Valeria Loves
@valerialoves.bsky.social
https://www.valerialoves.com/
The second best trans woman who reviews indie TTRPGs while taking baths, somehow.
The second best trans woman who reviews indie TTRPGs while taking baths, somehow.
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The Bloggies 2026 submissions are now open!
Submit your favorite posts, series, and debut blogs via the official Bloggies page between now and Jan 31st!
Please share this around. I'll be making regular Bloggies-themed announcements throughout the month.
www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/
Submit your favorite posts, series, and debut blogs via the official Bloggies page between now and Jan 31st!
Please share this around. I'll be making regular Bloggies-themed announcements throughout the month.
www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/
The Bloggies 2026
A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.
www.explorersdesign.com
I think I have a shot at winning Best Debut Blog, which scares me in a wonderfully prickly way.
Starting this blog was the highlight of my year. I deeply appreciate the warm reception y'all have given me.
To pay it forward, I'm listing underrated Bloggie submissions in the🧵.
Starting this blog was the highlight of my year. I deeply appreciate the warm reception y'all have given me.
To pay it forward, I'm listing underrated Bloggie submissions in the🧵.
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Sans Undertale is the dealer
February 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Sans Undertale is the dealer
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i'm working on a new little project on the side while seven part pact continues to churn along, where im going to take a bunch of OSR blogposts and cut them up to stitch together a franken-game for my personal enjoyment. im calling it THREE HOLE PUNCH
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THREE HOLE PUNCH (The Starting List) | Jay Dragon (& Friends)
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January 16, 2026 at 11:27 PM
i'm working on a new little project on the side while seven part pact continues to churn along, where im going to take a bunch of OSR blogposts and cut them up to stitch together a franken-game for my personal enjoyment. im calling it THREE HOLE PUNCH
www.patreon.com/posts/three-...
www.patreon.com/posts/three-...
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I wrote a theory post. Don't worry, I paid taxes at the end.
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Turning the Dial
Nerds love taxonomy; it gives order to the world, and provides a meaningful sense of control. Of course, it's all an illusion. At best taxonomy is a useful t...
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January 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I wrote a theory post. Don't worry, I paid taxes at the end.
newschoolrevolution.com/turning-the-...
newschoolrevolution.com/turning-the-...
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10/10 perfect no notes
First look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in Prime Video's Tomb Raider series
January 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
10/10 perfect no notes
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January issue of Carouse just dropped!
If you like indie TTRPGs check out this collaborative newsletter from a diverse group of indie creators.
www.carouse.blog/january-2026...
If you like indie TTRPGs check out this collaborative newsletter from a diverse group of indie creators.
www.carouse.blog/january-2026...
January 2026 - The Carousies
Happy New Year! This issue is a little different; in place of our usual columns and gameable goodness we're handing out some awards! Plus, you'll find a thoughtful review by Sprinting Owl of a unique ...
www.carouse.blog
January 15, 2026 at 1:25 PM
January issue of Carouse just dropped!
If you like indie TTRPGs check out this collaborative newsletter from a diverse group of indie creators.
www.carouse.blog/january-2026...
If you like indie TTRPGs check out this collaborative newsletter from a diverse group of indie creators.
www.carouse.blog/january-2026...
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Three creators working within Lancer's creative ecosystem told @newmadras.bsky.social that the mech RPG's large fan community isn't just dedicated -- they're indispensable collaborators.
Lancer is a brain worm, and 50,000 people have it
What is the community doing over there? A lot, apparently!
www.rascal.news
January 13, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Three creators working within Lancer's creative ecosystem told @newmadras.bsky.social that the mech RPG's large fan community isn't just dedicated -- they're indispensable collaborators.
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this blogpost from @valerialoves.bsky.social is fabulous if you've been wondering what i've recently been diving into in my world. this explosion of what I was calling digital larps (or as i am now going to call them LTRP) post-O/U has been amazingly fun www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
How to Replicate Over/Under
A Guide to Live Text Roleplay
www.valerialoves.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM
this blogpost from @valerialoves.bsky.social is fabulous if you've been wondering what i've recently been diving into in my world. this explosion of what I was calling digital larps (or as i am now going to call them LTRP) post-O/U has been amazingly fun www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
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I am currently looking for work! Writing, design, editing and proofreading for tabletop games and just about anything else besides.
I've worked with indie giants and first-time self-publishers and I always smash it. Some examples below.
Email in bio, get in touch, let's make stuff x
I've worked with indie giants and first-time self-publishers and I always smash it. Some examples below.
Email in bio, get in touch, let's make stuff x
January 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I am currently looking for work! Writing, design, editing and proofreading for tabletop games and just about anything else besides.
I've worked with indie giants and first-time self-publishers and I always smash it. Some examples below.
Email in bio, get in touch, let's make stuff x
I've worked with indie giants and first-time self-publishers and I always smash it. Some examples below.
Email in bio, get in touch, let's make stuff x
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If you use Discord, please take a minute to fill out their survey re: the potential addition of AI features.
