The Bloggies are happening again in 2026! So look back at 2025 and see what you think were some fantastic posts that should be entered-- its always tough!

"Its not a dollhouse," I say, putting tiny corkboard shingles on my ruined Tutor-style building, "its wargaming terrain!"

An amazing and fantastic effort by @elmc.at to provide a more comprehensive view of the fantasy adventure game blog-o-sphere 🔮

My 2025 gaming (roll 1d6): 01 BX 02 BX 03 BX 04 BX 05 Roll another d6: 1-3 ShadowDark 4-6 *Borg 06 CoC

A good read, but this rolls in my head today: "...the release of 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons failed to rebuild the network of clubs and specialist game stores that existed as recently as the early 2000s... " tasker.land/2025/11/13/o...

It's time for a new pinned post with some of my recent work. Hi! I'm Anya! I draw fantasy illustrations like these. I am open for work and also accept private commissions. 📩: [email protected] prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/anya... portfolio: anyachalina.myportfolio.com

I had a great chat with @directsun.bsky.social about Nightwick Abbey, goblins that sell noses, toes, & teeth, spiders with top hats, thematic alignment of dungeon elements and how I think the puzzle should either be dungeon navigation or a single "thing"

Daaang this HeroQuest game ended in a classic swords & sorcery show down!

This was a fun quick read. And an great title for dungeon crawl 🌖 🕷️

#artvsartist 2025

Really enjoy the practical advice Ram summarizes here born out of mistakes and holes he wished he had known about. If you are thinking about running a hexcrawl OR just want to know how much you should fleshout in a region-- look no further!

I never quite tired of tombs/castles, but I do think its always fun to apply the powers of the mythic underword to IRL structures and dungeonize them-- e.g. The Crystal Palace What would 1d6 reskined monsters, treasures, & traps of this place would be? What would be something to talk to here?

My 2025 Secret Santicorn🎄🦄, which is too good not to share. Thank you Anon! Here are some fantastic titles for 4️⃣-level PCs and how to get them: icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...

Certainly adopting a more German Expressionism style of video game design as opposed to continual driving of 1:1 fidelity with real life is my prefered way to go; also loved Vagrant Story

Merry Solstice! Today marks the shortest day and longest night so I thought it would be the perfect day to share my finished Mari Lwyd mask. I’m over the moon with how she turned out. 🔔

2025 Secret Santicorn prompt was great so I wrote about a: cursed knight, a seer that binds people to war, a monster charmer who can't get rid of them, a wizard who forgot themselves, an almost-hero, & a terrible unicorn with good intentions: tinyurl.com/26sbsjwf

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I need a CoC game that aesthetically is everything on the left there

These two names are amazing. I like "weartiger" especially because humans being really weird can be very unnerving/luring to players (see also: Splicers)

I really want to run some sorta OD&D campaign based on the vibe of this series. Maybe have all PCs stat as "elf" so you can mix swords & magic, but also have a slower progression to keep it to a defined session length a la "Holmes 33"

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The blog… it grows!

Excited about learning pressmolding!

Quick post about some cool and very convenient public domain heraldic shields I found. Perfect for kingdom making using some very iconic imagery that is easy for players to remember, yet similar enough to draw connections. icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/12/d20-...

We got Nick LS Whelan helping out today ❤️ on puzzle dungeon workshop. Dev edit feedback for the thief trap by JohnOutWest Video youtu.be/CmVrHdwYrOw?... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5ZPU...

When my players ask me how something can be in the dungeon...

Further thoughts: "Spot Hidden" and "Idea" should almost be secondary stats, given how frequently they are used. Professions could be 2-3 words, and "Know" or EDU could be used to determine success. Then you could eliminate 90% of the skills. Combat: only Dodge, Firearm, Brawl all 3 should be low

Whenever I play Call of Cthulhu, I am always struck at how little I use the character sheet. I feel like CoC should lean more toward Cthulhu Dark. A few stats that help adjudicate whatever you/GM thinks fall under that purview of past experiences and current profession.

Alice is doing great work here, showing the creative power of having to interpret OD&D "quirks" into a unified system. OD&D sorta functions as a series of rules prompts, forcing a meditation on what each one means in the context of your campaign.

A nice video that is a cool holiday project- dungeon tiles! Also an inexpensive gift if you’d like to give something to your DM as a player group.

Alas! Holiday schedules & illness have “wintered” my home campaign until the new year 😭

Illusionist. Random for fun monster/ character design

I think its nice to show examples of 1:1 rpg games. A player running multiple PCs is a fun experience and its pretty amazing the amount of ground you can cover.

I'm back with another Play Style Preferences. Let us travel back to the early days of the OSR: before Shadowdark, OSE, or Cairn. Today's post focuses on the fabled OSR G+ campaigns and the lessons they have to teach us about building worlds. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-pr...

You like LotR? Then here’s a hexcrawl for your holiday trilogy watch party

In session 136, the party learns that banditry DOES pay...and well. And requires less risk of supernational dismemberment, death, or worse possession. Maybe we should rob all the time 🤔

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In session 4 of Masters of Carcosa, the Rainbow Connection travels North to attack the Orange Man Citadel, home to cultists weirdos and allies to their most hated enemy, the Jale slavers. This was the session I also decided I needed proper procedures for play for my hexcrawl, like a real OSR nerd.

Looking for some #pixelart ? You found it!

Great map! Has both a retro-SNES game guide feel AND looks like it’s out of a Basic D&D series module. Excellent work!

If the OSR ever needed an idol, I think this near perfect

I was offered to buy an ad in Sweden’s major rpg magazine’s Christmas issue and because I make informed financial decisions I got myself a full-pager. “Gifts for all naughty kids”, it says. And then big: “Yellow Christmas.” Now please buy stuff at pittrapshop.com to help me fix this.

Don't worry, we solved our problem by having the PC come in contact with another, stronger, cured item the party owns. The curse object is suppressing the demons that were possessing the PCs. Its a cat-rat-cheese situation in the body of a grave robber instead of a grandma. 🐈‍⬛ 🔜🐀🔜🧀

Y'all, don't let demons in... it's bad... possession is tough... it's hard on the rest of the party... Nightwick Session 136

Random advancement is one great way to run character classes. Because a roll stymies optimization & frequency is assigned, you can put some pretty crazy powers on there. Plus multi-classing can be done by pick which of two tables to roll on.

wip had this idea for the longest time, a sorceress astounded at her freshly sculpted homunculus. will use this in the omios ures book

When G+ disappeared it took all the session recaps for my Carcosa game with it. 11 years later I thought it might be nice to get them back online. Slowly.

another issue of the indie ttrpg focused newsletter Carouse! Carouse! has dropped. I drew the banner image...inspired by Bill Watterson's Calvin and his insane snowmen www.carouse.blog/december-202...

Strong work again around clarifying frequency & amount of treasure from older D&D edition; a critical element in 1 GP = 1 XP games

This is a great lie enemies should tell PCs “You’re great! The best! They are holding you back. I can help. Trust me…”