Drafting my own blog response to this, but really ttrpg religion hasn't been beat since Glorantha in the 70s. RQG's Mythology book is a primer on doing religion right. From the mundane rituals to the cosmic conflicts.. but most importantly it drives engaging tabletop play!

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I implore people to read and share Reece's story. Absolutely heartbreaking that our country is failing to support people impacted by this illness still, several years later. And if anyone has any advice that can help Reece receive the support he needs - I'm sure it would be appreciated.

Congratulations to @explorersdesign.bsky.social on the big win!

Thank you to everyone who voted for The 1 HP Dragon! I’ll write a longer article post-Bloggies soon, but for now: “Slaying the 1 HP Dragon” is coming. I can’t wait to co-host next year’s Bloggies. And a special thanks to the other writers for making awesome posts.

Congrats to @explorersdesign.bsky.social and much respect to @prismaticwasteland.com @indiegamereadingclub.com! Fun little bracket!

🔹🏆 BLOGGIES 2024 - PLATINUM WINNER 🏆🔹 I am pleased to announce that after an exhaustive 263 responses, the overall winner of the 2024 Bloggies is... The 1 HP Dragon, from @explorersdesign.bsky.social Read the details and gold medalist speeches here: sachagoat.blot.im/bloggies-202...

I am in the Bloggies Final Four! For those that don’t know, this vote for BEST BLOGPOST of 2024 also determines who will run next year’s Bloggies! I already ran it recently in 2022, and I think the Bloggies benefit from being passed around as much as possible. Good news: you rank your choices 🧵

It’s the end of the Bloggies! vote for who deserves the top honor!

Okay, we're off to the races! I've been writing the Indie Game Reading Club a *very* long time but you know what? We've never won anything! After studying the competition I see why. There's a lot of great work out there. Get in there, take a look at the finalists (at the very least) and vote!

The Bloggies are officially in the finals, and The 1 HP Dragon is in it. Thank you to everyone who supported me in the theory bracket. I would love one final vote. You can't go wrong with anyone. Whoever wins this year hosts the next year. Amanda and I might even co-run it.

🗳️ BLOGGIES 2024 - THE FINALS 🗳️ Congratulations again to the four category winners! Now, it’s time to decide which blog post deserves the top honor. This form will be open for 48 hours. Decide which blog post is the best of 2024! Link to voting form⤵️

🏆BLOGGIES 2024 - REVIEW - WINNERS🏆 🥇 Gold: Deep Dive: Stonetop @indiegamereadingclub.com 🥈 Silver: The loss we gain from a Thousand Year Old Campfire @napel.itch.io 🥉 Copper: The Sci-Fi Special Edition @the-soloist.itch.io Join us this Friday for the #BLOGGIES24 finals!!

Holy shit. I began this blog last year in the hopes of engaging more deeply with our art form. Getting to the last round of the Review category here is incredibly affirming. And now I'm going up against @indiegamereadingclub.com, a publication I respect a lot! It's an honor.

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - REVIEW - QUARTERFINALS🗳️ This is some unprecedented campaigning but I'm so happy to see games outside the OSR fighting their way to the top brackets. This final voting round decides which review gets Gold, Silver and Copper medals. Link to voting form⤵️

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - REVIEW - ROUND OF 4🗳️ Awesome to see most of the final 4 reviewing games outside the OSR that dominates the blogging scene. And huge props to @the-soloist.itch.io's entry which was added in last minute to fill a candidate that opted out and has got this far! Link to voting form⤵️

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - REVIEW - ROUND OF 8🗳️ A certain reviewer who had the MOST nominations has been knocked out early in multiple categories. I'm gutted - please please please check out those knocked out early, if you haven't already. The review category vote continues! Link to voting form⤵️

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - REVIEW - ROUND OF 16🗳️ The review category is now open for voting! This year’s varied candidates span OSR, trad, solo, and story game RPGs. Link to voting form⤵️

🏆BLOGGIES 2024 - ADVICE - WINNERS🏆 🥇 Gold: On People-Centered Adventure Design by @weirdwonder.bsky.social 🥈 Silver: Setting up an OSR Sandbox by Roll to Doubt 🥉 Copper: Monster Checklist by Goblin Punch Voting for #BLOGGIES24 will continue momentarily with the Review category!

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - ADVICE - QUARTERFINALS🗳️ Another close round but we have the final bracket(s). Don't forget the quarterfinals decide who gets Gold, Silver and Copper for the Advice category! Link to voting form⤵️

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - ADVICE - VOTE OF 4🗳️ The most nominated Advice post has been eliminated earlier than expected.. and we're now down to the final four! Votes in this round, dictate which two posts will contest for Gold/Silver tomorrow. Link to voting form⤵️

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - ADVICE - VOTE OF 8🗳️ Extremely close early brackets and most of my personal favourites are already eliminated. However, I'm super excited to see these latest match-ups. Will publishing advice continue to prevail over GM advice? Let's find out! Link to voting form⤵️

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - GAMEABLE - VOTE OF 16🗳️ Hot off the heels of the Debut Blog bonus category, we're launching straight into the Advice category! The type of advice finalists vary.. some design/publishing advice.. some GM advice.. we even have a blog post giving player advice! Link to voting form⤵️

🏅BLOGGIES 2024 - BONUS - DEBUT BLOG WINNERS🏅 The verdict is in on the Debut Blog category. With 262 voters (and 624 votes placed total), I'm proud to award Gold, Silver and Bronze to... 🥇 MURKMAIL (@murkdice.bsky.social) 🥈 WOBBLEROCKET (@wobblerocket.com) 🥉 Among Cats and Books (@elmc.at)

🏆BLOGGIES 2024 - BONUS - DEBUT BLOG🏆 I'm excited to introduce this new bonus category (the only change I made to the bloggies over previous hosts) to spotlight new bloggers in their debut year. You can vote here: forms.gle/FhR5bWcb8yFo... Voting will be open until 9pm GMT on Monday.

