Category: Link Sharing

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

• Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network [Phys.org]
• Conflict-forward factions [TRAIPSE]
• Charisma Does Not Create Trust [The Tao of D&D]
• Letters of Introduction [Thalian Musings]
• Neglected Secret to Making Dungeons Fun to Explore [DMDavid]
• You don’t hate exploration, you hate survival [Homebrew and Hacking]
• righteous punching for justice [hex culture]
• Food for Powder, Food for Worms [The Tao of D&D]
• Delvers’ [Throne of Salt]
• Dilemmas: Pick or Push [BASTIONLAND]
• Nymphs in your Area! [Traverse Fantasy]

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

• Level As Saving Throw [Necropraxis]
• The Dungeon of the Black [Questing Beast]
• Bloodstones and my dislike for health potions [The Colours of Pentagrams and Their Meanings]
• The Invisible Component of Medieval Armies: Squires [Defending the Crusader Kingdoms]
• Consider Giving Summoned Creatures, Spirits, Etc. The Full NPC Treatment [Improved Initiative]
• Some thoughts on Charisma [Ruprechts RPG Blog]
• Talking Statues: The Ultimate Quest Dealer [A Knight at the Opera]
• Keep Dungeons Weird! [The Hungry Dungeon Master]
• On The Ecology of Gold & Dragons [Permanent Cranial Damage]
• Rain and Visibility, Compasses [The Wandering Gamist]
• Streamlining bookkeeping for coins: Coin Bags [The Secret Game]
• The Dungeon’s Front Door [The Tao of D&D]

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

• A Book of Wands [The Hydra’s Grotto]
• What to do with treasure? [Gelatinous Icosahedron]
• D&D Introduction to Wandcraft, Part 1 [Bruce Heard]
• Designing Magic Items [Raven Crowking’s Nest]
• On Belief in RPGs [The Way of the Waysider]
• Non-physical swords [The Acorn Afloat]
• A few ways to hate armor rules [Pretendo Games]
• Reimagining Charisma [alch3mist nocturn3]
• Literary Archetypes and Encounter Design [Welcome to the Deathtrap]
• Xenia: The Reaction Roll and Hospitality [Melancholies and Mirth]
• Your OSR Setting is a Deathworld [Den of the Lizard King]
• Scary Combat Choreography [Detect Magic]
• Did I Just Solve Spell Points? [The Splintered Realm]

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

I have shared 300 RPG blogposts so far. Plenty more still in my personal archive.

• You Died. Would You Rather Not? [RPG Horizon]
• Beyond the Reach of Law [Beyond the Pale Gate]
• 5 Tips for Playing Better Fighters [Vocal Media]
• The Art of War in Dune [Weaver Skeptical]
• Under-rated item of adventuring equipage: oiled rag [Old Guard Gaming]
• Cleric Spells With NO Divine Intervention [Methods & Madness]

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

• Boring Swords and Interesting Swords [Playful Void]
• Bringing Back the Magic [Magician’s Manse]
• Creating monster behavior instead of monster abilities [The Luminescent Lich]
• Faith Practice of the Ancients [Melancholies and Mirth]
• D&D’s Obsession With Taxonomy [Zedeck Siew’s Writing Hours]
• Oath-breaker Paladins: The Problem with Character Advancement in D&D [Adventures Buffo]
• (Rant) Spell Categorization Complaints + The Seven Schools of Magic [The Manse]
• Firearms vs Armour in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance [The Fateful Force]
• Cost of Plate Armor in Modern Money [Armstreet]
• Character Motivation [Jackal Editing]
• Orthodoxy, Giants, and Elfland [The Wandering Gamist]
• Fallacy of the Adventurer’s Backpack [Creighton Broadhurst]
• Random Encounters with Military Units in a Feudal Japanese Setting [Monsters and Manuals]
• Sights and Sounds 1 [Dragons Never Forget]

