Vote

The Bloggies Roll

Goblin Punch

Secret Santicorn 2025: Two Forges - The Forge of Yakul Yakul was obliterated, and his temples were sunk. Memories of the dead god were struck from the souls of men. A heavy punishment was ...
17 hours ago
Rise Up Comus

0501: Rankin/Bass Pro Shop - Hexmas Blog Bandwagon (BONUS) - *0501* *Southwest*: Valley of Eternal Cheer *South*: Snomes *Southeast*: Jinglebell Barrens *RANKIN/BASS PRO SHOP*: A pyramid of silver and gold. The s...
2 days ago
Explorers Design

The Jackian Magic System - Experimental mechanics that combine Mausritter inventory, Tetris, and engine-building into an alternative Vancian magic system.
3 days ago
Fail Forward

Poison Swamp - *Sunken plains of mire and rust.* *Filthy skies and sticking dust.* *Would that one could be of good cheer,* *But nay the poison swamp draws near.* (Ol...
3 days ago
Knight at the Opera

Archaeology: Dwarf Class for 5E - I had been playing RPGs for many years before I ever even considered getting into homebrew. Of course, I wasn't *against* homebrew. I routinely took homema...
3 days ago
Pointless Monument

Expanding Injury in Cairn (and elsewhere) - Exploring options for critical damage, scars and wounds across Cairn 2E (and other Odd-like ttrpgs). Cairn 2E is my second most Wardened system of 2025 (...
4 days ago
Traverse Fantasy

FAQ U: Plagiarism, Part II - There’s a professor at my partner’s graduate school who’s very eager to catch students in the act of academic dishonesty. The class is split up into smal...
6 days ago
Indie Game Reading Club

2025 Inbox at the Club - It will come as no surprise that a lot more games show up here at IGRC World HQ than we can possibly play. But they all get read! Given I greatly prefer to...
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Castle Claus: The Keep on the North Pole - A Merry Hexmas location: dungeoncrawl through Santa Claus’ castle. Whether you lead an elf and reindeer uprising is up to you!
1 week ago
False Machine

Count Belisarius by Robert Graves - An overwhelmingly sad book about the worlds most heroic dude. A study in ressentiment. Rome’s summer in the east, before its very slow descent, produces an...
1 week ago
Sam Sorensen

Sam’s Three-Question Taxonomy - When I sit down to read a new RPG book or play at a new RPG table, I’ve got three questions in mind. Basically all of my behavior at the table is downstr...
1 week ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

TO DRINK UP THE SEA - *Islands of Weirdhope*, the maritime expandalone to *ECO MOFOS!!*, by the fearsome pairing of David Blandy and Daniel Locke, is currently crowdfunding. ...
3 weeks ago
Weird Wonder

PAX Unplugged 2025 Recap - This past weekend I attended PAX Unplugged for the third time, a con that I highly recommend as it is a very fun mix of board games and roleplaying games...
4 weeks ago
Mindstorm

Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs - Location-based adventures have a lot going for them. They’re naturally quite atomic in scale, in that each “room” exists mostly on its own, and the GM ru...
5 weeks ago
All Dead Generations

Dungeon Design Note: Obstacles Support Exploration - Less Combat ... More Obstacles I’ve been talking about dungeon crawling as a play style here for years, and I’m not alone among RPG bloggers to do so. M...
5 weeks ago
The Soloist

🤖 Sci-Fi Special Issue 2025 - Notorious and Arathi Sector Previews, 9 Reader Recommendations, and more!
1 month ago
Roll to Doubt

The Sunsetters Agents – Retrospective on Delta Green - Havoc, our Handler for a Delta Green campaign (my first play report of it is here), is a passive-aggressive little bitch about the lack of play reports. He...
3 months ago
Was it Likely?

the neurological event of the decade!!!! - the absolute homie oldhawkeye unwisely encouraged me to moviepost so here are some movies you should see ive grouped them into categories so u know which on...
3 months ago
Hendrik Biweekly

Game mechanics as demands, refusals, requests, encouragements, discouragements and allowances - My brother texted me, and said: ‘Is it common in rpg discussions to look at rules as *affordances*?’ That might sound odd or surprising to you—or just pla...
4 months ago
Technical Grimoire

The One Ring TTRPG: Fear of Tolkien - This is a review of the One Ring TTRPG by Free League publishing. It is also a chronicle of my descent into Middle Earth and far longer than it needs to be...
5 months ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

tricks taught: risk, thought, and the Marxist (un)truth of myth in Sukumaland - *a matched pair of mabindas (Sukuma articulated dance figures) on a performance cord* “*For revolutionary consciousness is subjective consciousness...
7 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun! - Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the unfathoma...
8 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Oneironaut Launches! Downtime in Zyan is back in print! - There are two pieces of big news I want to shared with you. The first is that I have launched the first installment of my new physical zine for my Patreo...
9 months ago
Sachagoat

BLOGGIES 2024 Concludes! - The Bloggies 2024 have come to a close, and what an incredible celebration of TTRPG blogging it has been! A phenomenal range of talent, creativity, and p...
10 months ago
Bones of Contention

Folie à Trois: Trophy Gold - Below is a shared review of *Trophy Gold (2022)*, a fantasy adventure game designed by Jesse Ross and published by The Gauntlet. Although it is informed ...
2 years ago
Failure Tolerated

The First Line of Every Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - “ONCE UPON A TIME, long, long ago there was a little group known as the Castle and Crusade Society.” *– Dungeons & Dragons (1974), “Foreward” (sic)* “Pla...
3 years ago
Permanent Cranial Damage

Carrion - *Carrion is the endless city. Time began in* *Carrion, and in Carrion shall it end.* *When the world was new, the Hornèd* *Mother's child, the demiurge Cann...
7 years ago

Show All

Vote

Voting is closed.

The Bloggies Roll