NEW BLOG BANDWAGON During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore! #osr #rpg #hexmas

I dug through AD&D to find out: where are all the high-level NPCs? I talk about why it's an important question to ask & do some number crunching using an average AD&D city & some demographic figures I made up. It's better than nothing!

I'm joining Ryan over on The Weekly Scroll to talk about the dos and don'ts of self-promotion and marketing. Leave us some questions in the comments! And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.

So what's your job on the starship? www.bastionland.com/2025/11/life...

“OSR” stands for Old School Rococo

I conducted mini-interviews with seven new @mothership.bsky.social designers last week. Find them all here: 5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...

Of the different types of dungeon rooms, "Special" can be one of the hardest to write towards. This list of sub-categories of special rooms has great prompts! In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)

The fever dream of the future's future ~ The boiling pot that humanity let itself cook in ~ An opportunity ~ A sprint ~ A vision ~ A proof of life ~ This is your first look at Inheritors (officially PWYW on Itch~) sandroad.itch.io/proof-of-life

Heyy, I have a blog now!

Dreidels are the ideal d4. It’s frankly some type of antisemitism that we have to put up with those stupid little pyramids

A blogpost that I made out of pettiness. Gamemasters are Game Designers! afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...

New blogger alert!

meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... I've started a blog! My very first post is joining in the Hexmas Blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. (It is christmassy, in a catholic way, maybe not Rankin Bass-esque but it does have a headless cleric class to unlock, if you'll indulge me)

For the bloggers #osr

The mad lad is at it again

Blog Preview! Last Friday's Blogpost is finally done being edited (I say as if I'm not the one who was taking his time editing it) Patrons at the Dollar Tier or higher can give it a read early! Or Less Late, as the case happens to be. It's about Trains. www.patreon.com/posts/blog-p...

A Merry Hexmas to you all. Get to writing. www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/blogwag...

The problem with compiling a monthly curation of links and opportunities, is that sometimes someone announces something shortly after you press publish. @prismaticwasteland.com's Blog Bandwagon has been added to the jams section of this month's Explorateur. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

Already begun, the #hexmas has

NEW BLOG BANDWAGON During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore! #osr #rpg #hexmas

The Better Legends RPG Preference Matrix has been making the rounds in some parts, so I thought it would be a fun lense to use to discuss Play Style Preferences. I'd love to see where everyone else falls in the various categories. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/playstyle-pr...

Along with the game itself, I wrote a short retrospective on the Minimalist Jam itself and all of the lessons I learned. I had a great time, but I definitely think this was an ambitious game to write for a jam. www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...

Cooked up this harebrained idea while making holiday gifts! Curious if it's been done before. tbr.bearblog.dev/objects-as-r...

🎉 The Explorateur's Anniversary 🎉 My little community side project's still chugging along, and I'm happy to say, this month's issue's one of my favorites. Lots of great links, a new look, updated categories, and stats from last year's performance. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

New Carouse, Carouse! This time featuring, among other things, me writing about Over/Under, AI in games (not like that) from Patchwork Paladin, a review of Gorman's Larder by @giantrobottackler.bsky.social and a selection of blog posts, as always! www.carouse.blog/november-202...

Happy Halloween! In the mood for some Sci-Fi Horror? Wanna slot in some Ghostly encounter for an existing adventure? Then I have the thing for you! wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com/2025/10/runn... #ttrpg #scifi #rpg

I enjoy Halloween! I blog about it somewhat frequently so have eight (8) blogposts that are appropriately spooky for you to enjoy on this Hallows Eve. I shall collect them here for you #osr 1/8: Do the Monster Mashup! Combining different classic monsters to make new, weirder monsters

HAPPY HALLOWEEN and for halloween I'm doing back-to-back spooky-themed posts over on my D&D blog. This one is a lil minimalist adventure location themed around a veiny vampire squid in a half-flooded decrepit Edwardian manse #OSR savevsworm.blogspot.com/2025/10/half...