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

• Making Daggers A Deadly Option [Graphite Prime]
• Onion Plots, An Alternative to Linear Narratives For Game Masters [Improved Initiative]
• The Dungeon of the Black [Questing Beast]
• Active Armour [Permanent Cranial Damage]
• Hitting armor in D&D + glancing blows [Methods & Madness]
• Was rolling d20+Mod for skill checks the worst “innovation” of D&D in the past 25 years? [What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse…]
• Another take on shields [An Old Playful Fox]
• Barons and wizards [Fabled Lands]
• Crafting Communities: Masons in Medieval London [Medievalists.net]
• Making Magic Items Stand Out [Welcome to the Deathtrap]
• Daughters, DMs & Henchmen [The Tao of D&D]
• Associates vs Parties [A Knight at the Opera]

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

• 53 DM tips, tricks and hacks to help you run a better game [Dawnfist Games]
• Why A Soldier Is A Rogue Not A Fighter [The Renaissance Woodsman]
• Bargaining at the Goblin Market [Patheos]
• Bring Out Yer Dead! [The Dododecahedron]
• Damn you! (Freeform Curse Magic) [The Manse]
• Character progression in games II: Appreciable, Qualitative and Distinctive – the DAQ criteria [Coppers and Boars]
• A Few Necromantic Items (OSR) [The OSR Library]
• Internal conflicts in OSR play [Playful Void]
• HP Cost for Magic? [Traverse Fantasy]
• Embedded Characters [The Wyrd Lands]

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

• Problem With Initiative [Aaron The Pedantic]
• Hit Me Baby One More Time [B/X BLACKRAZOR]
• The Fighter Across All Editions of TSR D&D [The Setting to End All Settings]
• Confessions of a realist [Against The Wicked City]
• How Many Peasants? [Bruce Heard]
• Shortform article: NPC wants [Periapt Games Design Blog]
• Four Tips to Drive Role Playing [Rise Up Comus]
• Feats and the OSR: “Mother, May I?” [Methods & Madness]
• How to make time mean something in your campaign [The Omnipotent Eye]
• Put Flourishes, Fairy Tales, and Folk Beliefs in Your Fantasy World [Periapt Games Design Blog]

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

• Contacting unnameable cosmic forces [Eldritch Fields]
• Castles, Fortified Houses and Family Homes – a Distinction Without a Difference [English Historical Fiction Authors]
• Diagetic advancement and inventory [Playful Void]
• Giving the Spear Its Due [Semper Initiativus Unum]
• Magic bags and the things inside them [Against The Wicked City]
• Converting HD to Hits-To-Kill [Traverse Fantasy]
• Schrödinger’s Orcs [ThinkDM]
• LESSONS FROM HELL: John Romero’s Level Design Rules for DOOM [I Cast Light!]
• Counting Sheep: A Surprising Campaign Idea [Campaign Mastery]
• Everyone is a Thief (a different approach to skills) [daimon games]
• Everybody is Thieves [The Wandering Gamist]
• Helm and Shield for the Unarmoured Old School Fighter (D&D adjacent) [Shuttered Room]
• Time, the Master Resource [The Dragon’s Flagon]

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

• Fighting skill: STR, DEX, both… or none? [Methods & Madness]
• Defining Bronze Age Settings (Aside From the Obvious) [Tankards & Broadswords]
• Addendum on Balance: Players Maketh Balance (or do they?) [The Disoriented Ranger]
• The good, the bad, and the ugly of B/X D&D [Gelatinous Icosahedron]
• Why Magic Shops Ruin the D&D Fantasy [Tribality]
• Players not engaging [Periapt Games Design Blog]
• Spell Casting in Melee [Machodor Sessions]
• Wordbuilding Through Social Connections [From the Sorcerer’s Skull]
• Giving Your Hero Agency When Things Go Wrong [Mythcreants]
• Realms, Warbands, and TTRPGs [Shadow & Fae]
• 3 Ways a Home Base in D&D Will Improve Your Campaign [RJD20]
• Building Strongholds, One wall at a time [Simultaneous Initiative]

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

• Magic Costs and Exclusivity [System sans Setting]
• Buff Magic [The Renaissance Woodsman]
• The Underground Maze or Primordial Stack [All Dead Generations]
• The Institutional Campaign and the Adventuring University [Monsters and Manuals]
• What Empowers A Curse and other dangerous questions [Campaign Mastery]
• Warding Evil and Welcoming Luck: Protective Amulets of the Ancient World [Ancient Origins]
• How to never describe a dungeon! [Old Skulling]
• Reading the Silmarillion [The Wild Hunt]