Companies, stop shoving these rubbish 'upgrades' down our throats! 👎🏻
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Companies, stop shoving these rubbish 'upgrades' down our throats! 👎🏻
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January 10, 2026 at 10:01 AM
If you use Discord, please take a minute to fill out their survey re: the potential addition of AI features.
Companies, stop shoving these rubbish 'upgrades' down our throats! 👎🏻
discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Companies, stop shoving these rubbish 'upgrades' down our throats! 👎🏻
discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Forcing myself to write again - to think carefully in a way I feared I'd let atrophy - dramatically improved my self-esteem.
BLOG! It's so fun!
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for...
Thank you to @prismaticwasteland.com and @diyanddragons.bsky.social for introducing me to this post.
BLOG! It's so fun!
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for...
Thank you to @prismaticwasteland.com and @diyanddragons.bsky.social for introducing me to this post.
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholi...
www.joanwestenberg.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Forcing myself to write again - to think carefully in a way I feared I'd let atrophy - dramatically improved my self-esteem.
BLOG! It's so fun!
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for...
Thank you to @prismaticwasteland.com and @diyanddragons.bsky.social for introducing me to this post.
BLOG! It's so fun!
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for...
Thank you to @prismaticwasteland.com and @diyanddragons.bsky.social for introducing me to this post.
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More Ride or Die deets!
- Paragon System (simplified from AGON).
- Systems for Races / Chases, Fights, and Heists.
- Newbie GM / Player friendly
- Series of adventures ("movies") to play through, with guidance to make your own.
- Paragon System (simplified from AGON).
- Systems for Races / Chases, Fights, and Heists.
- Newbie GM / Player friendly
- Series of adventures ("movies") to play through, with guidance to make your own.
January 8, 2026 at 11:21 PM
More Ride or Die deets!
- Paragon System (simplified from AGON).
- Systems for Races / Chases, Fights, and Heists.
- Newbie GM / Player friendly
- Series of adventures ("movies") to play through, with guidance to make your own.
- Paragon System (simplified from AGON).
- Systems for Races / Chases, Fights, and Heists.
- Newbie GM / Player friendly
- Series of adventures ("movies") to play through, with guidance to make your own.
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Absolutely incredible TTRPG; cannot recommend it enough. About lesbian pilots, forced into half-living mech suits but also about dystopia, transfemininity, instrumentalization, and inhumanity. Incredibly inventive mechanics; zero-sum status hierarchy, diegetic XP, rules as restriction. SO GOOD
anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io/girl-frame/d... girl frame 1.5 is out: advancements for the Handler, a new Girl playbook, and NPC playbooks! #GirlFrame
1.5: Alpha, Handler Advancements
Tons and tons of updates, but here's the biggest ones: Rewrites of the Frantic and the Scientist A new mechanic for Handler Advancements A new Girl, the Alpha 21 NPC Playbooks A new Gorgon, the Sentin...
anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io
January 6, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Absolutely incredible TTRPG; cannot recommend it enough. About lesbian pilots, forced into half-living mech suits but also about dystopia, transfemininity, instrumentalization, and inhumanity. Incredibly inventive mechanics; zero-sum status hierarchy, diegetic XP, rules as restriction. SO GOOD
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It’s Bloggies season! Here’s a big list of posts I enjoyed. Plus, a recap of my year in blogging and plans for 2026:
Bloggies / New Year
2025 blogging highlights and plans for 2026
dododecahedron.blog
January 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
It’s Bloggies season! Here’s a big list of posts I enjoyed. Plus, a recap of my year in blogging and plans for 2026:
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The blog says "4-minute read." That's a lie. Here's every finalist from the past three years of The Bloggies.
www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...
www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...
The Bloggies Hall of Fame
Every winner of The Bloggies from 2022 to 2025. Want to melt your rpg brain? Start here.
www.explorersdesign.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The blog says "4-minute read." That's a lie. Here's every finalist from the past three years of The Bloggies.
www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...
www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...
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BEHOLD: 60 festive hexes for your next Christmastime campaign from a variety of your favorite bloggers. Go give them a read and steal the best bits for your games
#osr #ttrpg
#osr #ttrpg
The Rankin Bass Hexmas Crawl — Prismatic Wasteland
A Christmas-themed hexcrawl setting with 60 hexes written from bloggers across the blogosphere.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Bringing this one back around cuz I don’t think it gets enough attention
January 6, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Bringing this one back around cuz I don’t think it gets enough attention
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New blog post! This one about the role played by (the lack of) games media in the tabletop RPG landscape: personable.blog/media-crowdf...
Crowdfunding and The Death of the Media
Reflecting on how the lack of a games press affects how games are funded.
personable.blog
January 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
New blog post! This one about the role played by (the lack of) games media in the tabletop RPG landscape: personable.blog/media-crowdf...
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so FOR EXAMPLE, if youve got a 6-entry table, and it gets rolled on 5 times...
- 9% chance it doesnt repeat
- 81% chance it repeats at least once
- 19% chance it repeats at least twice
- 9% chance it doesnt repeat
- 81% chance it repeats at least once
- 19% chance it repeats at least twice
January 6, 2026 at 3:45 AM
so FOR EXAMPLE, if youve got a 6-entry table, and it gets rolled on 5 times...
