22 December 2025

Shiny TTRPG links #256

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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