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

• Questgivers Are Evil [Papers & Pencils]
• Some Thoughts on Intrigue [Trilemma Adventures]
• Do your characters have appropriate talismans? [Thoul’s Paradise]
• Speeding up play by Delaying [Spriggan’s Den]
• How to Avoid Boring Rerolls of D&D’s Ability Checks [DMDavid]
• Cursed Items: Curse as Corruption [Remixes and Revelations]
• Exhaustion is Terrifying [Blessings of the Dice Gods]
• Less Bean-Counting, More Darkness: Improved Dungeon Exploration Stances [Gundobad Games]
• 25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters [Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds]
• How Ryuutama Challenged Me to Grow as a Game Master [Adventure Rules]
• You’re Doing Demons All Wrong [Goblin Punch]
• On the Origins of Magic Items [Tales of the Lunar Lands]
• OSRenstein: Curses [Nerdwerds]
• Three types of conflict: Misunderstandings, Incompatible Beliefs and Resentment [Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet]

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

• cultural proficiencies: a modest proposal [If Our Lives Be Short, Let Our Fame Be Great]
• D&D Unleashed, part 1: Yes, You Can! (Classes) [Methods & Madness]
• Whose Mechanic is it Anyway? [Trilemma Adventures]
• Encounter balance: how I avoid using it [Methods & Madness]
• Reflecting on Morale and Reaction Rolls [Take On Rules]
• Punching Through Some Armor Myths [A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry]
• Pillaging the Hobbit for RPG ideas [Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet]

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

• 1 HD = 4 hp [Traverse Fantasy]
• Abolishing the perception skill [Lloyd of Gamebooks]
• No Meaningful Lore If Strict Interactivity Is Not Maintained [Silverarm]
• I’ll Swallow Your Soul! [The Hydra’s Grotto]
• PC Knowledge and the Bandwidth Problem [Trilemma Adventures]
• Characters in Third Person [The Blue Bard]
• History and Politics of Wuxia [Tor Books]
• Greatness of David Gemmell [Swashbuckling Planets]

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

• Morale and Reactions [Roles, Rules, & Rolls]
• Medieval Itinerary [A Writer’s Perspective]
• “Making Ogres Tougher” or “How to implement Old Rules to make tough combatants tougher.” [Aeons & Augauries]
• Daughters, DMs & Henchmen [The Tao of D&D]
• Hit Points are Player Morale [Roles, Rules, & Rolls]
• Survival Horror – Fighting Invulnerable Monsters [Shuttered Room]
• Talent, Time, and Tools [If Our Lives Be Short, Let Our Fame Be Great]
• Zone-based Combat in D&D [Sly Flourish]
• Boot Hill and the Fear of Dice – [Chocolate Hammer]
• Cleric As Anti-Magician [Papers & Pencils]
• Low Armour Settings [Shuttered Room]
• We Need More Nutcracker Adventures [Tales of the Lunar Lands]
• One Thing I Miss About Classic D&D Magic [Tales of the Rambling Bumblers]

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

• Old-School Class Idea: Fighters=Thieves [Dragons Gonna Drag]
• Taking Castles [B/X BLACKRAZOR]
• Be careful on Holy Ground [Unofficial Games]
• Campaign Promises [Rocket-Propelled Game]
• Trust the Dice for Your Fiction [Tom Van Winkle’s Return to Gaming]
• A dungeon is like a pinball machine [Yore]
• Supernatural Magnitude [Necropraxis]
• Use magic to know magic [Mixed Signals]
• Hit Points and Armor Class [Land of Nod]
• Would you burn hit points to hit harder? [Hall of the Grymlorde]
• In praise of having few hit points [Revenant’s Quill]
• “You Don’t Notice Anything.” Why Perception is Rubbish, and How To Make It Better [Burn After Running]

