it was initially used in the #blogosphere to justify going to an event you otherwise would have no interest going to or would be a bad logistical problem like buying overly expensive jason mraz tickets because you fear you might miss out on seeing him perform the remedy

20 Classes for a TTRPG about the Mongolian Empire I am working on a TTRPG. Here are its classes!

I wrote a blog post with 20 classes for an upcoming ttrpg I'm working on about Genghis Khan's early life!

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#ttrpg #ttrpgs #blogosphere #osr

February 2026 Community Posts! Hello book pandas! February has somehow come and gone which mean it’s time to share some of my favourite posts from across the book community this month. I seemed to read and enjoyed a lot of…

End of another months means it's time to share some of my favourite posts from across the #blogosphere in February! If you're looking for book bloggers or new things to read, check out these awesome posts by amazing creators! #BookBlog #BookSky #BookCommunity
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Fediverse.party is looking for a social blogging platform to highlight. I just posted some musing on possible selection criteria and the pros and cons of various candidates;

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Tipa dives into HeroQuest First Light’s King Forgrin’s Trove—spy trouble, Dread Warriors and Abominations, a trap-fired room, and a loot haul to prep for the campaign’s final battles. Cliffski shows off Ridiculous Space Battles’ slick new race-selection animation and a calmer deployment screen palette, then tees up the next grind: weapon/module balance via fast battle-sim stats. Shintar republishes (with updates and permission) FJ Brodie’s SWTOR Hoth GSI missions guide—where to grab terminals, quick-slot Seeker Droid/Macrobinoculars, and run dailies like Crash Courses post-7. Wilhelm checks in on Fantasy Critic League week seven as six games finally hit the board—Mewgenics lands strong, while a few sub-80 launches flirt with the regret zone. Michael drops a packed gaming-blog roundup—newsletters, indie dev blogs, ttrpg Bloggies nominees, Bitsy’s creator doing Twine-for-Casio IF, Zork troll combat, festival culture worries, and cheap minis Anarchae’s week 7 digest covers settling into CachyOS, a new job offer and paperwork, plus recent Mrs Bradley mysteries—highlighting The Devil at Saxon Wall as a top recommendation. Juhis describes bizarre “wake up early” dreams where he has to finish video-game-style tasks before waking, stuck in a looping Groundhog Day vibe—this time he escaped in time for the doctor. Tobold digs into board-game YouTube ad drama, arguing paid view-boosting and algorithm gaming can juice numbers without real buyers—great for dashboards, useless for selling actual consumer goods. Tofutush traces discovering Jennifer Government via NationStates, resurrects a long-lost “Republic of Bauhinia,” and shares its hilariously bleak autogenerated profile—consumerism, vanishing dissent, Tim Bray shares calm, no-polemics anecdata: Rob Sayre used Claude while sending PRs to Quamina, a Go JSON-matching library, and the merged changes roughly doubled benchmark speed. Dave Winer asks for help fixing Daytona search “NaN” archive glitches via GitHub issues…

New week, new #DailyBlogroll with new stories by Tipa, Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Tim Bray, Juhis, Michael, Anarchae, Blockade85, Cliffski, Tofutush, Tobold, Shintar and more!

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#Tabletop #IndieDev #GamingCommunity #Blogosphere

Aywren tries Coffee Quest VR on a Meta 3S, praises the teleport vs walking options and the chill sandbox mode, and enjoys the streamlined barista loop of orders, trays, and dishwashing. Syp tours LOTRO’s Kingdoms of Harad zone An Sheru, likes the thoughtfully creepy undead designs but finds the area ugly and theme-less—so he swaps to his Mariner for some spider-slicing therapy. Tipa dives into Erenshor’s “Rising Shadows” update, loving the healer QoL tweaks and new guild system—then immediately starts a rival-suffocating recruitment campaign and rolls a risky Reaver. Heartless reacts to Ashes of Creation blowing up on Reddit, reflecting on the long-running “scam” accusations around Steven Sharif, community drama like Narc’s flip, and what a smaller future might be Bhagpuss is 121 hours deep into Baldur’s Gate 3 and admits Act 3 has turned from RPG into a replayable battle-toy—save-scumming fights for better outcomes while the plot fades into noise. Krista’s handy primer on cosy life-sim Starsand Island ahead of Early Access covers the island-homecoming premise, farming/fishing/DIY customization, tons of crops, and hybridization for unique blooms Wilhelm breaks down EVE Online’s tiny 2026 roadmap image, highlighting CCP’s big push on Faction Warfare/Military Campaigns plus extras like EVE Evolved graphics updates and the Gallente Election. Warner Crocker vents at Senate Democrats for not “showing up” in the DHS funding fight, especially dropping a demand to ban ICE agents from polling sites despite escalating election-control rhetoric. Belghast shares a tough surgeon visit about staging and treating rectal cancer—MRI next, with hope for surgery-only but bracing for chemo/radiation, ports, and a long recovery that derails travel. Dave Winer’s midweek grab-bag: WordCamp Europe plans, Feedland’s Hacker News “most-quoted blogs” river, an Inbound RSS-for-WordPress app hiccup, and a neat WordPress markdown-in-RSS plugin. Tofutush posts an OC Creator Questionnaire…

