09 November 2026

Shiny TTRPG links #302

A great harvest of player advice this week! 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.

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS posts Bloggies '27 - Enter the Arena

Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours shares Make Good Guys Simple, Make Bad Guys Sympathetic

Traverse Fantasy shares Combat Difficulty Again

Troy Press posts Player Principles

A shrike for my dreams writes Real Player's Advice: Write a 30 page backstory

Messages from the Far Havens gives us When your player character looks back at you and rolls their eyes

Murkmail shares Combat fatigue rule

Valeria Loves posts Players Should Not Try to be Good

Break!! writes Hues of Magic (Setting)

I Cast Light! gives us WHAT TO KNOW: Advice for Players

Wombat's Gaming Den of Iniquity shares How To Player

Only on Paper writes Why can't I love fixed target numbers?

Kismet's Fantasy Gaming gives us Why You Should Say 'Yes' To the DM

Deeper in the Game shares Seven Types of Antagonists

Prismatic Wasteland posts My Dungeon Master Put Me on a PIP

Total Quest writes Player Advice From Players For Players

Sparked Thoughts gives us Run Your Lines

The Library of Attnam shares GLOG: Spell Husbandry

Pages Brittle with Sun and Salt posts Ruins of Castle Sourcewind

Methods & Madness writes Retainers (B/X + Old School minimalist

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS gives us Theurgy

Lair of the Dusk Witch posts Hired Help

seanfoer.com writes Marketing Your Indie RPG Through Short Form Video

Sparse Glades, Saphire Sky gives us Why should I care?

Patchwork Paladin shares Even Better Encounter Tables

Kludge Kauldron posts GLOG Blessings

Hilander RPGs writes Can Rome be Built in an Hour?

liches get stitches gives us Goblin Laws of Warcraft

Dungeon Mecha shares Player Advice: Questions

erstwhile dreamer posts Appendix Nxing

Game Shelf writes Improv Night Featuring the Quantum Ogre

Melon's Blog gives us What I think I need to work on

Rise Up Comus shares Two OSE House Rules

Game Shelf posts Starting a Sandbox

Taskerland writes The Language of NonThought

Shadows of NyOrlandhotep gives us Drama and Wonder: Re-designing an Al-Qadim Adventure

Ape Encounter shares How to Not Freeze Up

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS posts Pluritine Customs

Magnolia Keep writes Tabletop Tips from the Reacherverse

To Be Resolved gives us A Simple Heroic Adventure Game

Backwards Tabletop shares Mini-games and Fragmentation

Vladar's Blog posts Planescape review: The Dead-Book of the Gods

Traverse Fantasy writes Deconstructing 5E Classes

Sly Flourish gives us Write Down Your Encounter Benchmark

Blog of Forlorn Encystment shares Limners, Linkboys, and Lackeys: Hirelings for Hiring in AD&D

The Foot of Blue Mountain posts 1000 Statues Retrospective

Chaoclypse writes Wayfarer Regions

Dungeonfruit gives us On Suspense And Random Encounters

A shrike for my dreams shares A Guide for new DMs: young player advice

Doc Burford posts what does it mean for the act of play to have meaning?

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