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Daily TTRPG Blog Posts – Tuesday, 16 June 2026

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How To Cure GM Overwhelm When Your Brain Runs Out Of RAM

Roleplaying Tips – Tue, 16 June, 03:09 AM

Instinct vs. Prep. A GM in our community recently shared a struggle many of us face: “I generate NPC actions by zen and instinct, but eventually there are too many pieces to track. My notes become random, unactionable noise, and the prep becomes an exponential amount of work. How do I stop my campai... read more.

DC to Publish 'Compact Comics Adventures' for Young Readers

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Tue, 16 June, 02:03 AM

Plus: Supergirl for Early Readers, Middle-Grade Princesses, a New YA Hero, and More!... read more.

Voice / Expression / Reprise

The Garden Below – Tue, 16 June, 01:12 AM

Voice / Expression / Reprise A big thing I realised while playing Baseline Drift these past two weeks was just how much this blogs debut article, Voice / Expression, failed to appreciate the full scope of the ideas it presented. In that article I touched on how narrative, voice, and out of character... read more.

Rules & Rulings from Session 224

Dungeon Fantastic – Tue, 16 June, 01:12 AM

A few things came up in Session 224. - He probably wasn't seriously fishing for this* but a player asked if the Gorilla Gloves from DFT3 give him any affinity towards apes . . . sense their former presence in the "Apetrium" (a player-named room in the dungeon where they fought killer apes a decade ... read more.

All Things Random: NPCs to Remember

Missives From Mooncastle – Tue, 16 June, 12:41 AM

I’m what is commonly called an old-school gamer, which means (in addition to having chronic age-related back pain) that I love me some random tables. On an older blog, I wrote about how working on the random dungeon tables in the 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide was a highlight of my freelance editorial ca... read more.

Chip Zdarsky, Pete Woods, and a Cavalcade of Talent Lead the Muppets into the Marvel Universe

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Mon, 15 June, 09:27 PM

'The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe' #1 One-Shot Celebrates 50 years of 'The Muppet Show'... read more.

Experience the Cosmic Horror of Teen Drama at 'High School Cthulhu'

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Mon, 15 June, 05:51 PM

New RPG by Gear Games... read more.

910 Tomb of the Astral Knight – Drawn

Elven Tower Adventures – Mon, 15 June, 05:30 PM

This awesome cartography piece was featured in on our Patreon page and on issue 70 of Dungeon Vault Magazine. This map was also filmed while I made it. It’s a narrated timelapse we have on Youtube, hopefully you’ll like it If you like our content, please consider checking out our Patreon page so ... read more.

Session Log: Palace of the Vampire Queen 5

dungeon doll – Mon, 15 June, 04:21 PM

 [IN WHICH THE PARTY DISCOVER THE SECOND LEVEL, AND ORLYN TORCHBEARER DIES IN THE DARKNESS]We played Vampire Queen yesterday, only like 150 days after I actually ran the last session. Felt really good to be back. I've officially broken this blog's weird curse of never having more then 4 session logs... read more.

Feature: Cyberrats in Space

Backwards Tabletop – Mon, 15 June, 04:00 PM

This is Asa Donald with a mid-month mecha ttrpg feature! If you’d like to hear more from me, you can check me out on bluesky. As a reminder, this newsletter is free. To support it, me, or my games, sign up for my upcoming Kickstarter Violent Delights: a chess-based RPG about Romeo & Juliet. This is ... read more.

D10: Features for Starports

Azukail Games – Mon, 15 June, 02:58 PM

Starports can have features or customs that set them apart from each other. Here are ten such features to make such places more individualistic. Most will work for both space- and land-based ports. High levels of radiation exist in the area around the port, and it’s more heavily shielded as a result... read more.

Pokemon Company International Announces 2027 NAIC Location

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Mon, 15 June, 02:24 PM

Previews Pokemon World Championship Promos; Includes 'World Celebration' promo for LGS... read more.

Games Workshop Unveils New 'Warhammer Age of Sigmar' Boxed Sets

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Mon, 15 June, 02:02 PM

Also, 'Battletome: Hedonites of Slaanesh' Heads to Preorder... read more.

