The drAIgonling Gazette

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

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.

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

Announced: 'Dungeons! Illustrated Maps of Classic D&D Adventures' — an 80-page illustrated atlas of 8 iconic D&D dungeons with annotated, tongue-in-cheek commentary by Eisner Award nominee Jason Bradley Thompson. Release April 2027.

Mariya Kolesnik (Мария Колесник) shares an illustration by artist kоrica for the character Maylo from Territoriya Neveroyatnostey (Территория невероятностей), noting the artist's vision perfectly matched her original conception.

Convention report from Cauldron 2026: the largest edition yet, with ~90 participants, nearly four full days, and nine gaming blocks including a linked mini-campaign.

The author of Swords, Dice & RolePunk muses humorously about not having their own game or funds to advertise, referencing a project called Psychoslingers (Психослингеры). No concrete announcement.

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.

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.

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.

The Zvyozdnoye Vereteno (Звёздное Веретено) RPG campaign publishes official faction positions for the new Season: the Demos recover from reputational and financial losses, the Frontiers tighten artifact control.

LivingRoomStudio announces a new show where friends play D&D with an unexpected added format element.

DiceHead announces the launch of the 'Paths of Middle-earth' (Тропы Средиземья) game series simultaneously in Moscow, Ufa, and St. Petersburg, with open sign-ups and contest winners revealed.

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.

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.

Dark Horse Comics has announced a series of graphic novels set in the classic D&D setting Dark Sun. The first mini-graphic novel is scheduled for April 2027.

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.

The Indie Game Reading Club host announces a guest appearance on a show with Luke Crane and others, ahead of their own Episode 3 dropping next week.

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.

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.

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

A paid feat progression supplement for the Mothership TTRPG, adding structured character advancement mechanics to the system.

OɴᴇQᴜᴇsᴛs is a new series of standalone solo adventure gamebooks spanning survival horror, sci-fi, and heroic fantasy genres.

SubX is a solo sci-fi RPG about exploring an alien ocean bed, available on itch.io for $4.50.

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.

Postsovetskaya Mistika (Постсоветская мистика) launched its website with free RPG materials: a character generator, bestiary, family journal, and paranormal entity generator. Print book preorders are also available.

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.

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 City of Iron And Fog is a free solo journaling RPG set in a film noir atmosphere, exploring desperation and moral decay.

6 Feet Under is a free spooky solo TTRPG about burying a body, available on itch.io.

Free 27-card solo in-hand game Witch & Beast for one player, available on itch.io.

H'Ween Mega-Zine 2 is a free Halloween-themed TTRPG zine, the second installment, available on itch.io.

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

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

Ofizdat (Офиздат) studio has opened orders for the fabric map of Pogranye — a physical cartographic product now available on their website.

BOG is an RPG about brave frog knights on perilous quests through a dark, cursed marsh, available on itch.io for $4.99.

The Chateau Visit is a free one-shot adventure module for The Troubleshooters RPG, published on itch.io.

Issue 2 of the Dungeons & Dragons: Total Party Killers comic is now available in Russian translation, continuing the monster crew's clash with lich Valindra Shadowmantle.

Flins Zin (Флинс Зин) reports that the "Fonar v Nochi (Фонарь в ночи)" zine is laid out and approved for print, with 70% of merch at the proofing stage; delays possible due to hard-cover production and overseas printing.

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 group print order has been announced for the Russian translation of Dungeon Crawl Classics in hardcover — an old-school TTRPG in the Sword & Sorcery tradition of Howard and Lovecraft. Participant price is 4,990 RUB; the PDF translation is included.

A 30×40 gridless coastal ruins battlemap, ready to use at the table.

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.

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.

Part 2 of the Kiborgi i Charodei (Киборги и Чародеи) Oct 4–11 digest: articles on table information management, initiative mechanics, monster design, and pre-industrial worldbuilding.

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.

Free supplement for Good Society adding rules for English estate and consignment auctions to the game's social mechanics.

KuboSfera (КубоСфера) presents three magical traveler's items for rainy weather, including a boot-drying hearthstone and a brass weather-window compass — cozy flavor content for any fantasy setting.

A set of 4K galaxy maps for a Black Crusade (Warhammer 40k RPG) campaign: Chaos and Loyalist versions, plus Eye of Terror and Halo Stars maps, available on Google Drive.

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.

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

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.

GrimDarkManClub recorded a podcast about the Courts of Day and Night and three orders, likely covering Chronicles of Darkness material.

The author shares auction haul from Games Plus, including Savage Worlds and Dark Age Vampire, with the standout find being Fledge Witch — a cozy, non-combative Japanese RPG about apprentice witches trying to impress their teacher. The deluxe set reportedly includes dice, a spell notebook, and signed art.

The Sneaky Dice (Sneaky Dice) channel publishes another one-shot collection for D&D 5e — three Russian-language adventures from authors including Konstantin Osminkiny-Yukin (Константин Осьминкин-Юкин) and Vladimir Kartunov (Картунов Владимир), hosted on Aternia.

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.

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 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.

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 scenic city carnival promenade battlemap, 30×20 with grid, suitable for urban adventure encounters.

The author proposes a B/X dungeon stocking table using tarot card suits instead of dice rolls, with each suit mapping to a room content type (monster, trap, empty, special). A quick house-rule tool for old-school referees.

The YTB (ЫТЬ) channel published a YouTube interview with Trinity (Тринити) — the author urges viewers to like the video for better reach.

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.

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.

A GM from the Kurokradovo Boloto (Курокрадово болото) channel shares their detailed workflow for curating session music — from building thematic playlists to sorting tracks by scene type.

The author of the Kurokradovo Boloto (Курокрадово болото) channel shares impressions from session nine of their The Silt Verses (PbtA) campaign — characters have grown complex and the story has turned dark.

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.

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

A GM reflects on a session of Zapretnyye Zemli (Forbidden Lands) by Studiya 101 (Студия 101): players explored, completed a quest, and started building a stronghold, but grew aggressive by session's end — the GM suspects the lack of combat scenes is to blame.

Tips on making the 'brooding loner' archetype feel more alive: add contrasting traits, non-tragic motivations, and sources of genuine joy. A practical guide for players.

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.

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.

Chris McDowall reflects on how unfulfilled aspirations — goals players may never reach — still shape the play experience and make the game world feel real and believable.

A GM shares commissioned portraits of all player characters from their The One Ring campaign, including the promised hobbit.