Today's #DailyBlogroll comes from Tipa, Wilhelm, Dave Winer, Blockade85, Aywren, Belghast, Krista, Heartless, Warner, Bhagpuss, Tofutush, Syp and more!

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#MMORPG #VRGaming #GamingUpdates #Blogosphere

That used to include blog sites as well, where you'd post to your blog and then read a combined feed of other blogs that you follow through RSS, Atom, or h-feed.

Mobile operating systems display notifications only from the app publisher's server. I wonder how much that hurt the #blogosphere.

Hexmas Map 2025 by Bakenshake A hexcrawl of all the hexes created by Bloggers for Hexmas 2025

RELEASE: The complete #hexmas map is now available for you to peruse! Download the pdf version to see all the bloggers who contributed to this awesome blogwagon by @prismaticwasteland.com.

#blog #ttrpg #bloggers #blogosphere

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Nicht nur Blogperlen 2025: Was, wen und warum ich lese Welche Blogs, Newsletter und Stimmen prägen meine tägliche Lektüre – und warum Social Media dabei kaum noch eine Rolle spielt. Ein persönlicher Blick auf meine Informationsquellen 2025, – und auf die Frage, ob mir KI-Agenten künftig helfen oder nur filtern.

Many Faces of the OSR tl;dr: "OSR" is a banner flown over many folk, often unalike, occasionally strongly opposed - generalisations do not come easily. Elmcat di...

#OSR covers a lot of things - described to me as a big tent with many different acts going on - now the blogosphere project gives us the moving image that demonstrates this

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#dnd #blogosphere #ttrpg

#blogosphere

[Design Diary] Taking the ‘Initiative’ in RPG Design — Inner-Strength Check Podcast Élodie talks about the design journey behind one very specific subsystem in her RPG, Echoes of Yesterday: Initiative. She also weighs up pros and cons within the various games that inspired it.

I’m trying to get into this whole ‘blogging’ thing. Read about me going through way too many iterations on my game’s initiative rules:

#ttrpgdesign #ttrpgcommunity #blogosphere

@aj I’ve been looking for a replacement for #b2evolution since François shut down the project.

#comment #ghost #selfhosting #blogosphere

Looking forward to the answer about comments flowing to ghost

The value of on-site blog comments is debated. Many feel discussions have migrated to social media & dedicated forums. Is it better to embrace external platforms or try to retain comments on-site? #Blogosphere 5/6

Fehlende Rücktritte, fehlende Gespräche: Verantwortungslosigkeit trifft Sprachlosigkeit zwischen den Generationen Politische Verantwortung bedeutet, Fehler einzugestehen und Konsequenzen zu ziehen. Doch viele Politiker tun genau das Gegenteil – und untergraben damit das Vertrauen in die Demokratie. Außerdem in der Wochenschau: ein Streifzug durch Blogs, Mediathekperlen und den Generationendialog im Netz.

Wenn Scheuer, Spahn oder Klöckner Fehler machen, bleiben Konsequenzen aus. #Verantwortung? Fehlanzeige. Genau das fördert #Politikverdrossenheit und stärkt die #NoAfD. Ein Blick auf deutsche Verantwortungskultur – und Gedanken zur #Blogosphere der Ollen in der #Wochenschau.

