Shiny TTRPG links #249

Shiny links from around the web. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.

Swan and Raven Studio hosts the last days of the HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid.

Of Dice and Dragons launches this months RPG Blog Carnival with Feasts and Festivals in Your TTRPG Campaign

Of Dice and Dragons also shares Wanted: Hosts for the 2026 RPG Blog Carnival!

LootLootLore gives us Diagetic Bingo

Congas.blog writes Finding my community

Chronicled Scribblings of the Itinerant Overlord gives us AD&D Training Costs: A Common DM Unforced Error

Sage's Sanctum shares A Calamitous Random Encounter Alternative

Old Men Running The World asks What Makes Me Want To Run A Game?

Grumpy Wizard shares Five Lessons About the TTRPG Business From Mike Mearls

Fluorite Guillotine gives us minimalist jam post-mortem

Blog of Forlorn Encystment writes Strangers in a Strange Land

forestsofcernutis gives us Proto-D&D

Bruce Heard shares D&D Castles: Operating Costs

Crow’s Corner gives us Halloween One-Shots: Read, Played, Reviewed

Elfmaids & Octopi asks Dolmenwood part1: Best OSR thing ever?

From Kuroth's Quill gives us Resources Recommendation for Greyhawk's and Dave Arneson's Blackmoor

DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER shares How Matrix Games Address Common RPG Issues

To Be Resolved gives us Objects as Random Access Memory

Luck Roll writes Play to (incrementally) find out

Trick's Tales gives us Marketing Retrospective from my Charity Bundle

Alex Martsinovich write on software but the principle is good for TTRPGs: It's rude to show AI output to people

four letters at random gives us Creating detailed characters for a Good Society one-shot

The Metal Bard shares When initiative matters.

Revivify Games gives us 51 Uses For the Immovable Rod.

B/X BLACKRAZOR writes Codex Of Old School Axioms

Sage's Sanctum gives us My Hole Theory of Interesting Combat

Better Legends shares RPG Preference Matrix

Rise Up Comus gives us The Eccentric Hobbit's Hedge Maze - a Flux-dungeon for the Middle-earth Hexcrawl

Patchwork Paladin shares Close and Distant Playstyles

Tree Climber writes The Mirror Grove

Tales of the Lunar Lands shares Thoughts on the British Old School

Will gives us The Bear Re-Skinner – OSE Statblock Generator

The Play Reports gives us Resources as Players - Over/Under

Onslaught Six writes The Chokespawn Incursion

Beneath Foreign Planets gives us Thinking about Special Rooms (Notes made during Meetings)

Prismatic Wasteland shares Bare Bones Survey of Skeletons

Chaos Magick-User gives us Dungeon Crawling Basics: How does combat work?

The Tao of D&D writes The Act of Regaining Sanity

Sage's Sanctum gives us Roll Less, Do More

GRUBB STREET shares Recent Arrivals: The Odd Lot