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The Bloggies 2025

The Bloggies 2025 are coming. Nominations will begin in December and be followed by voting in early 2026. In the meantime, check out this draft of the next Bloggies' categories. You can find the previous years, their hosts, and winners in the section below.

Theory Category

Ideas, criticism, and analysis of systems, aesthetics, politics, and history of the scene.

Gameable Category

Ready-to-use rules, monsters, and scenarios for your next game session.

Advice Category

Procedures, tips, and methods for play, prep, or publishing within the scene.

Review Category

Reviews of roleplaying books, games, systems, content, adventures, and products.


The Bloggies Hall of Fame


The Bloggies 2024

The 3rd Annual Bloggies were hosted on Sachagoat.

Theory Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: The 1 HP Dragon from Explorers Design
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: In Praise of Legwork from Sam Sorensen
πŸ₯‰ Copper: Interesting Social Situations, or The Discourse Post from Rise Up Comus

Gameable Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: Overloading the Random Encounter Table, from Prismatic Wasteland
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: The Bell Curving Encounter Table, from Pointless Monument
πŸ₯‰ Copper: A Person Shaped Hole, from Mindstorm Press

Advice Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: On People-Centered Adventure Design, from Weird Wonder
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: Setting up an OSR Sandbox, from Roll to Doubt
πŸ₯‰ Copper: Monster Checklist, from Goblin Punch

Review Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: Deep Dive: Stonetop, from Indie Game Reading Club
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: The loss we gain from a Thousand Year Old Campfire, from Hendrik ten Napel
πŸ₯‰ Copper: The Sci-Fi Special Edition, from The Soloist

Debut Blog (Bonus Category)

πŸ₯‡ Gold: MURKMAIL
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: WOBBLEROCKET
πŸ₯‰ Copper: Among Cats and Books


The Bloggies 2023

The 2nd Annual Bloggies were hosted by Zedeck Siew.

Theory Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: OSR Rules Families from Traverse Fantasy
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: Critical GLOG: Base Resolution Mechanics from Goblin Punch
πŸ₯‰ Copper: Being a problem - Playable Orcs at the limits of humanity from Majestic Fly Whisk

Gameable Category

πŸ₯ˆ Silver: Pointcrawling Character Creation from Rise Up Comus
πŸ₯‰ Copper: Flux Space from Papers & Pencils

Advice Category

πŸ₯ˆ Silver: How to Handle Parley as an OSR DM from Goblin Punch
πŸ₯‰ Copper: RANSACKING THE ROOM from Mindstorm

Review Category

πŸ₯ˆ Silver: Plagiarism in Unconquered (2022) from Traverse Fantasy
πŸ₯‰ Copper: MICROBLOG: CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND TABLETOP GAMES from Fail Forward


The Bloggies 2022

The 1st ever Bloggies were hosted by Prismatic Wasteland.

Theory Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: D&D’s Obsession with Taxonomy from Zedeck Siew’s Writing Hours
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: Hexcrawls ARE pathcrawls from Permanent Cranial Damage
πŸ₯‰ Copper: Proceduralism from All Dead Generations

Gameable Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: Nested Monster Hit Dice from mindstorm
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: Getting Rid of Dogfights from Failure Tolerated
πŸ₯‰ Copper: GOBLINS GOBLINS GOBLINS from False Machine

Advice Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: Prep Tools, Not Adventures from Papers and Pencils
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: Hexcrawl Checklist: Part One from Prismatic Wasteland
πŸ₯‰ Copper (tie): My Process from Mazirian’s Garden
πŸ₯‰ Copper (tie): Adding Congruency to Anti Canon Worldbuilding from Mindstorm

Review Category

πŸ₯‡ Gold: Enough Dweeb Adventures from A Knight at the Opera
πŸ₯ˆ Silver: Folie a Deux - Holy Mountain Shaker from Bones of Contention
πŸ₯‰ Copper: Karth Taught me to Love Mothership from Technical Grimoire

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