- general posts not specific to any game or genre, often discussing the RPG community as a whole or playing RPGs in general.
- thoughts about good game design or how to do layout.
- suggested resources, such as reference works, television shows, or websites.
- sf and atomic horror genres.
- posts intended as humor, including rants.
- individual games: delvingdeeper, judgesguild, fantasytrip, inspectres (and the related game octaNe,) toon, plus some reviews.
- blog carnival posts.
Some posts that received a lot of attention:
- The Rants, which make it clear what I don’t like:
- Musings about how to do a minimal, cheap version of D&D: D&D for 2.99 and the 2.99 follow-up post.
- Monsters Sorted By Treasure Type, a no-frills list from the LBBs and supplements.
- Defining sketchbox play in contrast to sandbox play.
- a blank hex sheet with numbered hexes, and the hex sheet specfile
- Maps and Mapping
- Dyson Logos (dungeon, geomorph, and town maps)
- Dave’s Mapper collects geomorphs from multiple sources
- mkhexgrid, a command-line tool for making hex sheets
- Monsters, Magic, Classes, and Races
- Links to Wisdom pretty much collects all of these you will need
- D&D monster origins, for the curious
- House Rules
- Trollsmyth’s Shields Shall Be Splintered!, one of the most popular shield house rules
- Sham’s restock roll, which I also use for first-time stocking
- Delta’s Target 20 mechanic, which simplifies attack rolls, saves, and skills
- Miscellaneous
- Anydice, for figuring out dice probabilities
- 700 RPG icons, which were used as a basis for those RPG merit badges that are going around
- I use my badges as topic icons on the blog
- OSR Acronym/Glossary
- D&D Generations
- OD&D Forums
