# Collaboration **URL:** https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/c/collaboration/8.md [Latest](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/tags.md) --- ## [Welcome To Collaboration!](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/welcome-to-collaboration/37)
**Author:** [@Cosmic-Orrery](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Cosmic-Orrery)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/welcome-to-collaboration/37 "2021-09-12T01:15:34Z")
Lets make things together! Community and group projects, collaborative games, dice-democracies, and so forth. If more than two people are working on it through discourse it can go in here! --- ## [Blog Book Club #60: Trick Monsters](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-60-trick-monsters/3698)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-60-trick-monsters/3698 "2026-10-09T20:49:48Z")
Welcome to the Blog Book Club. This week we are reading Towards a Taxonomy of ‘Trick’ Monsters by Gus L from his old blog Dungeon of Signs. Next week we’ll read entries from the Pointcrawl Series Index by Chris Kutalik… --- ## [Blog Book Club 59: Proceduralism](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-59-proceduralism/3689)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-59-proceduralism/3689 "2026-10-07T18:26:38Z")
Welcome to the Blog Book Club. This week we are reading Proceduralism by Brendan S of Necropraxis. Next week we are reading Towards a Taxonomy of ‘Trick’ Monsters by Gus L from his old blog Dungeon of Signs. You can s… --- ## [Blog Book Club 58: Overloading the Encounter Die](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-58-overloading-the-encounter-die/3685)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-58-overloading-the-encounter-die/3685 "2026-09-28T13:54:52Z")
Hi! Welcome to the blog book club. My involvement with this series is primarily related to it affording me the opportunity to discover blog posts that I’d never encountered from before I became interested in the OSR scen… --- ## [Blog Book Club #57: Goblin Punch Armor & Inventory](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-57-goblin-punch-armor-inventory/3683)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-57-goblin-punch-armor-inventory/3683 "2026-09-18T20:28:26Z")
Welcome to the blog book club. With this post we’ve reached the end of 2013. Well done! Maybe if the stars align I can manage an extra post looking at where the OSR was at this point in time by checking out what system a… --- ## [Let's Build a d100 Table of Magic Rings for Cairn](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/lets-build-a-d100-table-of-magic-rings-for-cairn/3401)
**Author:** [@GreatBigTable](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/GreatBigTable)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2026, 4:27am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/lets-build-a-d100-table-of-magic-rings-for-cairn/3401 "2026-09-16T04:27:26Z")
I thought it would be fun to kick off the New Year by working together to create one hundred magic rings for the Cairn RPG. After all, the fifth day of Christmas and it’s gift of five golden rings was only a few days ago… --- ## [Blog Book Club #56: Wandering Monsters](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-56-wandering-monsters/3680)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-56-wandering-monsters/3680 "2026-09-15T14:29:05Z")
Welcome to the blog book club. This week we are discussing “A Procedure for Wandering Monsters” by John B. of the Retired Adventurer. For next week we are reading “Armor and Inventory Jr.” by Arnold Kemp of Goblin Pun… --- ## [Blog Book Club #55: OD&D as a Setting](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-55-od-d-as-a-setting/3679)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-55-od-d-as-a-setting/3679 "2026-09-10T13:32:14Z")
Welcome to the blog book club. This week we are discussing “OD&D Setting Posts in PDF” by Wayne Rossi of Semper Initativus Unum. Next week we’ll be reading “A Procedure for Wandering Monsters” by John B. of the Retired… --- ## [Blog Book Club #54: Why I prefer OD&D](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-54-why-i-prefer-od-d/3671)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-54-why-i-prefer-od-d/3671 "2026-08-29T09:09:56Z")
