Interesting links from about the blog-o-sphere and beyond! Slightly late, it being a bank holiday today. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find even more links on the weekly blogroll on r/OSR or a roundup of non-blog news on Third Kingdom Games roundup.
A great articulation of one of those old 'obvious truths' that noone bothers to actually describe anymore with An Example of Milieu Centricity from Grumpy Wizard
Tales of the Lunar Lands unearths Forgotten Adventure Design: Bar Brawls
The Dream Aesthetics Dilemma on Mazirian's Garden
False Machine gives us deep mythos in Gilding the Shadow
Get yourself a coffee and biscuit for "The OSR Should Die" by Traverse Fantasy - a history of the multiple things called the OSR.
Continue with "Have you tried ANT? A response to Marcia’s “OSR is Dead” post" on Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse. Be sure to read the comments for more thoughts from Traverse Fantasy in response.
A Knight at the Opera writes another interesting long piece in Tabletop is Theatre, Videogames are Film
Glumdark presents a Quest Seed Generator under the marvelous tagline "Even a small idea can yield enormous misery."
Monster creation in Eurotrash by Weaver.skepti.ch
Welcome to the Deathtrap writes about Using Misinformation in Play
d4 Caltrops writes up another storm:
d100 – Deadly Diseases & Alarming Ailments
d100 – Why Is This Door Stuck?
d100 – Magical Cloaks & Capes
d100 - Flaws & Foibles for More Fickle Magic
Save vs Total Party Kill writes Negative Space
To Distant Lands follows up with F**k-You Design
Alexandrian gives us a great historical overview of proto-hex-crawls in the first Dragonlance modules in Hexmaps in the Dragonlance Saga
Bastionland writes about Journeys
Necropraxis returns with some musings in Towards Objective Prosthetics
The Golden Age: Pulp49 by Elfmaids & Octopi
Goblin's Henchman created a Field Guide to Random Table Design in RPGs
Planescape: Tables for the Outlands on Githyanki Diaspora
The Oneiromancer starts the Gygax 75 Challenge: Worldbuilding Cravana
Engine of Oracles reworks classic classes in My Unnecessary yet Inevitable Reworking of the B/X Fighter and An Alternate Illusionist Class for OSR Games and The B/X Magic User Reimagined
Foreign Planets writes up My Ability Score Generation Method - One 1 Once
Spider Queen documents a ritual in The Dice That Will Kill You
Save vs. Worm gives us Six Horror Monsters for Underneath
Scribblings or Something gives us a monster that uses infravision against its victims in Dead Man's Lantern
Grumpy Wizard writes Sword & Sorcery Characters Don’t Change
The Man With A Hammer writes D10 Draconic Symbioses
Player's Guide to Insectopia v.1.3 by u/Grimley533 on r/UnearthedArcana
D&D Skyships rules for 5e from the archives of Dungeon Master Assistance
Alone in the Labyrinth writes on HEART: Delving into the world of story games
B/X Blackrazor tells an Actual Play of N1: Against the Cult of the Reptile God in Explictica Defilus
My OSE Classes Homebrew by Vdonnut Valley
Save vs Ennui writes Old-School Reduction: Morale
The Wandering Gamist writes up Material Components in the Wilderness Levels
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