The drAIgonling Gazette

Stantsiya Rolevaya (Станция Ролевая) is offline after a fire at a Yandex data center in Sasovo; Studio 101 (Студия 101) confirms backups are intact and the site will be restored once the data center recovers.

Komnatny Rytsar (Комнатный Рыцарь) hosted a stream with the organizers of fantasy festival Khobbyton (Хоббитон) on October 14 at 19:00 Moscow time — a 2026 recap and plans for 2027.

A roundup of new tabletop RPG print releases covering the return of Ars Magica, supplements for Daggerheart, Scalemail, Pirate Borg, and Mothership, plus three new RPGs themed around fog, Ragnarök, and rōnin.

Agammemnon Press announced a revamp of their award-winning OSR acid-punk weird fantasy setting Painted Wastelands, moving it to the D&D 5.5e ruleset.

ROLEPOISK (РОЛЕПОИСК) has launched at rolepoisk.ru as a catalog of Russian-language TTRPGs, gathering translations, original games, and preorders in one place. The site is still in development.

Festival dispatch from #ура_фестиваль (#ura_festival): characters Upyritsa Klodiya (Упырица Клодия) and warrior Maks visit a fish shop and meet an Innsmouth resident — apparently a live Lovecraftian TTRPG session at the event.

Interview with Jason Walters from Indie Press Revolution, a major indie TTRPG distributor, about how IPR started and its philosophy.

Studio 101 shares lore about the Miskatonicon festival in the fictional city of Arkham from the Cthulhu Dreaming (Грёзы Ктулху) setting, promoting their book Beyond the Samhain Gates, Vol. 1.

Kobold Press announces a 2027 Kickstarter campaign for Shadowdark RPG featuring two hardcovers, a zine series, and new monsters and player options in black-and-white art.

The weekly digest from Gorizont Sobytiy (Горизонт событий) for October 5–11, 2026 covers Stantsiya Rolevaya (Станция Ролевая) downtime, delay of Oldskoolnaya Sranaya Rolevukha (Олдскульная сраная ролевуха), preorders, new releases including Midnightd6, and debates on paid GMs.

Chaosium released a free PDF featuring all artwork from the new Pendragon GPC Volume 1 with artist commentary and notes, as compensation for a credits page printing error; the post praises this approach to handling mistakes.

The D&D and MTG print teams at Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro announced their intent to unionize, following the MTG Arena team. Key demands include job security, partial remote work, and guardrails on generative AI use.

Weekly roundup from 'Dva Redaktora i Vot Eto! (Два редактора и вот это!)': the 'Fan Stantsiya (Фан Станция)' festival in Москва, technical issues with 'Stantsiya Rolevaya (Станция Ролевая)', RoleCon (Ролекон) announcements, a delayed release of 'Oldskoolnaya Sranaya Rolevukha (Олдскульная сраная ролевуха)', and CrowdRepublic changes.

At Rolecon (Ролекон), a presenter known as Zior (Зиор) will give a talk on the history of Vampire: The Masquerade and share impressions from playtesting the upcoming 6th edition. The lecture targets D&D players unfamiliar with VtM.

Klubok Istoriy (Клубок Историй) is running Monster Contest 3.0: design a monster with lore and a DnD 5E stat block — submissions open until November 15, 2026, with 106 prizes from 7 sponsors.

Hasbro extends its tabletop licensing deal with Renegade Game Studios through 2027, outsourcing D&D and Avalon Hill board game production as internal digital efforts stall.

Ben Robbins, creator of Microscope and the West Marches campaign concept, held an AMA on Reddit while a Kickstarter for a new edition of Microscope is live.

Registration opened for the second season of Zvezdnoe Vereteno (Звёздное Веретено), an organized multi-party campaign in a shared world, featuring a dedicated platform with an interactive map and group-finder tools.

The author is laying out the second set of Theaters of Struggle (Театры борьбы) for Pryamoye Deystviye (Прямое действие) and announces a NecroPunk expansion covering hideout/housing mechanics.

Groupfinder hits 10,000 users and releases 2026 RPG data: Pathfinder 2E and Daggerheart top the non-D&D chart, while OSR groups have now overtaken Pathfinder 2E in player count.

The blogger Kurokradovo Boloto (Курокрадово болото) received the first edition of the PbtA urban fantasy/noir TTRPG 'Gorodskie Legendy' (Городские легенды) by Studio 101 (Студия 101) and reports that the publisher is preparing a second edition.