35 blogs are nominated for "Best Debut Blog", and voting starts tomorrow! I know you want to be an informed voter, but who has time to read every single post from 35 blogs? If only someone collected a single illustrative post from each of the finalists in this category! I have good news #osr #ttrpg

🏆BLOGGIES 2024 - GAMEABLE - WINNERS🏆 🥇 Gold: Overloading the Random Encounter Table @prismaticwasteland.com 🥈 Silver: The Bell Curving Encounter Table @orchardmartin.bsky.social 🥉 Copper: A Person Shaped Hole by @mindstorm.bsky.social Voting for #BLOGGIES24 will continue this Friday!

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - GAMEABLE - QUARTERFINALS🗳️ And the votes are in once again! And it's clear that encounter tables continues to fascinate us half a century after their inception. Link to voting form⤵️

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - GAMEABLE - ROUND OF 4🗳️ The competition is heating up as we come down to our final four gameable posts. The winners here will dictate who face off for Gold/Silver tomorrow (and which two compete for Copper). Link to voting form⤵️

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - GAMEABLE - ROUND OF 8🗳️ Extremely close initial round (seriously, we had a bracket that came down to a single vote difference)! Regardless of your style of play, the gameable category has some amazing table-ready content. Link to voting form⤵️

This is a tough one because I've found games that I like returning to. In 2025, I look forward to trying: 🪄 Ars Magica 📱 Alice is Missing 👑 Rebel Crown 🤘 CBR+PNK ❤️ Heart: The City Beneath And then reading, designing, prepping and running RuneQuest, Pendragon and D&D retroclones.

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - GAMEABLE - ROUND OF 16🗳️ I hope you all made use of the buffer days and got started on these amazing finalists. This is a hotly contested category this year! Voting for the BLOGGIES continues with the 'Gameable' category! Link to voting form⤵️

If you are a TTRPG designer who can’t afford to pay an artist living wages it is 100% cool and good and AWESOME to use resources like this so you can create a world you’re proud of looks cool.

🏆BLOGGIES 2024 - THEORY - WINNERS🏆 🥇 Gold: The 1 HP Dragon @explorersdesign.bsky.social 🥈 Silver: In Praise of Legwork @samsorensen.bsky.social 🥉 Copper: Interesting Social Situations, or The Discourse Post @riseupcomus.bsky.social Voting for #BLOGGIES24 will continue this Friday!

Thank you for voting. This is the last round—The 1 HP Dragon v. In Praise of Legwork. You can't go wrong with either, all of these blog posts were great. Earlier today I shared how much I wish I had done more legwork writing The 1 HP Dragon, so it's only fitting I face my anxieties. Voting 🗳️⤵️

I'm definitely not biased towards In Praise of Legwork for any reason at all, and you should definitely vote for it, but not because I'm biased, because as aforementioned I'm definitely not.

Totally not the outcome I expected but all deserve the win! Let's gooo!

And the last day of voting (for my articles)! I'm going for the ̶g̶o̶l̶d̶ copper! All the final rounders are such heavy hitters, give them a read and vote!

the last round! this has been a tough bloggies (and i'm in the running for 3rd, so please still vote) but it's been awesome to see so many great blog posts in circulation

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - THEORY - QUARTERFINALS🗳️ And with over 222 responses, we now have the brackets for our quarterfinals! It's the same blog posts, but a new match-up. Voting for #BLOGGIES24 continues! Link to voting form⤵️

The 1 HP Dragon is still in this. (Please vote for me.) This whole bracket is designed to make me sweat. Every single one of these competing posts is by a designer I'm inspired by. You can't go wrong with whoever you vote for.

Eugh! So hard!

every single blog post here is fucking amazing! go read all of them and then vote for your faves

Thrilled to still be in the running for the Theory Bloggies! My post--Interesting Social Situations--takes the "Information Choice Impact" doctrine and applies it to social situations in games. Not by asking for roleplaying, but by asking for interesting ideas. Please vote for meee!

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - THEORY - ROUND OF 4🗳️ Exactly the same number of votes (159) and just as close! Bracket winners of round 2 of Theory posts in the image attached. Voting for #BLOGGIES24 continues! Link to voting form⤵️

Now it starts getting really tough! But the 🏆BLOGGIES🏆 are a great collection of awesome posts. Maybe @themerrymushmen.bsky.social could do a KNOCK! special issue 🤔

The Bloggies continues! I am blessed to continue into the next round, but now am up against one of my favorite posts this year from Ben L Please vote for me! (Sorry Ben 😭 I love you)

Round 2 of the first category of the 2024 Bloggies and some of my favorite posts of the year are already eliminated! I love to see how close some of these were, at least one came down to 1 vote out of the 159 cast!

@jdragsky.bsky.social is a menace and a villain of terrible power who will at last be destroyed by my righteous hand. In a move most cunning and calculated, I myself actually nominated the Puppygirl post specifically to arrange this very showdown, where I shall rise victorious above the wicked slain

🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - THEORY - ROUND OF 8🗳️ Results of the first round are in. It was a close call, even with 159 votes! It's already been said but the quality of TTRPG blogging this year is exceptional. Voting for the BLOGGIES continues! Link to voting form⤵️