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

The Bloggies' page has updates!

1. "We Read the Bloggies" A fan-made podcast is live and linked!

2. A new submission has been nominated, "Book [Verb] Play" in Theory. The other post was removed on the author's request.

3. I've redesigned the page to keep things short and sweet.

Happy reading!

We Read The Bloggies (@WeReadTheBloggies) • Activity We’re volunteers turning Bloggies-nominated blog posts into audio. So you can enjoy them anywhere, in a more accessible format.

The awesome @bommyknocker.bsky.social, @elmc.at, Grace of Choir of Fire @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social and many community members have organized a group recording effort of every Bloggies post as podcast episodes inspired by Blogs on Tape!https://podcast.bloggies.org/

This year's Bloggies Nominees Over 90+ blog posts. And a surprise category for 2026.

The Bloggies Nominees are here!

We are 1 week away from voting, so I need everyone's help spreading the word. Congrats to all the nominees and blogs submitted—this last year was incredible. Forming the lists was equal parts rewarding and painful.

www.explorersdesign.com/this-years-b...

a commercial promoting ai.com and ai.com/elon and it immediately crashing is a pretty good way to describe Elon's entire existence. 10/10 ad

“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

My homies are powerful, and grow in strength every day. They have solid gold ingots, and can earn the trust of animals effortlessly. They are like the wind.

Narrative Frameworks in TTRPGs One of the most essential tools I employ when game mastering, both in prep and play, is what I call a narrative framework . This is my term ...

I spent a lot of time thinking about mental models and GMing. One of the underlying models I use is what I call a narrative framework.
www.thenovelgamemaster.com/2026/02/narr...

What Elfgames Can Learn From Kingdom Come: Deliverance I've been spending a lot of time playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. To sum the game up briefly, imagine if Skyrim or The Witcher 3 we...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane blogpost about video games and elfgames!

I played Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 last month, and I think a lot of what made it fresh can be ported over to your campaign with very little trouble.

magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/02/what...

Exploding a Blog Post - Dungeon Merlin Or: Growing a digital garden out of a Zettelkasten about RPGs

Wrote about the process that turns blog posts I read into lots of tiny little plants for my new digital garden:

dungeonmerl.in/3meeit5e7522w

This turned out both stranger and longer than expected.

Zak this is diabolical

Another gimmick Make mapping fun by making it your players' problem

Map dungeons with this warioware-style minigame.

#OSR #TTRPG

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Just don’t tap the glass!

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

A Reputation System for Surveyors This post was originally titled "A Lightweight Reputation System" and it turned out to be truly anything but. . I've been sharpening up the major gamepla...

Continuing to work through the implications of this deep dive the other week. In this one, I posit a framework for managing the reputation of a state entity or other powerful patron. #osr #ttrpg

tbr.bearblog.dev/a-reputation...

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Imagine getting your back cracked from the front for that split second before your head breaks the sound barrier

Jacob Wysocki from Dropout saying that a surface is "As soft as an award-winning dog's ear."

Bandwagon: The Map is Not the Territory But It is the Topic — Prismatic Wasteland Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn by the esteemed Amanda Lee Franck!

All bloggers are hereby cordially invited to participate in a new blog bandwagon on the topic of MAPS, featuring art (which you can use, remix, distort as you see fit) from @amandalee.bsky.social (Garbage Barge, Vampire Cruise, et al)
You have 80 days starting now!
#osr #tttpg #blog

u dont understand my crew move microbrial

I’ll get a crucible, and into it, and dissolve myself down to one small, compendious vertebra.

DQ&D is a game about getting into a knife fight and having everyone walk away unhappy. For fragmentary blog post #2 i'm telling you how to run those fights, which are secretly negotiations.

thegardenbelow.blot.im/dq-d-design-...

Mad Biographers Brain Dump A few months ago I wrote about viewing narrative in tabletop as a historiographic process. That is, the stories we tell during a tabletop RPG session, ad...

Wrote the long-awaited threequel to this where I actually explain an idea for once

tbr.bearblog.dev/mad-biograph...

Thursdays in Thracia RELOADED Week 1 Caverns of Thracia Session 1 Recap and Notes

With the blessing of @chrispwolf.bsky.social I've started a reboot of his classic session report series Thursdays in Thracia! Stay tuned as we work our way through the module and I share my prep and thoughts on the classic dungeon and running a megadungeon in Shadowdark.

The Play Reports Pack A Knapsack!

New post on what I'm calling Pack A Knapsack (PAK) for GMs to use at any table. Running a campaign is about more than tools and tables.

theplayreports.com/posts/pack-a...

#blog #ttrpg

I’ve never heard someone audibly realize they’ve made a grave mistake more severely than @murderxbryan.bsky.social saying “Michael Bordan”

Encounter Table as Ecology - very cool blogpost on a brand-new blog.

It's awesome to see an actual ecologist extending the ideas from my Write Encounters as Networks blogpost!

#osr #ttrpg

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This rocks out loud

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