28 September 2026

Shiny TTRPG links #296

More shiny links from around the web. For even more, try last weeks set 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.

Bastardica shares A foundry for bastard web fonts.

Store Brand Danger shares Domain Play Starts When Players Start Caring

Kind of Old Games asks What if stronghold construction *is* the adventure?

Pages Brittle with Sun and Salt posts Lord Problems

Snakebite posts Systems You Don't Think You Need: the Designated Survivor

I Cast Light! posts THE SERPENT SONG HYMNAL: My Collection of Tables & Such for Running BX Dungeons & Dragons

Afraid of Encounters posts A TTRPG Playstyle Rant

Leonardo Andrade for Typebar Magazine writes ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying

BASTIONLAND posts Breaking the Wave

Dice Goblin writes Safe Transit, Dangerous Transit: Two Ways of Adding Juice to Interstellar Travel in TTRPGs

Spears & Spreadsheets gives us Looking Upon the Face of a Dead God: the aftermath of a 1D10/1D100 SAN test

The Garden Below posts So, i’m running a megagame

Pool Time with Swim Allen posts Do not Overthink the City

To Be Resolved writes Historical Reconstruction as Play

The Madman's Menagerie posts 1 CORINTHIANS 13:12 (Mask Relay 40)

Of Slugs and Silver shares Poisoning the Monster

Save Vs. Dragon posts BX DMG Table: Cart & Wagon Encumbrance

World Building and Woolgathering writes Thrones, Robes, Swords, Games

Break!! gives us 20 Types of Outer World Towns (Setting)

Black Gate shares Thoughts on Designers & Dragons: Origins

A shrike for my dreams writes Writing some magical forests

Says Who gives us 'High Level' Traveller Adventures

Blog of Forlorn Encystment shares Developing the Sandbox: Rumor Tables

chasing play writes Wheel or Be Killed

Fail Forward gives us Microblog: d10 Mothership Fashion Trends

Pages Brittle with Sun and Salt writes Big Bear Mountain

Gnarled Monster gives us From the Wicked Valley to the Brazenwood

Grumpy Wizard asks What Does It Mean To Be a Great Game Master?

Rise Up Comus writes Microblog: The Elf's Detect Secret Doors

Archons March On gives us Out From Under The Shadow of the Bomb; Or: Some Ways to Nerf Explosives in Best Case Scenario

Gelatinous Cubism shares Using Chainmail with OD&D

Galen Pejeau gives us SOLARCRAWL

gamemastereno shares Crowdfunding Conundrums

Tree Climber gives us The Giant's Dollhouse

Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet shares A qualitative Nymph (Dryad)

I Cast Light! writes CRYPT CRIBS OF THE CORPSE CHILDREN: A Dungeon Patch (with a Geomorph)

Pages Brittle with Sun and Salt gives us Making Light Sources Needlessly Complicated

Glass Sword shares Death & Dismemberment Table

Octopus Ink Games posts Quantum Thieves

Oldskol's Blog writes You can be squishy-washy in Ocean D&D! A sort of play report.

Power Armor Knights and More gives us LOONEY TUNES 2099: BACKGROUND

From the Sorcerer's Skull writes De Camp's Pusadian Cycle

Dead Tree, No Shelter gives us Support Your Local Herbmonger

The Dice Pool shares Write Your Own Star Trek Adventure

1 comment:

  1. The most impressive thing is not any single link, but the fact that this is issue #296.

    At some point, collecting useful TTRPG writing stops being a weekly roundup and becomes infrastructure.

    The hobby apparently has its own nervous system now.

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