Shiny TTRPG links #291

We return to standard posting - bundles of shiny links, fresh from the internet! For more, check out the chonky set from last week 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.

I Cast Light! shares THE OSR IS DEADLY: But Not Deadly Enough To Kill Long-term Play

Spiceomancy shares The JAR

Typebar Magazine posts Revisiting the Past: Can Pulp Save Science Fiction?

RedMageGM hosts writes A Mystic Wood OSR Adventure Jam

Backwards Tabletop gives us To Play Is To Explode

Trick's Tales gives us Jay Dragon (Steve Jackson Games/Possum Creek Games) Interview - Seven Part Pact

Bare Nuckelavee gives us NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU

Cannibal Halfling Gaming posts The Data on Million-Plus RPG Crowdfunding Campaigns

Roseline posts Why Who You Play With Matters and on building the muscle of Hope

Shiny TTRPG links #290

A mixed set of links from my trying to catch up after more travels - for still more, check out the chonky set from last week 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.

Afraid of Encounters gives us Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon

Crow’s Corner posts Viennese Games in the 2026 One Page RPG Jam

Patchwork Paladin shares Reading in the Dark

Throne of Salt writes 4 Roads to R'lyeh

Save vs TPK gives us Some Thoughts on My Awards

Level Zero Commoner posts level zero character creation for old school & 5e style ttrpgs

Trick's Tales posts Marja: The City of Roots

Sage's Sanctum writes The Empress' New Spellbook

Save vs Tentacles shares Simple Multi-Phase Boss Fights in Mythic Bastionland

Shiny TTRPG links #289

A macro set of links from returning online - for still more, check out the deep time delve from last week 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.

Save vs TPK gives us Ramanan Sivaranjan Awards for Excellence in Gaming 2026

Familiar Waves writes Thoughts on Ultraviolet Grasslands

Whose Measure God Could Not Take gives us (Do Not Distribute) RPG discourse terms 2027-2032

False Machine posts The Common Store of Monsters

Traverse Fantasy writes Cinco: DM Inspiration

The Rpg Gazette shares Landmarks, Rumors, and Discovery: Keeping Exploration Fresh

From the Sorcerer's Skull posts Elven Sects

Grumpy Wizard writes There’s No Death Save? An OSR Zine For 5E Players

400 independent bathrooms gives us Design Notebook: Dress-Up Dolls

This Vorpal Coil shares Noosphere Emergence

CROSS PLANES posts Invincible RPG: I want to succeed more often and not break the Stunt rules

Tabletop Battles posts The Narrative Forge: Campaigns, Part 7 - Map Campaigns

Ms. Quixotic Talks About Games shares Battle For Phaedra Grand Retrospective - Introduction

Garamondia gives us Mask 35: Beholder Mask

The Foot of Blue Mountain writes Online Gaming Best Practices

Sage's Sanctum writes Mysteries: It's ok if the Players Get Stuck

Crow’s Corner gives us Table-Tested Review of “Alice is Missing”

AWESOME LIES shares HIRING AND FIRING

GROGNARDIA shares Reconsiderations: Death and Resurrection

All Dead Generations writes Jaquays Your Dungeon - Another OSR Maxim

Shiny TTRPG links #288

Another deep time collection as everything melts around us - links posted on various discords as recommendations when the topic came up. Taking this 'stands the test of time' aspect as a quality filter, here they are.

For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival.

