~ Early Web Links ~

Dozens and Dragons is a blog by a tabletop RPG enthusiast with a particular love for indie and OSR games like Troika!, featuring collaborative 'Blog Buddies' posts and a campaign wiki. The site dives into the indie TTRPG community with game recommendations, play logs, and friendly correspondence with fellow hobbyists.

Propnomicon is a long-running blog dedicated to prop-making and handout resources for Lovecraftian tabletop RPGs, especially Call of Cthulhu. Posts showcase curious artifacts, forbidden tomes, eldritch fonts, and vintage ephemera perfect for immersive game sessions.

DBMM Rankings tracks competitive standings for De Bellis Magistrorum Militum, a historical miniature wargame, using the Glicko rating system across players from dozens of countries. The site lets visitors filter rankings by country, region, and year, and includes competition history, army lists, and player statistics dating back to 2006.

DBMM Rankings tracks competitive standings for De Bellis Magistrorum Militum, a tabletop wargame, using the Glicko rating system to rank players across countries and years. The site offers detailed player profiles, competition histories, army statistics, and a searchable roster spanning tournaments from 2006 to 2026.

Run by Felbrigg Herriot, this podcast-and-blog hybrid reviews free and low-cost print-and-play tabletop games you can download and print at home, covering card games, board games, and dice games. Each episode focuses on a single game with a rating, and the site also showcases original games designed by Felbrigg himself.

Elfmaids & Octopi is Christopher Tamm's prolific old-school tabletop RPG blog packed with random tables, homebrew rules, and imaginative worldbuilding content spanning settings like Planet Psychon, Xor, and Gamma Aeon. This particular post offers a d100 table of Magic Guild Demands, one of hundreds of game-ready resources that make this a treasure trove for OSR dungeon masters.

Brian Burger's long-running wargaming blog covers historical, fantasy, pulp, and sci-fi miniature wargaming with a strong focus on painting, terrain building, and game reviews. Visitors will find detailed hobby articles, convention photos, workbench updates, and tutorials spanning everything from WW2 naval scenery to fantasy skirmish games.

Desert Realm is a play-by-post fantasy roleplaying game set in the world of Vola, a scarred planet where magical technology has transformed most of the landscape into a vast desert wasteland. The site features an elaborate worldbuilding compendium covering deities, kingdoms, magic systems, flora and fauna, and detailed lore, making it a rich destination for writers and RPG enthusiasts looking to join an active collaborative fiction community.

JesWeb is a French-language resource dedicated to board games and children's games, covering titles like Duel Masters, Carcassonne, Puerto Rico, and Dungeons & Dragons with reviews, game aids, and original puzzles. The site also features magic tricks with video demonstrations, making it a broad and lively hub for tabletop gaming enthusiasts.

Historical Strategy Re-Creations (HSR) is the home of Strategic Naval Gunnery, a multi-player historical wargame focused on surface ship combat and naval gunnery campaigns across multiple eras. The site showcases annotated screenshots, After Action Reports, and scenario replays that bring battles like Tsushima to life for both solo and multiplayer Windows gameplay.