I Cast Light!

Self-Portrait with Magic Scene by Pieter van Laer, 1635 Honestly, a really great painting- a meme before memes With love, and in the style of the original post over at Among Cats and Books.

A geomorph:10 X 10 for the win!

Purple is total generated; black is deaths (aka poor decision-making; get gud) 60% of the time, your PC's 100% alive!

Bosch from the Haywain Triptych I thought Jim Murphy's video about playing OD&D with the 3 "Little Brown Books" (or Delving Deeper or FMC) plus Strategic Review Vol 1 No 1 for the random dungeon generator was an interesting take a campaign idea.

In my last post, I talk about looking at Sun Rot through the lens of OD&D and how recently I've been looking more into miniature-based skirmish games.

While work has kept me from doing a lot of thinking on BX D&D, it hasn't kept me from exploring a latent hobby of mine very close to D&D, which is miniature wargaming.

DESIGNING (THIS) DUNGEON'S THEME In the last post, I talked about how easy it was to make a simple dungeon that could fit on 2 sheets of paper, but random stocking can only get you so far.

YOU DON'T NEED MUCH TO RUN A DUNGEON...

THE GOAL: MAKE MORE DUNGEONS The ENNIES have opened their voting today, and I am very pleased to be nominated with Josh, the author of His Majesty The Worm, in the category of "BEST ONLINE CONTENT" for Designing Dungeons!

Update (2026 08 02): 🗓️ Commenter Centaurion has gone the extra mile and not only created a calendar, but has also included the dates and locations of each of the courts below!

Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu Nihei I was trying to get together some other new posts, but those are slow going so here is something that has been rattling around in my brain- how much recent media there is that is based in a dungeon.

The Eye from The Baleful Gaze of Tabaldak's Geas my 2025 Appendix N entry This post by Gus L. over at All Dead Generations dovetails with a thought I had about a beholder kin which I used in my Appendix N Jam entry The Baleful Gaze of Tabaldak's Geas The…

Well, 6+1, but hey, you found an extra in the crypt...

Continuation of my series to edit a quick "Friday Night Dungeon" using Dolmenwood.

"We'll stop here and finish it next session, no problem!"

CONTEXT & GOALS I have a slight fascination with understanding how much creative mileage one can get out of the Basic D&D and a couple of sheets of graph paper.

A play report from a recent run in MARATHON. *** I've accepted a contract from CYAC in return for gear, but importantly, an introduction to TRAXUS, another corp trying to claw a return back from their investment in the failed Tau Ceti colony.

I bought some tengu from Reaper the other day just because I've always enjoyed corvid-folk and thought they would be a good miniature to have on hand.

DECLARE SPELLS & RETREATS A funny little rule that always trips up MUs, neophyte and acolyte alike, is the need for spells (and retreats) to be declared before initiative is rolled.

THOUGHTS U: Search the top half of your Draft pile.

Look at this crew!

The Ultimate Warrior!

A tentative title for "The Wine Dungeon" Sitting at the top of my list of "To-Dos" is a wine cellar that has metastasized, via the power of the mythic underworld, into a dungeon.

There was a discussion in a Discord forum I inhabited about how realistic the encumbrance of ration is in BX D&D.

More than enough!

Ha ha!

I am currently trying to key Dyson's Winter Tombs as a Dolmenwood-by-the-numbers dungeon.