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Wildendrem 2: Tears of the Beast "This is the best sort of DM PC," said the thief. I was taken aback a little by this, as I had never thought of Cluster Fumm as my PC. He was a tool to tr...

Playing weird Arthurian shit and it's going very well.
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Bathtub Review: Roach Motel Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…

This week in the Bathtub, get lost in an a cursed motel from which there is no escape…in space! In the latest from Norgad, Roach Motel! idlecartulary.com/2026/03/09/b...

Prepping PbP Diary 0: Knowing when to stop is knowing when to start Preparing for a Wolves Upon the Coast play-by-post game.

New blogpost! in which I share my thoughts on the prep-in-progress for the Wolves Upon the Coast game I hope to run.

personable.blog/prepping-pbp...

Still like how I drew a Black Mage w me hair a few months back. I should give her a drinking buddy one of these months 🍻

Elemental blessings for all this International Women’s Day ☀️

The Bloggies 2026 A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

Oh, you thought The Bloggies were over? The Bloggies haven't ended. They might never end.

Vote in the Bonus categories this week!

Ballot: forms.gle/d6YbnUqiuypv...
www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/

Designing Lore Blocks An alternative to stat blocks designed for The 1 HP Dragon.

It's been a couple years since Reach of the Roach God was published, and I'm still thinking about how it pulled off stat blocks without stats.

It's a load-bearing piece of tech that's criminally underused.

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Fish-Eaters of the Enlightened Empire (A Character Background for King of Kings) These Ichthyophagi subsist on what their name is derived from, — fish. Yet only a few of them fish out in the deep, for boats to do it wi...

Disappeared for two months now I'm back with a post over at Save vs. Worm: FISH-EATERS! a character background and some worldbuildy stuff for my late antique Iranian D&D setting. #OSR savevsworm.blogspot.com/2026/02/fish...

Prepping Plots, Part 3: Enter the Players So you've gone ahead and  sketched out a rough outline  of where you want your campaign to go. Now all that's left is the most important ing...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the high-octane third part of Prepping Plots! This time we talk about how to onboard players into the campaign, and some tricks for learning more about the heroes!

https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/02/prepping-plots-part-3-enter-players.html?m=1

NULL_SPACE by Binary Star Games Freelancing in the solar system of the 24th century

The final pamphlet job for NULL_SPACE is up! (This is the last week of itchfunding. Get in while you can.)

binary-star-games.itch.io/null-space

A Treasure Map Could Be Your Next Adventure Hook Let's do some quick dungeon math. According to the AD&D DMG, 4 in 20 (or 1 in 5) dungeon rooms contain treasure (three guarded by monsters a...

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

I've launched 4 (very) successful TTRPG crowdfunding campaigns in as many years. One like = one no-nonsense take on indie TTRPG crowdfunding.

Blood In The Margins by Chris Bissette Dark academia, wretched & alone

Blood In The Margins: Wretched & Alone about campus murder. You and your friends killed someone. Journal about the victim, the cover-up, your why. The investigators are closing in. Dark academia inspired by The Secret History and If We Were Villains.
https://loottheroom.itch.io/blood-in-the-margins

Blood In The Margins is 40% off for the next 48 hours and I'd very much like you to buy it

Hey tabletop gamers, if you bought or were considering buying this bundle but got overwhelmed by the number of games to sort through, have I got the spreadsheet for you!!

All 1,074 games tagged as "physical" sorted by play style, with language, engine, and genre notated to the best of my ability:

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

Into the Oddish is Heistfunding Now — Prismatic Wasteland Pre-Order a Pokémon tabletop roleplaying game parody of Into the Odd with Vileplume Mountain, a funhouse dungeon adventure.

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

24 hours left to grab Twisting Unseen, and help us reach the last stretch goal for @hodagrpg.bsky.social to illustrate the Cloud Empress conversion kit cover!

A Familiar Tower A new escape room adventure for Old-School Essentials. A polished puzzle box dungeon you’ll solve from the inside.

Last 24 hours for my escape room wizard tower A Familiar Tower! Hop on now if you want a puzzle dungeon inspired by Zelda and 80s fantasy. puzzledungeon.com/tower?ref=bsky

New interview episode of RTFM! @snaxwell.bsky.social and I talk to @prismaticwasteland.com about bootleg Pokemon and "heistfunding" a new game, Into the Oddish. open.spotify.com/episode/4wnX...

Taking the Highest Die (Make Dice Work For You #4) Make Dice Work For You is a series where I’ll regularly talk through a new way to use dice in your game. It came out of conversation surrounding What to randomise when you’re randomising, and what …

Continuing my little series on basic dice math, I talk about advantage and its variations: idlecartulary.com/2026/02/27/t...

Pokémon Is OSR — Prismatic Wasteland I elucidate the ways that the Pokémon games embody several principles of the OSR playstyle, which is maybe unsurprising when you consider the history of JRPGs.

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

Final day on this!

The Bloggies 2026 A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

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/

Thusdays in Thracia RELOADED Week 2 Caverns of Thracia Session 2 Recap and Notes

Just over a week late, here's my second post of Thursdays in Thracia RELOADED! Unfortunately our planned session for last night fell through due to work, a con, and some forgotten travel plans. Look for the next post in a week or

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Make Better Encounter Tables Pokemon is 30 years old this week! It's also probably the 28th or 27th anniversary of a girl in my class giving me a Valentine's...

Inspired by @prismaticwasteland.com & @throneofsalt.bsky.social I figured it's a great time to talk about Pokemon and encounter table design. #ttrpgs #osr

piklizdungeon.blogspot.com/2026/02/make...

As set forth in the ancient scrolls of blogging, I must meet @prismaticwasteland.com's post saying that X is OSR with a response claiming that it is not, in fact, OSR

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The Snack Fund Last week, there was some discussion on the Prismatic Waystation Discord of how high danger or lethality in OSR-inflected play combined with the ease with wh...

Microblog time! Why not speed your investment in a character by putting yourself on the line to buy snacks for the table if they bite the dust?

table46.bearblog.dev/the-snack-fu...

#rpg #osr #nsr #posr

Against Abstraction, Or, Tags Are A Mind Virus In which I argue for a radical diegesis against abstraction. 1 - Imagism Ezra Pound was a fascist monster. He was also one of the greatest poets of the ...

as the Founder of the National Centre for Tabletop Games, I cordially invite you to peruse the NCTG's beautiful, curated collection of Premium Blogs. There is one blog. this one.

nctgdotgov.bearblog.dev/against-abst...

I think this is a good post, but I disagree with the conclusion. While writing poetically is all well and good, tags are a great way to convey information quickly, just do it diegetically.

Full response in blog post:
personable.blog/defending-di...

d100 - Some More Specific Concealed or Secret Doors A nother Random Table Resource to assist Referees with those often-under-specified Secret Doors. Some Dungeon Maps neglect to describe the...

d100 - Some More Specific Concealed or Secret Doors
Detail for when a Dungeon Key is found to be Lacking
blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/02/d100...
#osr #randomtables #ttrpgs