Meta-Drunkenness aka Drunk in the Dungeon

Carousing is its own thing, but a character that drinks during Dungeon or Wilderness time becomes drunk. The character suffers -1 to ALL rolls. Additionally, before making any roll the player themself must announce what they are doing in a drunken fashion or perform some minor drunken act (e.g, hic, slur their words, slump, squint, etc). If they do not do this, their character automatically fails the roll/attempted action in a humourous, drunken, ironic way. The inebriation lasts until the character has had a nice lunch or a good night's sleep, whichever occurs first.

Optionally:

Wait, you're drunk!: If another player reminds the drunken character's player of their drunkenness, they may roll as normal but must Save vs Poison afterward or pass out.

Uhhh, abusing alcohol is, ummm, cool actually: Characters that are drunk for more than half the session gain a personal bonus 5% XP to XP gained that session.

Drink, Drink, Drink!: Drinking more would lead to cumulative minuses to rolls.

The Drunkard's Cloak

For other META (or perhaps more accurately - Extradiegetic or Paratextual) rules check out my posts on:

- Meta-Narcotics - Experimental Rules for Extra-Diegetic Drugs in RPGs

- Meta-Illness and Extra-Diegetic Disease in RPGs

- Ritualised Spellcasting, Meta-Material Components and Performative Witchcraft

This was just a little tipple of a post to get me back in the blogging mood. 

The Bridge at the End of the World

A science-fantasy hexcrawl for low-level adventurers, inspired by the forgotten hero of 1930's weird fiction, Tumithak of the Corridors and his ruined world. In your quest for the fabled Bridge at the End of the World, you must journey through a weird subterranean realm within the belly of a crashed generation-ship. A world where ape-men, mutants, monsters and alien insects vie for survival.

This hexcrawl is inspired by the minimal style of Luke Gearing's Pariah Hexfills. It is not suitable for beginner Game Masters.

Written for the Appendix N Jam, 2026, my 2025 entry, LOW TIDINGS can be found here. It won 1st place in the 'Appendix N Vibes' category*  

Art Sources:

• Cover: Super Science Stories 'Tumithak of the Towers of Fire'
• Most other images: publicdomainreview.org
• I drew the dungeon map myself.

Appendix N:

• The Tumithak Quadrilogy by Charles R. Tanner. You can read all his published and unpublished works at tumithak.com
• All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C. M. Kösemen
• The RPG: Metamorphosis Alpha

(*I'm not so hopeful for this one. Yeah, yeah. I get it. 22 hexes, an 18 room dungeon, lore - 4 a5 pages. I know how it is. I blame Luke Gearing for my hubris)

More Lost Books of Appendix N

The author, engaged in some field research

Part One Here

It appears I was too soft in my research. There was more to be done, more lost texts of AD&D's Appendix N to be uncovered. Indeed, even the knavish oaf, Throne of Salt discovered yet another layer of texts, 100 of them! So, with utmost haste and in disguise (I am wanted by local authorities), I traveled to Lake Geneva, WI. There I have spent the last year engaging in a secondary round of 'research'. If your buddy didn't show to Gary Con, I apologise. 

Prior to publication, I was informed that my methods of investigation are ineffective, illegal and immoral. I have come to believe this, I think those battered and bruised, elderly Midwestern nerds fabricated some of these titles so I would stop. Next year I must go harder. Nonetheless, here are my findings:

d46 Lost Books of Appendix N 

1. Arxkanarx, get your Sword
2. When Among Vampires
3. Swords against Sasquatch
4. Belhazahaar - Country of Coffins
5. Caged by Kragaan Khan
6. To Kotow in the Court of Chaos
7. Dimension Oubliette
8. Spøgende Spøgelser
9. A World named TOMB
10. The Shango Quadrilogy - 'Shango! Shango!', 'Shango, Prince of Prohgongo', 'Shango: from the Void' and 'Blood for Shango'
11. Twelve Nights beneath Silver Mountain
12. The Blood, it Shimmers!
13. Thombok of the Cylinders
14. Titan, I strike at Thee!
15. The Day of the Spider (banned in 12 countries)
16. The Ghosts of Io
17. Laying Low in Laistrygon
18. Berserk, Beauteous, Baphomet
19. Gnomes for Gnorothrax
20. Dragon Planet
21. Maiden, Iron Maiden
22. Servants of the Mole
23. How the Vat-Thing came to Be
24. Wretched Alchemy!
25. A Guild for Gargoyles
26. Once a Warlock (lost Moorcock short story, one he wishes to forget and denies knowledge of)
27. Ploor - Warrior of Wence
28. The Last Argument of Wizards
29. Kiss of the Eel
30. Tribulations in Tsikic's Tomb (misattributed to Jack Vance)
31. The Corpseless Coffin, or, See it Crawl Towards Them!
32. My Queen is Death!
33. Grave Hunger
34. A Rat out of Hell
35. The Green Face of Horror
36. Twice Slain in Tragidore
37. The Crypts of Gorgonia (published in 1818)
38. Castle Venus
39. The Campaigns of Captain Bishterran
40. In the Service of Sultan Shamash
41. The Lemurian Larder
42. The Hideous Horrors of Hrothgar's Hold
43. The Battle for Basilisk Bay
44. To Dine among Ghouls
45. Dendradarazin cannot Die
46. The Accursed Amazon

By the way, did you know the Appendix N Jam is back?

I almost got that old nerd

The Pretender-Banate of Auric-Nemus

 My commiserations, it's more Antarctica hexfills. 

A hapless adventurer (and C.U.L.T asset) flees from Qersh-Qersh, Queen of All Slugs.

Find the Hexes below. I do however, recommend exploring them via the Antarctica Adventure Jam webmap instead. 

In Auric-Nemus one may;

• fight the CIA
• do guerilla warfare
• do a giant slug's bidding
• drink fermented zebra milk
• eat smoked sloth and deep-fried butterfly
• do opium
• dig for gold
• workout with the strongest man on earth
• free slaves
• take slaves
• make zombies
• save vs death or get a wife and child
• become a Lisan al-Gaib style king
• play beer pong

### 35-357 The Last and Hidden Hideout of Ban Ceiba-riv

### 51-360 The Hidden Tomb of Wattieza-Juk, The Smilodon-Ban