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Issuing a challenge to all bloggers: blog about the topic of “randomness” on a random day in June. Additional random tables are provided to assist you in your posting.Linked by the ring
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Six spells all involving the magic word “fuck”.Linked by the ring
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A review of an Electric Bastionland one-shot. Is Chris McDowall one of the funniest writers in TTRPGs?Linked by the ring
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A roundup of 50 blogs from the past few months that all focus on maps (including a few adventures that key off the same map).Linked by the ring
- Worth Sharing (May ’26) 52 Monsters
- The 46er - May 2026 Table 46
- The Explorateur: Issue #19 Explorers Design
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A new method for procedurally generating the terrain of a hex map that adds some level of “memory” to the otherwise disconnected random tosses of the oracle dice.
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What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in...
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I review every single room (and some non-rooms) in the original funhouse dungeon and describe what makes them work or not work and what is worth stealing for your dungeons and...
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I elucidate the ways that the Pokémon games embody several principles of the OSR playstyle, which is maybe unsurprising when you consider the history of JRPGs.Linked by the ring
- The 46er - March 2026 Table 46
- CATMAIL #2 AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
- Shiny TTRPG links #266 Seed of Worlds
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Pre-Order Into the Oddish, a Pokémon tabletop roleplaying game parody of Into the Odd, and Vileplume Mountain, a parody of the classic funhouse dungeon that is compatible with...Linked by the ring
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Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn by the esteemed...Linked by the ring
- CATMAIL #4 AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
- Hex Maps Need Empty Rooms Table 46
- Mapping Noise - A Simple System for Informed Fog of War (Map Blogwagon) Fail Forward
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- Against Maps AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
- Don’t prep hexcrawls, prep hexframes A shrike for my dreams
- My Favorite Map mindstorm
- Anti-colonial TTRPG Map Afraid of Encounters
- The Map Speaks: Communicating Via Maps Personable Thoughts
- Tracking the Storm Cats Have No Lord
- Blue Prince is a Depth Crawl The Play Reports
- Mapwork in campaigns (Maps Blogwagon) Seed of Worlds
- The Explorateur: Issue #18 Explorers Design
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Are you using overloaded encounter dice to track time? Clocks like from Blades in the Dark? Here is a more tangible, toyetic alternative method for tracking progress of...Linked by the ring
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To design a game, you have to break a few eggs and discard some rules or completely rewrite them. But you won’t know what to discard and what to rewrite until you feed those...
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A Christmas-themed hexcrawl setting with 60 hexes written from bloggers across the blogosphere.Linked by the ring
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A Merry Hexmas location: dungeoncrawl through Santa Claus’ castle. Whether you lead an elf and reindeer uprising is up to you!Linked by the ring
- Bloggies Breakdown: Round 1 Explorers Design
- The Bloggies' 2026 Nominees Explorers Design
- Hexmas 2025 - Hexmas Train Depot The Play Reports
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- Merry Hexmas 101 - Coal Mountain DIY & dragons
- Hexmas 0202: Conifer Mountain Weird Wonder - Amanda P.'s Blog
- 'Tis the Season (for a Sandbox): Into the Jinglebell Barrens Blog of Forlorn Encystment
- The Peppermint Wood The Dododecahedron
- Containment Site Sierra-Papa-Foxtrot - Hexmas Hex 0301 Viridian Void Productions
- Poison Swamp Fail Forward
- Patchwork Newsletter (Vol 1, Issue 2) Patchwork Paladin
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I played Seven Party Pact, Paranoia, Planet of the Apes RPG, Monty Python RPG, Break!!, Barkeep on the Borderlands, and Escape from Atlantis and am reporting those experiences...Linked by the ring
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A short and sweet review of a starter adventure for Mausritter.Linked by the ring
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I love pretending to be an elf just as much as the next guy, but it pales in comparison to the joys of pretending to be a mouse with a sewing needle sword at my side.Linked by the ring
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A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has...Linked by the ring
- Hexmas 2025 - Hexmas Train Depot The Play Reports
- Merry Hexmas 101 - Coal Mountain DIY & dragons
- 'Tis the Season (for a Sandbox): Into the Jinglebell Barrens Blog of Forlorn Encystment
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- The Peppermint Wood The Dododecahedron
- Containment Site Sierra-Papa-Foxtrot - Hexmas Hex 0301 Viridian Void Productions
- Poison Swamp Fail Forward
- Hexmas 2025 - Hearth The Play Reports
- Merry Hexmas: The Autumn Valley Tree Climber
- Merry Hexmas: Babbling Baboon Copper Shaman
- blogwagon: broken bronco on the silver steppe Fluorite Guillotine
- Merry Hexmas! Blog Bandwagon - Snow Miser's Houseboat To Be Resolved
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Embracing the silly origins of skeletons and why it makes them one of the more refreshing undead horrors to use in your games.Linked by the ring
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Reviewing one of the earliest adventures for 5th Edition D&D: how I would improve player agency and how my proposed fixes grind up against the play culture of 5e.Linked by the ring
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I present a cheat code for breaking through writer’s block and coming up with a gameable idea from all the cultural detritus that has built up inside your brain.
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On the perils of artificial intelligence when it comes to the tabletop gaming medium.Linked by the ring
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Rules for your character’s starting age and natural death.
