Announcing The Magnus Archive Roleplaying Game (www.montecookgames.com)
The Magnus Archives is an award-winning horror fiction podcast that digs into the archives of the Magnus Institute. It follows the actions of head archivist Jonathan Sims as he attempts to bring a seemingly neglected collection of supernatural statements up to date, converting them to audio and supplementing them with follow-up...
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Forever Open Source Jam: year-long jam for TTRPGs openly licensed (itch.io)
A game jam from 2023-01-01 to 2024-01-01 hosted by Rev Casey. Celebrate Open Gaming! Embrace open source games and true free license systems This jam was created because: open source gaming is amazing whole thing...
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Folk Tales for Gaming! (en.wikisource.org)
Two years ago, I decided to make a list of all the public domain, English-language folk tale collections I could find, and deposited them at Wikisource. If you need to research the folklore of any given region, then I hope that this list has you covered!...
Free PD Token Collection (170+ tokens for fantasy games) (gmkeros.wordpress.com)
The last few weeks I started getting interested in using VTTs for my next few games. I seem to have slept through the rise of those for the last few years, mostly because my kids were not at an age…
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Creative Card Chaos - Core Rulebook - Dozenbeer | DriveThruRPG.com (www.drivethrurpg.com)
Hey guys, I just released my own TTRPG. Its a fun rules-light system, that uses only a standard deck of cards.....and nothing else. Check out the store page for more information. Enjoy a 25% discount in celebration of the release!
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[Nahual] Great RPG Covers (openhearthrpg.substack.com)
#RPGCovers Week Fourteen
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[AD&D] Polyhedron: Issue #5 (grognardia.blogspot.com)
Issue #5 of Polyhedron (April 1982)
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[OSR] Shiny TTRPG links #133 (seedofworlds.blogspot.com)
Late & messy today due to working off mobile on holidays. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find more links on weekly blogroll on r/OSR or the RPG Blog Carnival or a roundup of non-blog news on Third Kingdom Games...
The Exploding Plastic Inevitabletop (wyrdscience.subsack.com)
I promise I never meant this to be so long but brave your way through it & then discover a cool old school adventure some deeply strange miniatures, a great writer's newsletter & much much more..
Quorum For Your Game (gnomestew.com)
my Cyberpunk Red group has a very explicit agreement that says we will play if only one person can’t make it to the session. That agreement is what we called a quorum, and I thought we could talk about it
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On Fantasy Subgenres (roleplayrescue.com)
It seems that just about this time every year, as I gain some personal time away from work, my mind turns once again to the question of which kind of fantastic roleplaying world I would like to exp…
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World Building Cheat Sheet (cheatography.com)
Building a world for RPGs (Role Playing Games) has several steps to consider and two general approaches for implementing those steps. The general methods are top down and bottom up.
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Index Card RPG on Bundle of Holding (bundleofholding.com)
Adventurer! We've resurrected our March 2021 Index Card RPG Bundle featuring the 2019 Second Edition of Index Card RPG, the fast-playing modular DIY RPG toolset from Runehammer Games. These .PDF ebooks let you construct your own streamlined, fast-playing campaign in almost any genre. You can easily adapt ICRPG's videogame-style...
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Choosing Games: Assessing Preferences (www.ageofravensgames.com)
I’m always thinking about the next campaign. And I kind of hate that about my brain. But I look at the shelves and my RPG pdf folder and feel some guilt— buyers remorse, FOMO, worry that I ought to be playing things from indie designers. I suspect that’s a challenge for those who deeply invest in ttrpgs both as a hobby and...
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Magic Behind The Bar (seamus-conneely.itch.io)
Walk into any drinking establishment of your choice and there’s probably something magical going on....
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Economics In RPGs: The Pre-Digital Tech Age (www.campaignmastery.com)
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DriveThru RPG's Christmas in July sale has started (www.drivethrurpg.com)
14 days left with some great titles discounted
The Story of Palace of the Silver Princess (dmdavid.com)
In 1981, Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR printed an adventure so scandalous that when newly printed copies reached key TSR management, they ordered the entire print run sent to dumpsters rathe…
Interesting Terrain for Better Combat (tales-of-the-lunar-lands.blogspot.com)
Don't these already sound like much more interesting combat encounters than your typical 5e slugfest? Throwing in a few terrain features helps get players and DMs alike thinking tactically, and creates interesting options that can shake things up.
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OC A Collection of System-Agnostic GM/DM Resources (kbin.social)
Looking for some good, system-agnostic TTRPG resources to help you run your game? Here are some I use all the time:...
Probability matrices of emotion transitions (www.pnas.org)
Who would read this figure in an academic paper on emotion modeling and immediately start thinking of how to use it for ttrpg social encounters... and has two thumbs?...
Seedless Bloom - A role-playing epic of time traveling cultures torn amid tragedy and hubris. (andrew-crag.itch.io)
Seedless Bloom - A role-playing epic of time traveling cultures torn amid tragedy and hubris...
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The Oldest TTRPG Forum on the Net (gmkeros.wordpress.com)
Did you know there is an online forum for tabletop role-playing games that has been around since the early 80s, and which still is active and operating? Admittedly in a much diminished state than a…
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