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Pokes at numbers, plays TTRPGs, CET timezone Blog:
https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/
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Swan and Raven Studio
1 day ago
tricks-tales.blogspot.com/2025/12/weat...
I reviewed one of the two Usurper Worm God Causing Flooding adventures I've read as part of the Vienna GM Supergroup's year-end review round robin.
@munkao.bsky.social
has produced a gorgeous adventure!
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Weather Worm Adventure I: A review of Deluge at Drizzle Distillery
Happy New Year, everyone! As a yearly wrap-up, the Vienna Supergroup put together a Review Round Robin, where we each reviewed a game or adv...
https://tricks-tales.blogspot.com/2025/12/weather-worm-adventure-i-review-of.html
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cavegirl
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ok so let me lay out some basics of why I think OSR/NSR stuff is good, actually, even if the scene seems to regularly terrible oppinion-havers like some geothermal geyser. in short, its because the osr framework of what you do in the game *works*.
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Aaron Voigt
4 days ago
Transcript:
aavoigt.com/f/the-golden...
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The Golden Age of Indie RPGs
Since I started my Patreon, I’ve been promising a special video for the people who support me. I let them submit their own ideas for what this end of year video would be, and Professor Kevin Carr, who...
https://aavoigt.com/f/the-golden-age-of-indie-rpgs
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Korrine Crawford
5 days ago
This will forever be my favorite way to explain why I don’t get competitive as an artist.
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The Digital DM
6 days ago
Introducing the Hexcrawls Database! I've built a comprehensive catalog of hexcrawl adventures for OSR and old-school TTRPG enthusiasts! Filter by system, biome, setting type, and size. From frozen tundras to dark seas, find the perfect sandbox for your table.
#OSR
#TTRPG
#Hexcrawl
#dnd
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Hexcrawls
A database comparing pre-made hexcrawl adventures
https://www.ttrpgwiki.com/hexcrawls?v=2d0931d5ffda80489c31000c7e87d1f5&source=copy_link
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ktrey
5 days ago
New Generator: I've taken the dozens of tables I've produced over the years for Magical Items and finally loaded them into a generator to produce new wonders with a single click!
blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/magi...
#osr
#ttrpgs
#randomtables
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Magic Item Generator
W ith a little bit of digital elbow grease, I’ve finally managed to create a Generator that produces Magical Items from the dozens of d10...
https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/magic-item-generator.html
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ரமணன்
5 days ago
A new post, so that this idea can be the focus. Most of the campaigns I've run or played in fizzle out for all sorts of random reasons. Such is life!
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Another challenge crests the horizon - "run or play a game for most of the year"
#campaign26
#rpgchallenge
#ttrpg
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Retrospective on
#hexcrawl25
- this more structured challenge from
@maatlock.bsky.social
suited me well and was a fun chassis to test others hexcrawl/hexmap blog ideas
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/hexc...
Fed 27 sessions of hexcrawling so far and will continue in '26
#osr
#ttrpg
#diyrpg
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Hexcrawl '25 Retrospective
tl;dr: finalising my hexcrawl25 run; I enjoyed it a lot, this more structured full-year challenge suited me. For Hexcrawl25 , taking the ch...
https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/hexcrawl-25-retrospective.html
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7 days ago
This was a long time coming: Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, a Decade Too Late.
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Save vs. Total Party Kill - Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, A Decade Too Late
Masters of Carcosa is the longest campaign I have run. My friends and I played 23 sessions, starting at the end of 2014, ending near the start of 2016. The game began after Brendan took a break from r...
https://save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/advice-for-running-a-hexcrawl/
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The weekly r/osr blogroll - end of the year edition - come share your great ideas!
www.reddit.com/r/osr/commen...
#ttrpg
#DnD
#bx
#OSE
#DIYrpg
#rpg
#GLOG
#OSR
#POSR
#NSR
7 days ago
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Claytonian
11 days ago
Don’t roll! The most OSRish one and a third page RPG ever.
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OFDR RPG
Oh Fuck, Don’t Roll! By Claytonian of Killitwithfire, but with ideas from this The Dice Want to Kill you When you fail to describe your actions in a way that can be resolved with dungeon logic, you h...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vuiBm4OWEglH8gHf20WP-SxvMyBMkFFHaJzVQagtzL0/edit?usp=drivesdk
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Shiny TTRPG links #256
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/shin...
#ttrpg
#osr
#dnd
#diyrpg
11 days ago
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Apocalypse for thee, but not for us (RPG Blog Carnival) - the neighbours apocalypse is your rousing call to adventure...
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/apoc...
#osr
#dnd
#ttrpg
#diyrpg
12 days ago
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Garblag Pete
2 months ago
Anyone up for
#City26
in January. Getting a fresh notebook for this one and fleshing out a science fantasy
@mothership.bsky.social
setting.
