These days it feels like the Post OSR spends a lot of time reinventing things that people wrote on blogs in 2010, or stumbling into the same well known solutions and declaring they have "fixed" the play style.

Gus L. shares his thoughts around "7 Maxims of the OSR":

There's little help for this, and as much as introductions to OSR theory like Philotomy’s Musings, Matt Finch’s Quick Primer for Old School Gaming, or Milton, Lumpkin and Perry’s Principia Apocrypha are useful documents and helpful introductions, the majority of OSR wisdom exists as scattered blog posts and in the minds of people who have engaged with the play style over the past 20 or so years. People don't read blogs anymore, but even if they did ... these bloggers, designers, referees, and players have a tendency to fall back on maxims when asked to explain elements of the play style, and it’s not the most efficient way of communicating craft and knowledge.

The "Between Two Cairns" podcast by Yochai Gal & Brad Kerr celebrates its one-year-anniversary. I've personally binged all of the episodes recently

This week they review "Kavlov's Sanctuary" by Jean Luc Lariviere-Lacombe, which might be interesting for @[email protected], who is working on an OSE conversion (more infos under https://hexed.press/posts/kavlovs-sanctuary-ose-kickstarter-announcement).

New blog post by Leo Hunt on the Vaults of Vaarn blog:

I run a bi-monthly feature on the Vaarn Patreon called Monster Monday, where patrons get the chance to vote on spark words, which I then use as inspiration for new Vaarn monsters. A recent vote resulted in a tie between the spark words ‘echopraxia’ and ‘pareidolia’. These mean ‘an involuntary imitation or repetition of someone else’s actions’ and ‘the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern.’ For reasons I trust are obvious, these prompts got me thinking about mimics, creatures that copy something or someone else. What follows is part of the post I created for Patreon, a variety of riffs on the idea of a mimic.

Yochai & Brad review Holy Mountain Shaker by Luka Rejec, and answer a question from the mailbag.