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Obviously I would accept all of these without question.

A fantastic and gameable list of questions to answer for your players to launch them into a sandbox at full speed.

This month's 46er is up, once again spotlighting great posts from around the blogosphere! table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-oct... #osr #nsr #posr #rpg

Don't let what you think you have to do get in the way of actually having fun!

I've enjoyed playing with Todd's supplements for years, so I'm looking forward to this one.

This is right. Trump II is the worst administration in our history because Trump has no ideology beyond "evil" and is too lazy to govern, so he hands his power to whoever wants it. Every flavor of evil shows up, and each one gets the job where it can do the most damage.

I love ritual magic like this.

This is the skeleton key to every mid PBTA game and session - people look at the moves and think they’re equivalent to, like, initiative mechanics or something. Like an optional add-on for flavor. No, man, they’re the *whole deal.* Ignore them and everything falls alll the way apart

There aren't many OSR publications that give you more bang for your buck than KNOCK!

Game genres are only really useful in an academic and retail setting. Otherwise they are invisible walls and tribes that become barriers for people to experience the full breath of what these types of games offer. Pbta and OSR are more alike than you think.

Great post about the continuum from sandbox to signposting to railroading!

I've been doing actual game design so here's some theoryslop to try and explain the basics of ttrpg play cultures to my girlfriend to balance it out

September's 46er went up this week, with a bevy of useful and interesting posts from across the blogosphere! Hopefully you can find something you find useful. table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-sep... #rpg #osr #nsr #posr

Great post from Kati - it's a different lens on some things that are definitely great for keeping a table engaged.

I'm answering the important questions: what makes an rpg heavy metal? brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/what-makes-a...

It's always good to see a restatement of good RPG principles along with examples.

Politics scares me right now, but the world has recovered from far worse politics repeatedly in the past. There are so many good trends right now and many of the bad ones are fairly fixable (i.e. via more open immigration)

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

I like the interpretation of Landmark, Hidden, Secret used for NPCs. Credit to Nael and a few others for posting about it!

I'm happy to announce that the first two zines from the Cairn Press "Double Feature" is now available on the Cairn Store! store.cairnrpg.com/products/wha... store.cairnrpg.com/products/the...

This is definitely along the same lines as what I discussed on my blog earlier this year, but more focused on practice in a specific culture. I'm looking forward to seeing what Isaac does with Oddipelago! link to my prior post for those interested - table46.bearblog.dev/magic-in-the...

I've long thought that writing rooms in pairs was an idea that could be expanded on and this is a great way to do it.

Clayton makes a great point here that I think a lot of people dont realize. People pay attention when all you have to say is negative. You are digging yourself a grave made of your own discontent- the internet isn't actually a good place to complain.

I should get better at this and so should you! Short blog posts are great and they're much easier to refer to later than Discord messages.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

I could knock a lot of yellow off this map with one trip to New England. If we knock the standard for stayed a while from a month to a week, you can add California and Texas to stayed a while. Also, Delaware isn't real and you can't make me believe in it.

Perennial reminder that the big corporation does not care about you and there are better alternatives.

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I am embarking on a grand adventure, running more or less the same content in parallel for two different groups in two different systems. In the 1st session of our In Search of the Unown Into the Oddish game, the player Pokémon venture to Quagsqueton & begin their first foray into the dungeon!

This month's newsletter went up over the weekend, including the blog post roundup and a link to @isaacisafraid.bsky.social's Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon! table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-aug... #osr #nsr #posr #rpg

After recovering from con crud, I finally got my Gen Con recap up! - table46.bearblog.dev/gen-con-2026... #rpg #gencon

A great review of what sounds like a great book! It's certainly moved it up in my reading queue.

Being vulnerable, being accepted, being judgemental writeodd.bearblog.dev/appxnjam/

I love this! It's very similar to how what I call "items of power" develop in my Jewelsea setting.

This will save me a lot of time and effort keeping up with what's going on for the next five years.

I'm all for religion in fantasy worlds operating less like something designed in a lab.

A thoughtful review of Patrick Stuart's least-discussed adventure. Some of the obscurities revealed here are things I knew and others aren't. This is the game that introduced me to Into the Odd and it'd be good to get a chance to play it again.

amandalee.bearblog.dev ok i did this I made a blog put me in yr rss readers put me in your webrings

I'm always here for rumination and cud-chewing on how system matters.

I really enjoyed both of these blog posts!

I'm always here for questions of "what is system?" which I think this post does a good job of elucidating.

I was one of the sickos encouraging Adam to write this post and I'm glad they did!

here's another question about masculinity and seven-part pact i want to share with all of you. i have a tremendous amount of compassion for the asker and the question of "how do i make this game, which is playing with fire for my fellow trans women specifically, not burn them too hard"

It's the ides of July, and that means it's time for another edition of my newsletter and blog roundup! There's a lot of good posts in there this month. table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-jul... #rpg #osr #nsr #posr

It's the ides of July, and that means it's time for another edition of my newsletter and blog roundup! There's a lot of good posts in there this month. table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-jul... #rpg #osr #nsr #posr

An excellent and thoughtful review of Deathbringer's marketing and art direction. I'm glad Liz put in this work.