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Periodically on Discord people will share resources for various aspects of TTRPG creation (writing, editing, art, layout, etc.). My latest blog post is a compilation of everything I have seen shared, in case it is useful for anyone: scipio202.bearblog.dev/resources-fo...

Resources for TTRPG Creators

I am not a TTRPG creator, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night I hang out with a bunch of them on various discords. Occasionally people have ask...

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I wrote about focusing on our GMing "growing edges" (rather than trying to get better at everything all at once); plus some focused GMing exercises I found that we can do to develop our craft in between sessions scipio202.bearblog.dev/growing-edge...

Growing Edges and GMing Exercises

Growing Edges There are a lot of different aspects of being a GM - a lot of different valuable skills: setting up a good adventure structure, fun and challe...

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Folks should read Patchwork Paladin's Newsletter! Always interesting things on here! patchworkpaladin.com/2026/08/08/p...

Patchwork Newsletter (Vol 2, Issue 32)

This week’s ttrpg newsletter including discord discussions, blog posts to read, projects to download and of course a poem.

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Last day for the Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster Kickstarter! Don’t miss out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sly...

Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster

Run great tabletop RPGs by preparing less.

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I'm getting ready to start a Curse of Strahd game and I want to run the Written in Blood adventure as a teaching one shot. My latest blog post goes over some ideas two Hook and Chance podcast episodes about horror and how I'm applying them to the adventure. scipio202.bearblog.dev/using-hook-a...

Using Hook and Chance's "Bones of Horror" to prep Written in Blood

I’m going to be starting a Curse of Strahd campaign with my brother and sister-in-law (who have been playing with me for a while) and my sister and brother-i...

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News: World of Warcraft and D&D? Hasbro Q2 Growth! D&D Movie Sequel Script? And more! Listen or watch: masteringdungeons.podbean.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ps... #DnD #TTRPG #WoW

My friend @slyflourish.com is crowdfunding Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster, which packages his expertise and practice over many years running and making various RPG games. Mike Shea has run a many successful projects that produced books I'm glad to have in my library. Check this one out.

Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster

Run great tabletop RPGs by preparing less.

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Support a healthy member of our hobby today!

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Our campaign for Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster is doing great! Join in and help our book become a reality! *Rise* captures the best GM advice, tips, tricks, and tools I've gathered to help GMs run great games! Check it out and share it with your friends! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sly... #ttrpg

After persistent encouragement by several friends - I finally got off my duff and started a blog. It's probably going to be mostly the kind of "here's a neat thing I found" posts that I share on Discord, with a goal of simple and low friction. scipio202.bearblog.dev

Patchwork Paladin is not here on bsky to promote it, but are people wise to her newsletter? Great picks for the cream of the blogosphere each week, a swift rundown of what’s in the discourse and my personal favourite, a weekly poem. #osr #ttrpg #blog #newsletter

Patchwork Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 28

This week’s Discord discussions, blog posts to read, projects to download, arrivals, a ton of play reports, and of course a poem.

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official update of rootring state elmc.at/rootring-mon...

rootring months later

rootring has grown over the months. Here is what's new, what's changed and where it's going.

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I just backed Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster on @kickstarter.com. This is an amazing book of extremely useful GMing advice. It builds on and deepens Mike's Lazy GMing philosophy, with a combination of practical advice and table-ready ideas. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sly...

Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster

Run great tabletop RPGs by preparing less.

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Signed up for Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster on Kickstarter. Sly Flourish's Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master is the book I reach for most when prepping games, Shadowdark, Slugblaster, D&D, everything. Can't wait to see what he's put together in this new one. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sl...

Coming soon: Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster

Run great tabletop RPGs by preparing less.

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Kickstarter Whales 2: The Whales' Tail – Guest Post: Patchwork Paladin https://patchworkpaladin.com/2026/06/11/kickstarter-whales-2-the-whales-tail-guest-post/ #dnd #ttrpg

I wrote a guest post analyzing the four biggest RPG crowdfuding campaigns. I look at all the tiers and how much money they raised. Most surprising stat: the $999 tier of Neon Odyssey raised the same amount ($5.5M) as the *total* for the #5 all-time RPG campaign. patchworkpaladin.com/2026/06/11/k...

