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The past couple of days I’ve dropped links from the course to folks stumped on some aspect of dungeon design- it helped them break through!

So give it a listen or jump around in the course itself-each piece is semi-self contained

This is absolutely amazing! It’s really nice to see this series turned into an entire podcast!

Designing Dungeons: Now in podcast formulation

The final countdown!

My personal vote for 🥇top post of 2025 is @elmc.at Mapping the Blogosphere

Knowing the link to/from over time of various blogs is an incredible project not only from a hobby perspective but an academic & preservationist one as well! A true 💎

Argh would have loved to feature this in the next issue but best we can do i guess is give it a boost here, absolutely love the look of those 90s zines

Vermis III

I still want to run an OD&D campaign with this & fortunately this book DOES have a dungeon layout in it!

O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4331110/...

Goat man reaching to animals in front of a church- very #Dolmenwood encoded

A short film to highlight their rotoscope technique

So true. 💀 ☕️

That I am most surprised about but your Mapping of the Blogosphere should take it all.

It literally IS the Bl🔮ggies!

Wow! Very pleased to have won 2 Bloggies 🔮🔮 this year with WHY MEGADUNGEONS? & RANDOM ENCOUNTER AS ADVENTURE RAM.

The competition was stiff and We Read the Bloggies will catch you up on all the great DIY RPG writing. So give your ears some joy. And Clayton has done a fantastic job! 💎

The Bloggies 2026 A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

Round 4: www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-202...

We Read The Bloggies was a great grassroots community effort to put blogs in an audio format 👂 🎶

So listen here and vote there in Round 4 of the 2026 Bloggies!

𝔙𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔗𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰!

Round 3️⃣

Getting close to the end, so the choices get harder!

𝔙𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔗𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰!

Why Megadungeons? & Encounter RAM have survived the first round!

Let’s see if they have staying power…😤

Place your Round 2 votes and celebrate the great work out there.

I was just writing a blog post about how beast folks are better than Demi-humans and listing my fav beast folk

You're doing a great job man! Very nice set-up this year!

𝔙𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔗𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰!

Time to get in there and vote 🗳️ for your favorite blog posts.

I have two up this year:
Why Megadungeons? in 🤔 Theory
Encounter Tables as Adventure RAM in 🎲 Gamable

But check out all 5️⃣ categories!

I still enjoy the BX each side rolls 1d6, highest wins. I think a nice variation is to increase or decrease the die size for various factors.

Making church a little occulty would really put butts in seat. I believe Ash Wed is still huge because of the smudge

Proof your fantasy religions are not wilder than actual practices-- are *your* clerics saving up for a silver+bronze ritual drinking vessel? Why not?

Its really amazing! A nice demonstration of collective effort

Random Human Advancement When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what humans get. You can either roll a d9 for your culture ...

I wrote a d100 random advancement table for humans. Ostensibly for my Middle-earth Hexcrawl ruleset, I think this could easily be used for any fantasy adventure game. As I think that humans are the most warlike of peoples, this list could be used for your fighter random advancements:

When you have multiple dungeon entrances, I think it best to present them in away that highlights differences & provides clues to what’s in the room behind them— this allows impactful PC choice (and even poor *human* illos can be fun, so draw your own stuff unabashedly)

Glad “Why Megadungeons?” Resonates with folks

My takeaway here is that we’re not, by and large, and industry. We’re a hobby, and we should act like hobbyists sharing something they love, not capitalists trying to out-grow each other.

This is awesome! Great angle/composition

PSALMS FOR MORDHEIM: Smash Bashing The New And Old Together Look at this crew! Who doesn't want to play the motley band of weirdos?!   Mordheim:  99% Falling Rules 01% Grotesque Vibes This post is one...

The Inq28 scene has similar energy to the OSR when I first joined it. Mordheim feels like the BX of Inq28, but I've turned toward Forbidden Psalms as a quick entry. However, there is still something about Mordheim that is alluring: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/02/psal...

ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔶 𝔅𝔩🔮𝔤𝔰!

Wow. This is pretty awesome that folks have recorded all the blog posts for this year's Bloggies in vein of @linkskywalker.bsky.social Blogs on Tape!
So load these up for your daily walk, run, automated task, travel, or kit-bashing binge. Its never been easier to stay informed

After about 2-3 rounds of trial and error, I think I've got a paint scheme that is serviceable... now to paint this terrain and PLAY

PLAY being the 1️⃣🏆 to doing all this!