Billhook Blog posted The OSR is Dead (again, and again)

u/ahhthebrilliantsun wrote Discussing Neo-Trad/OC - Some Musings On The Play Culture Everyone Gripes About

Aron Christensen on Medium gave us Narrating your RPG

Delta's D&D Hotspot wrote Magic Number Seven

Fluorite Guillotine shared quantum ogre reborn

Lithyscaphe posted Quintessential BX

Ru's Roleplay Rants gave us The Game Master and the game as servant

Vaults of Nagoh shared Small But Vicious Dog Steals Hearts, Humps Leg

Ray Winninger posted "Dungeoncraft" Essays

Kismet's Fantasy Gaming shared Women as Gamers & Game-Makers

Failure Tolerated wrote A Small Rant About Investigation in RPGs

modified with the approval of creator Evlyn Moreau

Captain Awkward shared #784: The Geek Social Fallacy Host – Missing Stair Guest Relationship

Roll to Doubt posted Principled Freeform and FKR

Lithyscaphe wrote Principia Apocrypha: A New Expression of Old School RPG Playstyle Principles

Le Chaudron Chromatique gave us Some advice to represent trans characters in game

Kismet's Fantasy Gaming posted Kismet's Guide Sex & Romance in Fantasy Gaming

Cirsova wrote Lodoss, the Accursed Pink Slime

J. Hanju Kim gave us RPG SYSTEM DESIGN

J. Hanju Kim shared RPG THEORY

Picture wrote Between Appendix N and Pink Slime

anyway gaves us A quick IIEE primer, by request

RogueBasin shared The Role of Hunger

Magnolia Keep posted Prepping Plots, Part Two: The Rough Outline

Sir Poley wrote On the Four Table Legs of Traveller, Leg 1: Mortgages

Papers and Pencils posted Questgivers are Evil

Dice Goblin gave us Triangles, Relationships & Archetypes: Adapting the Nemesis System to TTRPGs

Archon's Court shared GLOG Class / Monster - Antipaladin

Magnolia Keep gave us On Objectivity in Game Design

Shiny TTRPG links #287

Another deep time collection - links posted on various discords as recommendations when the topic came up. Taking this 'stands the test of time' aspect as a quality filter, here they are.

For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival.

Rise Up Comus posted A Campaign Where There is One of Anything

TRAIPSE wrote 1, 10, or 1000000

Save.vs. Total Party Kill gave us The Monster

Necropraxis shared Sui generia

modified with the approval of creator Evlyn Moreau

DIY & dragons wrote 8 Abilities - 6, 3, or 4 Ability Scores?

@SprintingOwlGameDesigns gave us TRPGs As Terrariums For Blorbos

The-Magic-Sword on EnWorld shared Thinking About the Purpose of Mechanics from a Neo-Trad Perspective

JDCSpot Run posted Old RPG Gamers and The Streaming Youth - From a Dark Forest

u/jimbaby on r/DnD wrote My friends and I have something called "Knife Theory"

Idraluna Archives gave us A Tutorial for Making Hexcrawl Maps in QGIS

The Tea-Set of Civility shared Veins of The Earthjammer

Bernie the Flumph posted Carousing and Philanthropy

Against The Wicked City gave us When all you have is a hammer: item-based problem-solving in OSR D&D

Bones of Contention shared Grave Trespass - Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Adventure Game

Traverse Fantasy posted FAQ U: What is a Blorbo?

False Machine wrote Held Kinetic Energy in Old School Combat Arenas

Rise Up Comus gave us Steal this rule microblog: "How do you vanquish this foe?"

Ten Foot Polemic shared TFP DMG: How I Use Skills

Was It Likely? posted your system’s not the game it’s just a player

The Great Game wrote My top 10 Dungeons and Dragons adventures of all time

d4 Caltrops gave us d100 - Methods of Magical Item Identification

Eldritch Fields shared Wilderness Encounter Details/Activities

Hill Cantons posted Fantasy F*ckin' Vietnam

James Mendez Hodes wrote Orcs, Britons, and the Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built for Racial Terror

A Knight at the Opera gave us I Don't Think I'm Going to Allow Elves to be Playable Anymore

Greyhawk Grognard shared Do you use gunpowder or not?

Shiny TTRPG links #286

A deep time collection - links posted on various discords as recommendations when the topic came up. Taking this as the 'stands the test of time' quality filter, here they are.

