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Daily TTRPG Blog Posts – Thursday, 2 July 2026

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So you want to try out a Braunstein game?

Mythic Mountains – Thu, 02 July, 04:08 AM

I have lived among the bros and my findings are fascinatingThanks to my friends Reed and Glen, along with a host of helpful people among the BrOSR including , and I’ve gotten to run and play in a revolutionary form of gameplay called a Braunstien.If you’ve heard of Dave Wesely’s “Braunstein”, tha... read more.

Balancing Magic, Bears & Hit Points

Roleplaying Tips – Thu, 02 July, 02:14 AM

Happy Canada Day! While swatting mosquitoes and sipping cool bevvies, let’s look at a dilemma that community member Sir Tainley poses about explaining the strength of commoners in certain game systems: I’m designing a world for a D&D 5e clone. I want magic to be reasonably common, and taught in the ... read more.

Pro: Riding the TCG Wave in 2026

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 11:23 PM

It's Not All Froth (Plus Spring 2026 Top TCG Chart)... read more.

CGE Brings 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance' to the Tabletop

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 10:48 PM

Licensed Board Game by Tomas Holek and Vlaada Chvatil... read more.

Graphic Novels and Tabletop Games Ruled at ALA Show

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 09:53 PM

Check Out Our Photo Tour... read more.

Object-Oriented Conversations

To Be Resolved – Wed, 01 July, 08:53 PM

Last year I wrote a couple of essays wrestling with the concept of Narrative in tabletop RPGs. In the first, I waddled through the delineation of diegetic and non-diegetic objects, eventually arriving at a weak thesis: Narrative is the synthesis of the Game State interacting with the Imagined Space... read more.

PSA Releases Update on Grading Submission Backlog

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 07:34 PM

Operations Team Working Overtime and Weekends to Grade Outstanding Submissions... read more.

DM’s Guild Review: Drizzt Do’Urden’s Guide to Combat

The Kind GM – Wed, 01 July, 07:06 PM

Drizzt Do’Urden’s Guide to Combat is a supplement by Darrin Scot, giving lots of valuable advice on how to run combat encounters. It’s a bit of an older title, released back in 2019, but all the content in it is very much still relevant. New people start this hobby all the time, and this is […]... read more.

Cypher Character Rulebook

Monte Cook Games – Wed, 01 July, 04:55 PM

Everything you need to play Cypher—whether you’re delving into a dungeon, exploring the dark corridors of a derelict spaceship, facing […] The post Cypher Character Rulebook appeared first on Monte Cook Games.... read more.

Rebellion Unplugged Announces New Expansion for 'Sniper Elite: The Boardgame'

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 04:06 PM

'Operation Kraken'... read more.

Honeybees Progress Update July 2026

To Be Resolved – Wed, 01 July, 03:36 PM

What a busy June, good heavens! This month been quietly productive on the Honeybees front. I completed a first (and instantly obsoleted) draft of Queen Bee Ambitions and Temperaments at the beginning of the month in order to snap a baseline of the twelve tendencies that I originally proposed in What... read more.

Worker Placement Manifesto

Traverse Fantasy – Wed, 01 July, 03:29 PM

A specter is haunting elf-games… the specter of WORKER PLACEMENT! (Please, God, don't let people read this as if I was suggesting this was actually a manifesto and am not just playing to the theme.)Many years ago, I posted about an assumption of the original Dungeons & Dragons which was eventually f... read more.

Releasing in July 2026

Azukail Games – Wed, 01 July, 03:23 PM

July 4th 100 Hooks and Rumours for Fading Suns: Lost Worlds IV 100 Mirrors to Find in a Dungeon 100 Mirrors to Find in a Dungeon (PFRPG) Map – Warehouse July 11th 100 Chests to Find in a Dungeon (5E) 100 Knick-knacks for Griffin Mountain What’s In the Box? 100 Food and Drink to Find … Continue readi... read more.

Kodama Tales License 'Cyber Blue,' by 'Fist of the North Star' Creator

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 02:55 PM

Plus Hard-Boiled School Story 'Crows' and Three Other Seinen Titles... read more.

Going Back To The Well

This Vorpal Coil – Wed, 01 July, 02:34 PM

So, game development update. So far I’ve got some core functionality implemented: you can move around, swing a pickaxe to break rocks, and rocks drop different kinds of ore (right now it’s stone, iron, gold, amethyst, and diamond) that you can pick up and put into your inventory. Rocks are procedura... read more.

Renegade Hires New Director of RPG Brand; GAMA Introduces New Director of Marketing and Communications; Firoz Rana Leaves Steamforged Games, Joins Freecompany d.o.o.

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 02:02 PM

People on the Move Round-Up... read more.

State of Play: I almost died, but it didn’t dim my love of Gen Con – July 1, 2026

Kobold Press – Wed, 01 July, 01:00 PM

Kobold Press CEO and Kobold-in-Chief, Wolfgang Baur, is here to tell stories of near death! Convention season is here, and I admit I have a love/hate relationship with the gathering of the tabletop tribes. On the one hand, conventions are an amazing way to connect with the hobby and make great memor... read more.

How to Use All 18 Skills

The GM Is Always Right - Dump Stat Adventures – Wed, 01 July, 01:00 PM

There are 18 skills in Dungeons & Dragons and it can be hard to remember all of them (especially since I needed to look at a character sheet and count them all up so that I could remember how many there were). When you’re running an adventure, how cognizant are you that you are using each of those s... read more.

