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!

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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This will forever be my favorite way to explain why I don’t get competitive as an artist.

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

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

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!

Another challenge crests the horizon - "run or play a game for most of the year" #campaign26 #rpgchallenge #ttrpg

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 #dnd

This was a long time coming: Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, a Decade Too Late.

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

Don’t roll! The most OSRish one and a third page RPG ever.

Shiny TTRPG links #256 seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/shin... #ttrpg #osr #dnd #diyrpg

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

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

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

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

Fascinating thought - wonder if you could compare to other places and look at the trends and make some guesses?

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...

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

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)

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

Shiny TTRPG links #255 seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/shin... #ttrpg #osr #dnd #diyrpg

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

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 #osr #dnd #diyrpg #glog

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...

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

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

Shiny TTRPG links #254 seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/shin... #ttrpg #osr #dnd #diyrpg

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.

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

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...

All the familiars

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

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

#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 #ttrpg

After a long hiatus, I'm pleased to announce the continuation of my megadungeon (originally a Dungeon23 project), The Apocalypse Archive!

"... 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 ! seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...

Join our playtest of #TheBlackCompanyRPG. Help boost our recruiting call by sharing and liking.

Shiny TTRPG links #253 seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/shin... #ttrpg #osr #dnd #diyrpg

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

Yeah. Just might have to put something like this together after all! Long live the Blog! 😅

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

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... #diyrpg

Shiny TTRPG links #252 seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/shin... #ttrpg #osr #dnd #diyrpg

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

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 #ttrpg

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

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...

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...