For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival.

modified with the approval of creator Evlyn Moreau

One Man and his Dice gives us The Secret Brilliance of The Black Hack

A Knight at the Opera gives us Not All Crunch Is the Same

Wampus Country gives us An Entire Post About Hats

d4 Caltrops gives us Dolmenwood Dozen

Troy Press gives us RPG Session Prep Techniques

Troy Press gives us Dungeon Prep

DIY & dragons gives us Dungeon Alphabet Dozen - M is also for MAPS

Superhero Necromancer wrote The Great Dungeon Caper

Superhero Necromancer gives us The Heist Clock

Glorb's 11 Foot Ladder gives us Save to Avoid Bad Stuff: Proper Saving Throw Usage

Hack & Slash gives us On Abstraction and Saving Throws

The Marquisat gives us Exploring Characters pt.5: Saves

BEARDED DEVIL gives us How I Run a Citycrawl Campaign

Necropraxis gives us Solipsistic hexes

Necropraxis gives us Hazard System v0.3

The Retired Adventurer gives us The Encounter Grid: Six Years Out

Eldritch Fields gives us Six Grasslands Lairs/Encounters

Eldritch Fields gives us Quick humanoid lair generator for wilderness stocking

Eldritch Fields gives us Wilderness Encounter Details/Activities

Shiny TTRPG links #285

More links from about the internet - for still more, check out the huge set from 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.

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS shares rootring months later

Goblin Archives, Unenthuser & Emo Sludge host LIMINAL HORROR SUMMER JAM 2026

Weeping Stag gives us Learning to Draw and Not Feeling Like Crap About It

Troy Press writes Participating in Blaugust 2026

Empire of Crust gives us On the Cancer of Creation for Others

Sultan's Musings posts Pirate Chill

Huovila, Hiski gives us Telegraphed Dangers — Enemy Intercompatibility in D20-Based Fantasy OSR Tabletop Roleplaying Games

@rxsesroots shares Boo! Did I Scare Ya..?

Campaign Mastery posts Worldbuilding Through Encounters

Bommyknocker Press writes High Level Play and Scaffolding

Shiny TTRPG links #284

A lighter set of links as I was travelling - but for more, check out the huge set from 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.

The Nothic's Eye launches G L Å U G U S T 2 0 2 6

Sundered Shields and Silver Shillings writes Do every challenge in 500 words or less: an elaboration

Dank Dungeons hosts Appx. N Jam 2026

Sea of Stars posts Beginning this month’s RPG Blog Carnival – Small Gods, Saints, and other minor divinities

Advantage on Arcana writes June 2026 RPG Blog Carnival Round-up: Cyclopes, Ettins, Hill Giants, and Ogres

Casting Shadows shares #RPGaDAY2026 starts August 1st

Root Devil posts Use Tracing Paper

Ill Met by Morrslieb writes The Philosophy of Symbaroum

Writing my Odd Game gives us Combat as Failstate

Fail Forward shares Combat as Art - Boss Design and Reflections on Violence

Valeria Loves posts People Walk Too Fast

Shiny TTRPG links #283

A lighter set of links as I was travelling - but for more, check out the huge set from 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.

On a housekeeping announcement, for the rest of this year, I am shifting down to a Shiny Links + one post per week schedule (Saturdays) for burnout avoidance. We will see how things look as we approach 2027 on keeping/reverting.

Pikliz Dungeon writes The Black Hack 10th Anniversary Game Jam

The Lich's Library gives us Prepping for the next level of a Megadungeon!

Traveler's Rest shares Generating Elevation in a Hexcrawl

The Other Side blog posts BECMI Binders

RPGTrader writes Free RPG Day 2026 Bundle

Rise Up Comus gives us The Secret History of The Castle Automatic

Billhook Blog shares Your Favorite Game (You Haven't Played Yet)

Crow’s Corner posts Table-Tested Review of the “Fomoria” Quickstart

Patchwork Paladin writes Playing the Social Game

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS pens Cultures, not Games

False Machine gives us A Review of Forgotten Realms; Underdark

shifty louts writes Another Reflection on Writing for the Antarctica Jam

Shiny TTRPG links #282

A colossal harvest of shiny links - a lot of folk getting extra inspired this past week! If you seek still more, 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.

