Category: Link Sharing

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Top 10 Early OSR Blogs, Now Defunct [Monsters and Manuals]
• Combat As a Contest in Table-Top Role-Playing Games [Tom Van Winkle’s Return to Gaming]
• Magic Is Horrible – Is There a Better Way [The Troll Dens]
• There Is No Light [Illusory Sensorium]
• A Lair to Call Home [The Renaissance Woodsman]
• Fairies Are Snails with Wings [VDonnut Valley]
• Don’t Roll Your Hit Points Until You’re Hurt [The Mule Abides]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Dirt Simple Magic Resistence [The Manse]
• Migratory Stasis [Spriggan’s Den]
• Discourse on Defense [Gelatinous Icosahedron]
• A Brief History of Armour [Art of Chainmail]
• Avoid the Balance [alch3mist nocturn3]
• D&D Firearms Damage: Conversion Musings [Gaming Ballistic]
• Empire of the Petal Throne style damage [Semper Initiativus Unum]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• 10 Elements for a Realistic Postapocalypse [Chaos Magick-User]
• Cosmology and the Chain of Limits: Higher & Lower Realms [The Manse]
• Hubris as the Cost of Magic [Swashbuckling Planets]
• Avoiding Inapt Discussion in RPGs [Trilemma Adventures]
• D&D micro-settings [The Dragon’s Flagon]
• Dirt Simple Magic Resistence [The Manse]
• Migratory Stasis [Spriggan’s Den]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• How players react to difficult combat, and Death as a Last Resort [Coven of One]
• Your Landholding PCs Should Not Have a Good Idea of How Much Land They Own [The Retired Adventurer]
• Xingyi And The Myth of The Defensive Martial Art [Martial Development]
• Spirit Masters [If Our Lives Be Short, Let Our Fame Be Great]
• What Is Interesting About Basic Dungeoneering, and What is Not [I Cast Light!]
• The Worst Idea in RPG History [Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog]
• The Basis of the Game is Making Decisions [The Retired Adventurer]
• Wizard Libraries [Coins and Scrolls]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Gary Gygax’s Dungeon Building Spells (and the Ones He Should Have Made) [DMDavid]
• 1d6 Insidious Traps Your Players Will See Coming but Walk Into Anyway [The Adventuring Day]
• Checking for Traps is Bullshit [Papers & Pencils]
• How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and Clients [A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry]
• Abstract Combat [GROGNARDIA]
• Gods and their servants [Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet]
• Do it badly (or poorly or whatever) [DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER]
• On Rules-lite or Rules light [alch3mist nocturn3]
• Six Ways to Make Fantasy Travel More Interesting [Mythcreants]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• AD&D 1e: Abstractions work [The Viking Hat GM]
• Differentiating Spellcasters: Spell Orbs, Elven Mind-Palaces, and more [Homebrew Homunculus]
• Helmets + Heroic Aura: Rearranging Armor Class [alch3mist nocturn3]
• Friday Encounter: The Magnificent Party [Tales of the Lunar Lands]
• Homeric Combat [Swashbuckling Planets]
• Dungeons and Idolatry [Aeons & Augauries]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• The Domain Game, part 1: Getting Players to Buy Into the Idea [The Ongoing Campaign]
• Bad Apples in Classes – Cleric(s) [VDonnut Valley]
• A few more necromantic items [The OSR Library]
• Mechanical Cueing [Deeper in the Game]
• Elves from the Moon and Homophobe Fathers [Eye Ray of the Beholder]
• Aliens and Alien Design [Coins and Scrolls]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• 25 Takes on Record of Lodoss War for DMs [Demogorgon]
• BX House Rule: Scroll Production [Save vs. Dragon]
• Armour Class or Damage Resistance [Ominosity]
• Privilege & Power: Using Nobility in Your World-Building and Plots [Role Playing Tips for Tabletop Game Masters]
• Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting [Library of Attnam]
• Decisive Combat [DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER]
• Cowboys and Conquistadors: Looking for New Models of the Adventurer [Dreams and Fevers]
• Armies, Mobs, and Peoples [Book and Sword]
• Designing Dilemmas for Dungeon & Dragons [Grumpy Wizard]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• A simple Battle-grid combat [An Old Playful Fox]
• Experimental Dirt Simple Light Levels [The Manse]
• Can you do gritty realism with D&D 5E? A DM’s confession. [Lord Matteus’ Ancient Tomes and Wondrous Items]
• Cut and Thrust [Fabled Lands]
• A Philosophical Typology of Elves [Monsters and Manuals]
• Vancian Memory Palaces [Liche’s Libram]
• Sandbox Detour [Methods & Madness]
• Game Masters, Make Sure The Villains Aren’t Just Sitting Around Waiting [Improved Initiative]
• Active Shields [Simultaneous Initiative]
• Alternate Clone Wars, Part 2 [System sans Setting]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• 8 House Rules To Spice Up Your 5th Edition D&D Games [High Level Games]
• Great Games: Black RPG Creators And Publishers [High Level Games]
• Coins in D&D and Found Advancement [Tom Van Winkle’s Return to Gaming]
• Fourth Edition Proved D&D Works Without Saving Throws, So Why Did They Come Back? [DMDavid]
• Fear, Perception and Tactics [Trilemma Adventures]
• Dragons are Weaklings [The Seven Deadly Dungeons]
• Books and Balors not Money and Mummy Lords [The Renaissance Woodsman]
• Mancy, or, Why Divination is Cool, Mechanics for it [The Marquisat]
• On not having a skill system [Against The Wicked City]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Group Initiative and Spell Declaration [Spriggan’s Den]
• Incentivizing [B/X BLACKRAZOR]
• Speculation on the Wargames biggest influence on D&D [Advanced Gaming & Theory]
• Metaphysical Flames [Profane Ape]
• 25 Dungeon Delving Tips [Creighton Broadhurst]
• How Difficulty Class and the D20 engine ruined roleplaying [The Setting to End All Settings]
• “10 Good Hits” An Alternate Hit Point System To Control Combat Pacing And Drama [Gnome Stew]
• Actualizing Violence in D&D [Traverse Fantasy]
• Dragons, Dwarves, and the Treasure Ecosystem [Augury Ignored]
• What’s A Wounded Wraith Look Like? [B/X BLACKRAZOR]
• Monsters don’t have to stay in their rooms. [Aeons & Augauries]
• Magic Travel [Anna B. Meyer]
• Group Downtime Activities: Remembering the Dead [Mazirian’s Garden]
• The Monster Kills XP Economy [Monsters and Manuals]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Random thoughts: Incremental “Draining” Damage [Leicester’s Ramble]
• Motivation and Bonds [Wayspell]
• Making the World Dangerous and Mysterious [Raven Crowking’s Nest]
• Meet the new boss: some thoughts on domain-level play [Against The Wicked City]
• 20 Questions About Magic In Your Milieu [Grumpy Wizard]
• D20 Things That Might Go Wrong If You Have Too Many Hirelings [Archons March On]
• Adventurers, Heroes, and the Endgame for high level PCs [Spriggan’s Den]
• Black science [Late Night Zen]
• Impossible Situations are Great [RJD20]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Some thoughts on law in fantasy settings [Sword of Mass Destruction]
• Spontaneity & The Magical Arts [Faerie Tales & Folklore]
• Fantasy F*ckin’ Vietnam [Hill Cantons]
• Theater of the mind IS minis IS immersive [Darkworm Colt]
• Winning Fame [If Our Lives Be Short, Let Our Fame Be Great]
• Charm, Sleep, Fear, Confusion [alch3mist nocturn3]
• Fight like an Archmage: lessons from Threshold of Evil [Dungeon Fantastic]
• Ally, Enemy, Resource, and Opportunist: The four major NPC Roles (Part 1) [Campaign Mastery]
• Cult from Diablo 3 [Demogorgon]
