» Big guns for big monsters (GLÅUGUST 2025 #1)
16/07/25 11:39 from Seed of Worlds

» Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: The Case for Pitcher Plant Dungeon Entrances
16/07/25 07:27 from Pointless Monument
Back in February, a call went out via Prismatic Wasteland for hole blogs: blogs about holes . This post is one that I’ve had in the back of my mind for a while, and it felt like a natural fit. Has this ever happened to you? Ahem, let me ...

» Berkblasters
16/07/25 03:57 from BASTIONLAND

» Y2k/25 Jul. 15- Elf Wizard
15/07/25 23:30 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Tessa Cowant Level Range:Veteran Stats:Powerful Alignment: Good Location: Treshet Woodlands Affiliation: Independent Adventurer Point of Interest: A wandering healer, adventurer and sage. She spends he days dispensing wisdom, justic...

» Resourciv: Revamping Peeps, Part II
15/07/25 12:53 from Traverse Fantasy

» Board Game Endings, Ranked
15/07/25 12:11 from A Knight at the Opera

» MAC Attack is Live
15/07/25 08:59 from BASTIONLAND

» For Your Consideration: ‘The Shrike’ for Best Longform Adventure
15/07/25 03:00 from VAULTS OF VAARN
It has come to my attention that voting is open for the 2025 ENnie Awards! The Shrike, my enormous infernal OSE adventure module, has made it to the final five in the ‘Adventure – Long’ category! I would like to humbly ...

» Y2k/25 Jul 14 Dwarf Sorceror
15/07/25 00:59 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Tera Aunpaurd Level Range:Experienced Stats:Powerful Alignment: Good Location: Taar Bon Herek (Petrified Forest) Affiliation: Independent Point of Interest: Uninterested in combat or offensive spells, her magic only manifests as hea...

» Hello Zedeck! I like your adventure Lorn Song of the Batchelor and want to slot it into my SEA fantasy setting. One small hangup is, I don’t have a name for the wider area. So you have a name for this? If not do you have some tips for creating a good name
14/07/25 23:34 from Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours
Names of places come difficult for me, too! I wrote Lorn Song as being suitable for slotting into any "peripheral" territory---ie: any region outside a metropole / imperial core. When I write places like this I tend to think in my mind t...

» victorian romance slush pile 2
14/07/25 21:11 from Spiceomancy

» Monsters, Metonymy, Metaphor
14/07/25 17:59 from Traverse Fantasy

» Shrines of the Lower Ossuary - New Dungeon for His Majesty the Worm
14/07/25 09:26 from Rise Up Comus

» Bathtub Review: Fever Swamp
14/07/25 06:09 from Playful Void
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 design. They’re stream of consciousness an...

» VAULTS OF VAARN 2E: ACTUAL PLAY (pt. 2)
14/07/25 05:30 from VAULTS OF VAARN
I am back on YouTube with a second episode of my VOV 2E Actual Play with the Weekly Scroll hosts and Chris P. Wolf! Although we suffered repeated technical issues we did get through a decent amount of play, with a larger scale fight agai...

» Shiny TTRPG links #233
14/07/25 03:32 from Seed of Worlds

» Y2k/25 Jul 13 Dwarf Sorceror
14/07/25 00:02 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Khaun Straungaurd Level Range:Experienced Stats:Balanced Alignment: Good Location: Mobile Affiliation: Independent Adventurer Point of Interest: She winters in the far south near the twin canyons, Argum and Trogum. She raised her fa...

» Y2k/25 Jul 12 Elf Monk
13/07/25 00:59 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:“Long Stride Fellow”/ “Longstrider” Level Range:Veteran Stats:Powerful Alignment: Neutral Location: Starless Cloister, Zastreh Mountains Affiliation: Starless Monastery Point of Interest: Gifted beyond measur...

» An Ennie Nomination!
12/07/25 17:49 from Playful Void
Hi, everyone! So Playful Void has been nominated for an Ennie this year. You probably know this is a pretty big deal, if you’re deep enough into the hobby to be reading this humble blog. I’m really proud to have been nominated, but of co...

» Mothership Campaign Framework: The Anti-Carousing Table
12/07/25 10:47 from Pointless Monument
I have many pamphlets but I must campaign: A Mothership table story Problem Statement Mothership one-shots are a lot of fun! (enough to make me write a blog post about running them ) …but certain game mechanics (stress, conditions, skill...

» ENNIES Friends of the Worm
12/07/25 08:56 from Rise Up Comus

» Zungeon Zunday: Council of Invisible Eagles
12/07/25 05:36 from Playful Void
In 2025 I’m reviewing zungeon zines. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques, just like Bathtub Reviews, but they’ll be a little briefer. The goal here is a little different: I want to spotlight what a craft-based, just-do...

