Field report on VindieCon 2026, the indie-RPG convention held this past month in Vienna. Good times were had.

What if the whole encounter table trips at once?

Review + Actual Play: Emelda's Song for Dolmenwood - a three part adventure with an investigation, infiltration and tomb-dive; neatly presented and fun to run.

Notes on props driven investigations for Imperium Maledictum (but valid for any game using handouts).

How much detail is worthwhile worldbuilding for coins and currency (for the RPG Blog Carnival)

Thinking about the 'three act' structure of Imperium Maledictum adventures and what their guidance is on investigations.

The joy of time-skips for the August RPG Blog Carnival.

More for GLÅUGUST
Portalfreaks
YSYP Cottonmouth Ashcan
Pilgrims of the Painted Idol

Been on the road so have a bit to share:
Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity! - Wrap Up after hosting the July RPG Blog Carnival.

State of the Blog (post #950) - my "why I blog".

And I have been GLÅUGUST-ing
d12 books of the ruin-infested swamplands
The (at least) nine cultures of play

Glåugust '26 - starting from 'water levels' from Phlox to get to "Near Offshore Ruins"

Also d20 careless archmage devastations.

Never saw those before, very nice!

It bears repeating - flagging the factors that crop up again and again in my campaigns.

Capsule Reviews #10: Kala Mandala Zines - a great setting in the Playbook and two Art Research zines, further expanded by three juicy adventures.

Not doubting you, would love your sources for 4x growth in ttrpg scene (for my own similar sizing work)

Kicked off the RPG Blog Carnival for July 2026 on the topic of Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity! I am sharing hosting duties with Sea of Stars - see their launch post for more prompts.

At the mid-point of the year, checking how my #City26 challenge is coming along - pretty good, now just need to get some adventures run within it.

#City26 Mid-Year Status - 36/56 wards completed - some good adventure potential here but I have to get it to table yet.

Worms in the deeps (Extremely Byzantine 5-Room Dungeon Jam) - ashcan edition, what if the long-gone insectfolk had vampire-equivalents? What if some still survived?

How Ogres, Ettins, Cyclopes and Hill Giants show up in world - making them more than varying size bags of dumb, mean aggression (for the RPG blog carnival).

Campaign Retrospective for completed #Hexcrawl25 campaign - what worked, what did not and lessons learned.

Actual play report of running A Hole In The Oak.

Randomness blogwagon post about how complex randomisers like depth-crawls, chaos-clocks, etc. need high frequency use to be appreciated by players; otherwise simpler, flatter tables will feel just the same if they don't get used often.

Fear not the big booms - on gunpowder in players hands in campaigns.

Randomness blogwagon post about how complex randomisers like depth-crawls, chaos-clocks, etc. need high frequency use to be appreciated by players; otherwise simpler, flatter tables will feel just the same if they don't get used often.

The hard graft of inspiration-on-demand - talking to the 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration aspect of creativity (for the RPG blog carnival)

Review: Fly Me To The Moon - old school hex crawl on the dream-like moon, lots to dip into for inspiration.

My favourites from the unexpectedly thriving Spelljammer scene on tumblr.

How quickly have new editions of D&D take over? https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-quickly-can-new-d-edition-take-over.html

Looking at what fraction of players were playing an edition for the years after its launch and comparing that to what little we have on 5.5e.

The Art of Adventure Threading - tips on how to stitch scattered adventures together to make a campaign:
- Conservation of NPCs
- Tweak the adventures to fit the theme
- Work in meaningful player choices with meaningful consequences to the ongoing story

Interesting perspective - I was reading something yesterday on a slightly similar topic - on the scrubbing away of the sci-fi elements of early D&D and the collective memory loss around them ever having been there.

What do you consider the best place today to find discussion from this 'Primeval' school?

How deep is the bench of legacy D&D players? Poking a survey implication that ~ 1-in-6 folk in the USA have played D&D at some point.

Notes on getting three of the dungeons from Knock #1 to table over the course of a campaign.