OrbRPG released a major update including waiting lists, multiday events, custom game system names, and delegation of game management to guild managers.

Studio 101 (Студия 101) will host a recap stream on October 15 at 20:00 MSK for the Call of Kingsport 2026 (Зов Кингспорта 2026) competition, where Alexander Ermakov (Александр Ермаков) and Anastasia Gasteva (Анастасия Гастева) will review entries and announce winners.

Studio 101 announces a stream on October 16 at 20:00 MSK where Alexander Ermakov (Александр Ермаков) and Anastasia Gasteva (Анастасия Гастева) will review entries for the Call of Kingsport 2026 (Зов Кингспорта 2026) contest.

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Cheliax, Infernal Inheritance is now available — a detailed guide to five nations transformed by the Hellfire Crisis, with new character options and maps.

Ea-Nasir Must Die! is a $7.99 Bronze Age sword-and-sorcery OSR adventure for Mark of the Odd, inspired by the notorious ancient Mesopotamian copper merchant.

Silver Hoof Games released "We Came (Possibly) in Peace" — a GM-less TTRPG about space envoys deciding the fate of civilizations, designed for 2–3 players in a single 2–3 hour session.

Slip is a $1.50 solo psychological horror journaling RPG about surviving a psychic rupture in a town that erases its own people from memory.

Marcilla is a free vampiric partycrawl module for Liminal Horror, published on itch.io.

The author received the second book of the Albedo (Альбедо) series and shares photos of the high-quality physical edition, available on Ozon and the publisher's website.

Free rules-lite game By Hand of Glory for 2–4 Witches: redress social wrongs using a deck of cards in a compact, atmospheric experience.

A free Sword & Sorcery horror pointcrawl adventure for Shadowdark, inspired by the TV show Chernobyl. Blends dark fantasy with post-disaster atmosphere.

IIP0CTOy releases a companion module for Sword World 2.5 on Foundry VTT v14, featuring ~1,600 items and 300 monsters with a complete Russian database and 80% ability automation, with patches planned to bring it to 95%+ within a month.

A user highlights a Bundle of Holding deal for Monster of the Week, including the lesser-known Codex of Worlds supplement useful for medieval Witcher-style monster hunts.

Record of Lodoss War RPG, a 2018 Japanese TTRPG marking the 30th anniversary of the Record of Lodoss War franchise, has received an English translation. The game recreates old-school heroic fantasy in the vein of early D&D editions.

Project_Lamordia is now available on D&D Beyond — a modern-horror reimagining of Ravenloft's Lamordia domain set in a rogue-AI research facility, featuring 3 one-shots, a new Reborn lineage variant, and survival mechanics.

Armatures is a $8 tactical TTRPG combining mech combat with pilot espionage, available on itch.io.

User /u/SebaTauGonzalez published Under Dimmer Stars, an indie dark fantasy TTRPG inspired by Castlevania, The Witcher, and Vampire Hunter D, using a d6 pool system.

A free one-page RPG for 2–5 players set around a sunken church and its final service. A compact, atmospheric dark fantasy micro-game.

The Delta Green RPG channel presented the official scenario 'God's Eye' (Oko Bozhye) — Agents investigate mysterious disappearances at a surveillance drone company in Reno.

The post author has released a fan Russian translation of the PbtA game Action Movie World, which recreates 80s–90s action movie stories with players as actors and the GM as director.

Dungeonsanddragons.ru begins publishing the Russian translation of "Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall," a levels 11–20 adventure; two appendices covering magic items and a bestiary are already available, with chapters to follow.

Goblinesque has been released on need.games — an OSE-based TTRPG where players are goblins escaping a hero's mansion, featuring a goblin generator, pixel art, and a dynamic location.

A major beta fork of Sword World 2.5 for Foundry VTT v14 has been released, featuring full Russian and English localization, one-click combat automation, multi-section boss monsters, class-specific mechanics, and built-in character import.

Hitpoint Zine announces the launch of their spell cards on Ozon marketplace after seven months of work — their first physical product listed on a major Russian retail platform.

The Vecherinка Idiotov (вечеринка идиотов) channel released a rough PDF of a new ultra-light, ultra-lethal TTRPG system — no art yet, but available to read now. A polished illustrated version is planned after playtesting and editing.

