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• NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU
  from Bare Nuckelavee · published 2026-08-20 · 8 min
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  There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get caught in an...
• Death of a Hobby
  from AMONG CATS AND BOOKS · published 2026-08-23 · 7 min
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  Fuck it.
• Write More Short Blog Posts: A Manifesto
  from Seraphim Seraphina · published 2026-09-01 · 1 min
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  Why? Because you wish you blogged more and you like citing yourself. Where? Your blog, or wherever else you want. I'm not picky. When? Whenever someone asks a question in a...
• It ain't blorb
  from AMONG CATS AND BOOKS · published 2026-08-28 · 2 min
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  No quantum ogres were harmed.
• On Named Horizons (a post for the naming bandwagon)
  from On Unnamed Horizons · published 2026-08-25 · 7 min
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  Who am I to deny not only a potential bandwagon, but the humble request of a respected contemporary to clarify my rambling? At 3 AM. On a Tuesday. When I have a meeting early...
• Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon
  from Afraid of Encounters · published 2026-08-17 · 2 min
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  A Blogwagon for Indonesian-related TTRPG stuff
• Wages of Sin Gave Me a Midlife Crisis
  from Valeria Loves · published 2026-08-13 · 10 min
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  Should I just run Mothership for the rest of my life?
• On Positivity
  from The Dododecahedron · published 2026-08-28 · 2 min
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  On making positive claims and contributions.
• Growing Edges and GMing Exercises
  from Sifting from the Stream of Knowledge · published 2026-08-28 · 18 min
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  Growing EdgesThere are a lot of different aspects of being a GM - a lot of different valuable skills: setting up a good adventure structure, fun and challenging encounter...
• blorb sucks and Nathe Principles
  from Press the Beast · published 2026-08-28 · 9 min
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  Recently, beloved blogger elmcat wrote a good post providing some clarifications about what blorb is through describing what it ain't. While I get that the blorb principles...
• Ocean D&D - Test Dive
  from Iron & Ink · published 2026-08-10 · 8 min
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  I was lucky enough to play in the inaugural test of Ocean D&D over on the Gay Beholder Discord. I've been following the development of this game for a while - intelligent sea...
• Three-sentence Hexes
  from Idraluna Archives · published 2026-09-04 · 7 min
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  Editing the Antarctic Adventure Anthology has precipitated many ideas about how to steer the future of the project. Earlier this year, I wrote a mild polemic against overly...
• Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon: An Indonesian Magic System
  from Afraid of Encounters · published 2026-09-03 · 7 min
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  Magic system based on Indonesian occult practice
• Joesky Wants To Tax Me But This Is Boston And It's 1773
  from Advantage on Arcana · published 2026-08-28 · 9 min
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  The Joesky tax pisses me off more than it should. But it only pisses me off more than it should. It should piss me off, and it should piss you off, too.
• No Stupid Names
  from Spiceomancy · published 2026-08-25 · 3 min
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  bandwagonFirst of all, throw out the common knowledge.False cognates are good. "Herpys" is an excellent elf name. Glancing at my list, I have "Odd" and "Snorri" on it; you best...
• Making a Name
  from Whose Measure God Could Not Take · published 2026-08-25 · 7 min
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   Sundered over on his blog asked to hear about others' methods for coming up with the names featured in their games, even being so kind as to call me one of the good...
• Thief Design & The Super Thief Class
  from Press the Beast · published 2026-08-10 · 18 min
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  Recently, I posted my thoughts on spell casting characters and shared what I intend as a solution for the specific bugbears I’ve had with these classes in my own games....
• Deathbringer's Satirical Commitment Issues
  from Danny Fist · published 2026-08-09 · 1 min
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  A thorough analysis of Deathbringer's failure to commit to the bit
• How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?
  from Valeria Loves · published 2026-09-06 · 7 min
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  A survey on campaign length and lethality
• Player Agency and Planning Autonomy
  from Lonely Star · published 2026-09-06 · 4 min
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  Musings on the differences between these two concepts.