Shiny TTRPG links collection #26

Links of interest from the past week. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. This week I collated the lions share from the Weekly OSR Blogroll on Reddit which I am helping out with for a while.

Wandering Wombat writes up an actual play of the Prison of the Hated Pretender.

Archons March On has d20x5 Demon Lords.

A cool roundup of Free Kriegspiel games on Revenants Quill.

Tabletop Curiousity Cabinet has a nice piece on ghibli-esque 'fae in the valley'.

In the 'bottling lightning' corner we have a number of efforts to capture the magic of certain games
Through the Veil: Souls-like RPG on liches get stitches.
Goblin’s Laws of Gaming in the Dark on Portals and Pegasi.
The Gretch Souls GLOG class by Bottomless Sarcophagus.

I had missed the GLOGSTAR thing on Mad Queens Court and found my way there just now through A Blasted Cratered Land talking about GLOGSTAR Starship Mission Hooks (part 1, part 2)

Genius Loci — making an environment that is also a character, not just a spirit of the place, but a spirit-as-the-place by Alone in the Labyrinth.

Save vs. Worm gives an overview of satrapies and kingdoms of their setting, complete with evocative photos.

Tarot-driven process for creating a monster and its key encounters by Captain Ahabs Legthat gets a lot more material for your game table. Definitely going to give this a try myself.

Awesome stuff from Glass Bird Games on humanizing the monster - a table of qualities for the monster, one list that's humanizing, one that ramps up the strange, alien, or traditionally monstrous and a great explanation on how to use it.

Goobers Nuts Blog on "blog about geographical features in my [16th century Philippines inspired] setting"

A baroque OSR bestiary by Methods & Madness.

Face monsters, from giants who’ve lost their face by Acorn Afloat.

Tricks that save time & headaches when running games by Gundobad Games

Prismatic Wasteland provides some advice for keeping players on (or off!) the rails of a published adventure.

Heavy Metal Isopods from Alone in the Labyrinth. I like that a star-fall could potentially lead to a bunch of these things turning up and suddenly you don't just have a crater in your field, you have a crater surrounded by a bunch of huge bugs swapping news and debating whether this star-metal is a good vintage.

Plastic Polyhedra provides another place to look for roundups.

Knight at the Opera writes up their home-rule compilations, extensively tested in the particular environment of a home game, I always like these insights into a proven set up and play style.

V Donnut Valley has some interesting thinking on the explorative skills and clustering skill groups.

Imaginary Hallways gives us a planescapey dungeon of strange thoughts and gargantuan body-bits of God.

Thoughts on using language in RPGs - why your PCs can communicate with everyone they meet from False Machine.

Wizards is publishing some free Adventures.