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DriveThruRPG is having Christmas in July

Here’s a link filtered for all OSR products discounted up to 25% off.

Both Aberrant Reflections and The Seers Sanctum are on sale. If you’ve been waiting to pick up one or both, now’s the time.

If you can’t afford the sale price

itch.io allows offering free copies of our games. TSS and AR ran out of Community Copies, so I upped the numbers.

These copies are for students and those experiencing financial hardship—no questions asked. If you feel you need the discount, help yourself to a copy.

Improving puzzles using theme and challenge

Making puzzles is hard. In this blog post I tinker with the puzzle in Arnold K’s survival horror (modern classic) funnel adventure “Lair of The Lamb”. It’s now a satisfying OSR-style challange AND an OSR-style puzzle.

Between Two Cairns guest review

Survival horror is the best kind of DnD. I was a guest on the B2C podcast with Yochai Gal and Brad Kerr. Listen to this in-depth review of “Lair of the Lamb” by Arnold K. Spoilers: we all like it a lot. Go run the adventure.

Dungeon Crawl movies

I micro-review a bunch of movies on how “dungeon-crawly” (see survival horror) they are. Spoilers: watch Barbarian (2022). It’s not what you think from the title—it’s a legit scary dungeon crawl.