# dungeons & dragons 5e (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dungeons & dragons 5e. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Future Direction for Stellagama Publishing](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-future-direction-for-stellagama.html) _2026-07-11 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ 2026 was a rough year so far for me, Omer Golan-Joel, owner of Stellagama Publishing . Apart from obvious horrible political events I prefer not to discuss here, I went through a lot of tough times. Across 2024 and 2025, I was in a deep marital crisis which almost led to a divorce. In December 2025, I broke my elbow and had my arm in a cast for a week. In January 2026, I had to go twice to a… ## [The Competent Traveller](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-competent-traveller.html) _2026-04-10 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ I have written much about Classic Traveller skills in the past decade. However, a recent discussion on the Traveller Discord server took me back to this subject again. Not only discussing skills, but also raising the point that Travellers are competent, even regardless of formal skills . That is, a Traveller character should be able to do anything a competent interstellar adventurer would… ## [Simpler Living](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2026/03/simpler-living.html) _2026-03-01 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ Faced with a cluttered home, overwork, and financial insecurity, I have decide to simplify my life and drastically cut my expenses. This has a simple monetary component, namely cutting back on my cost of living to get out of debt and eventually reduce work. This also has a philosophical component, namely minimalism and reducing the effects of consumerism on my life. This will also affect my gaming… ## [Migrating the Dark Nebula to the Galaxiad](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2026/02/migrating-dark-nebula-to-galaxiad.html) _2026-02-20 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ I am thinking about migrating my Dark Nebula variant-OTU setting to the Galaxiad milieu of the Official Traveller Universe. This would be a refreshing change, as well as a good setting with a wide-open future. Playing in the Far Far Future of the Galaxiad is liberating - I get a narrative license utilize any part of the vast OTU Canon while ignoring other parts. For example, I can easily tell… ## [Working on Sorcerous Nomad](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2025/10/working-on-sorcerous-nomad.html) _2025-10-18 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ Art by Edna www.fotosearch.com One of my main current projects is Sorcerous Nomad. This is a new fantasy TTRPG ruleset based on my Faster Than Light: Nomad sci-fi rules and fully compatible with them. It is slated for a mid-late 2026 release and should be available both in PDF format and A4 softcover print format. What is it all about? Streamlined 2d6 core mechanic with "dice pool" components,… ## [My Little Slice of the OTU](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-little-slice-of-otu.html) _2025-07-16 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ I think I found my new favorite Official Traveller Universe (OTU) "milieu": the Galaxiad . Situated in 1902 Imperial (the 7th millennium CE!) and related to Traveller5, it presents a "pastoral" era when most big empires of the Golden Age are gone, replaced by more independent worlds and pockets of civilization within the Wilds. Practically, the Galaxiad permits me to use almost any part of the… ## [\[Lore 25\] Full Ishtar and Apep Sectors Map WIP #3](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2025/01/lore-25-full-ishtar-and-apep-sectors_5.html) _2025-01-05 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ I made even further progress with my Lore25 challenge maps: a full Referee's map including Drill routes, and a Players' map with only the commonly-known stars and routes noted. On the Referee's map, the dashed lines are well-known Drill routes, while the dotted lines are forgotten and/or secret ones. Referee's Map Players' Map ## [\[Lore 25\] Full Ishtar and Apep Sectors Map WIP](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2025/01/lore-25-full-ishtar-and-apep-sectors.html) _2025-01-04 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ I have progressed further in developing my Lore25 starmap for the Ishtar and Apep sectors. Now with all polities, borders, and world names marked. Note that worlds that already had Sobek(reptilian aliens) names were given the names of male Egyptian gods by Humans who did not wish to pronounce complex Sobek words. Most worlds which were unexplored by Sobek so far were given the names of Canaanite… ## [\[Lore25\] Ishtar and Apep Sector Maps WIP #1](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2025/01/lore25-ishtar-and-apep-sector-maps-wip-1.html) _2025-01-03 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ I have been dedicating the first week of the Lore25 challenge to drafting the star maps of the adjacent Ishtar and Apep Sectors into a simple, easily printable, B&W map. As this is SWN and not Traveller, the map is much simpler, simply showing dots, names, borders, and Drill routes across space rather than all the world, base, and starport types shown on a typical Traveller map. This is the first… ## [Next Year's Challenge: Lore25!](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2024/12/next-years-challenge-lore25.html) _2024-12-28 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ Similar to my abortive attempt at the Sector23 Challenge two years ago, I wish now to undertake a new yearly challenge, hopefully to bring to completion this time! Something nice to spice up my time and get my creative world-building juices flowing. 2025's challenge, as suggested by Discord friends, will be Lore25 . The challenge, as the name implies, is a world-building challenge focused on… ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nf5M8AUMEnp6) _2024-12-28 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Solo Shadowdark Barrowmaze Post #0](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2024/12/solo-shadowdark-barrowmaze-post-0.html) _2024-12-07 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ I decided I wanted to play a solo campaign in Barrowmaze , using Shadowdark with its free SoloDark supplement. This would be a "tabletop Roguelike" of sorts, combining crawling using all the aforementioned rules with some storytelling and me "filling in the gaps". A primary source of inspiration would be the Darkest Dungeon video game, a game which is very much in the same vein as both Shadowdark… ## [\[Review\] XBoat Special Supplement 2: Galaxiad Gaming Kit](https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2024/09/review-xboat-special-supplement-2.html) _2024-09-14 · Omer Golan-Joel · Den of the Lizard King_ I have recently bought and read XBoat Special Supplement 2: Galaxiad Gaming Kit , published in March 2024 by Robert Eaglestone , a licensed - and canonical - milieu of the Official Traveller Universe (OTU), noting Marc Miller himself as an advisor and source in the book's credits. Below, I will review this excellent booklet in detail. TL;DR: an excellent version of the OTU, unifying the various…