Two silly big posts today, the first being the Idle Digest for December of 2025, featuring a recap of Critique Navidad for those who couldn’t follow it closely: open.substack.com/pub/idlecart...

I couldn't help myself and added 1 more hex to the #hexmas map - Hexmas Train, a minigame of sorts to traverse this complete 60-hex map created by the blogging community. Final map inside! #blog #ttrpg #blogwagon theplayreports.com/posts/hexmas...

hello gamers, I'm here with my final blogpost of the year. this one's just a big list of every new word I learned this year, with short definitions for each. peruse at your leisure: samsorensen.blot.im/new-words-fr...

RINGS OF REMINDER Here's practice I started in 2024, to balance out my severe insecurities: every time I finish a personal project and it is fully out in the world, I get a ring to wear. Here are all the projects I've finished, in the last two years: 1/

ITS DONE. COMPLETE. A full fucking player facing playtest rulebook ready to go! All formated nice with all the rules and everything. Pierre Menards First Edition realised at last. Finally I can start the real OSR: writing a cool as hell adventure module for it.

Folks seeing this: is the link below visible to you? It's about the stuff I've made in the last (two) years, with a photo of my hand. Tumblr hit me with a "Potentially mature content: This post may contain content not suitable for all audiences" warning! WTF? slowlorispress.com/post/8044233...

Scrambled to get a 2025 review post out. Instead of talking about me, I dug into my blog dataset and made a bunch of graphs. elmc.at/2025-in-blog...

While I'll never be able to capture everything that happened in #over/under, here is my deep dive into the game from both a design view and my own personal denizen one. #blog #ttrpg #playbypost theplayreports.com/posts/over-u...

Scrambled to get a 2025 review post out. Instead of talking about me, I dug into my blog dataset and made a bunch of graphs. elmc.at/2025-in-blog...

Working on a yearly wrap up but rather than focusing on me I look at overall Blog stats.

Wizards of the Coast should take a cue from Daggerheart and put character abilities on cards. Expand it: each player buys their own cards and only official ones are allowed. They come in booster packs + rare foils/reflective/gold-ink variants This would save D&D and finally make it profitable again

what's up gamers, I'm back with another blogpost about editing. this one's about development editing rather than line and copy editing, though, so the tips are all a little more vague and philosophical. hope you enjoy anyways: samsorensen.blot.im/ten-intangib...

Introduced my friend Apoleen to Mothership at the end of last year. And now it's his favorite Tabletop RPG this year, which made him write this blogpost. The Indonesian Tabletop RPG blogging scene is growing! distractedatthetable.substack.com/p/the-most-h...

Here, have a blog post where I give surprisingly serious answers to the eternally unanswerable questions of RPGs, like "What's the OSR?" and "how do I get my group to meet on time?"

🚨WORTHY ESSAY ALERT🚨 "but i’m more interested in a different question. what happens when a spell becomes cheaper than a worker." The traditional magic=tech worldbuilding question has always bored me. Add class analysis to the mix? I'm in. beeboobubie.substack.com/p/the-infras...

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

I too am participating in Hexmas! I give you 0202: Conifer Mountain, an adaptation of a portion of a play-by-post game I ran last year weirdwonder.net/hexmas-0202-... #osr

I wrote about my plans for 2026, both under the @cairnrpg.com umbrella and Between Two Cairns. newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/

Delightful garbage for your holiday-addled sensory organs. 🎄🎅☃️ Including my Theoryslop Post of the Year™ www.valerialoves.com/joybringers-...

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...

Happy Holidays everyone! I managed to polish off my #Hexmas blog post last night and I humbly submit it now to join the rest in Yuletide cheer! And let’s raise a glass of eggnog to @prismaticwasteland.com for coming up with this jolly concept! #blogwagon #osr #ttrpg

YOU CAN DO IT TOO: IT IS TRIVALLY EASY. COME PLAY IN THE SPACE HOGS. itch.io/jam/old-scan...

For my contribution to the Merry Hexmas blog bandwagon, I made a mini sandbox: the Jinglebell Barrens, a land which lives in the shadow of a lost city which forgot the meaning of Hexmas. Will the adventurers restore warmth & cheer to its streets, or simply plunder everything not nailed down? #osr

blog post: x-in-6, 2d6, 1d20: alice muses about the three types of dice checks which are core to od&d! dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2025/12/dice...

A gift, for the festive season, my first ever an OSR. You can tell its an OSR because its made entirely out of offcuts from B2 The Keep on the Borderlands. Its compatible with many games and also incompatible with at least 3, probably. juniperc.itch.io/bn-2-the-kee...

THE CAIRNIES

New blogpost from my friend Habeeb, this one talking about magic in Tabletop RPG, infrastructure, convenience, and... generative AI? I'm just going to keep hyping him up here until he posts on Bluesky 😂 beeboobubie.substack.com/p/the-infras...

I struggled for a really long time to decide what the first Solar Cataphracts game blog post was gonna be. I needed something in depth enough that it couldn't just be a discord message. How about a four thousand word breakdown of #Over/Under 's economics? open.substack.com/pub/tangentj...

Finally added my hex, Hearth, to the Hexmas Map for the Blogwagon started by @prismaticwasteland.com! #blog #hexmas #community #ttrpg #hexcrawl theplayreports.com/posts/hexmas...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the first annual Lizzies! The best and brightest of the blogosphere comes forward, as decided by your second-favorite blogger with a furry pfp! magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Now that the 1.0 version is out and the start date is set, it's finally time to post about VANGUARD, my adaptation of Sam Sorenson's CATAPHRACT. lairoftheduskwitch.bearblog.dev/vanguard/

Throwing one more post on the pile before the end of the year. Enjoy binarystar.games/posts/origin...

This is absolutely amazing. I loved the Blogging Cleric class and always looked forward to see more from @bakenshake.bsky.social's Blog Setting. Never have I suspected my persona would be a part of it so this fills me with joy. Check it out and start bloggin!

As a first year blogger, I've keep notes on jokes and trends. Its all culminated in this post! Thanks to @elmc.at's graph work and @linkskywalker.bsky.social's Flux Space, I got the motivation I needed to create the Blogosphere Flux. #blog #fluxspace #community theplayreports.com/posts/blogos...

New Dungeon (in blog form): Castle Claus, or The Keep on the North Pole A Rankin Bass Christmas-themed dungeon for the Merry Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. Possibly one of my more high effort blog posts to date #osr #ttrpg

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

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

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-...

Continuing the series, here's some illness and poisoning rules. behindthehelm.bearblog.dev/illness-pois... #osr

Compact weather rules. For your enjoyment. behindthehelm.bearblog.dev/weather/

OK. Started a personal blog today for all my thoughts and ramblings that don't fit official Pandion stuff. Pandi Ponderings: pandiponderings.pika.page Just posted a nice rambling reflection on what I've done this year. (shout out to A Couple of Drakes, who always calls me Pandi)

If you do tag me so I can add you to the blogmap

you should start a blog

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the long-awaited sequel to Combat as my Balls! The term "Player skill" has always rankled me, so I decided to delve a little deeper into that and discuss different kinds of player skill games can encourage. magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/skil...

New Review! Menagerie of Unbearable Things What is the purpose of this gorgeous, heart wrenching bestiary? Is this even an RPG book, and does that matter? www.valerialoves.com/are-feelings...

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

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...

Your periodic reminder that everything is pointcrawl: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/everything... #ttrpg #pointcrawl #hexcrawl #gamedesign

A couple of extradimensional freaks for my only-mostly-abandoned modern paranormal OSR game.