November 2024

  • Gold! A Blog Friday Post

    It’s Blog Friday (Cyber Blogday?), so I thought I’d talk about gold and why I hate it. In the medieval period the main currency was the gold nomisma, about 5 grams of pure gold, and in the early modern period the sovereign was about 15 grams (this is all according to wikipedia, I ain’t no Continue reading

  • Dungeon Regular: The Artisan’s Tomb

    A new episode of Dungeon Regular is available! It’s embedded below, on Spotify or in your favourite podcast app. Playful Void is a production of Idle Cartulary. If you liked this article, please consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to the Idle Digest Newsletter. If you want to support Idle Cartulary continuing to provide Bathtub Reviews, I Continue reading

  • Bathtub Review: When In Rome

    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 design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Continue reading

  • Dungeon Regular: The Shrine of Ilsidahur

    Dungeon Regular: The Shrine of Ilsidahur

    A new episode of Dungeon Regular is available! It’s embedded below, or here, on Spotify or in your favourite podcast app. Playful Void is a production of Idle Cartulary. If you liked this article, please consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to the Idle Digest Newsletter. If you want to support Idle Cartulary continuing to provide Bathtub Continue reading

  • Bathtub Review: Dead Weight

    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 design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Continue reading

  • I Read The Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)

    I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually a lot, so I don’t take these very seriously. But I can talk about its choices Continue reading

  • Bathtub Review: Whiskers in the Wind

    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 design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Continue reading

  • What’s an OSR game?

    People keep asking me what an OSR game is. They want a clear mechanical difference, like the one they think exists between Forged in the Dark and Powered By The Apocalypse, for example. You’re not going to get that here, you’re just going to get my opinion, so I can link to it rather than Continue reading

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  • Artisanal Magic Items for Luddite Referees

    Mass produced products are a relatively recent phenomenon, but the evolution of the elfgame has resulted in Spell Lists and Magic Item Catalogues. It’s all very Sears, or very American Western Expansion or maybe just very industrial revolution. While it makes it easier to run an elfgame with a catalogue, it’s also just super boring, Continue reading

  • Bathtub Review: Crown of Salt

    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 design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Continue reading

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Threshold of Evil – Dungeon Regular

Dungeon Regular is a show about modules, adventures and dungeons. I’m Nova, also known as Idle Cartulary and I’m reading through Dungeon magazine, one module at a time, picking a few favourite things in that adventure module, and talking about them. On this episode I talk about Threshold of Evil, in Issue #10, March 1988! You can find my famous Bathtub Reviews at my blog, https://playfulvoid.game.blog/, you can buy my supplements for elfgames and Mothership at https://idlecartulary.itch.io/, check out my game Advanced Fantasy Dungeons at https://idlecartulary.itch.io/advanced-fantasy-dungeons and you can support Dungeon Regular on Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/idlecartulary.
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