#ttrpg
#worldbuilding
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Office of Public Works
14 days ago
A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice! What a morning at Newgrange today. The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am. 🔗
gov.ie/solstice
👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice
#NewgrangeSolstice
#WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
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The weekly r/osr blogroll - xmas approaches edition - come share your great ideas!
www.reddit.com/r/osr/commen...
#ttrpg
#DnD
#bx
#OSE
#DIYrpg
#rpg
#GLOG
#OSR
#POSR
#NSR
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Fascinating thought - wonder if you could compare to other places and look at the trends and make some guesses?
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14 days ago
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Jesse Ross
15 days ago
They found the Lost City of Ys! Or at least something that may have inspired the ancestral memory of a sunken city in Celtic cultures. This is very relevant to some world-building I'm doing!
www.404media.co/scientists-d...
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Scientists Discover Massive Underwater Ruins That May Be a Lost City of Legend
Scientists found submerged stone structures off Brittany that date back at least 7,000 years, which may have been used as fish traps and protective cover for prehistoric people.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-massive-underwater-ruins-that-may-be-a-lost-city-of-legend/
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elmcat
15 days ago
Blog map update! - Added many more blogs - Pulled in more historical post data (Substack, Ghost + others) - Reworked the side-panel stats to be clearer The new data also reshaped the communities. We're at eight now.
graph.elmc.at
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Blogosphere Map
An interactive map of TTRPG related blogs, linked by who cites whom.
https://graph.elmc.at/
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Dr. Emily Friedman
16 days ago
And just to be clear: I’m looking for folks studying TTRPGs and/or Actual Play as part of their portfolio of research. (There are I know many academics *making* AP and am also glad to hear about them, but the query originally sent to me was more specific)
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Finished
#hexcrawl25
- all 319 hexes. Write ups yet do and last session for this year to play, but strictly done. Thanks to
@maatlock.bsky.social
for a fun challenge!
#osr
#ttrpg
#diyrpg
#dnd
16 days ago
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Shiny TTRPG links #255
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/shin...
#ttrpg
#osr
#dnd
#diyrpg
18 days ago
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Luck Roll (Brian)
21 days ago
My
#Endies2025
post:
luckroll.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
including awards for: - Most played / least surprising inclusion - Funniest game - Best achievement in delivering on a (not straightforward) goal - Most memorable ending - Most satisfying crunch
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The Endies 2025
I like a good end of year wrap up, so I was happy to see the idea for a personal awards post "The Endies" by Lady Tabletop . First things fi...
https://luckroll.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-endies-2025.html
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Pressure-points for domain-level faction - taking the conclusions from "adding in domain play after the fact" post in Infernal Pact blog to create a checklist for gameable factions (a GLoGmas '25 post)
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/pres...
#ttrpg
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#diyrpg
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Pressure-points for domain-level faction (GLoGmas 25 for Dom)
I got Dom of 'Infernal Pact' for GLoGmas; taking their own understanding of it as "writing something inspired by [someones blogpost] I thin...
https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/pressure-points-for-domain-level.html
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ரமணன்
20 days ago
If you are a fan of the BlueSky OSR feed Yochai created, that I now manage, please consider donating for its upkeep costs! The service we use has created this convenient page where you can donate directly to paying for the feed’s hosting.
blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/save.vs.to...
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OSR Feed
This feed collects posts related to the OSR, the RPG scene centred around old-school Dungeons & Dragons and friends. The feed will pull posts related to OSR games and topics, like B/X, Mork Borg, Mega...
https://blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/osr#donate
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The weekly r/osr blogroll - come share your great ideas!
www.reddit.com/r/osr/commen...
#ttrpg
#DnD
#bx
#OSE
#DIYrpg
#rpg
#GLOG
#OSR
#POSR
#NSR
20 days ago
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Swan and Raven Studio
24 days ago
tricks-tales.blogspot.com/2025/12/suns...
@xaosseed.bsky.social
very kindly nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award! I have answered his interview questions, and in reply I have nominated
@jubalbarca.bsky.social
,
@mixuppixels.bsky.social
,
@eeldip.bsky.social
, and
@sonofsuntzu.bsky.social
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Sunshine Blogger Award
I have been very kindly granted the Sunshine Blogger Award by my good pal xaosseed of the excellent Seed of Worlds blog. This is an award ...
https://tricks-tales.blogspot.com/2025/12/sunshine-blogger-award.html
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Shiny TTRPG links #254
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/shin...
#ttrpg
#osr
#dnd
#diyrpg
25 days ago
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ரமணன்
28 days ago
Shout out to @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io who sold me this book at Dragonmeet. I’ve wanted a copy for ages. Crown of Salt by
@thebreadwyrm.bsky.social
. They did all writing, layout and art! That’s what it’s all about.
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I've been nominated by Halfway Station for a greatly appreciated Sunshine Blogger Award! I answer my questions, nominations 11 more bloggers and pose more questions here:
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/suns...