Free pocket OSR dungeon ORCTOBER — The secret of Steel: a compact Halloween-themed adventure ready for a quick one-shot session.

Green Ronin Publishing ran a Kickstarter for Nobunaga's Black Castle, a dark fantasy TTRPG on the MÖRK BORG engine set in alternate Sengoku-era Japan where Oda Nobunaga became the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven. Players take on roles of vengeful undead seeking to destroy him.

Discussion of the Ink Ribbon crowdfunding campaign — a survival horror TTRPG inspired by Resident Evil and Silent Hill, with a unique inventory system and escalating horror mechanics.

KnigiPrint printing house opens a group buy for a hardcover reprint of three D&D5 adventures: Phandelver and Below, Out of the Abyss, and Storm King's Thunder — 3000 RUB deposit, remainder due upon delivery in November–December 2026.

Paizo launched a Kickstarter for 13 Omens, a new rules-light horror RPG designed for one-shots, with rules already available for free preview and a Foundry VTT module.

LionWing Publishing has announced a crowdfunding campaign for the official English edition of Gensou Narratograph, the licensed Touhou Project TTRPG. Players can adventure in Gensokyo as iconic characters, including danmaku duels and slice-of-life stories.

The author presents their own Kickstarter project Realms of Legacy — a space fantasy game with pirates on magitech ships, inspired by Treasure Planet and Spelljammer, using a custom dice-pool system.

Only 2300 rubles and 4 days remain for the first third-party crowdfunding campaign on the Ofizdat platform — the dragon-speaks project — to reach its goal.

Causa Creations presents The Hidden Isle, a tabletop RPG set in a magical 16th-century Europe where stories unfold through tarot cards. The project is seeking crowdfunding support.

Nightfall Games is bringing the classic splatterpunk RPG SLA Industries to Savage Worlds in a three-book hardback series with custom Collateral Dice and full conversion rules.

A translated faction procedure guide based on Mausritter, with a ready-made Dolmenwood example featuring ten factions, their resources, goals, and world-change tables.

Free GM tool The Instant NPC generates a ready-to-play NPC in sixty seconds — a handy system-agnostic reference.

Paizo released the free Player's Guide for the Vaultlines adventure series, featuring Darklands inhabitants surviving deadly ley lines, with new ancestries and Golarion lore.

A translated article on building TTRPG campaigns around alternative economic systems — gift exchange, redistribution, credit, stone money, shells, cryptocurrency, and fantastic currencies as game mechanics.

A translated ambush guide by David Hartlage: the ambushing group auto-succeeds on Stealth with a result of 20, while observers roll against a DC based on the worst ambusher's bonus.

Review of Joust Studio's 5e adventure Shore of the Dorahín, the opening entry in the Songs of Lon-Gora setting ahead of the three-part Heirs to Ruin series.

A battle map of a coastal amphitheater, 18×22 grid, ready for use at the table.

Request for Quest releases a new episode of the 'Dreams of Byzantium' chronicle (Vampire: the Masquerade actual play) — heroes deal with the fallout of a gambit, followed by a post-game discussion on Byzantine and vampire politics.

GrimDarkManClub released a podcast episode featuring Sasha and Lyosha retelling Vampire: The Masquerade bloodlines.

Kiborgi i Charodei (Киборги и Чародеи) publish a translation of Melan's dungeon mapping analysis: branching paths, loops, and secret passages in eight classic D&D modules examined for player agency.

The Sincretismos de Arton project launched the Ludic License, a growing community pool of 31+ RPG illustrations free for commercial use, requiring artist credits and prohibiting AI-generated art in licensed works.

Studio 'Ofizdat!' (Студия «Офиздат!») has released 'Svita Khrisogona' (Свита Хрисогона) — a collection of 288 pregenerated characters levels 1–9 for the IRFIN (ИРФИН) system, each with names, backstories, personalities, and prepared spells.

Narmesh Guide shares worldbuilding lore for the Enoa setting: the origin of humanity, the Veil, Lake Gor, ten kings, and the Traditions. A fragment of an original TTRPG setting.

A ready-to-use d100 random table by d4 Caltrops covering effects for players who interact with mysterious dungeon features. Results are weighted toward beneficial outcomes in the first 30 entries, with harmful effects in higher ranges.

A battle map of a desert camp by a river, 25×25 without grid, ready for use at the table.