Ruins Blogs were the tinder from which the fire of the Old School Renaissance was sparked. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, there was a genuine _explosion_ of creativity across the RPG blogosphere, fueled by enthusiasm for old school _Dungeons & Dragons_ and its many descendants, both literal and spiritual. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of blogs appeared, written by referees, players, professional designers, and amateur theorists eager to share ideas, reminiscences, house rules, and reflections on what made the earlier, pre-3e versions of _D &D_ so compelling. Grognardia was one of them and, like many others, it eventually went quiet. Real life has a way of asserting itself and even the most passionately pursued hobbies often yield before it. I was away from this blog for nearly eight years before returning and, somewhat to my surprise, the years since are _more numerous_ than those before my hiatus, even if I no longer post at the same manic pace that nearly destroyed me. Unfortunately, many other wonderful blogs from that era _haven’t_ returned. Most still _exist_ in some fashion. You can find them if you look, but they are, for all practical purposes, _ruins_ : silent, abandoned, and sometimes crumbling under the slow decay of broken image links and expired widgets. That saddens me. The OSR blogosphere was, in many ways, the intellectual and creative heart of a movement none of us fully understood while it was happening. Before social media transformed everything into a fast-scrolling feed of ephemeral opinions and algorithmic noise, blogs allowed for longer, more thoughtful engagement. There was conversation between blogs, even, perhaps especially, _when we disagreed_ , as we frequently and passionately did. Posts would spark responses, build on shared ideas, or spin off in wild new directions. Someone would post a new take on alignment or a character class, and within days, if not hours, half a dozen other blogs would riff on the idea in a cascade of strange and wonderful interpretations. That kind of idea-driven collaboration was a joy to witness and to be part of. Every so often, I revisit some of my old bookmarks: Sham’s Grog & Blog, Planet Algol, The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms, Beyond the Black Gate, The Society of Torch, Pole, and Rope, Malevolent & Benign, The Mule Abides, A Paladin in Citadel, Dreams of Mythic Fantasy, and many more whose names, sadly, I can no longer recall. Some blogs ended with a fond farewell. Far more simply _stopped_. A few sputter back to life from time to time, like torches catching momentarily in the damp before going out again. I don’t blame anyone for moving on. We all have our seasons and many of those who once blogged now create elsewhere or simply play games without publicly sharing their thoughts. I did the same for a long while and there’s definitely something to be said for it. Still, I miss that earlier era, not just the _quantity_ of content, but the _spirit behind it._ I miss the curiosity, the delight in obscure mechanics and half-forgotten rules, and, above all, the reckless, unfiltered creativity. I think a lot of us needed that back then. _I know I did_. Much of that creative energy has since shifted to platforms like Discord, Reddit, Substack, or YouTube. Each has its own strengths, but none really replicates what the old blogs offered. Blogs were open and long-form. They rewarded thoughtfulness over immediacy. They were searchable and, maybe most importantly, _linkable_. You could stumble across a blogroll and find yourself falling into a rabbit hole of interconnected creativity that might last _hours_. That’s much harder to do now, where so much is hidden behind logins or paywalls or simply submerges into the stream of slop. We can’t go back to 2009. I know that. Still, it’s worth remembering what was lost or _at least what was left behind_. Maybe, if a few more of us keep our torches lit, something like it can grow again – not a recreation but a _continuation_ of the same spirit. As any _D &D _player knows, _ruins are places where treasure is found_.

#blogospherefind #osr #ttrpg #blogosphere

https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/07/ruins.html

Zur Tonlage in manchen deutschen Blogs und Kommentarspalten Es wird gestritten, polemisiert, geblockt: Bei all der Euphorie um Blogvielfalt bleibt der Ton oft auf der Strecke und ist oft nicht besser als in den sozialen Medien. Wir brauchen wieder mehr Respekt auch in digitalen Debatten.

"Ein bisschen Kindergarten ist Bloghausen ja immer wieder mal," schreibt Thomas Gigold. Recht hat er. Die sich oft selbst sehr lobende #Blogosphere benimmt sich an manchen Stellen nicht besser als die viel gescholtenen sozialen Medien. Auch hier fehlt es leider oft an Respekt. #Bloggen #Respekt

WordPress, Your Way Create your site. Share your voice. Earn online.

Nouveau billet dans #paysages: « Paysages – seizième année d’existence sur la toile donc déjà six ans sur wordpress.com (billet trilingues français, allemand, anglais) »
#blogosphere
#Blogosphäre

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"#Socialnetworks were built on short posts designed for #speed & #scale. But what if the next era of the web was built for something deeper?
Two of the #socialweb’s “#longformers”…John O’Nolan, CEO of #Ghost, and Matthias Pfefferle, developer of the #ActivityPubplugin for #WordPress, are […]

Hard Mode and Modularity - PresGas Words I went down the morning’s RSS hole and found Jeremy’s Take on Rules’ article on “Hard Mode” along with the subsequent reading of Joan Westenberg’s…

Posted some extra thoughts about @joanwestenberg.com and @takeonrules.com blog posts recently. Helped make me crystalize my thoughts on simple, convivial tools and just contributing to that #blogosphere

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De MacPoek is opengeklapt. Mijn hoofd hangt nu al vast. 🥴 Laat ik eerst maar eens kijken wat ik überhaupt nog heb lopen aan online omgevingen en welke ik daarvan wil gaan invullen of ombouwen.

#webzijdes #blogosphere #oldskool