Article Roundup #1
Collecting some of my favorite articles I've read recently in a big ol' dump. Since bsky doesn't let me archive.
In Art
Hildegard von Bingen's Eternal Garden, Hyperallergic
In TTRPG Design
Different Character Methods at Different Times, Rise Up Comus
Hostile Negotiations: Social Combat Rules, Prismatic Wasteland
Into the OSR: On Diegetic Advancement, Taskerland
Schrödinger’s Chat 2: Amended & Restated Quantum Language Rules, Prismatic Wasteland
In Worldbuilding Ideas
About Damn Times: A Campaign Event Table, Silverarm
Anti-Canon Ancestry, Prismatic Wasteland
Biblically Inaccurate Religions, mindstorm
Character Studies, The Dododecahedron
Glory of the Elder Days: Magic Items and Sandbox Histories, Silverarm
Moonlight Glitters upon Weregild, Prismatic Wasteland
Rethinking Religion in RPG Settings, Widdershins Wanderings
the infrastructure of magical convenience, in lowercase
You Got Democracy in My Medieval Fantasy!, Prismatic Wasteland
In Dungeon Design
100 Dungeon Entrances, The Dododecahedron
Anti-Colonial Dungeon, Afraid of Encounters
Crossing the Dungeon Rubicon, The Dododecahedron
Megadungeon Malls and Collaborative Caverns, Prismatic Wasteland
In TTRPG Meta
Apolitical RPGS Do Not Exist, Prismatic Wasteland
Dare to Play it Straight, Explorer's Design
D&D is anti-medieval, Blog of Holding
Dungeons & Deconstruction, Rise Up Comus
the default dungeon is colonial, in lowercase
Embracing Colonialist Dungeons, Diceless
Mother, Maiden, Madonna, Medusa, Prismatic Wasteland
OSR Rules Families, Traverse Fantasy
Miscellanea
Cairn
What Doesn't Kill You Should Make You Stranger, The Eucatastrophe
Expanding Injury in Cairn (and elsewhere), Pointless Monument
Imperium Maledictum
The Tellian Sector: The Ursulines of Bhadra, The Retired Adventurer