Shiny TTRPG links #260

Shiny links from about the internet! For 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.

Gorgon Bones gives us Childhood Inspirations

Mediums and Messages gives us The Winners of the 2025 Gloggies

To Distant Lands shares How to Not Do Zines Wrong

Danny Fist's TTRPG Stuff gives us Doing Both

Sivad's Sanctum writes In Favor of Stuff

New School Revolution writes Turning the Dial

Dungeon Merlin asks We Need to Talk About Goodman Games vs. "Eating the Book" - Why not both?

Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet gives us A qualitative Basilisk

Save vs Total Party Kill shares Keying Dungeons

Domain of Many Things gives us How to Really Beat GM Burnout

The Rpg Gazette writes The “Post-OSR(evival)” Identity Crisis

Dungeon Mecha gives us Knowledge Rolls are Good Actually

Juniper-C hosts Old Scan Rip Jam

Blog of Forlorn Encystment writes Creating a New Regional Sandbox for B2: The Keep on the Borderlands

madlabgames gives us 👑 The Dungeon Master's Checklist for Geopolitical Worlds

Press The Beast declares The OSR is trapped in Hexes it is addicted to Jaquaysing

CaelReader's Blog gives us How to Run a One-Shot in One Session

Polyhedral Nonsense shares Making a Not-Awful Adventure

A shrike for my dreams writes On sustaining creativity: lessons from my War of Art

Arcane Mutterings gives us Fourth Player Theory of TTRPG Design

Brackish Draught shares A Quick and Dirty Guide to Building a Local RPG Design Scene

Revivify Games asks Cursed Scroll 6, the Best Yet?

LootLootLore gives us Getting hurt, Resting and Otherkind Dice

Press The Beast shares Winged Boots

Tree Climber gives us The Portal Fantasy Session 0 Marketplace

Archon's Court shares Starting Patrons for Libra

The Whimsical Mountain writes You are made of mud, and mud is made of this. (Shadow of Glory Setting Primer)

MurkMail gives us Flavours of crunch

LootLootLore shares Fathach's Foundation and 1 roll combat

Anxious Mimic asks Marks: What if Saves, Stats, and Hp were all the same thing?

Alone in the Labyrinth gives us Childhood Appendix N

I Cast Light! shares SIX HEX CRAWL: A Mini-Setting Proposal For A Megadungeon

Familiar Waves gives us Random Encounters in Small Dungeons

Unlawful Games shares d100 List of Zamonian Races

Elfmaids & Octopi gives us Puffball Hooligan Holidays for Fungi Folk

Temporal Negativity writes If there were 2000 magic items in an OD&D world, this is how many of each there would be.

Table 46 gives us The 46er - January 2026

Puzzle Dungeon shares Your players are your co-creators (and you should credit them)

edmo is thinking about RPGs gives us Compromising Cairn

Hilander RPGs shares Dungeon Triangles

Stigmata Profana writes Working Title: Everything is Meat

Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet gives us A qualitative Black Pudding

LootLootLore shares Starter 26: A Rough Outline of Fathach

The Ignorant Dungeonmaster gives us The Every Elric Endeavor: An Introduction

franc, Hod Publishing shares Swyvers Heistable Hovels Jam

Pool Time with Swim Allen gives us Low Tempo Turns for Draw Steel

Cannibal Halfling Gaming writes Around the OSR…Again

Missives from Beyond the Veil of Sleep gives us How I Write Up Monsters Now

Prismatic Wasteland shares Playtest Early, Playtest Often

Fail Forward writes Villains - Building a Baddie

B/X BLACKRAZOR gives us Dungeon Master Rating (DMR)

Beneath Foreign Planets shares Meta-Illness and Extra-Diegetic Disease in RPGs

Anb's Logs writes Rating GM names for fun

Froward Friend shares Setting: Reconstructed Espionage Action

d4 Caltrops gives us d100 - “Bottle Episodes" - Seafaring Scenes & Situations

I Cast Light! shares SKELETON: A BX Class With A Bone To Pick

Dungeon Merlin asks We Need to Talk About Goodman Games vs. "Eating the Book" - Why not both?

Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet gives us A qualitative Basilisk

Save vs Total Party Kill shares Keying Dungeons

Dewwy's Blog gives us Cataphract And Automation.