The 3rd Annual Bloggies were hosted on Sachagoat.

Theory Category

🥇 Gold: The 1 HP Dragon from Explorers Design
🥈 Silver: In Praise of Legwork from Sam Sorensen
🥉 Copper: Interesting Social Situations, or The Discourse Post from Rise Up Comus

Gameable Category

🥇 Gold: Overloading the Random Encounter Table, from Prismatic Wasteland
🥈 Silver: The Bell Curving Encounter Table, from Pointless Monument
🥉 Copper: A Person Shaped Hole, from Mindstorm Press

Advice Category

🥇 Gold: On People-Centered Adventure Design, from Weird Wonder
🥈 Silver: Setting up an OSR Sandbox, from Roll to Doubt
🥉 Copper: Monster Checklist, from Goblin Punch

Review Category

🥇 Gold: Deep Dive: Stonetop, from Indie Game Reading Club
🥈 Silver: The loss we gain from a Thousand Year Old Campfire, from Hendrik ten Napel
🥉 Copper: The Sci-Fi Special Edition, from The Soloist

Debut Blog (Bonus Category)

🥇 Gold: MURKMAIL
🥈 Silver: WOBBLEROCKET
🥉 Copper: Among Cats and Books

The 2nd Annual Bloggies were hosted by Zedeck Siew.

Theory Category

🥇 Gold: OSR Rules Families from Traverse Fantasy
🥈 Silver: Critical GLOG: Base Resolution Mechanics from Goblin Punch
🥉 Copper: Being a problem - Playable Orcs at the limits of humanity from Majestic Fly Whisk

Gameable Category

🥇 Gold: Laws of the Land: meaningful terrain via in-fiction limits and conditions from Was It Likely?
🥈 Silver: Pointcrawling Character Creation from Rise Up Comus
🥉 Copper: Flux Space from Papers & Pencils

Advice Category

🥇 Gold: Re-inventing the Wilderness: Part 1 - Introduction from sachagoat
🥈 Silver: How to Handle Parley as an OSR DM from Goblin Punch
🥉 Copper: RANSACKING THE ROOM from Mindstorm

Review Category

🥇 Gold: An Empty Africa - PF2E’s The Mwangi Expanse and the strange career of Black Atlanticism from Majestic Fly Whisk
🥈 Silver: Plagiarism in Unconquered (2022) from Traverse Fantasy
🥉 Copper: MICROBLOG: CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND TABLETOP GAMES from Fail Forward

The 1st ever Bloggies were hosted by Prismatic Wasteland.

Theory Category

🥇 Gold: D&D’s Obsession with Taxonomy from Zedeck Siew’s Writing Hours
🥈 Silver: Hexcrawls ARE pathcrawls from Permanent Cranial Damage
🥉 Copper: Proceduralism from All Dead Generations

Gameable Category

🥇 Gold: Nested Monster Hit Dice from mindstorm
🥈 Silver: Getting Rid of Dogfights from Failure Tolerated
🥉 Copper: GOBLINS GOBLINS GOBLINS from False Machine

Advice Category

🥇 Gold: Prep Tools, Not Adventures from Papers and Pencils
🥈 Silver: Hexcrawl Checklist: Part One from Prismatic Wasteland
🥉 Copper (tie): My Process from Mazirian’s Garden
🥉 Copper (tie): Adding Congruency to Anti Canon Worldbuilding from Mindstorm

Review Category

🥇 Gold: Enough Dweeb Adventures from A Knight at the Opera
🥈 Silver: Folie a Deux - Holy Mountain Shaker from Bones of Contention
🥉 Copper: Karth Taught me to Love Mothership from Technical Grimoire

Anything written between December 1st 2024 and December 31st 2025.* Everything except what I post on Explorers Design. I'm staying out of the running this year while I'm borrowing the crown, cape, and scepter.

*Last year the cutoff was November 31st, hence why you can submit posts late 2024. That said, I love a simple criteria, so I'm extending the deadline to December 31st.)

The Bloggies change from year to year. This year, the plan is for the brackets to run concurrently over one week. It's going to be a lot of reading. Then, once we have our finalists, they'll go head-to-head for platinum.

The number of submissions will decide the final shape of this year's Bloggies.

Yes. It's encouraged. But there's a golden path to Bloggies greatness—boost another post at the same time. If you fail to uphold this rule, your URL will be cursed with inane comments, typos, and long load times for all of eternity.