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Shiny links from about the internet! For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,...
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Sam Seer asks of us "Talk about three games that are important to you" and far be it from me to refuse the call. Dungeons & Dragons - godzilla in my gaming lexicon. I was a...
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tl;dr: tested out d4 Caltrops Wilderness Stocking - Expanded - good in itself but elevated to great by the vast library of supporting tables for every circumstance. I needed to...
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Poring back over holiday activity to harvest a bumper crop of shiny links. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival....
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First progress report for City26 challenge - Hive Rejoicing Torch (RT-87) - known in the local vernacular as Rough Times or Regular Torment. I worked up some schematics as a...
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Clayton at Explorers Design hosts The Bloggies - a yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games. Below are my nominations for the categories they gave. Image by...
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A roster of links recommended from peoples backlogs this year - wisdom that has stood the test of time - also a 'mulligan' edition for me while I am back in the aul sod for the...
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For the new year I will be taking on City '26, running with a Warhammer 40k hivecity - perhaps a precursor to running an Imperium Maledictum campaign in 2027, or some oneshots...
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Since the Endies were kicked off by Lady Tabletop, I am going to include those bits in my usual end of year. I am stealing Luck Roll's format as it speaks to me most. This year...
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End the year with more shiny links. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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tl;dr: finalising my hexcrawl25 run; I enjoyed it a lot, this more structured full-year challenge suited me. For Hexcrawl25, taking the challenge on I settled on the whole...Linked by the ring
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Vivanter of Mediums and Messages is collating the GLoGgies and so I make my nominations below for the best of the GLoGosphere 2025. Deadline for nominations is Jan 5th if you...
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Links to some serious thinking as people purge their draft folders before the end of the year. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the...
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This month the RPG blog carnival is hosted by Advantage on Arcana and has the topic of The End Times And After - which is an interesting one. The End Times for a given world...Linked by the ring
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tl;dr: an eco-restoration-themed map-crawler pamphlet game with some interesting resouce balancing mechanics. I looked at this as a part of Capsule Reviews #9: HELLO//GOODBYE...Linked by the ring
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Links from around the web. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of...
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I got Dom of 'Infernal Pact' for GLoGmas; taking their own understanding of it as "writing something inspired by [someones blogpost] I think" I found something inspiring tucked...
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For the Onegeon jam in accordance with The Onegeon Manifesto by Cats Have No Lord Guidelines for the ideal Onegeon: Make it system neutral as much as possible Make it small...
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Only the shiniest links out across the blogosphere. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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This blog has been graciously awarded a Sunshine Blogging Award by Halfway Station - "peer recognition to bloggers who bring positivity, joy and creative content to the...
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tl;dr: "OSR" is a banner flown over many folk, often unalike, occasionally strongly opposed - generalisations do not come easily. Elmcat did a thing - Mapping the Blogosphere -...
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More shiny links from around the web. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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tl;dr: delightful game to play the lowliest of servants of the grimdarks mightiest warriors. This dropped on tumblr and I snatched it up, both expecting great things but also...
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Thinking on "Your Sector, Your Problem" (SHIELD/Stargate Command but responsible for a sector of inhabited alien worlds) in particular in the light of Uncanny Spheres MEGACORP:...
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More shiny links from around the web. For yet more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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For Hexcrawl25, taking the challenge on I settled on the whole super-hex = 40-mile, hexes are 10-mile, sub-hexes 2.5 mile as my working scale. Where I started Hexmap was at 77%...Linked by the ring
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This months prompt for the RPG Blog Carnival is by the long-time host of Dice and Dragons themselves - Feasts and Festivals in Your TTRPG Campaign. In honour of this I will be...
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Shiny links from around the web. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of...
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On Ye Olde Question of 'is the OSR dead' but this time with some data - based on community participation in jams and challenges and continued appearance of 'big idea' posts -...
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After seeing it praised on the purple OSR discord, along with the note that the original blog was lost to the internet wastes, I thought it might be useful to unearth and try...