Already two of my posts eliminated in the first round bloodbath (and so many of my favorites also eliminated by the fierce competition). Go vote! Specially vote for “Monster, Maiden, Madonna, Medusa” in the critique category; it’s one of my best written posts imo Links to voting and favs below

You have less than 24 hours to vote in round 2. The good news: There are half as many posts in round 2, and if you voted in the first round, you've likely read most of them. The official webpage for this year can be found here: www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/

If you're reading this, round 1 of the Bloggies' Hunger Games is over and round 2 has already started! This post has all of the voting breakdowns sans the vote count (it would have taken me an extra hour to add those in, and I have a day job 😔.) You won't believe the margins on these matchups!

My five posts about The Seven-Part Pact have been nominated for Best Series at this year's Bloggie Awards. You can now listen to all of them at We Read The Bloggies. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...

checking this out for Bloggies voting and i am *shocked* to discover that my blog has been linked to by 5 different folks???

Bloggies PSA! Round 1 of all 5 initial Categories is open until 7 AM EST. Not just Advice. Advice: forms.gle/LApoXPh7cVhy... Critique: forms.gle/5Qvwxxsvyhq8... Gameable: forms.gle/WjPxMyQunpPZ... Theory: forms.gle/VSa1fwjYLcrk... Meta: forms.gle/R26nY7qm7DaA... Vote for your favorites. PSA over

Hey! My reading of habeeb's "the infrastructure of magical convenience" is up! I was glad to lend this one my voice - it's a subject that cuts closer to home for me than you might think. Original post is: beeboobubie.substack.com/p/the-infras... Link to ep is: podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...

@benmckenzie.com.au read my review of Fomoria and it sounds so good! Thanks to @elmc.at and @bommyknocker.bsky.social and everyone else making The Bloggies and and its well named podcast, "We Read The Bloggies" happen. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...

Still pretty mindblown by the fact the community came together to record 87 blogposts in just a few days for the Bloggies. My listening sorted for the next few weeks. podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl... Thanks to @elmc.at and @bommyknocker.bsky.social for organising!

February issue of Carouse! Carouse! just dropped. If you like indie ttrpgs check it out: www.carouse.blog/february-202...

Psssst, like right now.

Four days in, and 53 nominated Bloggies posts have already been read and recorded by wonderful authors and volunteers, then published on the We Read The Bloggies podcast. Truly incredible!

Defining and understanding the OSR implied setting and using it to build B/X/OSE campaigns.

This is probably the most exciting/most important community project going on in my side of the RPG scene right now. All the bloggies entries read by community members so you can catch up on the best of RPG theory and reviews from this past year.

The Inq28 scene has similar energy to the OSR when I first joined it. Mordheim feels like the BX of Inq28, but I've turned toward Forbidden Psalms as a quick entry. However, there is still something about Mordheim that is alluring: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/02/psal...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the high-octane second chapter of Prepping Plots! This time we're gonna be doing some brainstorming to get a basic outline of our plot! https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/02/prepping-plots-part-two-rough-outline.html?m=1

Blog enthusiasts! It's been a huge community effort. We're proud to present WE READ THE BLOGGIES. The year's best blogging coming to you - in audio form. A show to SAVE YOUR EYES and SOOTHE YOUR EARS. Catch up on all your Bloggies reading before voting commences next week! #ttrpg #podcast #blog

Huge thanks to all the volunteers and bloggers. This project wouldn't exist without you More episodes are on the way! We'll publish them as soon as we can

A group of volunteers is recording as many of the nominees for the Bloggies as possible, and uploading them as a podcast! I’m helping out a bit with this, and I’ve recorded a few already! Come listen at the link below, Spotify, and several other podcast platforms! podcast.bloggies.org

That's right, you can now try Intergalactic Bastionland in a very early, messy state. www.bastionland.com/2026/02/inte...

Attack every part of the character sheet, even your name and character portrait.