A review of The Horror on Goat Hill, a 36-page OSR dungeon adventure for levels 4–6 by Table Rock Independent Press featuring an ancient evil fallen from the sky.

Dorotea (Доротея) shares detailed lore for the sun-worshipping sakhr religion from the original setting Khodyashchiye po Sikarisu (Ходящие по Сикарису): a hierarchy built on Sun/Moon duality and layers of priestly secrecy, accompanied by Inktober 2026 art.

A translation by Cyborgs and Mages (Киборги и Чародеи) of The Alexandrian's article on TTRPG pacing — how meaningful decisions define scenes and why GMs should skip dead time.

A review of the Russian TTRPG 'Po Tu Storonu Vrat (По Ту Сторону Врат)' by Studio 101 (Студия 101): an ironic Lovecraftian setting, mechanics overview, and impressions from a crowdfunding backer.

Translation on Kiborgi i Charodei (Киборги и Чародеи): four foundational principles for designing a D&D game world — quasi-medieval history, western geography, pervasive magic, and multiple sapient peoples.

GenesysForge is an unofficial fan tool for the Genesys RPG system featuring character and campaign creation, scene management, dice rolling, and adventure chronicles.

A free trifold one-shot module Eternal Sunset for Strange Times RPG — a witchy western horror about two immortal witch sisters and a magical pendant in El Paso. The author releases one free module per week throughout October.

Kiborgi i Charodei (Киборги и Чародеи) shares a collection of paintings by classic D&D illustrator Clyde Caldwell, with a link to his official website.

Doodle Dungeon publishes an atmospheric lore text about secret testing chambers beneath an order's abbey — dark alchemical prose suitable for TTRPG settings.

Living map shares a selection of materials from various LivingMap Guides — ready-to-use resources for D&D games.

The Angry GM concludes the Third Heat series, revealing that the core tension in adventure design lies in balancing raw dice rolls against open-ended player creativity in actual gameplay.

The author of "Yaponskie NRI (Японские НРИ)" tests a text RPG with an AI game master, sharing comedic impressions of playing a hapless ninja in the Naruto setting.

The author shares nearly ten years of experience with Pulp Cthulhu and recommends the supplement on the occasion of its official Russian-language release.

Cherdak D4 (Чердак D4) shares an article arguing that resource constraints in OSR games — torches, food, time, hirelings — generate emergent danger driven by player decisions rather than random monster encounters.

Adventure Guys explains why Dragonbait from "Tomb of Annihilation" is an exception to their no-translation rule: it is a nickname, while the saurial's real name is Champion. An entertaining lore note on a well-known D&D 5e character.

The Monsters and Manuals blog analyzes a debate between Ben Milton and Daði about OSR lethality: Milton's framing of low-level OSR play as a 'heist' — fragile PCs grabbing treasure and escaping — is contrasted with the concern that high PC turnover makes play feel throwaway. The post argues Milton's point lands well but has nuance.

Sneaky Dice channel covers DragoNightly, a web-based GM screen service for offline play combining books, music, maps, monster stat blocks, and initiative tracking, with quick campaign and one-shot launch.

Request for Quest shares an observation from two playthroughs of a Werewolf: the Apocalypse 5th edition module: experienced players noticeably favor the Hispo form in tough combat.

A play report from a Bitvin (Битвин) session: a sadistic lady explorer and her brutish butler as her dark mirror — an analysis of an interesting character counterpoint.

A reflection on improvisational TTRPGs: why facts established at the table always outweigh any preconceptions about a character's inner world.

Klubok Istoriy (Клубок историй) shares an in-depth GM guide on building horror atmosphere through sensory cues and world reactions rather than visual descriptions of claws and eyes.

Translation on Kiborgi i Charodei (Киборги и Чародеи): D&D 2024 abandoned 5e's speed-of-play goal — new class features and Weapon Mastery add up to longer waits between turns.

Detailed actual play report for a 1-on-1 game of Regency Cthulhu: the author covers preparation, setting creation, and adapting sourcebook scenarios.

Translation of Michael E. Shea's article arguing that GMs should draw simple small maps on a battlemat rather than relying on expensive digital or 3D terrain setups.

A detailed overview of the Coalition States faction in Rifts RPG — a powerful human nation led by Emperor Karl Prosek, intolerant of magic users and non-humans.