Beginning this month’s RPG Blog Carnival – Small Gods, Saints, and other minor divinities

Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal – Wed, 01 July, 11:36 AM

Welcome to the RPG Blog Carnival for the Month of July 2026, on the theme of Small Gods, Saints, and other minor divinities. In most fantasy worlds, and some other game worlds, there are gods and divine powers capable of great things! But not all matters require the attention of the greatest of bei... read more.

Gnomecast 240 – Initiative – The Misdirected Mark Podcast takes over the Gnomecast

Gnome Stew – Wed, 01 July, 11:00 AM

https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GC_240_MMP-takes-over-the-Gnomecast_Initative_V01.mp3 Bob, Chris, and Phil take over the Gnomecast for a special return of the Misdirected Mark Podcast, at least for one episode. This time, they dive deep into initiative in tabletop RPGs, exploring di... read more.

Wednesday Comics: DC, October 1985 (week 1)

From the Sorcerer's Skull – Wed, 01 July, 11:00 AM

My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of Crisis. This week, I'm looking at the comics that were on stands in the week of July 4, 1985. Crisis on Infinite Earths #7: This double-sized issue was heavily advertised in the previous month. Given that the number o... read more.

Monthly Mecha: RIG by Not Writing Games

Backwards Tabletop – Wed, 01 July, 10:55 AM

This is Asa Donald with your monthly mecha rpg for July. This newsletter is 100% free. To support it, me, or my games, sign up for my upcoming Kickstarter Violent Delights: a chess-based RPG about Romeo & Juliet. If you’d like to hear more from me, you can follow me on bluesky. Sign up for Backwar... read more.

RPG Print News – Warhammer: The Old Word RPG, Áth Cliath, Spelljammer (AD&D 2E), and more

EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Wed, 01 July, 10:30 AM

A new Warhammer RPG and supplements for Áth Cliath, Star Trek Adventures RPG, D&D 5.5, Old Gods of Appalachia, and The Magnus Archives.... read more.

Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis Take on Universal Monster Series

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 08:16 AM

'Bride of Frankenstein Lives'... read more.

July 2026 RPG Blog Carnival: Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity!

Seed of Worlds – Wed, 01 July, 07:32 AM

Welcome to the new month for the RPG Blog Carnival - our topic for July 2026 is "Small Gods, Saints and minor divinity!" You can find some deeper background on the RPG Blog Carnival on 'of Dice and Dragons'. Write what you like around the prompt or see the suggestions below. If you want to join t... read more.

Gaiman-Palmer Suit Dismissed on Procedural Grounds

ICv2 RSS Web Feed – Wed, 01 July, 07:18 AM

By Court of Appeals... read more.

Mothership Adventure Sphere Reviews – Part 8: More Trifolds!

The Alexandrian – Wed, 01 July, 04:56 AM

Go to Part 1 I scooped up a handful of Mothership trifolds today with an eye towards restocking the jobs board for my Mothership open table. I’m beginning to dive deeper into the vast sea of Mothership content, which may mean a few more misses, but also the opportunity to uncover hidden gems and a ... read more.

The Explorateur: Issue #21

Explorers Design – Wed, 01 July, 04:05 AM

Thoughts too small for a blog.Sometimes you gotta scrap a project to finish it. Hack away at it, add and subtract, give it some love—and kill it if you need to. Sometimes it's the foundation that needs to change, not the structure on top of it.Really good ideas tend to feel obvious later. In product... read more.

The Explorateur: Issue #21

Explorers Design – Wed, 01 July, 04:05 AM

Thoughts too small for a blog.Sometimes you gotta scrap a project to finish it. Hack away at it, add and subtract, give it some love—and kill it if you need to. Sometimes it's the foundation that needs to change, not the structure on top of it.Really good ideas tend to feel obvious later. In product... read more.

Towards July and GenCon, June ends

Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal – Wed, 01 July, 02:32 AM

July, as most of you will know, was named after Julius Caesar after he adjusted Roman Calendar and created the Julian Calendar, unsurprisingly also named for him. Caesar did like bigging himself up. It is Summer here in my region, but we have not been hit as hard as some others, hope you all are kee... read more.

Hosting Your Fancy Balls

Elfmaids & Octopi – Wed, 01 July, 12:55 AM

I did this for my weekly Ravenloft Hawksmire game.Also, possibly running Pendragon and some Romantasy in future.I realise now it fits into my magic-mansion genre work.-Imagine this in Castle AmberHave fun. I was 8 posts ahead and now im not. So it might be slow for a while as meatspace has improved... read more.

My Children's Appendix N: a fantasy book list

A shrike for my dreams – Wed, 01 July, 12:32 AM

I just spent a lovely, hectic summer week chasing fulltime after my kids.   They have grown so much, and I wanted to share a small part of their arc, the one where my partner and I introduced them to one of our joys—reading books. We both love to imagine other worlds through books.  When our kids fi... read more.

Finding Reference Points for Page Turners

Pelgrane Press Ltd – Wed, 01 July, 12:00 AM

I knew that procedural storytelling had taken over pop culture but it wasn’t until I promised to find examples of character-driven dramatic narratives new enough to not have Humphrey Bogart in them that I realized just how true this is. When running roleplaying games, we depend on fictional referen... read more.

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