The Bloggies have concluded for 2026! Congratulations to this year's winners. You can find the results (and a whole slew of awesome blog posts) here: www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/

Pokémon Is OSR. Yes, seriously #osr #ttrpg #pokemon

The accomplishment of "We Read the Bloggies" is incredible. In just a few weeks they produces nearly the same number of episodes as Blogs on Tape has in almost 9 years. Bravo to everyone involved, that's incredible.

Catch ‘Em All while you can! In commemoration of the 30th anniversary, I’m heistfunding a Poképocalyptic game based on Into the Odd. I call it INTO THE ODDISH! You can pre-order it now (until ???) #ttrpg #pokemon #osr

New blog post! In it, I talk about a settlement first way of building a sandbox, with the intention of visiting the same communities over and over. Check it out! www.mindstormpress.com/settlement-o...

I know, I know, I keep talking about the Bloggies. But I built an archive of all the past Bloggies Awards. If that's your kind of thing, take a look! You can also grab yearly OPML files of all nominees for your RSS reader. bloggies.org

See also @forlornencystment.bsky.social post about minimalist location sketches. This should be taught in public schools forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

I wrote about treasure maps as adventure hooks in AD&D. How likely are they to be found in dungeons? What monsters have them? To where & what do they lead? What does it take to claim the treasure they reveal, who else is after it, & to what lengths will they go to obtain it? #D&D #AD&D #OSR #blog

The second half of The Bloggies is happening. Check out this year's nominations for Best Debut Blog, Best Series, and Best Overall Post, then vote on your favorites! forms.gle/VNA674tbsW4m...

Voting for the Bloggies’ bonus categories is now open! My AD&D Series is nominated & I would love your support! The competition is crazy! & don’t forget to vote for Best Debut Blog.

Great brackets this year! Overall very happy with these results.

i was super inspired by @knightattheopera.bsky.social and @forlornencystment.bsky.social’s posts about mapping to incorporate similar dynamics into my pirate game and i felt the best way in my context was to make maps and mapping into a resource 🗺️ traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2026/02/stat...

It’s the final round of the blogger brackets (after this is best overall post, then bonus categories). These are all great matchups! Vote!

I wrote about player mapping in dungeons in AD&D, specifically about how the dungeon map enables expedited travel along mapped routes, allowing not only a quick escape from the dungeon to rest, but also a quick route back into the dungeon to continue exploration on subsequent delves. #D&D #AD&D #OSR

Vote for my analysis of Dungeon Module B1's room descriptions in the Critique category! & also vote for other posts in that category & the remaining categories. But especially vote for mine!

My condensed sandbox for Dungeon Module B3: Palace of the Silver Princess is featured in this newsletter as part of a fantastic selection of blog posts!

Reading and LISTENING to the bloggies! Favs so far: The 10 types of special rooms @traipsehex.bsky.social Writing rooms in pairs @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com WHY MEGADUNGEONS? @icastlight.bsky.social Dealing With NPCs Should Be Expensive and Irritating @forlornencystment.bsky.social

I wrote about underwater adventures in D&D. Aquatic environments have everything you need in a D&D game - dungeons & dragons (in turtle form). Why don't we go there more, & how might we change that? Did you know about The Deluge in the ancient past of AD&D's implied setting? I didn't! #AD&D #OSR

I recorded two of my posts for the WE READ THE BLOGGIES podcast. If you need to catch up on your blog posts before voting starts next week, this is a great way to do it!

The awesome @bommyknocker.bsky.social, @elmc.at, Grace of Choir of Fire @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social and many community members have organized a group recording effort of every Bloggies post as podcast episodes inspired by Blogs on Tape!https://podcast.bloggies.org/

The nominees for 2026's Bloggies have been announced! Voting begins in one week, so get caught up on any posts you may have missed ASAP! This humble blogger has two nominations - one in the Critique category & another in the Best Series Category. Links to both are below!

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...

Hijacking this strat today knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2026/02/navi...

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 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

Hey, my updated sandbox for Keep on the Borderlands appears here as well! Lots of great links to chew on in this (new!) newsletter.

My revised sandbox for Dungeon Module B2: The Keep on the Borderlands is featured here! Check it out if you haven't already, along with the other featured blogs.

A fun excerpt from the AD&D (2e!) PHB (one of those relatively rare little & easy to miss changes from 1e to 2e): Adventurers are sometimes summoned by the "monster summoning" spells. If you want to shake things up, have your player characters summoned to do battle on behalf of a wizard!

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...

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

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 2026 submissions are closing this Saturday night! Please submit your favorite blog posts, blog series, and newcomers on this year's official web page: www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/ (And please, share this far and wide 🙏)

The resistance against Gulluvian tyranny, monsters terrorizing the barony, deadly mountains & forest, & the hunt for My Lady's Heart & the werebear Aleigha take center stage in my biggest sandbox yet - a "condensed" version of the regional map from Dungeon Module B3: Palace of the Silver Princess.

What if I change Landmark, Hidden, Secret to use for character knowledge? idk! elmc.at/common-recal...

What do you do with vampires in your D&D-like games? I'm not a big fan of the tragic figure vampire like Strahd (though I love Coppola's version of Dracula oddly enough). I'm thinking more like, a random vampire found in a dungeon or in a wilderness lair, not a campaign baddie - what's their deal?

A blog post that is nearly 3 years in the making, one of my longest posts, and a treatise of dungeon design advice that is disguised as a review of an old module. Patreons get to see it about a month or two early #osr #ttrpg

🤔 What about PC backpacks as secondary objectives for monsters? Taking them off gives +1 to all d20 rolls, but will the walking brains of the Crystal Library walk off with them? icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/01/your...

I wrote a comparison of both versions of Dungeon Module B3: Palace of the Silver Princess - Jean Wells's original orange cover version & Tom Moldvay's revised green cover version. I give some reasons why you might run one over the other, then explain which version I prefer & why.

My daily Bloggies picks (19): If you like ad&d implied setting talk, @forlornencystment.bsky.social got you covered. this consolidated installment makes the case that cities are dangerous places for adventurers. highly recommend the whole series forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Tephrotic Nightmares is very cool. I wish I had any idea what the heck to do with it!

Someone broke into my car but didn’t steal anything, including the giant jar of assorted coinage in my back seat. There’s something to be said here about encumbrance but idk what it is.

I decided to start a newsletter tracking some of my favorite blog posts around the blogosphere and a few other gaming-related sundries. Here's the first issue - table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-jan... #blog #nsr #osr #posr

Finished! Peep the whole thread below 👇

Being attacked by AD&D mermen seems pretty frightening. I really need to run a wavecrawl or undersea campaign.

My AD&D series won a Carousie! Thanks to Patchwork Paladin & the entire Carouse team not only for the award but for providing the community with an expertly curated newsletter with very good taste!

Okay I'm going to flip through the green version of B3 & do a little comparison with the orange version. I won't be going as in-depth (i.e., room by room) with this one, but instead looking to identify big changes from one to the other. The thread on the orange version is below.

I was underwhelmed by the minimalist sandbox in B2: The Keep on the Borderlands, so I made my own:

Finished my readthrough of Dungeon Module b3: Palace of the Silver Princess. Peep the whole thread from the beginning here 👇

Mörk Borg is an okay system which works because it has one of the liveliest communities of creators. There's like hundreds of adventures to run for it & a lot of them are very fun. Unfortunately in addition to being popular it uses the color yellow, so it is also one of the most hated games around.

Along with reviews/critique, newsletter compilers (?) are the unsung heroes of the TTRPG blogosphere. Check out Clayton's great list of the best ones to follow!