#osr
#ttrpg
#dnd
#blog
#sunshineaward
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Sunshine Blogger Award
This blog has been graciously awarded a Sunshine Blogging Award by Halfway Station - "peer recognition to bloggers who bring positivity, joy...
https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/sunshine-blogger-award.html
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WiddershinsWanderings
28 days ago
I'm back with another of my Play Style Preferences. This time, I'm talking about Diegetic Advancement and how I prefer Character Cultivation over Character Builds.
widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-pr...
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Play Style Preferences: Character Cultivation, Not Character Builds
A blog post talking about the benefits of developing and advancing your character based on experiences grounded in in-session action when playing Adventure games of the OSR play style.
https://widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-preferences-2-character-advancement/
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Milkyblood - looking for art job
28 days ago
All the familiars
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#ttrpg
#DnD
#bx
#OSE
#DIYrpg
#rpg
#GLOG
#OSR
#POSR
#NSR
28 days ago
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Attronarch
28 days ago
FIGHT ON! ISSUE 17 NOW AVAILABLE Massive issue counting 166 pages featuring adventures, monsters, classes, artwork, and essays from over thirty contributors. I contributed 7 Contrarian Practices for Running Online Games essay. More info at:
attronarch.com/news-fight-o...
#OSR
#OD&D
#S&W
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#OSR
covers a lot of things - described to me as a big tent with many different acts going on - now the blogosphere project gives us the moving image that demonstrates this
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/many...
#dnd
#blogosphere
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Many Faces of the OSR
tl;dr: "OSR" is a banner flown over many folk, often unalike, occasionally strongly opposed - generalisations do not come easily. Elmcat di...
https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/many-faces-of-osr.html
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Jonathan Newell
about 1 month ago
After a long hiatus, I'm pleased to announce the continuation of my megadungeon (originally a Dungeon23 project), The Apocalypse Archive!
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Zedeck Siew
about 1 month ago
"... a bit marmite - either you will look at this and go 'I do not get it, why are there candles on a starship' or you will, as most I have shown this to, go 'ooh, oooh, when are we running it.' " There's that pull quote! Thank you
@xaosseed.bsky.social
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seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
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Review: Chapter Serf
tl;dr: delightful game to play the lowliest of servants of the grimdarks mightiest warriors. This dropped on tumblr and I snatched it up, b...
https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/review-chapter-serf.html?m=1
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Dennis Detwiller
about 1 month ago
Join our playtest of
#TheBlackCompanyRPG
. Help boost our recruiting call by sharing and liking.
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The Black Company Roleplaying Game
The Black Company Roleplaying Game is a fast-paced, deadly game of swords, sorcery, and soldiers. Play this tabletop RPG with friends in person or online. The all-too-mortal soldiers of the Black…
https://theblackcompanyrpg.com
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#ttrpg
#osr
#dnd
#diyrpg
about 1 month ago
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The weekly r/osr blogroll - come share your great ideas!
www.reddit.com/r/osr/commen...
#ttrpg
#DnD
#bx
#OSE
#DIYrpg
#rpg
#GLOG
#OSR
#POSR
#NSR
about 1 month ago
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ktrey
about 1 month ago
Yeah. Just might have to put something like this together after all! Long live the Blog! 😅
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elmcat
about 1 month ago
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
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Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
https://elmc.at/mapping-the-blogosphere/
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Laying out a vision for a Cosmic Defense Brigade setting - on tone and whether to just make it a Mothership hack.
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/your...
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Your Sector, Your Problem - wheres my motivation?
Thinking on "Your Sector, Your Problem" (SHIELD/Stargate Command but responsible for a sector of inhabited alien worlds) in particular in th...
https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/your-sector-your-problem-wheres-my.html
about 1 month ago
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Shiny TTRPG links #252
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about 1 month ago
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Seedling Games
about 1 month ago
seedlinggames.com/blogging/ove...
Wrote a bit about if O/U is a wargame. Also: - IC, OOC and a secret third thing - the role of violence in games with a small amount of violence - a comparison to games that are mostly about politics but not necessarily role playing
#Over/Under
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Blog
https://seedlinggames.com/blogging/overunder/is_ou_a_wargame.html
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Scramble to the end of
#hexcrawl25
challenge from
@maatlock.bsky.social
- from 10% down to on target with 1. interference from the neighbour hexes, 2. harbingers of the out-of-hex threats and 3. stuff from play at the table
seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/hexc...
#osr
#diyrpg
#dnd
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Hexcrawl '25 scramble for the finish
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 sca...
https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/hexcrawl-25-scramble-for-finish.html
about 1 month ago
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#ttrpg
#DnD
#bx
#OSE
#DIYrpg
#rpg
#GLOG
#OSR
#POSR
#NSR
about 1 month ago
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Rise Up Comus - CASTLE AUTOMATIC Crowdfunding Now!
about 1 month ago
The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures. Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
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Josh D | Vaulted Pyramid
about 1 month ago
Coming next year for OSE Month is Dinner with the Damned, the third and probably final funnel for OSE by the Afterthought Committee. Primary writing by
@gendershrug.bsky.social
, additional writing and layout by me, art by
@egallagher.bsky.social
.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
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