XenogragThe Implied Setting of Mortal Kombat 2 Fighting Arena Backgrounds
https://monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-implied-setting-of-mortal-kombat-2.html
Stuffed CrocodileA Miscellany of Links pt. XXIII
Random Tables
d72 Squires (Bastionland)
D6 Social Media Services of the Near-Future (Archons March On)
D6x6 Sanguine Sirens (Archons March On)
d100 – Wilderness Woes & Hinterland Hazards (d4 Caltrops)
Chagrinspire Roadside Rubbish (Elfmaids & Octopi)
Hexcrawling for Ethyria pt 4 – d100 Islands (Elfmaids & Octopi)
Resources
The Great List of OD&D Games (The Fantastic is Fact)
The best adventures from Footprints — seven free old-school modules! (Eldritch Fields)
How I prep my games (Gorgon Bones)
5 Real Ancient Rituals to Add to Your D&D Games (Dump Stat Adventures)
Player Aid
The Familiar Unfamiliar: Playing Historical Characters in Weirder Settings (Silverarm)
Encounters
Friday Encounter: The Clueless Ghost (Tales of the Lunar Lands)
Friday Encounter: The Sacrifice (Tales of the Lunar Lands)
Friday Encounter: Tournament at the Bridge (Tales of the Lunar Lands)
Thought
The Languages of D&D Imply a Specific Setting (Prismatic Wasteland)
Dungeon Design Note: Defining Interactivity (All Dead Generations)
Sharing the Cognitive Load (Alles ist Zahl)
Perspective Shift: From Lore Dump to Lore Confetti (Githyanki Diaspora)
Dungeon Replayability (Behind the Helm)
DM Aid
The Labyrinths of the Ancients (Elfmaids & Octopi)
The Village of Hommlet is Too Much: Minimalist Location Sketches for Sandbox Prep (Blog of Forlorn Encystment)
Campaign Status Documents (The Alexandrian)
How the local church became evil (Elfmaids & Octopi)
Traveller
Time and Traveller (Ancient Faith in the Far Future)
Traveller Distinctives: Speculative Trade (Grognardia)
Paper Models
A Medieval Stone Bridge Papercraft For Dioramas And Wargames (papermau)
A Miscellany of Links pt. XXII
Random Tables
d66 Reasons Why the Castle is Totally Deserted (Blog of Forlorn Encystment)
Elemental Heretics (Elfmaids & Octopi)
d100 Poltergeists (Elfmaids & Octopi)
Let’s Build a Thieves Guild (OSRVault)
100 Urban Quest Hooks (OSRVault)
Ideas
Babies in Dungeons (Prismatic Wasteland)
Random Magic User Generator (Remixes and Revelations)
Sandbox Settlements: Downtime (Among Cats and Books)
Liminal Mists (Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet)
TIME must always have a COST – no 5-minute workdays (Methods & Madness)
A Southeast Asia Hexmap (Cats have no Lord)
Reputation Tables (Luke Gearing)
Player-Facing Pointcrawl: Regional Sandbox (Widdershins Wanderings)
https://perilandplunder.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/strange-brews/
Thirteen Tongues (Making Languages Interesting) (Dungeonfruit)
RANDOM ENCOUNTER TABLES AS ADVENTURE RAM: Adding “Memory” To Encounter Checks (I Cast Light!)
The Memory of Meatgrinder (Rise Up Comus)
Thought
Ode to GDW (Grognardia)
Disease are undead (Archons March On)
The Mythic Underworld is Gygaxian Naturalism (The Foot of Blue Mountain)
Is your RPG book Art? (Mediums and Messages)
The DM is Shut-Eye (In Places Deep)
Playing our own game (Grumpy Wizard)
Classes
Pangolin Class (Built by Gods long forgotten)
Monsters
The Manticore (Elfmaids & Octopi)
White Apes & Yeti (Elfmaids & Octopi)
Hobby History
The Rangeress and the Remorhaz (Thoul’s Paradise)
Why Did Natural 20’s Become Automatic Hits? (Delta’s D&D Hotspot)
Free Stuff
Tower of Retribution Complete (One Page Adventure)
Other Stuff
Galène was comparatively easy to setup (Alex Schroeder’s Diary)
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/01/06/copyright-free-images/
Outro
A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XX
Ho humm… these link collections are getting a bit long sometimes, especially if I don’t actually post them for a while.
