Excellence from the Blogosphere (Jan-Feb)

Here are a bunch of blog posts (chiefly from January and February) that I found particularly noteworthy.

• Olav Nygård has shared a simple procedure to create "Guess who?" style investigative scenarios, along with two examples.
• Anthony Huso is playtesting his low-level planar module for AD&D/OSRIC. His second session report is especially noteworthy because it sheds light on the importance of playtesting (the same rigorous thought process is also there in the comments while discussing the modified Incantrix class).
• Courtney Campbell has written a good reminder about ten things you can use in a dungeon to increase your survivability.
• After about 50 sessions (or 200 hours), Skerples presents his thoughts about the mechanical bits of GLOG.
• Alex Shroeder shares his thoughts regarding advancement in RPGs.
• Anne has been on fire lately. She uncovered most of the blog posts that comprised Secret Santicorn 2018, made a list of a gazillion of people making actual play reports, and analysed the ability scores we all use, love, and hate at times.
• Dale Houston has talked about how he organises events in his megadungeon campaign using simple d6 tables.
• Angus Warman has shared his set of GLOG-esque house rules, called Die Trying (without classes and levels, too!). While you're at it, also check out his travel rules.
• The Lawful Neutral has blogged about the initial thoughts of a mega barcrawl and a bunch of suitable monsters.
• Chris Kutalik made an excellent summary for his Hill Cantons sandbox campaign setting with lots of links and references.
• Dungeons and Possums posted a great list of free resources to start playing (and running) old-school games. By the way, the blog also has a superb index, in case you want to poke around.
• Sometimes we all need to be reminded of the other British accents, and noisms just does that using football fan interviews off YouTube.
• Martin O. has shared 10 very flavourful bandit gangs.
• Talysman has summarised his rules regarding search rolls and similar mechanics.
• red_kangaroo made a memory system (for spells, languages, memories, martial art techniques, etc.) using slots similar to how slot-based inventories work. I especially like how Trauma is handled like Fatigue, eating up slots.
• Emmy Allen has blogged about her next Ynn-like thing: the ruined market of Sharne.