Welcome to the Blog Book Club. This week we are discussing, “Why I prefer OD&D” by John Laviolette of The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms. For those following along next week requires a bit more reading than normal as we dive … --- ## [Blog Book Club #32: Usage Dice](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-32-usage-dice/3524)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2026, 5:17am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-32-usage-dice/3524 "2026-08-25T05:17:03Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog club. This week we are discussing “Cascading Dice: A House Rule for Tracking Ammunition” by Charlie White of Intwischa. Next week we’ll be reading The Sandbox Triangle by John Arendt. You ca… --- ## [Blog Book Club #53: I'd Hit That](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-53-id-hit-that/3666)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-53-id-hit-that/3666 "2026-08-24T16:55:21Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing “I’d hit that” by Logan of the blog Last Grasp. Next week we’ll be discussing “Why I Prefer OD&D” by the Nine and Thirty Kingdoms. You can see a list o… --- ## [Blog Book Club #52: Mortality and Old School D&D](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-52-mortality-and-old-school-d-d/3664)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-52-mortality-and-old-school-d-d/3664 "2026-08-17T11:44:03Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing “Thoughts Regarding Character Mortality and Old School Dungeons and Dragons” from Gus L’s old blog Dungeon of Signs Next week we’ll be reading “I’d Hit … --- ## [Blog Book Club #51: OSR Dogma Recency](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-51-osr-dogma-recency/3662)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-51-osr-dogma-recency/3662 "2026-08-11T14:13:15Z")
July 31 2026 Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we will be discussing “OSR Dogma Recency” by Brendan S of Necropraxis. Next week we’re back to Gus L’s blog Dungeon of Signs for “Thoughts Regarding Charact… --- ## [Blog Book Club #50 Dungeon Design and Stocking](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-50-dungeon-design-and-stocking/3659)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 5, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-50-dungeon-design-and-stocking/3659 "2026-08-05T15:27:59Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. Happy 50th entry in this series! While we close out the month of July, in our timeline of great blogs we are also closing out 2012. Today we will be discussing “Dungeon Design and… --- ## [Blog Book Club #49: Getting Worse](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-49-getting-worse/3655)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-49-getting-worse/3655 "2026-07-28T14:45:24Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. We’ve made it to the penultimate week of 2012’s blog posts from Marcia B’s list. We will be discussing “Getting Worse,” by Erik Jesen of Wampus Country, although “the Confession” … --- ## [Blog Book Club #48: Abstracting Missiles](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-48-abstracting-missiles/3645)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-48-abstracting-missiles/3645 "2026-07-21T08:43:24Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we’re discussing “Abstracting Missiles,” by Brendan S. of Necropraxis. For next week, we are deviating from Marcia’s list as written. I’ll be skipping “Random D&D Charac… --- ## [Blog Book Club #47: OD&D Equipment](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-47-od-d-equipment/3637)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2026, 10:25am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-47-od-d-equipment/3637 "2026-07-13T10:25:49Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are continuing our recent theme of items by discussing OD&D Equipment by Brendan S. of Necropraxis. Next week we’ll be reading about ammo dice in “Abstracting Missiles,… --- ## [Blog Book Club #46: Where is your stuff?](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-46-where-is-your-stuff/3631)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2026, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-46-where-is-your-stuff/3631 "2026-07-07T05:47:35Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing “Anti-hammerspace Item Tracker” by Jack on Rotten Pulp. Next week we’ll be continuing this theme with “OD&D Equipment" by Brendan S of Necropraxis. You… --- ## [Blog Book Club #45: On Set Design](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-45-on-set-design/3626)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-45-on-set-design/3626 "2026-06-29T12:21:52Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing “On Set Design” by Courtney Campbell Hack & Slash. Next week we’ll be reading https://rottenpulp.blogspot.com/2012/06/matt-rundles-anti-hammerspace-item… --- ## [Blog Book Club #44: Dissociated Mechanics](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-44-dissociated-mechanics/3620)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-44-dissociated-mechanics/3620 "2026-06-26T00:20:22Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing Dissociated Mechanics by Justin Alexander of the Alexandrian. I am not a big fan of the topic or the author this week, but I’ll give it a shot. Next wee… --- ## [Blog Book Club #43: XP for Loot in