Articles & Devlog

Just hearing about Bug & Claw? Start here. You reach down and pull the crystal from the raider’s head. It will bring a decent bounty. Gazing out into the forest, you see eyes shining back at you. In one direction, the lack of a protective crystal tower means contending with mutant wildlife and...

Problem/s: XP in many TTRPGs gears the players toward certain types of actions. Eg: XP for killing drives you to kill more instead of exploring other options Eg: XP for gold recovered back to town in OSR games encourages reward-seeking behaviour The way some systems, like many OSR games...

In the last post, you may have noticed two curious blocks on the character sheet capturing "grit" and "flesh" and wondered what those are for. Let's talk about that. The problem with HP There's long been a problem many of us have had with HP in games. Your character is often supposed to be thi...

The first iterations for player character sheets started almost a year ago. Any time I was thinking about a problem players might encounter I thought about how they might resolve it. I asked myself a lot of questions during this process: What kind of interesting choices should they be able to ma...

In Bug & Claw, there are various organizations characters can join or encounter. One that's more common is the Breach. Get to know the Breach with a bit of the lore behind them in this devlog. The Breach Guild Goal The Breach is one of the oldest guilds, its members devoting themselves to pr...

Did you know arthropods shed their exoskeletons as they grow? It's a process called ecdysis, but most of us just call it moulting. What I find super cool about this process, though, is the chance for regeneration. With the world of Bug & Claw keeping up with OSR tenants and being a dangerous place...

Patient Watch Guild town Medium danger Description Patient Watch is what’s known as a Breach Watch, a settlement devoted to breach craft, almost all of the population being members of the Breach. Patient Watch is built near the remnants of the old lighthouse at Stagbay. For years the populac...

A new town of Silkhold Our adventure takes us somewhere new. It could be the players that meander off plan, we're fleshing out a plan, writing a story, playing a solo game and in need of an oracle, you name it. We want this new place to feel interesting, lived in, to have some history to it, and...

What you're about to read is a snippet from the introduction to a story about a crab named Phillipé and a ladybug named St Frederick that go on a great quest together and learn the meaning of true friendship. It's also where Bug & Claw gets it's name from. Right now, it's kind of like a cross betwee...