Oh, and 12 D&D 5E adventures with maps!

You have only 24 (and a bit) hours to get one of the longest pieces of TTRPG writing I’ve put together so far. Loke Battlemats, the purveyors of the best battlemats out there, have comissioned me to create an ‘Alamanac’ to work alongside their 2025 Calendar of Many Adventures.

If you back the calendar in the next 24 (and a bit!) hours you get the Alamanac totally free as a PDF with it.

The calendar has 12 D&D 5E adventures in it, a battlemap for each adventure (that you can actually use at the table) and… all those calendary bits you can normally use for things like, I don’t know, scheduling your actual games.

Perfect, right?

The part I have written is a series of adventure hooks for the magically radiated region of Gossport. The river runs down from some mountains full of simply too much rotting magical power. It’s made things a bit weird, and this Almanac is designed to help locals deal with the magical and the banal by highlighting key festivals, events, warnings and, er, the weather!

The truth is, it’s kind of Welcome to Nightvale as a fantasy RPG setting. A mix of the rural/suburban with completely nuts elements treated as ‘something we just deal with round here’. And deal with it you will.

And the MEGA TRUTH is that there’s about 10x as much #content and ideas in this little book as there are in your favourite vibes-based indie TTRPG.

Also, I’ve been pretty funny in what I am now referring to as my ‘poundland Neil Gaiman’ style.

Get the calendar and the Almanac here, right now for the next 24 hours (and a bit!)

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Elsewhere and elsewise:

• My friend Adam who lives in Berlin explained that many of his German friends would sometimes express things in the best non-native English possible because of slipped tenses and grammar. For example, rather than saying “let’s have a party” they might say “lets make party”. Anyway, Chris McDowall has written about ‘making the game happen’ on his blog. “Let’s make play?”, yes, sure.

• Also from Chris McDowall: Quinns who used to shut up and sit down who has realised the errors of his ways and now talks about TTRPGs instead. It’s a really good pod and includes a discussion of Chinese Murder Script games. I’m down.

• Sadly MADE IN HEIGHTS no longer has their stuff on Bandcamp, but luckily someone pirated it to soundcloud here. I love Ghosts, Death and Murakami.

• I am tiktoking with a heady mix of poetry book recommendations, indie ttrpg stuff, and tapes.

• Tim’s Korean book cover is bangin’.

• There is a deep well of love in my heart for all game designers out there. Except for those who make rubbish games like this on that has been reviewed by Dan on Space Biff. Read for a really entertaining and enthusiastic kicking.

• Sorry, this is good.