09 February 2026

Shiny TTRPG links #263

Links from about the interwebs! 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.

Prismatic Wasteland launches Bandwagon: The Map is Not the Territory But It is the Topic

The Griffin's Typewriter proposes A Challenge: Your own Knock!

Sea of Stars Beginning this month’s RPG Blog Carnival – Dragons, Gods and other Powerful Beings

Patrick Lenton in The Guardian write I don’t like organised fun, but Dungeons and Dragons is my shining nerdy light amid the darkness

Bommyknocker Press proposes Write Encounters in Networks

In the Company of Monsters shares Trophic Encounters

Crow’s Corner gives us Table-Tested Reviews of The One Ring’s Starter Sets

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS shares Common, Recalled, Obscure

Eldritch Fields asks What do I love in dungeons?

Traverse Fantasy gives us Encounter Activity Refactor

Throne of Salt shares Burgeoning Blogs 1

Connecting the Fictional Dots gives us Blogosphere 2025 Wrapped

The Katt Kirsch Blogsperience shares Leonard Cohen's Advice for Novice OSR Referees

Nrdblog gives us Gifts of Food and Shelter, Not Gold and Silver

Random Ape Encounter shares Disneyland Cocktail Parties, Sandboxes and Encounter Philosophy

Afraid of Encounters writes Afraid of Communities - Indonesian Tabletop RPG scene & LFG

monkeyX's games blog gives us Arcana Rising: Fireballs, Day Jobs, and the OSR Urban Fantasy That Got Away

Press The Beast shares Zero-sum Combat & Designing Incentive

Patchwork Paladin gives us A Tale of Two Combats

Scribbles and Horrors writes Defunct Dungeon Map — A Brief Autopsy

Vaults of Vaarn gives us Exploration Beneath The Urth

Cats Have No Lord writes De Venenis - A Treatise on Poisons in Old School Gaming

edmo is thinking about RPGs gives us a mechanic out of context

I Cast Light! shares TORCHES (6): A RPG Microblog Collection 8

The Novel Game Master gives us The Time Tuner - an Adventure Location

Pool Time with Swim Allen shares Hazard X Risk

Throne of Salt gives us Fragments of an Old Alt-History Setting

Lonely Star shares Giants and Dragons Generator

Traverse Fantasy writes Cinco: Concept Lab

The Madman's Menagerie gives us ALLUVIUM (A Lanthanide Horizon Hexcrawl)

Oversights and Oubliettes shares Seven Spells of Hubris

Beneath Foreign Planets gives us Calendar-Weather/Weather-Calendar

400 independent bathrooms shares On Point-and-Click Exploration in Elfgames

Archon's Court gives us Troupe Play & Character Progression - Navigator Domain Procedures Part 3

A Land of Young Stars writes Ok, fine I guess if I want people to starve to death I’m going to have to write some rules about the economy, even if that is really boring.

The Garden Below gives us 3 Rule Aspect

Lair of the Dusk Witch shares Signature Spell of the Dusk Witch

Idraluna Archives gives us Castle Mordengard Postmortem

Grendel's Stepdad shares Flammifer, a petty god of torches for old school roleplaying games

Messages From The Far Havens gives us Being a Good Tabletop RPG Player

Mazirian's Garden writes The Sacrament of the Minotaur

The Tao of D&D gives us In Preparation for Running

Wombat's Gaming Den of Iniquity shares Loose Game Prep

Fail Forward gives us Micro-Blog: The Skirmish Game as a Sims-Like

To Be Resolved writes Megadungeon Restocking

Viridian Void Productions gives us Bottom-up organization for RPG notes

Birdmilk's RPG Cafe reviews Royal Blood

Prismatic Wasteland recalls The XP Bowl and XP Bubbles

Prismatic Wasteland gives us All Along the Clocktower

PonderTheGoose writes Hex'd about Hexes: Welcome to the Jungle (pt. 1)

Glyph and Grok gives us Review: Dolmenwood Player's Book

Patchwork Paladin shares Making Hexes With your Players

BASTIONLAND gives us GM Focused Playtesting

Eldritch Fields shares [Random table] A winged amazon with six-shooters riding a pegasus and more sick airbrushed panel van art pieces

19 Sided Die gives us Arbitrary Half-Races

Nick Baran - Breaker Press Games writes WIP Stennard Fumble Table

To Be Resolved asks Surveyed By the Apocalypse?

Rolling Alone gives us 4 Ways To Play a Published Adventure Solo

Jared Sinclair Dot Bearblog Dot Dev shares Simone Sector, or How To Make A Galaxy

Tangent Joy gives us Two Rule Aspect

Random Ape Encounter shares Recalling Knowledge in OSR/NSR Games

Advantage on Arcana writes My Plan For Better TTRPG Settings

Puzzle Dungeon gives us A look back at Puzzle Dungeon Jam

False Machine writes Spider is a Mushroom Now

A Distant Chime gives us The Road to Splashdown

All Dead Generations shares The Future - 2026

The Birch and Wolf gives us Lessons I learned running public games

Molten Sulfur Blog shares The Reverse Marco Polo

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