Oct 1, 2025
The new dungeon in my area has a gift shop. I was looking forward to delving in this new dungeon, but if they’re generating revenue through a gift shop, it only speaks poorly to the staffing and facilities inside.
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The new dungeon in my area has a gift shop. I was looking forward to delving in this new dungeon, but if they’re generating revenue through a gift shop, it only speaks poorly to the staffing and facilities inside.
Would you rather
Descend into a huge underground dungeon to fight an evil wizard
Ascend an impossibly high tower to fight an evil wizard
Feel free to say why in the tags, I'm curious
Behold, the front cover of my forthcoming book on the idea of the dungeon, Down Down Down! Pre-order (and the full wrap-around cover) coming late summer, release in December. Hype copy from Strange Attractor Press below:
Tune into chthonic clamour, subterranean shrieks, and abyssal ambience, as writer Stu Horvath channels hypogean imaginaries from ancient religious writings to the most contemporary of indie roleplaying games in Down, Down, Down... forthcoming from Strange Attractor Press this Winter. Surveying the dungeon, the cavern, and the dimly lit grotto as spaces of play and projection, Down, Down, Down is both a work of literary analysis and pop-cultural criticism. Richly researched and edited, this unique anthology assembles an encyclopaedia of texts intended to furnish the imaginations of both the game master and general reader alike. Stu is the author of the phenomenal Monsters, Aliens & Holes In the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership, MIT Press, 2023, and the omniscient brain-in-a-jar behind one of our favourite online archives, the inhumanly enormous Vintage RPG. Wraparound cover art (yet to be fully revealed) by the always eldritch Shoggoth Kinetics aka Lucas Korte (whose work you may have seen gracing the cover of the Shadowdark TTRPG).
all DnD classes i've drawn! you can get them as vinyl stickers - part 1 and 2, or all, or prints and sticker bundle - 1 and 2, or prints only - 1 and 2! ⚔️
Monster Tidbits - Unicorn
cha euijae --- spend all that time in a rift all alone, fighting monsters, then when he finally gets to come out, he ends up in a garbage dump...
He's Smokin'~! Has anyone made this joke yet? No but seriously I had this in mind the moment I first saw his design. Last episode only encouraged me.
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