b/w analogue photo of a shopping estate at night. the paint is peeling, and only one unit is lit.
big update to violence. shooting is better. melee is better. cleaned up and split up. expect a bunch more violence shit in june '26.
lukegearing.blot.im/violence
Those are best fire emblems!!!!
New month, new newsletter. Talking about why I didn't blog this month haha
Also including a ton of links to posts I found interesting!
elmc.at/catmail-2/
The playtest for Dredge Quick and Drown is live, for free, on my itch! Its a game sort of like if you took the Southern Reach Trilogy and set it on the edge of Ankh Morpork. Its also about the only part of Dark Souls that matters: the poison swamps.
juniper-h-lark.itch.io/dredge-quick...
New month, new newsletter. Talking about why I didn't blog this month haha
Also including a ton of links to posts I found interesting!
elmc.at/catmail-2/
Started thinking about player improv and what the hell that means!
theplayreports.com/posts/player...
#ttrpg #blog #improv #play
Good time to remember Mandela started uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC’s paramilitary wing, which destroyed apartheid ZA’s nuclear and energy infrastructure, made guerrila attacks against police stations and fought liberation campaigns in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola. Pretty sure this is not what they want.
The NSA has a long history of word games, and it woukd be best to understand them before taking reassurances at face value. From 2013. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
A short and very busy month on the road means this month's Explorateur is light. I mean, it's still a mace to face with design links, but it's not the usual two-hander.
I'm doing this new thing with the intro where I share three design/creative/craft ideas.
www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...
By the Israeli's own admission, recent negotiations were a ruse and there was never interest in a deal. Iran, per Oman, was willing to swear off enriched uranium stockpiling, which is essentially what America wants.
The point of the war is to wage war.
I had one more Pokemon post in me: Today I took a look at the implied setting of Kanto and what we can learn from it for our settings #osr #pokemon #ttrpgs
piklizdungeon.blogspot.com/2026/03/talk...
How does this pamphlet adventure squeeze so much juice from so little orange?
Today on the blog I review SWAMP WORLD.
#ttrpg #osr #blog
Have you blogged today? You should blog today!
Make sure to link to other posts as well! Your inspirations, and posts you disagree with. Keep the conversation going. Or just posts you enjoyed.
Every post and every link will last infinitely longer than any skeet, reddit comment or discord message
I WON LET’S GOOOOO!! 🎉
Have you blogged today? You should blog today!
Make sure to link to other posts as well! Your inspirations, and posts you disagree with. Keep the conversation going. Or just posts you enjoyed.
Every post and every link will last infinitely longer than any skeet, reddit comment or discord message
The ENTIRE🥇Designing Dungeons Course🥇is available on the podcast.
And it sounds GREAT - thanks to the dulcet tones of our reader Jon @3d6downtheline.com
Designing Dungeons (dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games) won a gold 🥇and the Middle-earth Hexcrawl (riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/12/midd...) won silver 🥈 for best series!
Thanks to everyone who voted for me!!!
I'd like to say it won't go to my head, but unfortunately it will.
This is the second update of the year and here is how the map looks like for 2026 only.
February Blog Graph Update:
- Added few more blogs I've missed.
- Fixed an issue with Medium blogs where every link to any medium page would be counted as a link to that blog.
- itch blogs are now included as well!
graph.elmc.at
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
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/02/poke...
Only votes written on paper and mailed to the bloggies hq will be accepted. I'm sorry
wait what nobody mentioned writing an app was on the job description
*accepted lmao
The blogmap won best post! Thanks to everyone who voted for me! Much appreciated!
I have excepted my reward (burden) to host the next Bloggies in 2027! What could go wrong haha
In case anyone missed it, a ton of folks (myself included!) got together to provide 121 (!) audio versions of blog posts:
podcast.bloggies.org/@WeReadTheBl...
system agnostic supplement called rule zero that's just a piece of paper giving you permission to change the rules of whatever game yr currently playing
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.
who's that hahaha
Today's the last day to vote in this year's Bloggies! Voting closes Friday at 7:00 AM EST.
Ballot: forms.gle/oWyc19sKXkod...
Want more Bloggies? Elmcat's got a whole archive for you. 👇