Dungeonfruit shares In Favor Of Repetition

slothyyyyyyy hosts posts Extremely Byzantine 5-Room Dungeon Jam

Gorgon Bones writes Guest Post: There's No Crying in Elfgames

MurkMail shares How many words should we use?

afcbrodie posts Of Randomisation and Responsibility

All Dead Generations posts The Tyrant's Hand

Trick's Tales writes Lore and Factions of the Endless Plains (For a Game About the Mongolian Empire)

Beau Rancourt Writings gives us On Difficulty

dungeon doll shares od&d combat maneuvers

Bruce Heard posts Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI

Throne of Salt writes Language Dungeon Spitballing

Swan And Raven Studio gives us Make A Manifesto, Damn You

For Want of a Silver Bullet writes Why You Should Write Your Games To Be Played At Conventions

Lonely Star posts Lessons from the trad trenches, or How to structure a scenario

Gorgon Bones writes Bugbear June

Snakebite gives us Worldbuilding only matters if the Mechanics Support the World

Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse shares How I read “theory”

Shiny TTRPG links #281

Shiny links, get your shiny links! If this rich harvest does not satisfy, 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.

Null Mana Crystal posts Design Talk - Event Crawling

Submystical Aquifer writes OSR Wisdom Distilled

A shrike for my dreams shares Breaking a GM star pattern: d20 more ways

GLAIVE-GUISARME gives us Random Blogwagon: The Die

Valeria Loves writes Fail more, coward 🖤

Methods & Madness posts It is time to ditch the "good GM"

Wombat's Gaming Den of Iniquity writes On the Limits of Random Tables

Exploring Warhammer posts RIP John Blanche, Legend - Exploring Some His Key Early Art

Trick's Tales posts Some Mechanics (and Character Sheet!) for By the Will of Dusassu

MixUpPixels shares Vienna Playstorming: Report #1

Khajeet's tinkerings gives us A 2d20 Voluntary Non-binary Resolution Thing

Red for Roseline shares Archive, it’s important!

Explorers Design shares Dying from the 1 HP Dragon

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

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

Shiny TTRPG links #278

A choice set of fascinating links from about the internet. If you want 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.

Cults of Uod posts Uod: A New Campaign in 25 Phrases

Whose Measure God Could Not Take writes Who is the GLOGosphere? 2026 Edition

Roll to Doubt shares By the Sea

Congas.blog writes What is OSR? What is NSR? Survey analysis

The Garden Below gives us Conditional encounter tables

Missile Attack Bonus posts How Do You Want to Do This?

Scipio202 on Patchwork Paladin writes Kickstarter Whales – Guest Post

Routes and Routs shares Rules Fragment - Roll Up to 12d20 for Mass Combat

Garamondia posts A palazzo of some fantastic proportion...

From the Sorcerer's Skull writes Bringing it Into Focus

Shiny TTRPG links #277

A short set this week due to computer hardware failure. If you want 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.

ATMOSPHERIC UNDERWORLD posts Investigation as Exploration - Designing an OSR Style Scenario for Call of Cthulhu

Dark Pupil shares Zone Crawls

A shrike for my dreams gives us The OSR is not dead, it’s sleeping

3×5 Arcana shares The Bonkers Loop

In My Campaign posts My New Campaign: Geography

Against the Cult of the Commodity posts 1 Weekend, 7 Sessions, 18 players, 15 modules, 115 Rooms - The Tower of Collage (Super Adventure 4)

Modified with the approval of creator Evlyn Moreau

Exeunt Omnes posts How I'd change my next game design workshop

Jay Dragon writes The Three Secrets of Making Games

Trick's Tales writes Lore and Factions of the Endless Plains (For a Game About the Mongolian Empire)

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

Shiny TTRPG links #275

More links from about the internet. 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.

