27 April 2026

Shiny TTRPG links #274

Interesting links from across the internet. For more, see 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.

Michelle Jones hosts You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam

Benign Brown Beast posts Virtual Table-Top Tokens from Tom Gauld: A Story in Images

Fistful of Crits hosts Romantasy TTRPG Jam

Troy Press gives us D&D Rules, According to Past Players

DivNull RPG posts RPGs by Genre

Sly Flourish writes House Rules from Various 5es

@elbiotipo gives us why do adventurers exist in this world at all

afcbrodie shares Seize, Ground, Listen

Crow’s Corner writes Designing Pamphlet Games (With Shitty Printers in Mind)

I Cast Light! gives us DON'T SPLIT THE SESSION: Rule 0 For Avoiding A Play-Killing Mistake In Modern Lives

Congas.blog shares Is the OSR evolving?

@prokopetz posts "the real problem with Dungeons & Dragons is false advertising, not anything that's present in its text"

The Foot of Blue Mountain shares Magical Violence

The Black Citadel gives us WIZARD VIOLENCE

Trick's Tales shares Make Your Own God-Spirits (for a Game About the Mongolian Empire)

Kukulkan's Cenote gives us The "Bruh Momentum", my favorite way of designing traps for OSR Dungeons :3

Methods & Madness shares Snakes & Ladders: The Problem of Linear Progression in D&D

Null Mana Crystal posts Design Talk - Single line GURPS Character Sheets

Personable Thoughts writes The Map Speaks: Communicating Via Maps

Afraid of Encounters shares Anti-colonial TTRPG Map

Mindstorm posts My Favorite Map

Idiomdrottning writes RISS

Patchwork Paladin gives us Player-Led Upbeats

Was It Likely? shares Crybaby

Magnolia Keep posts Orcstabber: The Roleplaying Game

Cats Have No Lord writes Tracking the Storm

Leicester's Ramble gives us Maps Blogwagon: Maps with Perspective...

Methods & Madness shares Characters (Prismatic Planet)

Kreggar Wandering writes Beginner's Guide to the Role Play part of TTRPGs

:] Errant Thinking posts Woland: The Silver Cradle

the Lunar Flaneur writes Twisty Little Passages

3×5 Arcana Blog gives us Undercrawl

Benign Brown Beast posts Crowdfunding Secrets: Exposed by Big Data!

The Grisly Eye writes On the Romance

Torchless gives us SETTING BOUNDARIES: The Ruin That Befell Dolmenwood

Halfway Station VI posts Review: Spire

poisonous cloak gives us The BX/OSE Treasure Problem

Sheep and Sorcery shares 3d20 Fairytale Character Creation Tables

Dweller of the Forbidden City posts Building Bhakashal - Finding Holes in Plot Armor

The Rpg Gazette writes A Case for the Return of The Dungeon Turn

Mazirian's Garden gives us Pleasures of the OSR: Emergent Story and Open Worlds

Dark Eagle Games posts Traps as Warnings in 5e: Part 6 of Trap Philosophy

afcbrodie writes Seize, Ground, Listen

Was It Likely? gives us moon people

Archons March On shares D12 Reasons Why This Small Town Is Isolated From The Outside World And So Your Merry Band Of Misfits May Go About It Solving Mysteries

Inside Wicak Hidayat posts We Play to Expose

Shadows of NyOrlandhotep writes Designing RPG Mysteries: Who cares about who did it?

Scribbles and Horrors gives us Getting Started

Magnolia Keep shares The Explicit Worldbuilding of Dungeons and Dragons or: Do Elves Have Souls???

Messages from the Far Havens shares Running Nimble for the first time

Playful Void posts When is the cake baked?

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