When I first started this blog I had a periodic series of posts where I would highlight blogs I thought were cool. At some point I likely switched to just linking to cool blogs on G+ (and eventually Twitter and BlueSky). Dungeons of Signs, by Gus, was one of the blogs I thought people should know about many years ago. That blog is a classic. Gus stopped updating that Dungeons of Signs a few years ago, after becoming disillusioned with both the world and the OSR. But you can’t stop a man from talking about dungeons, so he returned with a new blog, All Dead Generations. This blog is mostly long essays about how to design good dungeons. There is lots of great advice here. Most recently, he shared a post on alternative obstacles to monsters in dungeons. It’s a good sample of the sort of stuff he’s been thinking about over the last few years. There is much more to read if you enjoy this post. He goes hard.
Evlyn’s blog Le Chaudron Chromatique is full of amazing art. There is so much great stuff i’m not even sure what to point out. Their most recent post was a lovely illustration of the Marsh Enchantress. An earlier favourite of mine was this posse of fungus monsters. There’s also the occasional post full of DIY D&D nerdism. Most recently Evlyn reimagined Gnolls as Hammer Goats. This blog is great: check it out.
Gorgonmilk is the place to go for all your DIY D&D needs. I’m a particular fan of his alternate covers for the Original D&D booklets. I discovered the site recently, and it’s really quite excellent.
Continuing my series of great D&D blogs, may I suggest the consistently good Dungeon of Signs by Gustie1. It’s hard to pick any one thing to highlight, so I’ll point out the most recent post about his demon infested ocean liner megadungeon the HMS APOLLYON. The post is a good mix of great writing, art, and creativity that is more or less the staple of each and every post on his site. Why are you still reading this? Go!
I now play D&D with him weekly, so this review isn’t completely unbiased: though I thought the blog was pretty great before we had ever met. ↩
There are lots of great blogs about D&D out there on the Internet, but one that puts out consistently good stuff is Untimately by Toronto’s own Brendan S. His most recent post is on the rules that compromise Original D&D, distilling everything in the 3 brown books into concise lists of rules. A recent post that was particularly creative was about his take on schools of magic. If you’re into D&D you should be reading Untimately.
