Why do players struggle to leave the dungeon and start the real game? #osr #blogpost

theweepingstag.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/l... Here's everything I learned from the past 18 months of kicking my own ass to draw better!

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Recently I've taken part in a bunch of discord live text games and each has reminded me in in some way of my larp experiences. This blog post is an attempt to explore those similarities, and see what lessons the LTRP scene can learn from its in person cousins. thegardenbelow.blot.im/setting/expe...

Your hexcrawl is too realistic. Why most travel procedures fail to be interesting, and how you can fix that. valerialoves.com/people-walk-...

new rootring feature for blog profiles in addition to the brick you can now add a banner: - 468x60px - png,jpg,gif,webp - yes it can be animated - everyone gets a autogenerated on by default - don't send my gigantic images if you are interested in updating yours reach out to me on discord or here

A reminder that it was the social democrats collaborating with the fascists who killed Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Setting Germany on the path to fascism.

new rootring feature for blog profiles in addition to the brick you can now add a banner: - 468x60px - png,jpg,gif,webp - yes it can be animated - everyone gets a autogenerated on by default - don't send my gigantic images if you are interested in updating yours reach out to me on discord or here

blogmap has been updated. forgot to do it yesterday 🙏 graph.elmc.at

!! BLOG POST TIME !! Combat can be a central part of a lot of games! Some people prefer the precise and balanced "Combat as Sport" where others yearn for the tactical infinity of "Combat as War." For me though? I seek out "Combat as Art"... www.failforward.moe/2026/06/comb...

Seven Part Pact is coming to kickstarter July 2026 ! it's a massive ambitious TTRPG about magic, masculinity, and power. here's what brennan lee mulligan has to say about it

The heatwave has made me combative and catty. Here's a rant. elmc.at/cultures-not...

Appx. N Jam 2026 by @dankdungeons.bsky.social and @jorphdan.bsky.social is starting next week! So I wrote something about the Appendix N and why TTRPG can be weirder. I wasn't expecting it to be a manifesto, but here we are 😂 afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/appendix-n-m...

elmcat with another banger. I'm hoping for more discussion on this topic in the coming months. Onboarding is very far from a solved problem in TTRPGs but there are plenty of game spaces where it is not. Time to take notes.

The heatwave has made me combative and catty. Here's a rant. elmc.at/cultures-not...

Crunch-focused folk want new supplements, to give them more subsystems they can theorycraft on but never use. Storygames folk want new systems, to give them more genres they will turn into girlfailure yuri comedies. OSR folk want new adventures, to give them more rooms they will never dare enter.

after months of planning and weeks of running, #BaselineDrift is over and I am starting to collect my thoughts on live text roleplay games yakamo.blot.im/baseline-dri...

blog post: a dubiously historical 2d6 combat maneuver system for #od&d, inspired by the "man-to-man" combat tables from Chainmail, and the Turn Undead ability! "What does my helmet do?" it stops you from getting smacked in the head. dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/06/od-c...

Why let a good controversy go to waste? An addendum to “An Illiterate Hobby”. rolltodoubt.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/p...

Sixty (60) guns (for shooting). behindthehelm.bearblog.dev/d60-guns/

BEHOLD THE ORRERY

https://luckroll.blogspot.com/2026/06/liberating-giant-cannon.html A breakdown of a recent battle in my Mythic Bastionland game.

Wanna put guns in your game? Beware of the terms and conditons. behindthehelm.bearblog.dev/a-brief-obse...

random blogwagon contribution. what can you do when you roll to write "one beautiful sentence"? elmc.at/a-world-that...

I'm collecting data on how weird we are. forms.gle/ric62Zm5gwKL...

Big News: Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard is officially back in print thanks to a publishing partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social! Cover art by @tonytranrpg.bsky.social plusoneexp.com/collections/...

New Blog Post — I've joined rootring by @elmc.at , a webring for TTRPG blogs www.chaoticwizard.com/blog/rootring/

monthly blogmap update graph.elmc.at

This sucks dude. Labeling a whole account for several weeks effectively feels like punishment for "posting out of line"

Some broader term searches were a bit slow. I just added a fix to make searches much faster (hopefully)

Now that the discourse has died down, and my birding has lessened, I want to talk about lists in rpgs. I like what both sides of the debate make. So, like everything else, "good" isn't about which side you choose but how you execute the idea. If you choose to use lists, use them well.

to my mind, the core of pbta is not "2d6+stat with mixed successes", it's the system of "when x trigger happens in the fiction, apply y specific mechanic". Codified, genre specific moves are its main innovation. If you think pbta is just 2d6+stat with varied levels of success, you missed the point

google search is broken? fear not! rootring now has a search engine that lets you look for posts and contents from blogs on rootring search.rootr.ing

Please join the rootring if you have a ttrpg blog I need to be able to type things into a bar and have Results that matter to whatever d20 list im writing

I used this search to lookup a blog post that I half remembered, and it worked! I have it lovingly bookmarked now and it's informing my current projects. Thanks @elmc.at !

google search is broken? fear not! rootring now has a search engine that lets you look for posts and contents from blogs on rootring search.rootr.ing

In a truly insane coincidence, I also recently subjected my elders to a #Mothership module! I could think of no better way to review a megadungeon than to let old people wander inside. It went well, because Roach Motel is good. valerialoves.com/my-dads-firs...

Today, I read Fatherfog, the first new RPG from Tuesday Knight Games in 8 years — and it's set in a strange world filled with fog, where you're guided by ropes and haunted by fairy-tales. Is it Fatherfog going to be the next Mothership? Find out! idlecartulary.com/2026/05/27/i...

Very very honored to win the "Best Writing" category ~ I was at work (cause we've been slammed all day) but it was still very hype and I managed to sneak away to get a celebratory bathroom selfie heheh

I wrote a tournament module for BETWEEN TWO CONS called "Weird Little Freaks" with art by @betterlegends.bsky.social. I think we have 9 sessions scheduled. This adventure is dumb as hell (nonderogatory). Zines for sale at the convention and afterwards.

hags.bearblog.dev/folks-of-the... The second in a series of B/X class reworks that follow in-universe rules.

blog post: 4 types of fruit which grow inside dungeons! dungeondoll.blogspot.com/2026/05/dung...

New issue of our collaborative indie ttrpg newsletter, Carouse, Carouse! just dropped! If you need something to read with your morning coffee we've got you covered www.carouse.blog/may-2026-fey...

GO FISH THE TTRPG - A One Page Ruleset Make sure you play it before anyone else so they all know how hip and cool you are because of it.

It's the ides of May and I'm back with another monthly newsletter, containing links to a thematically appropriate 46 blog posts I thought were good this month. table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-may... #nsr #osr #rpg

my new article, the three secrets of making games, is all about playing your game early, quickly, and enjoyably possumcreek.medium.com/the-three-se...

finally uploaded the most up to date version of my home game #cinco! blog: traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2026/05/cinc... itch: traversefantasy.itch.io/cinco i’m deciding to accept it being a living document with holes and all

doing some zine stuff today :3

New episode of my Mythic Bastionland solo actual play today: youtu.be/hDB_ay_Xm10 Plus some general rambling from me here: luckroll.blogspot.com/2026/05/new-... ✌️