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

• Medieval City Sizes [A Knight at the Opera]
• How to Herc: An Illustrated Guide to Demigodery [Land of Nod]
• Why I Am Right About Skeletons and How You Can Be Too [TRAIPSE]
• Tinkering Fighters & Magic Weapons [Traverse Fantasy]
• Standing up for D&D’s Gen X: 2e (Part 1) [The Setting to End All Settings]
• Losing XP With Time [The DM in Paris]
• Magical Defense [Necropraxis]
• That Old Time Religion (Part 1: Movement) [THE LAST DAY DAWNED]
• Simple Improvements: Magic Spells [These Old Games]
• Evil is Boring (And Your Story Deserves Better) [The Literary Mercenary]
• One-Roll Chainmail+LBB [Traverse Fantasy]
• Classic Greece and the D&D Cleric Problem [Lost Pages]
• Importance of Status and Ceremony in Ancient Times [Melancholies and Mirth]
• Shieldwalls and Sorcery [Monsters and Manuals]
• Can’t Stop Thinking About Weapons [Lawful Indifferent]
• Everything Has a Weakness (So Be Sure You Know Your Options) [Improved Initiative]
• Don’t Make Me Remember that You Have Magic Armor [The Mule Abides]
• “Boring” Combat is Fine Actually [Gorgon Bones]

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

• Sorcerer’s Helm and Magician’s Blade [The Antithesis of Weal]
• Light Saber Duels [Trollsmyth]
• Yet another magic system: Chaotic Spells and Strange Charms [Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet]
• The Why of Weapons: The Great Sword of War [Mythic Scribes]
• Price of a Hauberk in Gomorrah [Roles, Rules, & Rolls]
• 85 Reasons Classic Traveller is Great [Caddo Court]
• Sorcerer as Terrorist [Hari Ragat Games]
• Harryhausen and the Giants of Hari Ragat [Swashbuckling Planets]
• Creepier Undead [Swashbuckling Planets]
• Don’t Be Afraid of Breaking D&D [RJD20]
• Rereading OD&D: Back to the Start [Coins and Scrolls]
• Naively Simple Alchemy [Beneath Foreign Planets]
• Opportunity attacks are DUMB [VDonnut Valley]
• My fireball problem [Methods & Madness]

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

• A chill down the spine, not a slap in the face [Fabled Lands]
• Abolishing the perception skill [Lloyd of Gamebooks]
• d100 – Wondrous Wands & Ensorcelled Staffs [d4 Caltrops]
• Familiars [Rise Up Comus]
• NPC roles [Gelatinous Icosahedron]
• One Man Army [B/X BLACKRAZOR]
• Spiritual Nature of Hair [Quantum Balancing]
• Gritty Realism: Adventuring in Weeks, Not Days [A Knight at the Opera]
• Ten Commandments of D&D [GROGNARDIA]
• Willing Suspension of Suspicion [Character Alchemy]
• The Summon Spell [PAPIER UND SPIELE]
• The Moment a Soldier Becomes a Fighter [Save vs. Hollowing]
• How to destroy enemies and walk on water, according to old Indian magic texts [Scroll.in]

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

• A Hot Meal and a Cup of Tea [Don’t Split the Party]
• Rules Cyclopedia Oddities, Part 5: Experience [The Disoriented Ranger]
• Level 1 Should be Awesome [Welcome to the Deathtrap]
• Soft-Ass D&D [False Machine]
• Swords Are No More Use Here! (Monster ratings, damage limits, and a rules-solution in search of a problem?) [Gundobad Games]
• Wealth is What You See [Luke Gearing]
• Play Constructively: Pass the Ball [ars ludi]
• Mud and Gas: Taking Inspiration from World War I [Semper Initiativus Unum]
• AD&D’s Domain Game: Pity the Poor Name-Levels and Their Private Warbands [Hill Cantons]
• 5 tips to shake up your DnD magic [World Anvil]
• King of the Britons [The Wandering Gamist]
• Building an Interesting World through NPCs [Weird Wonder]
• Henchmen Are the Opposite of Dissociated Mechanics [The Mule Abides]
• A Good NPC is a PC in His Own Campaign [Monsters and Manuals]
• The Culture: From The Blank Map To The Bespoke Campaign [Walker’s Retreat]
• Learning from Nature: the Mechanics of Traps [Semper Initiativus Unum]
• What to do at High Level [What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse…]