#elfgame — Public Fediverse posts
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The reason I'm thinking about the cabinet now is that https://www.reddit.com/user/Ecowatcher/ has made a more professional-looking illustration for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/OSRart/comments/1vjmv6v/
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"B14-I drawer- This drawer is infinitely deep, and contains all written works yet devised on small notecards. If the players get into this and you have to adjudicate it, fuck you."
😂
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This bit of Phlox's alchemist's cabinet made me chuckle:
"C2 scroll- scroll describing how to cast the second-level spell "Drain Curse," The effect is not described. If the spell is cursed, a plugged drain appears somewhere on the body of the caster. If the plug is ever pulled, they will lose 1 HP of blood every round until it is plugged again."
https://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2023/07/adventure-component-cabinet-of-banes.html
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Its reputation as an excellent adventure stuffed with interactivity is well-deserved. A couple of things I liked that I haven't seen highlighted:
* Details that are hard to improvise are included: books in the library, paintings in the gallery.
* Double references: e.g. chimney you can climb references roof; roof entry referencs kitchen.
* The vases from Yoon-Suin! Such a small touch but I love the feeling of OSR community it gives. -
Finished my read through of "The Waking of Willowby Hall" 💪
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List of RPG products that I have bought but not read:
* Waking of Willowby Hall
* Electrum Archive (vol 1) by @EmielBoven
* Hole in the Oak
* Ultraviolet Grasslands
* Troika!
* Whalgravaak's WarehouseVery short by some people's standards, but I'm really struggling to read RPG stuff at the moment - chronic fatigue and a lot of stress. Managed a few minutes today. Wish me luck!
#knave #ElectrumArchive #HoleInTheOak #UltravioletGrasslands #Troika #ttrpg #elfgame #osr #nsr #ose
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"The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance" by Chris Kutalik.
https://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-old-school-hyperborean-renaissance.html
"The movement began innocently enough with the rediscovery of On the Harmonious Arrangement of Municipal Sewers by the philosopher-engineer Vek Ult. The text was so surprisingly practical that several cities immediately adopted its recommendations, reducing outbreaks of sewer-ghouls by nearly a third."
#ttrpg #osr #nsr #elfgame #blogosphere #ChrisKutalik #HillCantons
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2) Part of their adventure is figuring out the map they have and trying to reconcile the vertical connections it shows with reality so as to gain entrance to the dungeon.
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Currently reading the first Famous Five novel to my son and it has a surprising amount of resonance with #OSR D&D. The plot (spoilers) centres on a treasure map to a ruin on an island.
1) The children consistently refer to the underground level of the ruin (the only part still extant) as "dungeons" throughout. Despite the characters realising early on that they are just cellars, not literal dungeons, they and the narrator still refer to them as dungeons.
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When I posted art by @EvlynMoreau yesterday I forgot to mention she is regularly posting free art to her Patreon - free in the sense that you don't have to subscribe, and free in the sense the you can use it in your publications (e.g. modules, zines).
Her Patreon is here: https://www.patreon.com/evlynmoreau
Here's another recent piece: the big chimera.
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Incunabuli has some pretty great character backgrounds for their pseudo-Victorian setting:
https://incunabuli.com/rulebook/sorts/
"Harlequin", "ironmonger", "mudlark"
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"Under the dim woodland lee snorted the head of a hart stag. Antlers broad and branching; eyes wet and rolling with excitement; snout and wet velvet lips bared over human incisors in an insane grimace. It blew hot white breath into the cold spring air, and the heaving chest was a man’s, broad and muscled."
Latest post from one of my favourite elf game blogs: https://incunabuli.com/lore/beastmen/
#ttrpg #osr #nsr #incunabuli #beastmen #worldbuilding #elfgame
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https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/02/navigation-games.html
I'm already sold on navigation and exploration being core activities of many of the elf-game things I run. Even so, this was a thought-provoking read from Dwiz.
