Shiny TTRPG links #279

More fascinating links from about the internet. Find yet more at 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.

Advantage on Arcana launches the June 2026 RPG Blog Carnival on Cyclopes, Ettins, Hill Giants, and Ogres

The Ice Queen's Throne posts Lessons from the Long, Rich Game

The Foot of Blue Mountain gives us Purposeful Session Reports

Glass Candles launches collectors - a blogwagon?

Mythic Mountain's Folk Gaming Blog gives us The Common Bulwark of Folk D&D

Fluorite Guillotine posts the lost manifesto: optimizer culture

A shrike for my dreams gives us AD&D, B/X, and the OSR: By the numbers

Inside Wicak Hidayat posts We Need (Want) A Place To Be Free!

u/MagiaBaiser-Sama gives us GLoGifiying the Core Mechanic

Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet shares A qualitative dragon

MCDM Productions shares Crows May 2026 Playtest

RPG Trader writes A modern marketplace for tabletop RPGs

Garamondia posts Optical Wargames

Inkwell Ideas writes Top 10 Mistakes of Fantasy Map Making

Inverted Castle Press gives us The first level of Ur-Thuun

Was It Likely? shares a finished list of unfinished things

Table 46 posts To Call Upon the Powers of the World - "Magic" in the Jewelsea

Magnolia Keep writes Mars: The OTHER OD&D Setting

Roll to Doubt shares Chaos Table Patterns

Oldskolgmr's Blog posts How I came to love old role-playing games

Dice Exploder writes Game Design as Player Best Practices

3×5 Arcana Blog writes The Mythic Engine

Orc Princess gives us Your World doesn’t make sense… and that’s okay

Gorgon Bones shares What is Jenx?

Crab Dungeon writes We Lose Our Way

Magnolia Keep gives us Every Single Samurai in Dungeons and Dragons

Deeper in the Game shares Daggerheart and “Moves”

Pikliz Dungeon posts Milk Bellies

CaelReader's Blog writes Simple Montages

THE CUT gives us How I learned to just fucking write

Gnomestones shares Sitemap Design in Mythic Bastionland

Stigmata Profana posts Jeremiah 10:2 (GLoG Class: Geomancer)

Roll to Doubt writes Lost Girls v0.1 (A Proposed GLoG)

Trick's Tales gives us Patrick Stuart (False Machine) Interview - The Doom of the Dark

Kludge Kauldron shares Control Templates - Mother Valkyrie

Beneath Foreign Planets posts Beneath an Oily Shadow

The Library of Attnam writes Mythic Weapons

Archon's Court gives us 6 Titles of the Oases (Lanthanide Horizon)

Roll to Doubt shares Some Orc Girls With Black Lipstick

BENTHIC ZONE NARCISSUS posts Dragonposting

Spiceomancy writes Interesting Maids