23 April 2023

Shiny TTRPG links #117

Another week of deep delving the TTRPG hinterwebs. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find even more links on the newly-automated weekly blogroll on r/OSR or the RPG Blog Carnival or a roundup of non-blog news on Third Kingdom Games roundup.

u/JacktheDM has a key insight into why *players* like 5e in The OSR, Lonely Fun, and why I believe many D&D alternatives entirely miss the point of why people will never leave 5th Edition

Rosalind Chapman suggests No one cares about anything that happened 1,000 years ago.

Tabletop Atelier proposes How Bingo Can Revolutionize Your D&D Game

Busy Wyvern gives us Slaying the Scheduling Dragon

Hack & Slash writes On the Creative Crocodile Conundrum

Grumpy Wizard asks What’s your “Appendix LP?”

Bruce Heard gives us Aerial Bombing

Dr. Jesse Olsen, University of Melbourne on Phys.org writes Why Dungeons and Dragons is good for the workplace

False Machine tests RoC RaW - The Creation of Tristian le Tigre, Slave to Darkness

u/lycanthh asks What specific blog POSTS from the OSR blogsphere have ACTUALLY changed your game/do you FREQUENTLY use?

Graphite Prime notes You Can't Play As Conan, But...

Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet writes Elves: what they do and where they come from

Papers & Pencils gives us Flux Space

A Distant Chime gives us OSR Rules for Underwater Play: Light and Pressure

World Anvil Blog shares ENCOUNTER IDEAS FOR YOUR DND OR RPG ONE-SHOT

World Building and Woolgathering gives us Faufreluches: Feudal Future

Delta's D&D Hotspot gives us Random Walks in the Dungeons of the Slave Lords

Jeffs Gameblog shares a typical spellbook from the Dillhonker City campaign

TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON writes on Getting that dungeon crawl going

Mythlands of Erce gives us Journey Fantasy (or: Clarifying the Nebulous Pull of Dragonlance)

Glass Candles shares The First Hero

Lucas Rolim (@rolimllucas) writes on Abstraction in TTRPGs, or RPGs as abstract art

Archons March On gives us D6x6 Thrillful Thri-Kreen

Awesome Lies documents Topos: Rogue Trader

A Continent of Banalities shares Oh B.R.O.T.H.E.R.

Methods & Madness writes Comfort, Color, Contrast: three types of fantasy (vanilla, weird, grounded)

Dreadlord Games gives us Pirate NPC Generator

Eldritch Fields shares [Map] LEG DAY! The Dungeon of Stairs

1D4 Dire Hamsters gives us Shrine of the Razor Gnomes

Glorb's 11 Foot Ladder pleads Please Stop Making Rules Systems

Eldritch Fields solves the OSR with The Universal Random Table

Bastionland gives us Trade Without Money

Hack & Slash On Reader Mail, Table Talk & Communication

d4 Caltrops shares d100 - Carousing Consequences & Complications

Kraaw gives us A LAND OF...

Alesmiter asks Wilderlands - So how big IS a Barony?

Elfmaids & Octopi gives us Group Backgrounds

Coins and Scrolls shares Sci-Fi: Sensors and Navigation

The Alexandrian gives us Ptolus: Running the Campaign – Fantasy Sewers

Hidden in Shadows documents Arnesonian Time Keeping

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