Cat Scraps: Apr 26
A monthly pile of blog links dragged home by the cat. The highlights and commentary live in the corresponding CATMAIL. If you want those in your inbox, you can subscribe here.
Among Cats
Scene, community, publishing, and hobby culture
- Congas.blog: Is the OSR evolving?
- Crow's Corner: Designing Pamphlet Games (With Shitty Printers in Mind)
- Hilander RPGs: You Should Publish That
- Idraluna Archives: AAJ Reflection 2: The Future of The Antarctic Adventure Jam
- in lowercase: the first encounter of the roleplaying kind
- Inside Wicak Hidayat: We Are Always Looking For Something We Cannot Get
- Prismatic Wasteland: Around the Blogosphere in 80 Days (Blogwagon Roundup)
Among Books
Essays, theoryslop, craft, and advice
- afcbrodie: Seize, Ground, Listen
- Afraid of Encounters: Anti-colonial TTRPG Map
- ars ludi: A Star-Pattern Loophole: Words, Words, Words
- Being An Asshole To A Goblin (BAATAG): Elements of a Key 4: Rules for Key-Writing
- Inside Wicak Hidayat: We Play to Expose
- Leicester's Ramble: "Maps" Blogwagon: Maps with Perspective...
- New School Revolution: Writing Modules For Cairn
- Personable Thoughts: The Map Speaks: Communicating Via Maps
- PonderTheGoose: Hex'd about Hexes: Keep up the pace
- Pseudodungeon: Light the Way! An Alternative to Tracking Torches
- Rise Up Comus: Framing a Kung Fu Campaign
- RPGs Are BDSM: Thoughts Regarding Host Style
- Scribbles and Horrors: Additional Treasure Categories
- Seed of Worlds: Mapwork in campaigns (Maps Blogwagon)
- Table 46: Hex Maps Need Empty Rooms
- Taskerland: Where The Work Happens
- The Gem Room Games Blog: Lie with Fictional Maps
- The Novel Game Master: The Many Editions of D&D
- The Rpg Gazette: Barthes' Death of the Author at the Gaming Table: Who Owns the Story You Tell Together?
- WatcherDM: Depthcrawls and Dice
- Woo The Moon: A Scene, an Encounter, and a Situation walk into a bar...
- Writings: Common OSR System Questions
- XP Rolls: D&D 5E is the TripTik of Tabletop RPGs
Playable Bits
Rules, procedures, tools, and drop-in material
- 3x5 Arcana: Just use (3x5) Bears
- 400 independent bathrooms: d4 bags that are worse than bag of holding
- A Blasted, Cratered Land: Mothership: Alternative Trauma Responses
- All Dead Generations: Every Angel is Terrifying...
- blark blog: Bulkheads
- Blog of Forlorn Encystment: Developing the Sandbox: The Town
- Bommyknocker Press: Streamlining Hit Locations
- Cavorting Whorl: Mechanics Microblog: Secrets, Tension & Pipeweed
- Chaoclypse: RED SUN
- d4 Caltrops: d100 - Magic Bracers & Bracelets
- Daniel Sell: Swarms and Banking Initiative
- Dice in the North: 1d30 Ghostly Apparitions
- Dungeon Mecha: Pissgoblins
- Errant Thinking: Woland: The Silver Cradle
- Fool's Pyrite: Season-ing my game world
- Gorgon Bones: Class: Meat Golem
- Hags: Sacred Numbers: Alternative Birth-Signs
- Joe B.: Troika Tuesday: Mountaineering Rulez, Cliffcrawl: Generating a Mountain, with example
- MASCARA KNIGHT: d4 Bags that are better than bag of holding
- Natural 7: Wasting Money in the UVG
- Necromancers Killed our Master Club: Folk Magic and Secret Magic (GLOG: Cantrips)
- Prismatic Wasteland: Chain Stocking the Hex Map
- shifty louts: The Idealogue (An OD&D Cleric Variant)
- Shuttered Room: Resurrecting the PSEUDO-UNDEAD - Part Four: Mummies
- Spiceomancy: Throneposting
- The Anarchist Spellbook: Stranded in the Pitch Black
- The Foot of Blue Mountain: Realm of Yolmi Bestiary Conversion
- The Magniloquent Moth: Aging and Dying in Mothership
- To Be Resolved: Dungeon Stocking with Markov Processes
- TRAIPSE: 1d6 Bounty Hunters
- Wandering Diejack: Freeform Pointcrawls
- Was It Likely?: a lifepath for a stolen world
- Was It Likely?: the worst man in the world is an orc
- Whose Measure God Could Not Take: d20 Yet More Magic Items
Cat Curios
Reviews, play reports, experiments, and oddities
- a wandering mind: edmo's Apocalypse World podcast syllabus
- Cats Have No Lord: Review - Rare Bird
- Explorers Design: Reviewing Rise of the Blood Olms
- Goblin's Henchman: Flooding Dungeon Complex | Surprise Easter dungeon play report
- Magnolia Keep: The Explicit Worldbuilding of Dungeons and Dragons or: Do Elves Have Souls???
- Notes from The Labyrinth: Taking a closer look at Microscope
- Puzzle Dungeon: I ran all the pamphlet triptych adventures and all I got was a fantastic time
- Rambled Worlds: Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card
- Seed of Worlds: Review: The Monster Overhaul
- The Dolent Chronicle: Flip Through — Fatherfog
- The Garden Below: Instant Acceleration
- The Nothic's Eye: In Economy We Trust (Some Notes on the USA of Invisible Hands)
- The Play Reports: Blue Prince is a Depth Crawl
- This Vorpal Coil: The Magic of 'Til Death, The Ashen Empire
- Throne of Salt: Remaking LotR With Only Public Domain Sources: Part 2
- TRAIPSE: DM tip: write fiction
- Trick's Tale: Tradlife: A psychological horror solo TTRPG
- Whispers from the Sky-Spire: 2026 Reviews - Bloodmarn Barrow
- yakamo: I Hate Play By Posts So I Ran One
That’s what the cat dragged in this month. If you wrote or read something I should see next time, send it my way. If you want to discover more blogs, take a look around rootring.