Chaos Lorebook: Oath of the Divided Eye

The Alexandrian – Mon, 15 June, 01:06 PM

The Blood that I shed do I devote to serve within the eternal Train of Souls. The Eyes of Flesh do I sacrifice for the gift of that immortal Eye which shall view all destruction. The Mortal Soul do I forsake to the void which shall be filled. My voice I raise until it shall be heard in the Paean of... read more.

Run your best actual play!: Share your world, not just the game – June 15, 2026

Kobold Press – Mon, 15 June, 01:00 PM

Over the last few articles, we’ve chatted a lot about strategies to shape your show for mass appeal. This time, I want to talk about content creation that supports your show. There are a lot of elements to consider that don’t appear on screen or behind a mic! Read all the Beyond the Audience articl... read more.

RPG Evolution: Will the real pirate king please stand up?

EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Mon, 15 June, 12:30 PM

The Pirate King who was the inspiration for some of the most notorious pirates in history benefited greatly from cultural misunderstandings and a lot of artistic license.... read more.

Return of the Witch-King 8: Old Bones

Schwalb Entertainment – Mon, 15 June, 11:00 AM

Return of the Witch-King 8: Old BonesA master adventure for your Return of the Witch campaign! A Tower of Bones, A Repository of Dread Secrets Riding the wave of ruin released when the Shield Mountains fall, the Witch-King’s legions begin their work to conquer the weakened Empire. Meanwhile, his... read more.

[Parsulan] Cold Hands, Stoneheart

From the Sorcerer's Skull – Mon, 15 June, 11:00 AM

Only seldom is the summit not shrouded in clouds, but on that rare day when it is visible, it's easy to see how the mining town in the high valley below gets the name Silver Peak. The pinnacle is forever sheathed in ice and snow that doesn't retreat with the change in season thanks to maddened eleme... read more.

I Read Heroes of the Borderlands

Playful Void – Mon, 15 June, 10:00 AM

I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually a lot, so I don’t take these very seriously. But I can talk about its choices and whether or not it ge... read more.

Shiny TTRPG links #281

Seed of Worlds – Mon, 15 June, 07:35 AM

Shiny links, get your shiny links! If this rich harvest does not satisfy, see the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch, delinked by request. Null Mana Crystal posts Design Talk - Event Crawli... read more.

New 'Transformers' Movie; 'Ghostbusters' Man the 'Night Shift'; 'Doctor Who' Showrunner Exits; 'Jem and the Holograms' Return; SNK Video Games Titles Optioned; 'Moana' Trailer

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Mon, 15 June, 07:31 AM

Showbiz Round-Up... read more.

Rolling for Initiative -- Thoughts on the Upcoming Free RPG Day

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Mon, 15 June, 06:29 AM

Column by Scott Throne... read more.

A Single Target Number

Sly Flourish – Mon, 15 June, 06:00 AM

Check out Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster coming soon to Kickstarter! The Index Card RPG has a neat idea we can try in many of our tabletop RPGs – using a single target number for an entire scene. Pirate Borg has the same idea. Here's how it works. Instead of worrying about different saving throws, ab... read more.

R.I.P. John Davis

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Mon, 15 June, 01:04 AM

Co-Founder of Capital City Distribution, Musician, Film Scholar... read more.

GURPS DF Session 224, Felltower 141 - Second GFS exploration

Dungeon Fantastic – Mon, 15 June, 12:49 AM

Game Date: 6/14/2026 Weather: Hot and partly cloudy. Characters Chop, human cleric (367 points) Hannari Ironhand, dwarf martial artist (360 points) Persistance Montgomery, human knight (347 points) Rogar Thane-Blood, human barbarian (259 points) Thor Halfskepna, human knight (373 points) Vladimir L... read more.

Stop Sharing Your Lore. Start Using It.

PhD20 – Mon, 15 June, 12:00 AM

Your players don't care about your world's lore. But that's no reason to stop developing it. We've all heard that first part before. And it's largely true. Most players' eyes glaze over (myself included) when the lore drop hits. Exposition is the exterminator of fun. But even lore presented in optio... read more.

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