Big Jenny - Glaugust 2025 (The Last Living City in the World)

My second post written for Glaugust 2025, from the prompt ‘The Last Living City in the World’. It is ostensibly set in my post-apocalypse setting which doesn’t quite exist yet.

The rock formations of the Shifting Spires mostly shift on their own, the unstable earth and frequent microquakes changing the landscape on a regular basis. But sometimes, the stone barbs are disrupted by a two-headed horned lizard as enormous as the great warships of old. Big Jenny is the last of the living cities, the bones of the other hosts sunbleached and cracked a generation ago.

View comments July 10, 2025

The Living Weapon - Glaugust 2025 (He Wields a Gun)

This was written for Glaugust 2025, from the prompt ‘He Wields A Gun’. It is ostensibly set in my post-apocalypse setting which doesn’t quite exist yet.

He wields a gun.

Pried from the grip of a skeleton buried under the ancient refuse which vomits from the garage-mouth of an ancient auto shop on the ruined shores of Lake Ditroyt. Dirty red brass with a faint wave pattern and pitted ebony grip, ice cold to the touch–the action as smooth as it was a millennium ago. He swallows it, like the other orphaned death dealers. It finds a home in His body, which noisily rearranges under the dusty armored trench coat to accommodate the new friend. A gunmetal symbiote ready to push through artificial muscle fibers and blue-black viscera, violently blooming from nanoflesh when and where He needs it most.

View comments July 8, 2025

An OSR Community List of Settings

Wouldn’t it be nice if someone put together a list of dope OSR/OSR-adjacent settings? There have been ongoing conversations about increasing the availability of useful resources for the rainbow/purple OSR discord server, both to help onboard people and to act as repositories of knowledge. A recent question in the server about favorite OSR settings spurred some discussion and a nice little starting list. At a suggestion from another community member, I collated the settings and added some of my own ideas (if you just want the list and don’t want to be subjected to my ramblings about the formation of it, feel free to skip ahead).

Of course nothing is ever simple with TTRPGs - just ask someone to define OSR, whether systems matter, or whether variable weapon damage is the true way (it’s not). Predictably, curating the list sent me down a rabbit hole of questions and categorization. I started with asking myself: “What is enough to qualify as a setting for this list? How much detail should the materials have? How big is big enough and when does something cross the line from a single location to a full-throated setting?”

View comments August 21, 2024

Megadungeon Monday (On a Tuesday!): Roslof’s Keep Folios 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.5

I’ve joined a small megadungeon book club on the rainbow/purple OSR server. The crux of the club is that we read through a megadungeon in sections, then discuss and post our thoughts on Monday (I’m a bit late for this week, when Folio 2 was due). The group just started a new dungeon, Roslof’s Keep. The first part of this module was published back in 2015 and is dual statted for 1e and 5e. It’s broken up into a series of folios that cover different levels of the dungeon (and some non-dungeon material as well, it seems).

Dolmenwood Session 46

The party concludes their journey by fairy barge, finding some interesting things along the way before running headlong into a dangerous situation. This is likely the last of the travelogue sessions for some time, as the barge has insulated the party from things pretty effectively and allowed them to map out a decent little chunk of the wood.

The Godbird

The shepherd pushed through the trees, drawn by the plaintive bleating of the missing sheep, and stopped short at the edge of the small clearing. An intricate structure of bone and webbing greeted her eyes, a skeletal basket basket the size of a house adorned with carefully placed flowers. The vivid oranges and purples and yellows of the floral decorations popping against the stark ivory receptacle.