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Musings on removing the damage roll and replacing it with the to-hit roll for use in games that are heavy on looting enemies.Linked by the ring
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A all-in-one roll for random encounters, reaction, surprise, and distance.Linked by the ring
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What Akira Toriyama can teach you about creativity and worldbuilding.Linked by the ring
- Appendix H The Lonely Star
- Obligatory Appendix N Post Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft
- Shiny TTRPG links #164 Seed of Worlds
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Advice for identifying the potions you find in dungeons, ideally before quaffing them.Linked by the ring
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Quantum language rules for TTRPGs, along with musing on language in games, in Mausritter, and more.
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I present a brand new resolution mechanic and challenge all bloggers to do the same!I’ll include links to every blog that accepts my challenge.Linked by the ring
- New Year’s Resolution Mechanic: Taking Your Time A Knight at the Opera
- Resolutions in the FLAME Imperishable Rise Up Comus
- New Year's Resolution (Mechanic) and Milking Your Dice Fail Forward
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- Shiny TTRPG links #154 Seed of Worlds
- Resolution Mechanics for Road Trips Weird Wonder - Amanda P.'s Blog
- Resolution Mechanic Challenge: Weird Hazards Roll to Doubt
- Re: New (Year’s) Resolution Mechanic The Dododecahedron
- Teamwork Makes the Dream Work Idraluna Archives
- New Year’s Resolution Systems mindstorm
- Friction Between Rules & Common Sense Traverse Fantasy
- New Year’s Resolution Mechanic! Playful Void
- 2 Stats 2 Rolls Binary Star Games
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Soft-boiled rules for casting spells that is fast, flexible and fascinating.
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Ability scores have become vestigial in modern corporate D&D and Pathfinder, but there is a different D&D lineage where they are evolving into an elegant mechanic.
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Suggestions for running Barkeep on the Borderlands as a one-shot adventure, plus a new character background: Monarch’s Bastard.
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Monsters should be more than just a threat in the dungeon to your player characters’ physical health and wellbeing. Here is how to make a monster a threat to their reputation in town.Linked by the ring
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Barkeep brings home gold, and I have some people to thank.
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New initiative rules plus some theory about a counterintuitive way for speeding up your combat.Linked by the ring
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Don’t let shopping for gear be a chore. Make it part of the game with this Yahtzee inspired shopping minigame.Linked by the ring
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The original rules for falling got changed (for the better) by an editing mistake, but I propose some rules that keep the simplicity while adding some of the realism that Gygax...Linked by the ring
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A brief history of the OSR as an artistic movement and some thoughts on what comes after it.Linked by the ring
- The OSR is not dead, it’s sleeping A shrike for my dreams
- Gadda's Blog Crash Course - What is the OSR (And Why Do I Care?) Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft
- It was a Renaissance Save vs. Total Party Kill
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- The Snubbies: An award for Bloggie losers Personable Thoughts
- My dumb labels are better than your dumb labels A Knight at the Opera
- What’s an OSR game? Playful Void
- Collaborative Worldbuilding: Glimpses mindstorm
- Return of the Dodo The Dododecahedron
- Ransacking the Room mindstorm
- Shiny TTRPG links #126 Seed of Worlds
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Some quick rules for stoking deadly family feuds in your games.Linked by the ring
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What can the latest entry in the Zelda games teach us about how to run tabletop RPGs?Linked by the ring
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I reveal a new monster from the origins of the hobby. This monster languished while its siblings, like the Owlbear and Rust Monster, are being featured in major motion...Linked by the ring
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RPGs shouldn’t blather about their lore. Hide your lore in something gameable like you’re hiding your pet’s medicine in a piece of cheese.
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Announcing the winners of the first annual Bloggies, with some acceptance “speeches” from the top bloggers of 2022.
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The inaugural Bloggie Awards, recognizing some of the great blog posts of 2022.Linked by the ring
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File off the serial numbers, take what you want. Also, I talk about and rate some classic (some less so) monsters.
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The second part in a comprehensive guide for designing and running your own hexcrawl campaign, which focuses on random encounters, calendars, factions, history and rumors.
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The first part in a comprehensive guide for designing and running your own hexcrawl campaign.Linked by the ring
- Against Maps AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
- Prepping Plots, Part One: Why Prep Plots? Magnolia Keep
- The Bloggies Hall of Fame Explorers Design
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- Terrain Affinity - A Hexcrawl Tool The Play Reports
- Bee-Sized Anchors of Wilderness Play To Be Resolved
- Just One Thing Per Hex Fail Forward
- A Tutorial for Making Hexcrawl Maps in QGIS Idraluna Archives
- Stranding the Wilderness - Part 1 : Dungeon Stranding Fail Forward
- Working on WILD: Inspirations, Initial Progress, Setting and Colonialism Fail Forward
- Shiny TTRPG links #92 Seed of Worlds
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Advice for bringing the fun of hidden role games to your doppelgänger encounters.Linked by the ring
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I evaluate the various methods of equipping starting characters based on the goals of player agency, speed and randomness.
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Why commercialization doesn’t mean you aren’t a hobbyist, plus a look at this year’s Zine Quest offerings.