack.com/pub/tangentj...
open.substack.com/pub/tangentj...
Cumulative Hexflowers
A new maths thing that I'm poking around at
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
New post! This time about a way to navigate hexflowers that I've been exploring this evening, and applications for a friends' dreadful OSR game that she's working on.
open.substack.com/pub/tangentj...
open.substack.com/pub/tangentj...
A flutter of wings, a plaintive note, the matchgirl of our swinely cohort offers up an insight...
Also fucked that if you just say "blog about this" to a friend you can outsource a design diary. This is good because this amount of maths does 3d6 harm to my Strength of Character stat (& +1d4 Guts)
Also fucked that if you just say "blog about this" to a friend you can outsource a design diary. This is good because this amount of maths does 3d6 harm to my Strength of Character stat (& +1d4 Guts)
New post! This time about a way to navigate hexflowers that I've been exploring this evening, and applications for a friends' dreadful OSR game that she's working on.
open.substack.com/pub/tangentj...
open.substack.com/pub/tangentj...
Cumulative Hexflowers
A new maths thing that I'm poking around at
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A flutter of wings, a plaintive note, the matchgirl of our swinely cohort offers up an insight...
Also fucked that if you just say "blog about this" to a friend you can outsource a design diary. This is good because this amount of maths does 3d6 harm to my Strength of Character stat (& +1d4 Guts)
Also fucked that if you just say "blog about this" to a friend you can outsource a design diary. This is good because this amount of maths does 3d6 harm to my Strength of Character stat (& +1d4 Guts)
I will also confess, this thing might get cut. It's *interesting* but its a *terrible* player facing first thing to roll during character creation lmao. Perhaps this is how we determine random encounters in the GMs guide?
The hogs have been offering sickly words. This thing, this baffling grid, is how you determine your place of origin. It has no bearing what so ever on physical geography. This is what happens when you decide need a different "roll a fistful of d6" mechanics for each stage of character creation.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I will also confess, this thing might get cut. It's *interesting* but its a *terrible* player facing first thing to roll during character creation lmao. Perhaps this is how we determine random encounters in the GMs guide?
The hogs have been offering sickly words. This thing, this baffling grid, is how you determine your place of origin. It has no bearing what so ever on physical geography. This is what happens when you decide need a different "roll a fistful of d6" mechanics for each stage of character creation.
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The hogs have been offering sickly words. This thing, this baffling grid, is how you determine your place of origin. It has no bearing what so ever on physical geography. This is what happens when you decide need a different "roll a fistful of d6" mechanics for each stage of character creation.
They are saying that she is "the lisan al gaib of OSR". They cry it in the streets. She will know our ways as if she was born to them. The Jongleur profession has a high strength stat but starts with 1d100 useless "kings coins" which are not even made of Electrum. She has won every award.
December 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
They are saying that she is "the lisan al gaib of OSR". They cry it in the streets. She will know our ways as if she was born to them. The Jongleur profession has a high strength stat but starts with 1d100 useless "kings coins" which are not even made of Electrum. She has won every award.
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good day to remember the Arcane Kids Manifesto
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
good day to remember the Arcane Kids Manifesto
I am filling out tables. I am making. I am answering questions. What is a lostling? It is when a mistborn grows sick. Everybody knows this.
December 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I am filling out tables. I am making. I am answering questions. What is a lostling? It is when a mistborn grows sick. Everybody knows this.
I have posted too close to the sun, the hogs bay, pigs in the mud wiggle and writhe. I have been forced to write An OCR, and will be doing it in as strange a way as I can manage.
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Don Quixote & Dragons - The Garden Below
making an old school roleplaying game from first principles.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I have posted too close to the sun, the hogs bay, pigs in the mud wiggle and writhe. I have been forced to write An OCR, and will be doing it in as strange a way as I can manage.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/don-quixote-...
thegardenbelow.blot.im/don-quixote-...
OSR is when you feed your players delicious colors. NSR is when the price is easy to swallow.
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
OSR is when you feed your players delicious colors. NSR is when the price is easy to swallow.
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Hot take time, lot of chatter about what is the #osr and I'm finally weighing in.
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
We're asking the wrong questions about the OSR?
Everyone is asking what is the OSR again, but I think we're asking the wrong questions?
Who's not asking these questions?
What don't they want us to kn...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hot take time, lot of chatter about what is the #osr and I'm finally weighing in.
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
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I have drunk a large pot of coffee, I have played around with a tape recorder, I have played one hour of Delta Green with my breakfast, I am looking at wonderful JPEGs from a strange blog, I am posting through it. What a wonderful thursday.
December 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I have drunk a large pot of coffee, I have played around with a tape recorder, I have played one hour of Delta Green with my breakfast, I am looking at wonderful JPEGs from a strange blog, I am posting through it. What a wonderful thursday.
Deep and wise questions upon which to meditate
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
We're asking the wrong questions about the OSR?
Everyone is asking what is the OSR again, but I think we're asking the wrong questions?
Who's not asking these questions?
What don't they want us to kn...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Deep and wise questions upon which to meditate
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
Ever since following all of these TTRPG people back following the blog post I am seeing a lot of discourse about what an OCR is. This is normal I think. Nature; healing. I am Listening and I am Learning.
AC goes down I think
HP is bad
D66 Tables
Cowboy towns are important
Goblin spunk
etc.
AC goes down I think
HP is bad
D66 Tables
Cowboy towns are important
Goblin spunk
etc.
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ever since following all of these TTRPG people back following the blog post I am seeing a lot of discourse about what an OCR is. This is normal I think. Nature; healing. I am Listening and I am Learning.
AC goes down I think
HP is bad
D66 Tables
Cowboy towns are important
Goblin spunk
etc.
AC goes down I think
HP is bad
D66 Tables
Cowboy towns are important
Goblin spunk
etc.
Reposted by Juniper
Reposted by Juniper
Today someone introduced me to the Roman poetess Sculpicia, WHAT a queen people.uncw.edu/deagona/lit/...
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Today someone introduced me to the Roman poetess Sculpicia, WHAT a queen people.uncw.edu/deagona/lit/...
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Juniper is pioneering the future of OSR blogging by dragging it kicking and screaming back to it's roots (zine swaps)
Yes i've been printing off all the blogs people send me. Reading is best done with a pen or with scissors.
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Juniper is pioneering the future of OSR blogging by dragging it kicking and screaming back to it's roots (zine swaps)