Links to some serious thinking as people purge their draft folders before the end of the year. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.
Alone in the Labyrinth launches #City26 challenge for next year and also gives us City of 100 Gods, Traders Wake: They Who Store The Grain (35); The Deep One (36).
Viridian Void Productions shares Die Hard is OSR
Binary Star Games gives us Conflict as Motivation and Resolution
Billhook Blog writes In Praise of the Pit
Gorgon Bones shares “Boring” Combat is Fine Actually
Methods & Madness gives us Old school swarms/minions (B/X, OSE, AD&D, etc.)
dungeon doll shares Elves
Kill It With Fire! gives us Rotating Players, Stable PCs Campaign Plan
Habeeb (@beeboobubie) writes the default dungeon is colonial
Afraid of Encounters gives us Anti-colonial Dungeon
The Dododecahedron shares Crossing the Dungeon Rubicon
Patchwork Paladin asks Why Go Hexcrawling?
Old Men Running The World gives us How to get better at improvising
Connecting the Fictional Dots shares The Grand Table of Settings – and a Christmas Game
MurkMail gives us The Stakes of Grimdark
Down to the Nerve shares Something happened here
Sam Sorensen gives us Sam’s Three-Question Taxonomy
The Novel Game Master shares 9 Things I've Learned Running 9 Different RPGs
Catching Snakes declares You Jabronies Don't Even Know What Tactical Combat Means
Binary Star Games gives us Combat without Combat
Rock, Paper, Siren! writes Re: “Fantasy, Not History “— DFUS Blog Thoughts
Bombgoblin gives us DEVILCODIAN
d4 Caltrops asks d100 - What's At The Bottom Of This Pit?
Unturned Hovel writes SMEAC Briefings for TTRPGs
Pandi Ponderings gives us Batch Writing Descriptions
To Be Resolved writes On Categorization, Rule Buckets, and Diegesis
subjunctive moods shares five aspects of cleesh
Traverse Fantasy gives us Cinco: December 2025
Froward Friend shares Wandering in the Astral Plane
Pandi Ponderings gives us 2025 Year in Review
To Be Resolved shares Narrative, Play Structure, and Conflict in TTRPGs
Crow’s Corner writes 2025 in Numbers
sean f. smith gives us “You Are The Hero!”; or, Balancing Troika! et al. for mainstream OSR
The Black Citadel shares Alignment Scale
Alone in the Labyrinth gives us The Road to Perdition Could Also Be a Handy Shortcut
Delving Wolf asks Shoulds we bring back Hit Locations?
Advantage on Arcana gives us The Weird in the Lakelands
Magnolia Keep shares Skill as My Balls
Whose Measure God Could Not Take gives us GLoGmas 2025: A Single Season, Never Two
VDonnut Valley writes Unfinished End - failed campaign retrospective
Whose Measure God Could Not Take shares Every Goddamn Vampire in this Goddamn Medieval Europe of Mine
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