My first RPG pub is for sale now! just in time for #ZineMonth 130 even-level Feats. 135 Quirks. Grounded options for Shadowdark that give characters texture and teeth. May your PCs be unique before they die. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

also updated the bloggies starterpack

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

If you want to catch up on all the best #ttrpg or #osr blog posts from 2025, get thee hence to the link below and start reading! Every single post is a gem. All killer, no filler and congrats to my fellow nominees

The Bloggies Nominees are here! We are 1 week away from voting, so I need everyone's help spreading the word. Congrats to all the nominees and blogs submitted—this last year was incredible. Forming the lists was equal parts rewarding and painful. www.explorersdesign.com/this-years-b...

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

Continuing to work through the implications of this deep dive the other week. In this one, I posit a framework for managing the reputation of a state entity or other powerful patron. #osr #ttrpg tbr.bearblog.dev/a-reputation...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes some ways I like to spice up pointcrawls! magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/02/basi...

I spent a lot of time thinking about mental models and GMing. One of the underlying models I use is what I call a narrative framework. www.thenovelgamemaster.com/2026/02/narr...

Shoutouts to @prismaticwasteland.com for hosting the bandwagon, @amandalee.bsky.social for making the map, and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social for Eco Mofos. I love being part of this little community of weirdos making stuff for each other.

Childhood Appendix N thoughts - geographic constriction, lack of access to old stuff and just less new stuff in general meant there was a more common set of shared references when & where I started seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2026/02/chil... #ttrpg #dnd #osr

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

Hopping on the @prismaticwasteland.com bandwagon, since I just-so-happened to be working on this post when folks were invited to talk about maps. Here's the latest dev log for The One with the Horses, for 2d6 Sci-fi and Mothership! #ttrpg #osr theweepingstag.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/b...

The whole world is mausritter weapons for those with eyes to see them

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...

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

I wrote about three times as much of Yazeba's as the other contractors combined, and have another title through PCG that SJG renegotiated — so my stake and losses are actually significantly greater than anyone Rascal quoted. Neither the other contractors nor Rascal ever reached out to me.

I made a mysterious map for everyone, please figure out what is going on here I have no idea! (thanks @prismaticwasteland.com & all of you on the blog bandwagon I have been reading the entries for awhile & it is so great for finding new blogs to follow) #ttrpg #osr #blog

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-...

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.

I tried to wrap my head around the #AD&D domain game. How does it work? Is it worth using? What ideas can you steal for your next D&D-like game, & which should you leave in 1979? Plus, what does a character's inhabited domain eventually look like, & how big are those peasant uprisings exactly? #OSR

This advice on how to restock your megadungeon (say, for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM) is great! If I had one piece of advice more, it's this: save your old content. I have a doc that's just previously-used Meatgrinder entries. After a year, what is old will be new again.

Encounter Table as Ecology - very cool blogpost on a brand-new blog. It's awesome to see an actual ecologist extending the ideas from my Write Encounters as Networks blogpost! #osr #ttrpg monstrouscompany.bearblog.dev/trophic-enco...

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/

In celebration of the imminent Blades ‘68 campaign, I thought I’d talk a bit about its graphic design. BUT FIRST let’s compare and contrast with the graphic design of Blades in the Dark, a landmark in the history of RPG layout. Type nerdery ahoy 🧐

Put on your plumbob and strap on your bolter ~ Today I'm briefly talking about visions of a skirmish that centers around temperamental scrimblos rather than fully controlled pawns: www.failforward.moe/2026/02/micr...

It arrived! It's still so unreal for me.

The Bloggies 2026 submissions are officially closed. Get ready for the nominations next Monday. You can get the full schedule and submissions breakdown here: www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-sub...

One of the most amazing things about OSR blogging culture is how many times I read a keystone post from 2008 and then check when the author last posted something to the blog and it's like a few hours ago.

Did I forget to write and publish The Explorateur while working on The Bloggies? *Jonathan Frakes Voice:* "Not this time." A treasure trove of links for rpg designers by rpg designers 👇 www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

Pirates of the Caribbean needs a prequel trilogy that explains the rise of the British empire. I want to know more about this fantasy world!

Unleashing my new KS tomorrow! #shadowdark #zines #zinequest #zimo #ttrpgs #OSR #NSR

Toucan’t Blog: Where Does Mausritter Exist? Brad Kerr famously doesn’t read blogs, so I feel safe quoting him out of context and starting some lighthearted beef

There are folk who see new tech, settings or procedures and say, “No thanks, too silly. I’m pretending to be an elf here - this is serious business.” To them I say, “Pah!” In this blogpost, I present House of Cards Encounter Tracking. bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/a-gimmick/ #blog #ttrpg #osr

No more rolling for random weather. Your calendar and the weather are one and the same. In this blogpost I present a full year of weather, with simple mechanical effects for #osr games. I particularly like the water drinking rule for the month of Scorch. foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/01/cale...

Inspired by @elmc.at's post this week, I wrote up my own framework for how to handle knowledge questions in RPGs - table46.bearblog.dev/knowledge-ge... #nsr #osr #posr #rpg

Dredge Quick and Drown is a project written as a joke attempt at recreating the OSR from first principles. It has unsprisingly failed to do that but I'm very happy with whats come out of it. Enjoy Design Diary #1: covering stats, checks, skills. and equipment. thegardenbelow.blot.im/dq-d-design-...

Toucant Blog: a Rich Man’s Game toucant.bearblog.dev/nine-to-five... This post began as a silly pitch for a dice resolution system, but over the past few days turned into an exploration of using core mechanics to inform a TTRPG setting #GameDesign #ElfGame #OSR #TTRPG

Its alive! And coming soon…

A very silly conversation this morning put a brain worm in my head, so I'm making it your problem. tbr.bearblog.dev/ballroom-bli...

New Blogpost: Speedily write encounter tables by making a simple food chain network. bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/write-encoun... #osr #ttrpg #blog

I ran Beam Saber as my first new game of 2026! It was interesting to see what the system does well compared to other mecha rpgs. Full review here: www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2026/01...

In my latest blog post, I give thee A Tactile Technique for Tracking Time in TTRPGs! Do with it as you will ⏰ (It can also track other stuff; I talk about it in the post) #osr #ttrpg

The Bloggies nominations are coming to a close, so it’s time to make sure you got all your favourite blog posts submitted!

Inspired by brilliant card fanatic @69dinguses.bsky.social, how about the Dungeon Deck: darker reactions as you go down… dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/01/hung...

Nevermind y'all, I did it myself. blog.catshavenolord.page/flying-things/ #TTRPG #OSR

Couldn't let Velocitree have all the fun, here's a remix of their post using a deck of cards tbr.bearblog.dev/overloaded-r...

In my latest blog post, I give thee A Tactile Technique for Tracking Time in TTRPGs! Do with it as you will ⏰ (It can also track other stuff; I talk about it in the post) #osr #ttrpg

Total//Effect - the SRD for the upcoming NULL_SPACE - has been updated to v2! 🧵 binarystar.games/total-effect