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This years Vindiecon was just had last weekend - this year I was purely a punter - got in played a game, chatted with pals, shopped the vend...

Orbital diagrams, suits of armour, pulp sci-fi covers and wood type, from the pages of public-domain books. Free to use for anything.

Here is a copy of an activity from a 1919 issue of the Danish magazine Familie Journal . Click to download the full-sized image Children wer...

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At a lake today all was quiet, then suddenly two herons took off and everything else panicked and it went from idyllic to chaos in seconds -...

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A weird thought came over me.  "What if players could keep a character from dying?" It was an odd thought, especially as I'm specifically de...

A blog post where I compare a Tabletop Roleplaying Game session to having a communal meal, and why its important for everyone's expectations to be aligned.

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

Exalted Funeral is offering a free introduction to the Dolmenwood fantasy roleplaying game with the Dolmenwood Quick-Start: The Weaver & The Redcaps.

Written by multi-award-winning narrative designer and worldbuilder Graeme Davis, this book draws on more than 40 years’ experience working on almost 50 video games and more than 100 tabletop game rule...

Publisher, distributor, and manufacturer of tabletop games including RPGs, Solo RPGs, and Story Games.

Campaign Mastery gives us this months prompt The Face of Money for the RPG Blog Carnival . This post covers my slightly meta-takes at two o...

Just fucking do it.

via NASA I love mashups , I love timelines , I’m certain I’ve mentioned somewhere that the ideal Alien franchise is Alien , Blade Runner , P...

European Commission - Have your say

Gonzo sci-fi technology for The Black Hack

tl;dr: "OSR" is a banner flown over many folk, often unalike, occasionally strongly opposed - generalisations do not come easily. Elmcat di...

A game jam from 2026-08-21 to 2026-09-04 hosted by RedMageGM. A magical, ever-shifting forest is a staple of fantasy adventure, from the disappearing paths of Mirkwood in the Hobbit to the Lost Woods ...

And so we conclude the July 2026 RPG Blog Carnival - our topic was "Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity!" - on my mind was the fun I have ...

They forget. They die. You survive.

Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2026 , challenge #1 is from a list by Phlox - "Water Levels." Inspired by the submerged megalithic str...

Even more little stonepunk gods as one of my entries in this month's RPG Blog Carnival.