12 January 2026

Shiny TTRPG links #259

Poring back over holiday activity to harvest a bumper crop of 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.

The Madman's Menagerie proposes A CHALLENGE FOR 2026: THE STARTER B⬡X

Orthopraxy writes Eating the Book--a response to 'We Need to Talk About Goodman Games'

Shuttered Room asks Secret Santicorn 2025 - What the fuck do adventurers eat?

Unlawful Games gives us Godawful Griffons

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

Archon's Court gives us Rota Fortunae Retrospective (Handling Active Faction Sandboxes)

A Room Containing 1d6 Goblins shares The Underdog Bonus

Connecting the Fictional Dots writes The Human Game Manifesto

The Dolent Chronicle shares Play Worlds Manifesto

Being An Asshole To A Goblin (BAATAG) gives us The Verbs of Play

Brackish Draught writes Answering the Perpetual Questions of RPGs

Spiceomancy gives us Clerics get the sex dice (class)

Crow’s Corner shares Table-Tested Review of The One Ring’s “Tales From the Lone-Lands”

Explorers Design compiles The Bloggies Hall of Fame

Dungeon Mecha gives us Solving the 1 HP Goblin

Blog of Forlorn Encystment writes Play Environments, Power, Complexity, and Agency in D&D

HiskiH gives us The NWOF Promise

Eleatic stranger on RPG.net writes Resting Pressure: Rules that prompt new problems for characters /a>

mindreader's digest gives us
Quality of life, rulesets, and fatigue

Trick's Tales shares Weather Worm Adventure I: A review of Deluge at Drizzle Distillery

Throne of Salt compiles Public Domain Roundup 2026

Traverse Fantasy shares Cinco: Bibliography

Being An Asshole To A Goblin (BAATAG) gives us Elements of a Key 2

I Cast Light! shares CRYPTS OF DOLMENWOOD: Using The Timeline to Determine Motifs of Tombs, Dungeons, And Undead

Francesco Cacciatore on Polygon writes After 8 years of playing D&D nonstop, I've finally tried its biggest alternative

Full Moon Storytelling gives us The D&D Stranger Things boom is bigger than you think

Kill It With Fire! asks Megadungeon Lingering Table Final Form! When you stay too long, what happens?

Heather Under Moonlight shares Boats, and how I'm running overland stuff now

Distracted at the Table write Imagining A Post-Scarcity Society in Your Adventures

a lizard rests upon a stone gives us Traveller: Battlesuit Schmattle Suit

Bommyknocker Press shares Bid-based adventuring - Blood, Sweat & Tears v0.2

Pool Time with Swim Allen proposes Year of Despair - Villain26 #1

Silverarm Press gives us All Hail King d12

Odinson Games shares Costly choices

Hilander on itch.io gives us Felwoods

Inkwell Ideas shares 10 Puzzle Ideas for your Tabletop Role-playing Game

Dungeon Scrawler gives us Dungeon Room Index: Lairs

Nrdblog shares No Air? No Problem - GLOG Class: Really Chill Tardigrade

Table 46 writes Jewelsea RPG - Friction Pool, Second Draft

Sage's Sanctum gives us Thinking About Death Mechanics

Throne of Salt shares 50 Things You Heard Online About Aklo

Viridian Void Productions gives us Description + Action = Living NPC

Playful Void shares River Dice (Make Dice Work For You #1)

MixUpPixels writes Reading Review - Night of the Gunwitch

5th dimensional tavern gives us World breaker review - A Snake Meal

Sage's Sanctum shares Putting the "Magic" in Magic Weapons

Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse gives us The Captive Cervantes and the problem of history

Lonely Star shares 6 Small Unit Missions

Whose Measure God Could Not Take writes Ras Tarlaix: Make Me an Indestructible Star, Everything Evil and Vicious and Red

Leicester's Ramble gives us D66 Winter Carousing Happenings, Part II

Unturned Hovel shares 110 Hexes Give or Take

Archons March On gives us Scrards; Or: Cards-As-Scrolls

Playtest Dummies shares Skyfield: A Rainbow City Neighborhood

Brackish Draught gives us Estoc: Diceless Heroic Roleplaying

Archon's Court shares Machine Space Exploration - Navigator Domain Procedures Part 2

d4 Caltrops gives us Magic Item Generator

Osraige Press shares Reavers and Railroads

Joe B. writes Dogma

Rise Up Comus gives us Periapt of Celestial Wisdom

Tree Climber shares The Classical Elements as Alignment

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS gives us 2025 in Blog Data

DNDIY writes I Fell Down a Hole and Landed in the OSR

MurkMail shares The TTRPG civil discourse guide

Anb's Logs gives us Beating up a dead horse without rolling for initiative

Ruins of Otranto shares Elements of OSR Adventures Particularly Valuable for Shadowdark

Weeping Stag gives us Creating a Dynamic City Crawl for Traveller: Stealing from the OSR and Mothership

Tree Climber writes The Slumbering Castle Devlog 1

Distracted at the Table gives us The Most Human Part of Space Horror? Redundancies.

The Digital DM shares Hexcrawls

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