- 9% chance it doesnt repeat
- 81% chance it repeats at least once
- 19% chance it repeats at least twice
- 9% chance it doesnt repeat
- 81% chance it repeats at least once
- 19% chance it repeats at least twice
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wanted to re-share an article i wrote in 2022 about the phallic and colonial underpinnings of what we might call the dungeon game---in fact, it's the third edition of a paper i wrote and rewrote many times, but only this instance i feels 'complete'
traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2022/09/d-ob...
traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2022/09/d-ob...
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
wanted to re-share an article i wrote in 2022 about the phallic and colonial underpinnings of what we might call the dungeon game---in fact, it's the third edition of a paper i wrote and rewrote many times, but only this instance i feels 'complete'
traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2022/09/d-ob...
traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2022/09/d-ob...
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Surprise post! Randomisation errors and how to avoid sabotaging your model with bad use of randomisation! idlecartulary.com/2026/01/06/w... #osr
What to randomise when you’re randomising
You may have noticed that a common theme in my reviews is that I criticise people’s random tables: Their wilderness generators, their wandering monsters, their weather tables, their treasure …
idlecartulary.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Surprise post! Randomisation errors and how to avoid sabotaging your model with bad use of randomisation! idlecartulary.com/2026/01/06/w... #osr
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RELEASE: The complete #hexmas map is now available for you to peruse! Download the pdf version to see all the bloggers who contributed to this awesome blogwagon by @prismaticwasteland.com.
#blog #ttrpg #bloggers #blogosphere
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#blog #ttrpg #bloggers #blogosphere
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Hexmas Map 2025 by Bakenshake
A hexcrawl of all the hexes created by Bloggers for Hexmas 2025
bakenshake09.itch.io
January 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
RELEASE: The complete #hexmas map is now available for you to peruse! Download the pdf version to see all the bloggers who contributed to this awesome blogwagon by @prismaticwasteland.com.
#blog #ttrpg #bloggers #blogosphere
bakenshake09.itch.io/hexmas-map-2...
#blog #ttrpg #bloggers #blogosphere
bakenshake09.itch.io/hexmas-map-2...
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Made a new #slugblaster supplement. Come hunt wierd anomalies across the multiverse.
cosmicchill.itch.io/the-agency
cosmicchill.itch.io/the-agency
THE AGENCY by The Cosmic Chill
Collect strange anomalies from the multiverse in Slugblaster.
cosmicchill.itch.io
January 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Made a new #slugblaster supplement. Come hunt wierd anomalies across the multiverse.
cosmicchill.itch.io/the-agency
cosmicchill.itch.io/the-agency
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Today is the final day you can grab two months of a Rascal subscription at $1/month! Strap in for another year of tabletop journalism once the team returns tomorrow.
Help us continue growing and biting even more ankles in 2026!
www.rascal.news/yippee-ki-ya...
Help us continue growing and biting even more ankles in 2026!
www.rascal.news/yippee-ki-ya...
Rascal News
Rascal is a tabletop roleplaying game and culture outlet striving to sustainably publish voicey journalism that is compelling, deeply-reported, and fearlessly honest. We’re also a little cheeky
www.rascal.news
January 5, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Today is the final day you can grab two months of a Rascal subscription at $1/month! Strap in for another year of tabletop journalism once the team returns tomorrow.
Help us continue growing and biting even more ankles in 2026!
www.rascal.news/yippee-ki-ya...
Help us continue growing and biting even more ankles in 2026!
www.rascal.news/yippee-ki-ya...
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A dissonance I keep getting baffled with in the OSR-leaning adventuconquistadores games (since the others glorify and exalt in it) is how much combat, for something not rewarding, disincentivesed part of the gamescape, takes all the oxygen away the moment it is engaged with.
January 5, 2026 at 10:17 AM
A dissonance I keep getting baffled with in the OSR-leaning adventuconquistadores games (since the others glorify and exalt in it) is how much combat, for something not rewarding, disincentivesed part of the gamescape, takes all the oxygen away the moment it is engaged with.
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Between Two Cons ticket sign-ups are officially open!
Where: Norse Hall, Portland, Oregon
When: June 26th & 27th, 2026
Event submissions are also open; sign-ups for events will open in February. We're also taking vendor and sponsorship applications at this time!
tabletop.events/conventions/...
Where: Norse Hall, Portland, Oregon
When: June 26th & 27th, 2026
Event submissions are also open; sign-ups for events will open in February. We're also taking vendor and sponsorship applications at this time!
tabletop.events/conventions/...
Between Two Cairns
tabletop.events
January 5, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Between Two Cons ticket sign-ups are officially open!
Where: Norse Hall, Portland, Oregon
When: June 26th & 27th, 2026
Event submissions are also open; sign-ups for events will open in February. We're also taking vendor and sponsorship applications at this time!
tabletop.events/conventions/...
Where: Norse Hall, Portland, Oregon
When: June 26th & 27th, 2026
Event submissions are also open; sign-ups for events will open in February. We're also taking vendor and sponsorship applications at this time!
tabletop.events/conventions/...