Happy Halloween! For this special occasion, I've posted a play report for first and second session of @zedecksiew.bsky.social's A Perfect Wife that I've run from September - October. Hope you folks enjoy reading it! afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/afraid-of-pl...

I enjoy Halloween! I blog about it somewhat frequently so have eight (8) blogposts that are appropriately spooky for you to enjoy on this Hallows Eve. I shall collect them here for you #osr 1/8: Do the Monster Mashup! Combining different classic monsters to make new, weirder monsters

Woops been inactive here for a while! But anyway, new post over on my D&D Blog! Undead in a fantastical late antique Iran-inspired setting, zombies and wights and wraiths oh my! #OSR savevsworm.blogspot.com/2025/10/shud...

Concept: chess with literally no rules changes but every piece has an elaborate backstory that the player must read before play begins. Sure, it’s easy to sacrifice a faceless nameless pawn, but not so easy when you know about their life story and everything that got them to this war

Spine is probably the best TTRPG I've read or played all year, and — unbelievably — it's a solo TTRPG. Find out how this remarkable piece of work changed me, even as I changed it! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/30/i...

A goal with my Middle-earth Hexcrawl project is to capture the feeling I first came to love in Zelda: the feeling of wandering around and falling into a hole and realizing Oh shit, there's a whole dungeon in here. This is one such adventure: a flux-space dungeon of a haunted hedge maze

Sharing a short post today to keep my blogging limber. It's mostly just for me. "Why do I need to add bleed again? And what the heck is this other thing called slug?" www.explorersdesign.com/what-is-blee...

For this year’s spooky season post, I dig up the background of Skeletons, how they’ve been historically depicted in media (including D&D) and my favorite way to include them in my games #osr #ttrpg

An unsophisticated collection of Special Rooms for your #osr #dungeons. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/10/thin...

I wrote about the weird "Establishing the Character" example from the AD&D PHB & the presumption that adventurers are strangers to the campaign play area with families back home:

The lay offs might be beginning at work, but I got that late review done. Kingdomites Brutal Frontier! Hassle @hodagrpg.bsky.social for it. Trust me, it's worth it. wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/10/king...

For this year’s spooky season post, I dig up the background of Skeletons, how they’ve been historically depicted in media (including D&D) and my favorite way to include them in my games #osr #ttrpg

Trying to shake the writing block, so I wrote up a tiny Mythic Bastionland hack: a quick Reputation roll I lifted from @samseer.bsky.social's Mothership house rule and tweaked slightly. elmc.at/glory-as-rep...

First of what I think will be many #over/under blogposts. This one is about how players have a lot more power than they may realize... theplayreports.com/posts/over-u...

ok here it is NEW BLOG POST! This is the first draft of a template for Sanic Hack prep that should make running the game's vibes easier! Or it won't, I'm not a Doctor. Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/themes... Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/10/them...

In proud blogging tradition, I'm going to fix the thief. Probably. Maybe. Check out the Scoundrel in this devlog for The Serket Hack. www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/10...

New on the blog: Overloading the Faction Relationship! Because we all know it's not what you know, it's WHO you know. gemroomgames.itch.io/the-gem-room...

My six-month His Majesty the Worm campaign just wrapped up: here's what happened, and my thoughts on the system.

Ryan over on @theweeklyscroll.com and I were talking about how some folks promote themselves like cheap door-to-door salesmen. As someone trained in branding, there's another way that's more rewarding and more fun. The approach I'm trying to get better at👇 www.explorersdesign.com/how-to-promo...

Hey folks, my laptop needs fan replacements, but I am currently having financial struggles. Need my device for some freelance work, so any help to get them repaired is appreciated. itch.io/s/162117/hel...

Now that AWS isn't being stupid: Devlog 1, in which the Developer begins to understand the extent of the work ahead of him. binarystar.games/posts/origin...

This week in the Bathtub, its Emergence! Does this funnel module concentrate all the fun into a tiny container, or does it leave you as lost and confused as a babe? Find out!! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/20/b...