The Bloggies Hall of Fame
Every winner of The Bloggies from 2022 to 2025. Want to melt your rpg brain? Start here.
The hallowed halls of blogging.
The Bloggies are nowhere near as serious as other awards competitions. Actually, they're incredibly unserious. A silly competition for something inherently scrappy.
Yet, of all the award shows, I actually like revisiting previous years. It's a public collection of bookmarks for everyone to enjoy. A canon of ideas. If you're only discovering The Bloggies now, you're in for a treat. This post is a collection of past winners.
There's an entire novel's worth of reading in the links below. If you're hungry for more, you can dive even deeper by exploring each individual year's host site. Every year has 64 nominations. More than 192 posts in total.
Without further ado, here are The Bloggies winners of yesteryear.
Clayton Notestine
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The Bloggies 2022
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
The Bloggies 2023
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 Bloggies 2024
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
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Clayton Notestine