» Improv To Warm Up A Table (RPG Blog Carnival)
12/07/25 03:25 from Seed of Worlds

» Y2k/25 Jul 11 Dwarf Wizard
12/07/25 00:58 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Straun Braunstewaun Level Range:Veteran Stats:Powerful Alignment: Good Location: The Therbauc Range Affiliation: The Arcsn Council of Baucreach Point of Interest: A senior Wizard and counselor in his Enclave of Dwarven Mages. Enjoys...

» Adventuring Companies and Patrons
11/07/25 17:18 from Roll to Doubt
Nothing complex here, just an observation. Adventure games of D&D ilk assume a wild west social organization, which means a capitalist social organization. The average D&D setting assumes (technologically, even) at least an Early...

» ENNIE nomination thank you!
11/07/25 12:37 from Rise Up Comus

» Activity Rhythm
11/07/25 11:57 from Traverse Fantasy

» Y2k/25 Jul 10 Human Rogue
11/07/25 00:59 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Bartholomew Vespers/ “The Seventh Blade” Level Range:Low Stats:Balanced Alignment: Neutral Location: Caber-Cabot, Seaport Metropolis Affiliation: The Espreth Banking Guild Point of Interest: Born as the scion of a wealth...

» The Monster Inside Me Has Grown This Large (GLOG Class: Wandering Monster)
10/07/25 22:35 from Spiceomancy

» Y2k/25 Jul 9 Half-Elf Bard
10/07/25 00:59 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Vaol Perleere Level Range: Experienced Stats:Balanced Alignment: Neutral Location: Mobile Affiliation: Independent Point of Interest: Grew up in an Actor’s caravan and started learned to play the mandolin (on a halfling sixed ...

» Naive Critiques of Social Media (2018)
09/07/25 14:03 from Traverse Fantasy

» Don’t wait to create, don’t wait to learn
09/07/25 05:49 from Playful Void
A prominent game designer recently said in a Dice Exploder thread, that breaking down design paradigms before you design games is self-limiting and unproductive. This was interpreted by many as “you don’t need to read or play a lot of ga...

» Actual Play - Yaksha's Hexfill Method (Part 1)
09/07/25 05:41 from Seed of Worlds

» Planesk8
09/07/25 03:41 from BASTIONLAND

» Y2k/25 Jul 8 Elf Paladin
09/07/25 00:59 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Kar’Kan’Anc Level Range: High Stats:Powerful Alignment: Good Location: Mobile Affiliation: The Elves of Pan’Bar’Vat Point of Interest: The legendary hero who came from humble beginnings as the son of a cobble...

» Broken Hearted
08/07/25 09:33 from A Knight at the Opera

» Midnight’s Garden, of Good & Evil – Glaugust 2025 (Killing with Sadness)
08/07/25 08:49 from Roll to Doubt
Helen Vaughan from The Great God Pan. Art by mgkellermeyer. The dwelling of Count Midnight is so full of color, of exotic dyes and vivid furniture, that all grayness befell his frail body and dull, insomniac eyes. He receives parties of ...

» Ennie Nomination and Other News
08/07/25 06:31 from VAULTS OF VAARN
Lots of exciting news this month at Vaults of Vaarn towers. Firstly, The Shrike, my enormous Hell-bound OSE adventure module, has been shortlisted for an ENNIE Award! This is a total surprise to me, but a nice one. I spent a lot of writi...

» I Read Daggerheart
08/07/25 05:44 from Playful Void
I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually a lot, so I don’t take these very serio...

» Y2k/25 Jul. 7 Half-Orc Cleric
08/07/25 00:59 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Mar-sul Mussuc/ “Marr” Level Range:Veteran Stats:Balanced Alignment: Good Location: The Sunbar Duneplains Affiliation: Church of The Gods Point of Interest: Marr loves traveling the realms, doing good in the name of the ...

» Bathtub Review: Cairn Adventure Anthology Vol. 1
07/07/25 05:53 from Playful Void
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 design. They’re stream of consciousness an...

» Shiny TTRPG links #232
07/07/25 03:52 from Seed of Worlds

» Y2k/25 Jul 6 Half Elf Sorceror
07/07/25 00:59 from No Foes, No Traps
Name:Pin Ohshi Level Range:Veteran Stats:Balanced Alignment: Good Location: Wexantar Region Affiliation: Independent Point of Interest: Has tattoos all over her body, done in ritualistic devotion to the “Generous Spirit”. She...

» Navigator "Gunsmith's Societies" (Lanthanide Horizon)
06/07/25 21:59 from Archon's Court

» Blessed Are The Peacemakers
06/07/25 10:35 from Traverse Fantasy

» d100 - Alliterative Alehouses & Tavern Traits
05/07/25 12:28 from d4 Caltrops

» Distinguishing mirror worlds with house-rules (Holes Bandwagon)
05/07/25 06:52 from Seed of Worlds

» Everybody OSR - An Unwanted Analogy
04/07/25 13:09 from Fail Forward

» MAC Attack - How to Play Video
04/07/25 04:24 from BASTIONLAND

» Seven-Part Pact: Authority
04/07/25 00:09 from A Knight at the Opera