Useful Links
A collection of links to adventure design/GMing tips I find helpful in no particular order. I think if there is a throughline for the majority of these posts it is that I tend to like blogs that deal with the nitty gritty of implementing/creating things.
- On thief skills in classic D&D
- On People Centered Adventure Design
- Seven Maxims of the OSR
- So You Want to Build a Dungeon
- Jewelbox Design and Broken Bastion
- Descent into Avernus - Dungeon Keying
- The Wilderness Is A Dungeon: Jaquaysing Your RPG Sandbox Setting
- Why I Use Point Crawls More Than Hex Crawls
- Encounter Checklist
- How I Make Zines
- So You Want to Make a Zine: Printing
- So You Want to Make a Zine: Paper Selection and Physical Assembly
- Slay Word Kobolds
- Public Domain Art for Games and Zines
- How to Handle Parley as OSR DM
- Advice for OSR DMs
- Mothership: Warden’s Operation Manual
- Blorb Principles
- Universal System Neutral Stats
- Maursritter Adventure Design Guide
- Using Markdown and Pandoc to Make RPG Documents for Free
- Encounter Roles
- Running a Game
- 100 Arrows
- Portrait Generator