Shiny TTRPG links #205

Thundering towards the end of the year, lots of shiny links to round out 2024! For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.

Act today to get in on The BLOGGIES 2024: Call for Nominations! (Closes midnight 31/12/24)

Similarly last call to get in on Elemental Reductions RPG Blog Carnival: Beyond Vancian Magic

Enworld hosts It's Time To Vote For 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs!

Maatlock's Tavern TTRPG Resources proposes the Hexcrawl25 Challenge

Lithyscaphe returns to the fray by Embarking on a Foolish Endeavor

A Knight at the Opera gives us Ten Years (Part 3)

Idraluna Archives shares Quick & Dirty Megadungeon Stocking

Methods & Madness gives us Create a sandbox map in 7 easy steps (or 10)

Sundered Shields and Silver Shillings shared Blog challenge: Transformative Posts

Jubal on Exilian wrote Riddles and how to use them

DMDavid shares Fifth-Edition D&D’s Original Lead Designer Calls Out the Game’s “Secret Error” That Remains Today

Grumpy Wizard gives us Brain Rot Vs. Classic Adventure Gaming

Bommyknocker Press writes Cugel-flavoured deception mechanics

Year in Review 2024

2024 was a great year for gaming - down from last years banner year but I do not feel in any way short-changed.

On running games

Ducal House (3.5e) - got in another 22 sessions, tailing off toward the end of year. This fifth year began with nailing down the altered ducal succession that had nominally been the campaign goal since session zero, a considerable amount of politics after a lot of time saving the realm and then further venturing forth to thwart a foe/potential allies plot. A venture onto the astral finally levelled everyone up to 11. The bard became heir apparent to the realm, unsought. The sorcerer has become fascinated with the potential of lichdom and the cleric continues to restrain them, in person or as the voice of conscience.

State of the Blog (post #701)

Strange concidence has post 700 coming in right before the traditional 'last slot of the year' so this one will be blogging and stats, the next one will be the year in gaming.

On Traffic

The r/OSR blogroll last dead post was stripped down by the mods - after freezing the auto-update widget back in Jan 24, it finally got deleted in summer. I had stopped paying attention and missed when exactly it was finally deleted. Someone with more grit than me could go back to classic weekly reposting? It definitely drew in people that did not come in by other routes.

Shiny TTRPG links #204

Shiny links for this festive season. For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.

In case you missed it The BLOGGIES 2024: Call for Nominations!

Attronarch's Athenaeum gives us Block of Old School Essentials being sold off

DIY & dragons shares Vestiges of the Past - Phantom Cogs and Forsaken Easter Eggs

I Cast Light! writes YOU CAN KEEP YOUR BORDERLANDS: Adventure Suggestions for Those New to the OSR

Taldus' Tavern launches with The Teetering Pile

Leicester's Ramble gives us d66 MORE Things to Put Things Into

d4 Caltrops shares Dungeon Stocking - Expanded

Trilemma Adventures gives us The Tarot of Pips

The Library of Attnam writes Legendary Resistance-less

Mythic Mountain Musings gives us My friend's played a wargame and it wrote my setting for me

d30 Things found in Psurlon Territories

Our shapeshifting wormlike friends the psurlons. Telepathic, carrion-eaters, worshippers of the cthonic gods of the far-realm. Friends of the mindflayers, since they want brains and the psurlons eat everything else. The below was considered as an astral/wildspace table since they are more often found there than groundside.

Delightful AD&D era image by Brian Despain, found in Planescape Monstrous Compendium III

d20 Encounters in psurlon-space

d100 Deep Astral Spelljamming Encounters

I have been pondering the encounter table for travel on the Astral Sea and comparing it to the old encounter tables for the phlogiston from back in the day. The 5e one is all about running into things from across the planes - a good 30% chance of running into another ship but otherwise all planar travellers or monster encounters - one single site, no weather.

The old phlogiston table had a same chance of a ship but it had 40% of non critter things - space debris, planetoids and space phenomena which I think has been dropped a little too quickly from the current table.

Shiny TTRPG links #203

A short set of links as I was on the road last week. For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.

Re-pointing to The BLOGGIES 2024: Call for Nominations!

Elemental Reductions is still running this months RPG Blog Carnival: Beyond Vancian Magic

MonarchsFactory gave us Another D&D Thing to Use: Major Injury Table

Jubal wrote on Exilian An Unexpected Bestiary: The Fourth Parchment

B/X BLACKRAZOR gives us D&D Combat

AWESOME LIES shares CAREERS SERVICE

d4 Caltrops gives us d100 - Mercenary Minutiae & Sellsword Specifics

dungeon doll writes Musings on Weapon-as-Initative

Prismatic Weekly gives us Blog Roundup: Winter Slush

Oh S***, (d6) Rats! launches with Rip & Tear (Your Character Sheet)

Personable Thoughts gives us Reality Check: Songbirds 3e

Rancourts Writings compiles A Survey of Overland Travel

LootLootLore gives us Little gods and what they do for a settting.

MonarchsFactory wrote Dodgy Thieves’ Cant Flowchart to Simplify Things

Homicidally Inclined Persons Of No Fixed Address gives us The Multiple Designer Model

Adventures, planar in nature shared Roundtable 6: the sliding scale of difficulty

Cruel & Unusual Punishment gave us Rules Musings - Training and Skill Tiers

From the Sorcerer's Skull gives us Appendix M: A Weird Medieval Fantasy Reading List