Kickstarter Whales 2: The Whales’ Tail – Guest Post

Guest author Scipio202 gives a second set of analyses of mega-Kickstarters, this time focusing on the ultra-whale tier, like the $999 tier that raised $5.5 million for Neon Odyssey.

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I'm collecting data on how weird we are. forms.gle/ric62Zm5gwKL...

What TTRPGs is the Blogosphere playing?

I want to see how different the TTRPG blogosphere is from DungeonTube. Three questions: - What games are you running? - What games are you playing in? - What game do you most want to play next? If y...

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google search is broken? fear not! rootring now has a search engine that lets you look for posts and contents from blogs on rootring search.rootr.ing

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Search indexed posts from across rootring.

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My God someone actually did the math — and in a thoughtful way (which is to say, you can quibble with some choices in the methodology around stuff like inflation but the choices are laid out so you can replicate this if you wanted to)

Kickstarter Whales – Guest Post

A guest post by Scipio202 that analyses million dollar ttrpg Kickstarters, focusing on the high-cost whale tiers, which generated an average of 23.25% of funding.

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Kickstarter Whales – Guest Post: Patchwork Paladin https://patchworkpaladin.com/2026/05/18/kickstarter-whales-guest-post/ #dnd #ttrpg

Ohio LGBTQ+ youth gain XP and craft queer tales through tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons. “To be able to see representation of [your identity] and then see yourself [or] your experiences reflected in the game can be really heartwarming." ✏️ @bjodway.com via @reportforamerica.bsky.social

Ohio LGBTQ+ youth gain XP and craft queer tales through tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons had a resurgence in the past decade. D&D and games like it have found popularity among LGBTQ+ community - including Ohio, where Kaleidoscope Youth Center hosts a D&D program for LGB...

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Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

A post on engaging with fucked up real world nightmare shit in Our Games, by @humza.bsky.social‬ blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/07/07/e...

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

35 blogs are nominated for "Best Debut Blog", and voting starts tomorrow! I know you want to be an informed voter, but who has time to read every single post from 35 blogs? If only someone collected a single illustrative post from each of the finalists in this category! I have good news #osr #ttrpg

Blogs from the Year of the Dragon

There are a whopping 35 Finalists for Best Debut Blog 2024. I highlight one (1) post from each of them so you can get some familiarity before entering the voting booth.

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Yet another amazing category. Having used all 3 of these medalist posts in my game prep, I couldn't agree more with the final verdict! You can see the results here: docs.google.com/forms/d/13Dc... On Friday, we'll kick off the bonus round: Debut Blog! So keep your eyes peeled. 👀

🏆BLOGGIES 2024 - BONUS - DEBUT BLOG🏆 I'm excited to introduce this new bonus category (the only change I made to the bloggies over previous hosts) to spotlight new bloggers in their debut year. You can vote here: forms.gle/FhR5bWcb8yFo... Voting will be open until 9pm GMT on Monday.

Debut Blog Voting Form (Bonus Category)

This is the official voting form for the BLOGGIES 2024. Voting is live for roughly 24 hours (finishing around 6-7pm GMT). More information on the awards, schedule and previous results. As a bonus cat...

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🏆BLOGGIES 2024 COMMENCE🏆 Throughout December, the community has nominated over 320 unique blog posts for this year’s BLOGGIES (over double the previous year!). With the nominations now narrowed down, we now turn to public voting! More info here: sachagoat.blot.im/bloggies-202...

BLOGGIES 2024 Commence! - sachagoat

Want to skip to the finalists, click here. The BLOGGIES are a yearly awards event that debuted on the Prismatic Wasteland blog in 2022 to

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@dmsamuel.bsky.social is back! It's time for the Twelve Days of Edition Wars. @brandesstoddard.bsky.social and Sam are talking about the 2024 DMG chapter by chapter, and I'm really happy to hear them get started on this, like I am with every "Twelve Days" they've done over the last few years.

Starting up #Hexcrawl25 TTRPG worldbuilding project in 2025! #Dungeon23 vibes but hexier 😎 Build a campaign setting from the ground up with ur own art and words (and maybe some markers and dice)! Read about it here: maatlockstavern.com/hexcrawl25 or just check out this handy schematic.