Let's go!!!

Honered to be in the bloggies. Excited for the voting. Scared because my blog is up against the great @jeffstormer.gobirds.online. Go birbs?

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane blogpost about video games and elfgames! I played Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 last month, and I think a lot of what made it fresh can be ported over to your campaign with very little trouble. magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/02/what...

Wrote about the process that turns blog posts I read into lots of tiny little plants for my new digital garden: dungeonmerl.in/3meeit5e7522w This turned out both stranger and longer than expected.

My month in a nutshell: (Official nominees announcement tomorrow!)

Map dungeons with this warioware-style minigame. #OSR #TTRPG bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/another-gimm...

talk at me please let me know what you think please yell at me yakamo.blot.im/how-should-w...

Jumping on the Blog Bandwagon early before I forget. I've written up a Slavic-folklore-infused Eco Mofos adventure for this amazing map we all have to work with. Find out what's going on at the Godsmelter. #TTRPG #OSR blog.catshavenolord.page/godsmelter-b...

Wrote a thing on my blog about implementing a Hazard Die procedure into Shadowdark. 🎲 #osr #shadowdark #ttrpgs

Shouting this out again because I’m having so much fun keying this map today. Join the bandwagon!

a response to the @rascal.news article on yazeba's bed & breakfast, clarifying some misunderstandings and (hopefully) providing a clearer explanation of what happened possumcreek.medium.com/a-response-t...

after some soul-searching and talks with my friend @ideologicalsissy.bsky.social about how best to make character feats 'work', finally came up with 36 base ones for #cinco! traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2026/02/cinc...

All bloggers are hereby cordially invited to participate in a new blog bandwagon on the topic of MAPS, featuring art (which you can use, remix, distort as you see fit) from @amandalee.bsky.social (Garbage Barge, Vampire Cruise, et al) You have 80 days starting now! #osr #tttpg #blog

DQ&D is a game about getting into a knife fight and having everyone walk away unhappy. For fragmentary blog post #2 i'm telling you how to run those fights, which are secretly negotiations. thegardenbelow.blot.im/dq-d-design-...

Genocide is a policy, carried out by the hands of many, tolerated by many more.

We're slowly getting somewhere with the MD+CSS to PDF editor

economic sabotage is their great success

AI is like every other extractive technology: built on the proletariat of the neocolonial economies of the global South. Do not look away. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

With the blessing of @chrispwolf.bsky.social I've started a reboot of his classic session report series Thursdays in Thracia! Stay tuned as we work our way through the module and I share my prep and thoughts on the classic dungeon and running a megadungeon in Shadowdark.

a mechanic out of context -- is the Mothership d100 under-designed? should GM advice be rules? Is this just a gap between cultures of play? edmocat.bearblog.dev/a-mechanic-o...

Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!

New post on what I'm calling Pack A Knapsack (PAK) for GMs to use at any table. Running a campaign is about more than tools and tables. theplayreports.com/posts/pack-a... #blog #ttrpg

New from me - Epstein continued attending dinners alongside the likes of Musk, Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin after his sentence for child sex offenses www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What do you do when the ship arrives in port? More work! www.bastionland.com/2026/02/dock...

I'm joining the newsletter game. Don't ask me why! I'm not sure either. I just want to help more good blogs get found elmc.at/catmail-1/

So, I bought this broken down, split spine, board separated, sorry state AD&D 1e Monster Manual. The idea is that I'm going to colour my way through it. A bit of meditative self time. Call it sacrilege, but I figure this book can have a second life, albeit under my amateur hand. :O) #OSR

I'm joining the newsletter game. Don't ask me why! I'm not sure either. I just want to help more good blogs get found elmc.at/catmail-1/

Still down in the mines of my spaceship-nomad megastructure domain game - but almost done! Soon it'll just be fitting the rules together... and then going back to the hundreds of hexes to key... hm. maybe not that "almost", actually.