20 April 2026

Shiny TTRPG links #273

Links of great interest from the breadth of the interweb. Not sated? Try last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch, delinked by request.

Ye Olde Revivalist posts d66 *Things Going On* in A Bog-Standard Fantasy Town (Table Jam 2026)

The Foot of Blue Mountain posts How to get a game going [on a server]

The B/X Undernauts gives us THE WHITE BOX CHALLENGE

Dungeons & Dragons (WotC) gives us D&D 80s Animated Series

Eldritch Fields posts Take-aways from running quick pick-up games

My Nerdy Hobby posts Masked Bastionland

Jface Games writes Did Usage Dice & Clocks just Evolve?

DIY & dragons posts Experimental Layouts for a Dwarven City Megadungeon

The Novel Game Master writes The Many Editions of D&D

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS writes Fullstack Refereeing

Modified with the approval of creator Evlyn Moreau


MOMMY'S BIG GLASS OF WINE ALONE TIME BLOG MOST FOUL shares Searching for the free games ecosystem (and designing for desire paths)

Mindstorm posts Quick Stakes For Tense Situations

Prismatic Wasteland writes Chain Stocking the Hex Map

Owl Knight Games gives us Roleplaying Games as an Expression of Fandom

To Be Resolved shares Dungeon Stocking with Markov Processes

Cavorting Whorl posts Mechanics Microblog: Secrets, Tension & Pipeweed

Leicester's Ramble writes Revenant Resurrection

3×5 Arcana gives us Just use (3x5) Bears

Joe B. shares Cliffcrawl: Generating a Mountain, with example

A shrike for my dreams posts Maus Haus: House-Rules for Elementary Schoolers

Dweller of the Forbidden City writes Building Bhakashal - Corporate D&D and the Hobby

Cats Have No Lord gives us Review(ish) - I Am Happy Because Everyone Loves Me

Hardboiled Fantasyland shares Crafting

Methods & Madness writes Currency, precious metals, taxes, and training

Idraluna Archives gives us Astrology Signs for OD&D

Rise Up Comus shares LORE - A Lord of the Rings Adventure Game Retroclone

Kill It With Fire! posts Economic Woes Implied by DCCRPG

Viridian Void Productions writes Worked Example: Wants and Beliefs for Stonetop

University XP gives us What are Matrix Games?

False Machine shares I have a time machine but it drove me insane

The Wondering Monster writes Better Gods for Your Game: Rethinking Deity Design

Grinning Rat shares Creating (Even More) Unforgettable Worlds

Snow posts Dead Renaissance - The Waves of the OSR

Hilander RPGs gives us How to Eat Dice Soup

Magnolia Keep shares The Most BROKEN Class in AD&D!?!?!?

Shadows of NyOrlandhotep gives us The case against session 0 (or Just Start Playing)

Patchwork Paladin shares Let’s Talk about Player Skill and Notes

Oldskolgmr's Blog posts Ideas and Principles learned for GM/DMing a game.

Attronarch's Athenaeum writes Appendix N: Sign of the Labrys

Elfmaids & Octopi gives us D&d5.5 for a year some thots ive been thunking

Dump Stat Adventures shares How to Explore the Planes

Methods & Madness gives us Minimalist (?) turn undead, plus a reflection on playtesting

The Foot of Blue Mountain shares Realm of Yolmi Bestiary Conversion

Whose Measure God Could Not Take writes d20 Yet More Magic Items

Glass Ziggurat gives us 15 powers that came to me late at night

Fool's Pyrite - Home shares Season-ing my game world

Grog For Games posts A short story and setting inspiration which includes space wizards, corsair pirates of old and lots of fancy sounding bad guys.

Backwards Tabletop writes Playing Alone Together

Scribbles and Horrors posts Level Zeta III

All Dead Generations writes Every Angel is Terrifying...

Was It Likely? gives us the worst man in the world is an orc

VDonnut Valley shares Queerness in Space - Gay Beholder Blog Fiesta

Monkey's Lunch posts Choosing game mechanics

Dice Goblin writes Betrayals in TTRPGs

Musings on Monstrousness gives us Living Graveyards

Pseudodungeon shares Light the Way! An Alternative to Tracking Torches

Carotid Canvas posts Blind Mice at the Open Table

Deeper In The Game writes Errant: The Mid Levels

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