Shiny TTRPG links #280

More interesting links from about the net. For yet more links, see the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch, delinked by request.

We Are the Mutants writes Seas of Blood, Rains of Fire: The Post-Apocalyptic Worlds of Early ‘Dungeons & Dragons’

I Cast Light! gives us BEHOLD AND BE NOT AFRAID: The Mistaken Divinity Of The Beholder

Blog of Forlorn Encystment shares AD&D's Most Expensive and Irritating NPC

Writing my Odd Game posts Scraps: currency, healing, loot, time, distance, and exp points

ropeblogi posts A sketch of rpg design tradition history

Red for Roseline writes You Need to Learn How to Flirt in Roleplay, Bro!

Dungeonfruit gives us Worldbuilding When You Have No Ideas

Joe B. shares guide to map theft

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS posts A World That Answers

Spiceomancy writes The 5e Conversion Nobody Asked For

Journal of Blake Watson posts Things I enjoy about Dungeons & Dragons

Murkmail shares Connective tissue table

Writing my Odd Game posts Your Pointcrawl Map

Lonely Star writes Be Yourself or Die Dreaming (Class: Princess)

in lowercase gives us who approved this dragon?!

Behind the Helm shares A Brief Observation on Putting Guns in your Fantasy Game

Lonely Star gives us Appendix ❤️‍🔥

Roll to Doubt shares Dungeon Kiss

The Cosmic Orrery posts Twenty Rival Adventurers

sean f. smith writes Internal character conflict, Shadowdark, and horror gamebooks

Random Ape Encounter gives us d6 Setpiece Encounter Spices

in lowercase shares is it okay to write this?

CarrionGods posts Superheavy vehicles, atomics and resonance generators

Weird & Wonderful Worlds writes Patrick Stuart & Amanda Lee Franck Interview: The Doom of the Dark

Dice Monkey gives us The Dirty Secret of Great RPG Campaigns: Most of the World Does Not Matter

The Dice Pool shares Prep Part 2

anb's logs posts Pondering about input and output randomness in ttrpgs

VDonnut Valley writes Slush Pile - Barkeep, Troika, Procedures, Adventures

Writing my Odd Game gives us Humanity is dead, long live Humanity

LootLootLore shares How magic actually works from an observer (Real Life)

MurkMail posts I'm tired of touchstones

Dungeon Scrawler writes Dungeon Room Appendix: (Mega)Dungeon Hooks for the Rules-lite Crawl

Beneath Foreign Planets gives us PITY THE CAVEMEN - an OD&D Horror Dungeon

All Dead Generations shares A FEW CRYSTALS MORE 2 - IMPERIAL NOBLE CLASS

WormLikeChain posts Come Into the Woods With Me — A Dolmenwood Retrospective and Review

Scribbles and Horrors writes Escape From Special Operations Complex #903 Session Report

Advantage on Arcana gives us Appendix N.5: This Time With Feeling

Outrider Creative shares No-Nonsense Crowdfunding.