D&D](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-43-xp-for-loot-in-d-d/3617)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2026, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-43-xp-for-loot-in-d-d/3617 "2026-06-18T14:26:34Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing XP for Loot in D&D from Rambling Bumblers by Joshua Macy. Next week we’ll be reading Dissociated Mechanics from the Alexandrian. You can see a list of … --- ## [Blog Book Club #42: A 16 HP Dragon](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-42-a-16-hp-dragon/3580)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-42-a-16-hp-dragon/3580 "2026-06-15T20:48:02Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing A 16 HP Dragon by Sage LaTorra. Edit: I was wrong Hosted by Sage LaTorra. Post by Stras Acimovic. Next week we’ll be reading XP for Loot in D&D from R… --- ## [Blog Book Club #40: Making Encumbrance Work!](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-40-making-encumbrance-work/3571)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-40-making-encumbrance-work/3571 "2026-06-03T17:18:33Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing Making Encumbrance Work by Nick L.S. of Papers & Pencils. Next week we’ll be reading a post from Johann Out for Blood: My Trinity of Old School Gaming … --- ## [Blog Book Club #31: Fantasy F\*cking Vietnam](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-31-fantasy-f-cking-vietnam/3520)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 30, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-31-fantasy-f-cking-vietnam/3520 "2026-05-30T21:20:39Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog club.The post we are discussing is Fantasy F\*ckin’ Vietnam by Chris Kutalik of the Hill Canton blog. Next week, we’ll explore the origins of usage dice with “Cascading Dice: A House Rule for … --- ## [Blog Book Club #41: Trinity of OSR](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-41-trinity-of-osr/3576)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 29, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-41-trinity-of-osr/3576 "2026-05-29T14:59:39Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing the Trinity of Old School Gaming posts from Johann of ‘Out for Blood. They are all relatively short and I recap them below. Next week we’ll be r… --- ## [Blog Book Club #38 Why D&D has lots of rules for combat](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-38-why-d-d-has-lots-of-rules-for-combat/3564)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-38-why-d-d-has-lots-of-rules-for-combat/3564 "2026-05-22T18:06:57Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing Why D&D Has Lots of Rules for Combat by Nat of How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less. Next week we’ll be reading \[Very Long\] Combat as Sport vs. … --- ## [Blog Book Club #37: The Pointcrawl](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-37-the-pointcrawl/3554)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-37-the-pointcrawl/3554 "2026-05-18T14:12:10Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing Crawling Without Hexes: the Pointcrawl by Chris Kutalik of the Hill Cantons Blog. Next week we’ll be reading Why D&D Has Lots of Rules for Combat by Nat… --- ## [Blog Book Club #39: War vs Sport](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-39-war-vs-sport/3570)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-39-war-vs-sport/3570 "2026-05-18T10:42:38Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing an old EN World thread \[Very Long\] Combat as Sport vs. Combat as War: a Key Difference in D&D Play Styles... | EN World D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Review… --- ## [Blog Book Club #36: Livin' off the land](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-36-livin-off-the-land/3553)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2026, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-36-livin-off-the-land/3553 "2026-04-28T01:12:02Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing a series of short posts “Simple Hunting”, “Simple Foraging,” and ”Quickie Dice Tool v2.0” all by John Laviolette, The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms. These are… --- ## [Blog Book Club #34: The Quantum Ogre](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-34-the-quantum-ogre/3544)
**Author:** [@Barnum](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Barnum)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/blog-book-club-34-the-quantum-ogre/3544 "2026-04-24T21:16:43Z")
Welcome to this week’s blog book club. This week we are discussing “The Quantum Ogre,” by Courtney Campbell of the blog Hack & Slash. Next week we’ll be discussing some of the ideas appearing in ”Toybox Style Play,” by … [Next page](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/c/collaboration/8.md?page=1)