Shiny TTRPG links #257

End the year with more shiny links. 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, delinked by request.

Alone in the Labyrinth launches City '26 Megapost

Ben Hollingum on Guinness World Records gives us Inside a Canadian professor's 43-year-old Dungeons & Dragons campaign

Save vs Total Party Kill writes Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, A Decade Too Late

Revivify Games shares How to Run a Sandbox Adventure

Wacky Weasel gives us Universal Character Sheet

Newt Young writes Lions, Foxes, Wolves – A Set of Procedures for Political Play

Seraphim Seraphina asks What do we mean when we say a game “supports” play?

Dragon Peak Publishing Newsletter gives us Hexcrawling non-geographical landscapes

Habeeb shares the infrastructure of magical convenience

Diceless gives us Embracing Colonialist Dungeons

The Madman's Menagerie gives us PEOPLE TO KILL AND HOW THEY WILL KILL YOU (Bandits)

Elfmaids & Octopi writes Quick Thoughts on Draw Steel

Trick's Tales shares Some More Small Gods of the Old Forest

Connecting the Fictional Dots writes The Game Designer Is Another Player

Dungeons & Possums gives us A-Z: D is for Dungeon

Ru's Roleplay Rants writes The Game Master and the game as servant

u/DeusCane gives us Daggerheart Requires a Strong Mindset Shift (and Why It Can Otherwise Feel Like D&D)

To Be Resolved gives us Narrative and Historiography in Tabletop Gaming

The Nothic's Eye shares METALLFORME (Campaign Idea)

Goblin Punch gives us GloGmas 2025: The Genius Legionis

Mediums and Messages writes 2025 in Review

Lonely Star gives us Havoc's Pyrrhic Weaselry 3e

19 Sided Die asks What's your True Name?

Vladar's Blog gives us Planescape review: A Devil's Dream

Leicester's Ramble shares Santicorn 2025, Part II: D66 Winter Carousing Happenings

Flagrant Garden gives us The WOP Model

Press The Beast writes On Characters

Domain of Many Things gives us 9 Meta TTRPG Bitter Pills to Swallow

Patchwork Paladin shares AI for Wizards

monkeyX's games blog writes How I Run Session Zero

Rose Skye shares Games Aren't Parties (To Me)

d4 Caltrops gives us d100 - So You've Spent Too Long At Sea...

Explorers Design shares The Jackian Magic System

Beneath Foreign Planets writes O Drc - Toki Pona's Evil Twin

To Be Resolved gives us Stewardship: A Hireling Subsystem

Odinson Games writes Defining pressure in TTRPGs

Tangent gives us Solar Dev Log 1: The Economics of Over/Under

Fail Forward shares Poison Swamp

d4 Caltrops gives us d100 – Treasure Map Minutia & Cartograph Complications

Swashbuckling Planets shares Ruins and Relics for Hari Ragat

Brackish Draught writes The Katabasis to Coal Mining Scale of Dungeoneering (ft. thoughts on His Majesty the Worm)

Troy Press gives us Planet Prep