Dungeon Delve #26: July's a Carnival!
Hosting July 2025's RPG Blog Carnival. Also, BIG SUMMER SALES, Last Train to Bremen, a bunch of jams, using Dungeons and Dragons to teach public admin, and more!
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Colorful tents. Thrilling rides. Cotton candy. Corndogs. The sound of machines whirring, children laughing, and jovial jingles mixed with pop and rock music. The smell of deep fried deliciousness with the slight hint of diesel fumes. Families roaming from stall to stall, groups of teens laughing and joking, couples wrapped a timely romance, and sun-bathed engineers fresh from their RV yet still recovering from a hangover.
The carnival is in town, my friends! … I’m delighted to host July 2025’s RPG Blog Carnival RPG Blog Carnival, an internet ritual where once a month, one blogger challenges the community with a new topic! … This month, I am hosting the poly-topic of “Improv, Roleplaying, and Warm-Ups”.
If you are a writer, thinker, or designer from ‘round the TTRPG blogosphere, YOU can submit YOUR blog post to the challenge, in which you will be included in the end-of-month roundup, and celebrated as a carnival hero!
~~~~ Click here to learn how YOU can participate! ~~~~
This is truly a brilliant thing our scrappy blogging community does. There has been some AMAZING content that has come out of this in prior months, and I implore you to go on a link deep-dive and content binge to uncover some great pieces of writing, and discover some new people you like to read!
~~ Learn about the RPG Blog Carnival | Check out past archives ~~~
And hats off to The Robgoblin, host of Junes carnival (Magic Shops).
My formal apologies for those who were expecting an issue last week, and those who noticed that I started submitting on Wednesdays as opposed to my prior Tuesdays. … Rounding up this amazing content is a time investment, and I’m just happy to have the opportunity to deliver some great finds to my valiant, faithful, and frankly… good-lookin’ readers such as yourself!
… I can’t see you, but y’know it. Strut those shoulders, you beautiful beasts you!
Lets begin the linky round-up!
II. Looting the Room
BIG SUMMER SALES !!
Don’t forget that our on-going affiliate Phoenix Dice is having a SUMMER SALE of up to 30% off of a bunch of dice sets! … Add another 10% off with the code DELVE25! Support the newsletter! Come get your dice!!
DMsGuild is celebrating summer with a bunch of Roll20 VTT compatible Dungeons and Dragons titles for your virtual tabletop toolkit!
Owen Stevens, legendary game designer who worked on Pathfinder, Starfinder, and Star Wars Roleplaying Game, is offering a Summer Survival Bundle to cover critical medical bills! (no affiliate link)
$873$30
RPG Bundles and Deals
A true dice explosion! The Roll Big or Go Home Megabundle, supporting Extra Life, contains 50+ main RPG titles to add to your digital collection!
$1227$45The Ninth World Awaits! Jump into the Numenera RPG Collection on Humble Bundle, support the ACLU, and experience merge of sci and magic!
$475$30The Bundle for Ukrainian Hospitals continues, with 252+ items raising funds to restore healthcare in war-torn Ukraine.
$1211$8Razzle dazzle! The HawtPixel Font Firesale is an amazing 650+ font asset pack for designers and lay-makers alike!
$190$19Miniac presents the Intergalactic SkullForge STL Bundle for those looking to support Oceana, and add to their cast of characters for 3D printing!
$171$30Over on Bundle of Holding, Cawood Monsters contains 5E, Pathfinder, OSE, and DCC compatible creatures for your next fantasy RPG session!
$61$15Some continuing discounts on HOT DriveThruRPG guides and supplements:
Tome of Worldbuilding | No-Prep Game Master | West Marches Campaign Playstyle Book | How to Solo Any Game | Ancestry and Culture 5E
FREE Resources
The devs of BREAK!! RPG, the anime-style game with hints of Zelda, put out a set of rules for a Fishing Game which can be easily adapted to other games!
D4 Caltrops dropped some more amazing d100 tables, one for Financial Predicaments, and another for Hireling Hobbies / PC Pastimes!
III. Markings on the Wall
Latest rumors, discoveries, and puzzling finds in the RPG world and beyond!
NEW Crowdfunding Project
LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN - Jay Dragon/Possum Creek Games - Once, a band of struggling musicians made a deal with the devil. How the story goes is up to you! Play through this story-building game and try to outrun your fate!
A bunch of tabletop RPG jams!
Here are some jams we’ve highlighted and still open for submissions! WTFJam 2025 - Murkdice Mork Borg Minimalist Mini-Megadungeon Month - Poetry Inspired TTRPG Jam - Healthy TTRPG gaming jam - Build a Better World TTRPG Jam - “Get Razed” Dirtbags RPG Jam - Sci-Fi One Shot Jam - FIST Anniversary Jam
TTRPG News and Finds
With the future of Medicaid and healthcare in the US in flux, we are reminded about what tabletop RPGs can teach us about all manner of things, even how to prepare for public health disasters, Aaron Voigt @ Rascal News postulates. (paid article)
There are many brilliant ways to use RPGs to simulate all sorts of scenarios, but have you heard of Webertown, a DMs attempt to create a DnD campaign to teach, of all things,… public administration?
For those musical or sexy people jumping on the Daggerheart train, you may enjoy Bell of Lost Souls guide for a particular favorite class! Check out How to Play a Bard!
This weeks Reddit post highlight! … Appropriate for the RPG Blog Carnival topic, Suspicious-While6838 states r/rpg subreddit: Improv is a team sport!
Gameable and Design Advice
My friend WobbleRocket wants to teach you How to Run a D&D Magic Item Auction, improving upon the run-of-the-mill shop dynamic with an auction house and mechanics to run your own!
It may seem like it belongs in the FREE RESOURCES section, but in reality, Sundered Shillings providing tables about animating conflicts teaches us about creating material context behind the battles we fight.
Tis the nature of a curious game master to share wisdom add to their toolkit!
reflects on the long journey and shares RPG Advice I Wish I Had Received As A New GM. Worth the read!Seeking a reverse engineering of skill systems to better understand their execution in your game design efforts?
does just that in Reflections on RPG Design: You Need Skills (Just Not That Many)Also in the theme of improv, Beardmancer Bungalow provides one method to prep for improvisation, collecting encounters as raw material (lore) for something truly inspired!
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