Mastodawn

Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…

Playful Void

GoldSeal Nov 30

Yesterday's links:

Review: The Mortality of Green
https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53076/roleplaying-games/ex-rpgnet-review-the-mortality-of-green
Celtic inspired

Using API to convert prices between systems
https://tetsujinnollama.blogspot.com/2025/11/g-dnd-gp.html

More monsters for DCC
http://ravencrowking.blogspot.com/2025/11/lets-convert-monster-manual-quasit.html

Chapter Serf: playing lowlife in the 41st millennium
https://slowlorispress.com/post/800571442650595328/chapter-serf

Antipaladin for GLOG
http://archons-court.blogspot.com/2025/11/glog-class-monster-antipaladin.html

#TTRPG #AdventureReview #monster #DCC #40k #npc

Ex-RPGNet Review: The Mortality of Green

An excellent overland adventure, organized to make the GM’s task simple and the player’s experience memorable.Original Review Posted May 21st, 2001Before WotC’s OGL and D20 trademark l

GoldSeal Nov 18

Yesterday's links:

Witchcraft tutelary spirits
http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/monstrous-mondays-five-spirits-of.html

Review: Rakehell
https://idlecartulary.com/2025/11/17/bathtub-review-rakehell/

Design for dungeon exploration
https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2025/11/dungeon-design-note-obstacles-to.html

#TTRPG #FantasyWitchcraft #AdventureReview #DungeonDesign

Monstrous Mondays: The Five Spirits of the Grimorium Verum

The Other Side Blog is a game design blog from Timothy S. Brannan

GoldSeal Nov 15

Yesterday's links:

Review: Whitebox cyclopedia
https://mythlands-erce.blogspot.com/2025/10/review-white-box-cyclopedia.html

Blue Men and Mummers for Dragon Warriors
https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/11/mummers-games.html

Review: The Malady of Kings
https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53074/roleplaying-games/ex-rpgnet-review-the-malady-of-kings

New magic item: Oak King's Token
https://ancientvaults.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/new-magic-item-oak-kings-token/

Forgotten Cairns: Apprentice practitioner of the art background
https://githyankidiaspora.com/2025/11/13/forgotten-cairns-apprentice-practitioner-of-the-art-background/

#TTRPG #SystemReview #AdventureReview #monster #DragonWarriors #MagicItem

White Box: Cyclopedia Review

My OSR Blog about fantasy world building and rules analysis for D&D. Also home of the B/X inspired 5e-clone "Into the Unknown."

GoldSeal Sep 26, 2025

Yesterday's links:

Obligations, compulsions, and player agency
https://periaptgames.blogspot.com/2025/09/when-player-agency-meets-character.html

Missions helping the rebels
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yora/115260963700949697

Review: Ruins of Myth Drannor
http://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/09/forgotten-realms-reviews-ruins-of-myth.html
Once a height of Elven civilization, now a blasted, cursed, haunted city.

#TTRPG #PlayerAgency #GameDesign #seeds #AdventureReview

When player agency meets character compulsions

When you're playing a role, sometimes your character ought to act in some way. The goodly hero has a moral code regarding the treatment of...

GoldSeal Sep 25, 2025

Yesterday's links:

Review: Outlaws of the iron route
https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/pedantic-wasteland-outlaws-of-the-iron-route

Contacts and favors
https://lukegearing.blot.im/contacts-and-favours

Magic items from classical literature
https://koboldpress.com/dungeons-decameron-two-magic-items-from-classical-literature/

#TTRPG #AdventureReview #homebrew #MagicItem

Review: Outlaws of the Iron Route — Prismatic Wasteland

Reviewing one of the earliest adventures for 5th Edition D&D: how I would improve player agency and how my proposed fixes grind up against the play culture of 5e.

Prismatic Wasteland