Shiny TTRPG links #276

Interesting links from about the interweb. For yet 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.

Heltung Storytelling hosts gives us Table Jam 26

The Rpg Gazette writes The Five Boxes: BECMI and the High-Level Problem That D&D Never Solved

False Machine gives us I Read Generators of Underground Worlds

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

Aggregate Cognizance posts An Analysis of Blades in the Dark Criticism

Kreggar Wandering writes Downtime as an Emergent Emotional Hook

Whose Measure God Could Not Take gives us Ten Years of GLOG (and! the Tomb of the Khan)

The Dolent Chronicle shares On Railroading

𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖑'𝖘 𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖕𝖉𝖆𝖉 posts XP and Advancement in Crow’s DCC Keep

Xeno & Kraft writes A colour wheel model of RPG systems

The Black Citadel gives us THE ALIEN/MYSTIC/MYTHIC FANTASY MANIFESTO: On the Tone of Fantasy I Enjoy

Sly Flourish shares Quantum Ogres and the Eight Steps

Was It Likely? shares the wood where the moon will be born

Denes Szanto Blog shares Stop using TTRPG Taxonomies Wrong!

@talien on EnWorld posts RPG Evolution: The Mook, the Bad, and the Ugly

ATMOSPHERIC UNDERWORLD writes Into the OSR, or, How I Learned to Stop Signposting and Love Cthulhu Heltung Storytelling hosts gives us Table Jam 26

Ars Ludi writes Making Peace with Microscope

Grim Tokens posts TTRPGs With Rules For Social Change

Traverse Fantasy writes Cinco: May 2026

Throne of Salt gives us Wikipedia Links from my Notes 3

Methods & Madness shares Dungeon Crawler Carl (book review)

BENTHIC ZONE NARCISSUS posts Hilariously Overwrought Violence Procedure (HWVP)

The Library of Attnam writes Handkerchief of Holding

Black Magic Dominion gives us My Fantasy At The Table

Oldskolgmr's Blog posts Arduin, you saucy Beast!...and falling in love with D&D.

Idraluna Archives writes In Defense of Empty Hexes

Dungeons & Possums shares Following Up On The April Challenge

Syd Lonreiro posts The Guide to Old School Tournaments

Glass Ziggurat gives us Remembering ideas on the go

3×5 Arcana Blog shares The Door Tax

Blog of Forlorn Encystment posts Developing the Sandbox: Outdoor Encounter Tables

To Be Resolved writes Swimming Rules for His Majesty the Worm

Traverse Fantasy gives us Cinco: New Conversation Rules

Scribbles and Horrors posts Nomic and Material-Procedural Play

I Cast Light! writes FRIDAY NIGHT DUNGEON DRAFT: Editing Six Doors of the Forgotten Lord Rooms 07 to 12

Adam Rutskarn DeCamp gives us Malserac Manifesto: The GLMHIFC

Woo The Moon shares The As Yet Unknown Dungeoncrawler (Making PCs)

Inside Wicak Hidayat posts We could (should) be Heroes

Hilander RPGs gives us Turning It Up to 11

Archons March On shares Level Titles For My GLOG Classes

WormLikeChain posts What I Talk About When I Talk About Daggerheart

Inside Wicak Hidayat writes We Are In A Relationship?

Oldskolgmr's Blog gives us One DM. Two very different games.

Being An Asshole To A Goblin (BAATAG) shares Elements of a Key 4: Rules for Key-Writing