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Orcs are green Slime is pink But what if they weren’t? Really makes one thinkLinked by the ring
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Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.
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A bestiary of 56 or so monsters, written initially for Dungeon World but useful for any fantasy game, reviewed.Linked by the ring
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There is a contrarian hot take chestnut that gets bandied about occasionally against the prevalence of randomness in roleplaying games. I articulate a simple...
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When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particularly for random...Linked by the ring
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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
- The Anti-Randomness Taskforce Wandering Diejack
- Randomizing a Shadowdark Dungeon Billhook
- Scatter Rolling Hex Interiors Tree Climber
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- A clock with discrete faces Binary Star Games
- Oracular Randomness in Live Text RP Personable Thoughts
- The 46er - June 2026 Table 46
- Best By - When Potions Go Bad Magustrate's Curios
- Random Character Creation: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Magnolia Keep
- The DIY Old-School Blog Randomizer Artifactotum
- Why Roll? Atmospheric Underworld
- Deus Ex Verbum: Interesting Religions, Dogmas, Sects and Philosophies via Wiktionary Beneath Foreign Planets
- Breaking a GM star pattern: d20 more ways A shrike for my dreams
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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).
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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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Into the Odd famously jettisoned the “roll to hit” aspect of D&D derived combat. How can accuracy, specifically reducing an opponent’s accuracy by means of sand in the eyes or...
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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
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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...
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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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- Amber-Powered Dinosaurs in the Time-Displaced Observatory Artifactotum
- Against Maps AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
- Freeform Pointcrawls Wandering Diejack
- Don’t prep hexcrawls, prep hexframes A shrike for my dreams
- Use Tracing Paper Root Devil
- 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
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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...
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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
- What I Like About Orc Babies Blog of Forlorn Encystment
- Bloggies Breakdown: Round 1 Explorers Design
- The Bloggies' 2026 Nominees Explorers Design
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- Hexmas 2025 - Hexmas Train Depot The Play Reports
- 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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- Barnyard Voltron Bommyknocker Press
- 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.
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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
- Structures, Decisions and Mechanics Ladino's Rogue Thoughts
- New Year’s Resolution Mechanic: Taking Your Time A Knight at the Opera
- Resolutions in the FLAME Imperishable Rise Up Comus
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- New Year's Resolution (Mechanic) and Milking Your Dice Fail Forward
- 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
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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
- Into the OSR, or, How I Learned to Stop Signposting and Love Cthulhu Atmospheric Underworld
- Gadda's Blog Crash Course - What is the OSR (And Why Do I Care?) Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft
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- It was a Renaissance Save vs. Total Party Kill
- 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...
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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