Free Stuff
Goblinoid Games offers a draft of the Labyrinth Lord 2nd edition on their website
Pocket Basic Rules for OSR (drivethrurpg)
Random Tables
Where Did I Get These Spells From? (Elfmaids & Octopi)
Human After All (20 Ways To Achieve Immortality) (Dungeonfruit)
Dungeons in Decline, seige conditions and desertion (Elfmaids & Octopi)
Thought
It’s the Barter Economy, Stupid (Prismatic Wasteland)
Simple Weapon Lists (Ken the DM)
Roleplaying Games are Wargames (Gorgon Bones)
DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON: Let the Players Do The Creative Cooking (I cast light!)
Gygax’s Fortress (All Dead Generations)
Role Playing Games as an Educational Stimulation (Analog Games Studies)
Tabletop and Digital Rituals in Dungeons & Dragons (Analog Games Studies)
Shifting From Economics to Logistics (Traverse Fantasy)
D&D is not a game. It’s games (Wizard Thief Fighter)
GM Aides
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Retrocloning the Regional Events Tables (I cast light!)
PHILANTHROPY AS CAROUSING: Making Your Mistakes Other Peoples’ Problems (I cast light!)
An Example Draft of A Game Master’s Statement (Grumpy Wizard)
Titles and Honors to Award Your PCs (Brandes Stoddard)
Ability Scores as Origin Stories (Beneath Foreign Planets)
Create a sandbox map in 7 easy steps (or 10) (Methods & Madness)
Good Lore/Bad Lore (Mazirians Garden)
Listed Assumptions as Dungeon Characterization (Whose Measure God Could Not Take)
Other
Getting Started with Miniatures Painting: Basic Tools and Paints (Gorgon Bones)
This time a few more links than last week. Maybe even too many this time.
News
Reprint of Shadowrun 1st edition in the works (enworld)
Random Tables
d100 – Weird and Whimsical Wants for Fickle Fey (d4 Caltrops)
100 Interesting Rumors (Or Potential Plot Hooks!) (OSRVault)
Cult generator – D66 Cult names, heraldry and goals! (Dawnfist Games)
Thought
“Played by friends, not strangers” (Grognardia)
I Love Underused Monsters (Tales of the Lunar Lands)
The Ten Commandments of D&D (Grognardia)
My original fantasy sandbox: ICE’s Middle-earth (Akratic Wizardry)
What Choose-Your-Adventure Books Can Teach Game Masters About Pacing and Decisions (DMDavid)
GMing with Joy: GM Tools That Can Last a Lifetime (enworld)
On Hobby Best Practices – Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 (Gorgon Bones)
Rereading OD&D: Back to the Start (Coins & Scrolls)
Mystifying and Dangerous (Grognardia)
GM Aid
The Quantum Goodbye Letter (Dice Goblin)
Writing Dungeons Without Dice (Playful Void)
Dolmenwood Dozen (d4 Caltrops)
The BECMI reaction table (Methods & Madness)
Scribes (Dice Goblin)
Magic
Yet another magic system: Chaotic Spells and Strange Charms (Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet)
Encounters
D66 Astral plane encounters (Dawnfist Games)
Friday Encounter: Peryton Party (Tales of the Lunar Lands)
Friday Encounter: Mistaken Identity (Tales from the Lunar Lands)
Terrain
Dungeon Stackers and Triangular Dungeon Stackers (The Might Be Gazebos!)
Monsters
CYTHRONS (from 2000AD’s Slaine) – Monster for Old School Fantasy & Horror (Shuttered Room)
Traveller
Right On Commander! (Elite ships for Traveller)
Papercraft
Niederkassel Dice Tower (papermau)
Sericulture Farmhouse At The Foot Of Mount Gassan (papermau)
Other Stuff
Dungeon Running Sheets (The Alexandrian)
Conan the Barbarian (Newspaper Comic Strips Blog)
Some Observations on Science Fiction Names (From the Sorceror’s Skull)
Notes from Reading “The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions” (Whose Measure God Could Not Take)
https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/a-monday-miscellany-of-links-pt-xii/
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not a martian, honestTales of the Lunar Lands: Friday Encounter: The Fairy Feast
https://tales-of-the-lunar-lands.blogspot.com/2023/11/friday-encounter-fairy-feast.html
That might be useful as a side adventure
Friday Encounter: The Ghost at the Gallows
https://tales-of-the-lunar-lands.blogspot.com/2023/11/friday-encounter-ghost-at-gallows.html
Maybe a bit too specific
d100 Construction Delays for your Bastion or Stronghold
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2023/10/d100-construction-delays-for-your.html
Lego Dune is coming
https://boingboing.net/2023/10/25/lego-dune-is-coming.html
A roundup of interesting links from the last week
https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/23/a-miscellany-of-links-pt-v/