• Magic Disciplines [Don’t Worry I’ve Got A Sword]
• On the borderlands between the mundane and fantastic [Hexed Press]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• How to Have Great Exploration in D&D [D&D Duet]
• Benefit of Defined Strengths and Weaknesses in a Character [Reality Refracted]
• I Want to Talk About The Green Knight [A Knight at the Opera]
• A Campaign Where There is One of Anything [Rise Up Comus]
• Death to Agency [Medium]
• Not All Rewards Must Glitter [Creighton Broadhurst]
• Medieval Horses, Part 2 [A Writer’s Perspective]
• Strength of Weak Magic [Mailanka’s Musings]
• Poetic Armor [Banshee Arts]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Enter the Dungeonverse [The Renaissance Woodsman]
• Bad Apples in Classes: Cleric(s) [VDonnut Valley]
• Reactions [Valinard’s Tower]
• Alignment is Allegiance [Trilemma Adventures]
• Building A Better Cult [Augury Ignored]
• Fatigue Checks: A Proposal [The Retired Adventurer]
• How a Real Archmage Fights: Threshold of Evil and D&D’s Most Underrated Wizard [3 Wise DMs]
• Beyond Hirelings, Sub-questors for Pyramid Questing [Seed of Worlds]
• Everybody / Nobody is Wizards [The Wandering Gamist]
• Paean to Vance [Stuffed Crocodile]
• Choosing Fighter means choosing Violence [Gorgon Bones]
• D&D isn’t fun enough (or: Enthusiastic Skeleton Boys) [Enthusiastic Skeleton Boys]
• Burden of Adventuring [Applied Phantasticality]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Ability Score Improvements have been a terrible addition to D&D [The Setting to End All Settings]
• Favors in the Dark [The Walking Mind]
• Break the Rules with Magic Items [RJD20]
• Combat as Sport vs Combat as War [Demogorgon]
• How old school D&D gets magic (mostly) right [The Dragon’s Flagon]
• Encumbrance: Shifting the Burden [Periapt Games Design Blog]
• Attribute Scores as Hit Points [Eighth Eye]
• Describe, Listen, Judge: a Comprehensive Gamemaster Framework [Bringing Fire]
• Dawn of New Thaumaturgy: a few disordered thoughts on writing magic, starting from a detour on magic swords [Lost Pages]
• Forests in Roleplaying Games [Trollish Delver]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Simplifying 5e AC [Traverse Fantasy]
• A 5e-Inspired Weapon vs AC Table [Blood of Prokopius]
• Alternatives to Spell Lists [Sycarion Diversions]
• Randomly Generated Constant Damage [Traverse Fantasy]
• Care and Feeding of Hirelings [Back in the Labyrinth]
• Conflict: environment [The Viking Hat GM]
• Stacked Oppression in Shadowrun [POCGamer]
• Degree of Success as Damage [Necropraxis]
• Medieval Cappadocian dungeon design! [Eldritch Fields]
• Encounter Ramp Goes Both Ways [Roleplay Geek]
• 10 OSR Lessons from Darkest Dungeon (part 1) [Methods & Madness]
• Four Interesting Reward Types in D&D [RJD20]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• Everyone is a Cleric [1d30]
• ACKS Estates – Nobility [The Wandering Gamist]
• Action [B/X BLACKRAZOR]
• Way Shrines and Holy Sites as “Civilization” [Welcome to the Deathtrap]
• Finding Good Wood [Eighth Eye]
• An Enchanter’s Guide to Changing Your Mind [Profane Ape]
• Domain-Play Lessons from … Shadow of War? [Gundobad Games]
• 5e’s bounded accuracy is not bounded enough [Blog of Holding]

This is the collection of RPG links I have shared on my Mastodon account over the past week.

• The Tragic, Forgotten History of Zombies [The Atlantic]
• d6 degrees of success with anything [Periapt Games Design Blog]
• “How is there a village witch?” Or, States Should Be Hoarding Magical Power: A Problem for World-Building [Periapt Games Design Blog]
• Brilliance of unrealistic hit points [DMDavid]
• A forgotten 0D&D Rule for Fighters [Hall of the Grymlorde]
• Exploring by Torchlight [Detect Magic]
• How To Play A Cleric [The Tao of D&D]
• Truth About Magic-Users [Doomslakers!]