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🚨NEW WEIRD GAME KLAXXON🚨

ECO MOFOS sets sail!!
Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules light procedure-heavy TTRPG for solo and group play. Smash Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves, guzzling ambergris to learn new spells.

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September 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This series was amazing last year, thrilled that it's becoming an institution.
Happy Critique Navidad my friends! A year ago, Clayton suggested the best gift of all was to write about a designers game, so I decided to review your games for the holiday season! I’m doing it again this year — a review (or so) every day! Submit your own if you dare!
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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They sure are! I'm moving them a little this year so I'm not rushed to read and curate the final list around the holidays.

A small announcement will be in The Explorateur tomorrow and an official announcement later in December. Submissions will open in January. Voting opens in February.
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Every RPG blogger is allowed one “What is the OSR?” post. Here’s mine:
The OSR Onion
The OSR may be best understood as a layered approach to design centered around a specific way of writing, refereeing, and playing adventures.
dododecahedron.blog
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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It's Black Friday! Go buy stuff, because I guess that's what we do today!

You could, for instance, do it on itch, where everything's 20% off (or everything for $50, which is a bit more off on top of that) and it's creator day so I get all proceeds: itch.io/s/169020/bla...
Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by Binary Star Games
A bundle by Binary Star Games, $50.00 for 7 games
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Black friday sale - Print's, Pdfs, Original Art

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November 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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I feel like @linkskywalker.bsky.social's Flux Space concept deserves just as much praise as the Overloaded Encounter Die - so I blogged about it, again.
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You’ve Met Me At A Very Flux Time: More Flux Dungeon Thoughts
I’ve written about Flux Spaces before; Nick LS Whelan’s idea of capturing somewhat abstract spaces, which (in my opinion) really capture a sense of scale that a lot of dungeons fail to …
dicegoblin.blog
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I went to PAX Unplugged 2025, played in/ran a lot of OSR game sessions, and had a lot of fun chatting with other bloggers, designers, and other very cool people within our little hobby.

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PAX Unplugged 2025 Convention Report
A blog post talking about the events of PAX Unplugged 2025, specifically focused on several playtest sessions of OSR games.
widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
An amazing tool! So many insights to the OSR and the wider blogosphere will come out of this graph.

#osr #blog #rpg
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready

Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map

What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?

elmc.at/mapping-the-...

To check out the graph directly follow this link:

graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready

Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map

What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?

elmc.at/mapping-the-...

To check out the graph directly follow this link:

graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Sitting in a pub in London, drinking some cask ale, reading MAC ATTACK, as one does.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - MAC ATTACK
I mail a lot of books to my brother in the UK. There were a few books waiting for me when I arrived in London this morning. One of those books was Chris McDowall’s latest war-game, MAC ATTACK. This is...
save.vs.totalpartykill.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Can't go astrowhaling without an astrowhale and related tools. Now you have those.

wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/11/hmtw...

#hismajestytheworm #hmtw
[HMtW] Hilbert Whales and the Tools Used to Harvest Them
Hilbert Whales Beast Dungeon Lord Descending from higher Euclidean n-spaces to feed, the Hilbert Whale is a native to the Flesh realm, just ...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A spine chilling origin story
"How did you get into rpgs"

It was a summer day in '84...

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November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I just sat and read A Perfect Wife all in one sitting. It is is incredible and I highly recommend it.

Great job @zedecksiew.bsky.social @amandalee.bsky.social Scrap World and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social.

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A Perfect Wife- An urban horror TTRPG by Zedeck Siew — Copy Paste Co-op
A Perfect Wife - An urban horror TTRPG adventure zine inspired by Asian ghost films A tabletop RPG adventure about the pontianak, a female spirit from Malaysian / Indonesian belief—her beginning in...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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A 2nd blogpost for #MausritterMonth! A short review of the starter adventure that came with the original boxed set. The impressive proliferation of Mausritter adventures is part of what has made the game so successful, but what about Mausritter’s Keep on the Borderlands equivalent?
#osr #ttrpg
Review: Honey in the Rafters — Prismatic Wasteland
A short and sweet review of a starter adventure for Mausritter.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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(PRE?) REVIEW TIME

After the dust settled from PAX Unplugged, one surprise experience kept coming back to me - A game with an IP I love that was willing to take risks to deliver something excellent - These are my first impressions of playing Godzilla: The RPG :

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Godzilla The RPG - Impressive First Impressions
Today I returned from PAX Unplugged with two systems sticking out in my mind among the priceless revelry , the exciting zine swapping , the ...
www.failforward.moe
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-definition blogpost about the definition(s) of objectivity! After a small discourse roundabout, I came to some conclusions about how I understand tabletop games and established a new taxonomy for them!

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On Objectivity in Game Design
Earlier tonight (11/22/25) there was a discussion in  valor stealer Farmer Gadda 's discord about  this post from the Dododecahedron ,...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Wake up honey, new free dungeon just dropped!
"Twenty feet of ancient elven stonework jut from the frozen hillside, its carved faces clawed away by beast-men. Inside, something ancient is waking up, fed by every drop of blood spilled in its halls."
dicegoblingames.itch.io/howling-hall...
HOWLING HALLS of WHISPERSTONE - System-agnostic Beastmen Dungeon by Dice Goblin Games
An ancient prison where your own blade is the true enemy.
dicegoblingames.itch.io
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Coming soon.
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures.

Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!

www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Something *FUN* is happening over at nofoesnotraps.wordpress.com!
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Today I finished transcribing something across into a post - the live module write I did a few months ago. Check out How To Write A Module here! idlecartulary.com/2025/11/19/h... #osr
How to Write a Module: An Incoherent Play-by-Play
A few months ago I decided to write a module live on Bluesky, from woe to go, to show my process and why I keep insisting it’s not hard. A few people asked me to immortalise it here, so I’m reprodu…
idlecartulary.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Dungeon levels everywhere for those with eyes to see
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Look at this worm’s expression. It has the correct response to being eaten by this crazy toad.
Toad — Kazumasa Nagai
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM