Shiny TTRPG links #225

Shiny links from about the web. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.

The Other Side gives us Why D&D 5.5 (2024) Needs a New Campaign World

Taskerland writes Home and Away – On RPGs and Community

GROGNARDIA gives us Save Versus Senescence

Snow’s Substack shares Kala Mandala – A Review

Mediums and Messages gives us Captain’s GLoG – Intermezzo

Ward Against Evil writes Drama, Tension, and Roleplaying

The Black Citadel gives us Invoking Divinities in OSR Games

Alles Ist Zahl wrote Sharing the cognitive load

False Machine shared A City On The Edge Of Deception

Beneath Foreign Planets gives us The Hunting Die – Improving Encounter Rolls, Again!

AMONG CATS AND BOOKS shares Bluesky Comments Fixed

In Lands Most Forbidden gives us How to Make A Dungeon

Onslaught Six writes 2d6 Hirelings

Lonely Star gives us Gaming Career Report – Part 1: The Ill-Recorded Times

From the Sorcerer’s Skull shares The Patchwork Kingdom Crawl

Molten Sulfur Blog gives us Eleven Riddles from the Old English Exeter Book

THE ONEIROMANCER writes Becoming the unreliable narrator

d4 Caltrops gives us d100 – Wilderness Woes & Hinterland Hazards

JAMES HOLLOWAY wrote The cautionary tale of Ghazghkull Thraka

Akratic Wizardry gives us My 2 Campaigns in 2 Paragraphs

The Man With A Hammer shares Five Inspirations, Issue 2

Music Industry Blog wrote The oncoming fandom crisis

Codex’s Gigas Substack gives us The Dopamine Trap: Why Your Brain Hates Solo/Group TTRPGs (and How to Fix It)

Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque shares Superhero Comics as RPG Fodder: The “Good Stuff” Versus Trash-Tier

David B.’s Newsletter gives us How to create NPCs

Tim Harford writes The value of institutional memory

Gnomestones gives us Old-School Gaming Reconnects Us with Folk Storytelling Traditions