Vulcan Stev's Database launches the May RPGBlog Carnival topic of Inspiration! Where Does Yours Come From?

A shrike for my dreams shares Don’t prep hexcrawls, prep hexframes

Levi Kornelsen posts The Praxic Compendium

Courtney 🌻 The Sunflower Court writes TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam

Modified with the approval of creator Evlyn Moreau

@thydungeongal shares manifold issues with the secondary industry around D&D

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS posts Against Maps

Rise Up Comus writes Tolkien-Style Maps

Valeria Loves writes A Sicko’s Guide to Prepping D&D

Backwards Tabletop gives us Essay: The Problem with Production Value

ZOtRPG ! shares From mechanics to topographics: when the map becomes the medium of the conversation

derekb posts On Pointcrawls

Shiny TTRPG links #274

Interesting links from across the internet. For 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.

Michelle Jones hosts You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam

Benign Brown Beast posts Virtual Table-Top Tokens from Tom Gauld: A Story in Images

Fistful of Crits hosts Romantasy TTRPG Jam

Troy Press gives us D&D Rules, According to Past Players

DivNull RPG posts RPGs by Genre

Sly Flourish writes House Rules from Various 5es

@elbiotipo gives us why do adventurers exist in this world at all

afcbrodie shares Seize, Ground, Listen

Crow’s Corner writes Designing Pamphlet Games (With Shitty Printers in Mind)

I Cast Light! gives us DON'T SPLIT THE SESSION: Rule 0 For Avoiding A Play-Killing Mistake In Modern Lives

Congas.blog shares Is the OSR evolving?

@prokopetz posts "the real problem with Dungeons & Dragons is false advertising, not anything that's present in its text"

The Foot of Blue Mountain shares Magical Violence

The Black Citadel gives us WIZARD VIOLENCE

Trick's Tales shares Make Your Own God-Spirits (for a Game About the Mongolian Empire)

Shiny TTRPG links #273

Links of great interest from the breadth of the interweb. Not sated? Try 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.

Ye Olde Revivalist posts d66 *Things Going On* in A Bog-Standard Fantasy Town (Table Jam 2026)

The Foot of Blue Mountain posts How to get a game going [on a server]

The B/X Undernauts gives us THE WHITE BOX CHALLENGE

Dungeons & Dragons (WotC) gives us D&D 80s Animated Series

Eldritch Fields posts Take-aways from running quick pick-up games

My Nerdy Hobby posts Masked Bastionland

Jface Games writes Did Usage Dice & Clocks just Evolve?

DIY & dragons posts Experimental Layouts for a Dwarven City Megadungeon

The Novel Game Master writes The Many Editions of D&D

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS writes Fullstack Refereeing

Modified with the approval of creator Evlyn Moreau

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

Mindstorm posts Quick Stakes For Tense Situations

Prismatic Wasteland writes Chain Stocking the Hex Map

Owl Knight Games gives us Roleplaying Games as an Expression of Fandom

To Be Resolved shares Dungeon Stocking with Markov Processes

Shiny TTRPG links #272

Links of great interest from the breadth of the interweb. Not sated? Try 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.

Dungeons & Possums posts A Commenting Campaign

Backwards Tabletop writes Essay: The GM Is Dead

A Knight at the Opera posts How to Talk About Difficulty

Prismatic Wasteland gives us Play Is Canon

The Play Reports posts Fleurons, Mother of all Bullets

SandroAD shares What the Heck is a TTRPG?

Lonely Star writes De-Abstraction rocks, yo - or "I Finally Get Cottonmouth"

Patchwork Paladin posts Let’s Talk About Player Skill and Equipment

New School Revolution posts Module Writing Tips

I Cast Light! gives us JUST THE FACTS MA'AM: Using Sean McCoy's Investigation Sheet in CoC

sarene! blog writes Quick & Cheap Perfect Binding