Player Advice Blogwagon Roundup
50 of the world’s greatest bloggers convene to give you advice about how to play TTRPGs better. I round up every post of advice for you to passively aggressively send to your players (I know it’s still mostly game masters reading TTRPG blogs).
My Dungeon Master Put Me on a PIP
Lessons from asking my referee to critique my performance as a player and then trying not to get fired as a player.
Blogwagon Summons: How to Be a Good Player
I invite you to blog about your best Player Advice for the latest Blog Bandwagon.
Wanting to Be the Very Best Pokémon: Playable Pokémon for Into the Oddish
Guidelines for creating playable Pokemon (essentially classes) for Into the Oddish.
What The Odyssey (2026) Can Teach Us About Running TTRPGs
Every movie has lessons for running your game if you are sufficiently TTRPG-brain-poisoned, but Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) has more than usual.
True Names in Elf Games
Rules for learning and using True Names against fey, demons and other sorts that preserve player agency. Also a brief note about animals in human form. For the Name and Indonesian Blogwagons.
Pity the Blue Orc
Orcs are green
Slime is pink
But what if they weren’t?
Really makes one think
Conversion Guide and Extra Enemy Pokémon for Into the Oddish
Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.
Review: A Book of Beasts
A bestiary of 56 or so monsters, written initially for Dungeon World but useful for any fantasy game, reviewed.
Random Blogwagon Roundup
In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!
So You’re Too Good For A Surprise Egg?
There is a contrarian hot take chestnut that gets bandied about occasionally against the prevalence of randomness in roleplaying games. I articulate a simple counter-counterargument in favor of the mainstream approach of enjoying the swings.
Five Solutions to the Birthday Paradox in Tables
When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particularly for random encounter tables.
RANDOM BLOGWAGON
Issuing a challenge to all bloggers: blog about the topic of “randomness” on a random day in June. Additional random tables are provided to assist you in your posting.
Review: Canal of Horrors
A review of an Electric Bastionland one-shot. Is Chris McDowall one of the funniest writers in TTRPGs?
Around the Blogosphere in 80 Days (Blogwagon Roundup)
A roundup of 50 blogs from the past few months that all focus on maps (including a few adventures that key off the same map).
Chain Stocking the Hex Map
A new method for procedurally generating the terrain of a hex map that adds some level of “memory” to the otherwise disconnected random tosses of the oracle dice.
Play Is Canon
What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in play, rather than what is merely prepped or written in whatever book you may be referencing.
Rating Every Room in White Plume Mountain
I review every single room (and some non-rooms) in the original funhouse dungeon and describe what makes them work or not work and what is worth stealing for your dungeons and what you should avoid, all based on over a decade of running this adventure for multiple groups.