Substacks recommended by Croaker | The Lone Toad

Recommended by Croaker

Sneak Leaps is a place to receive playtest material and other in-depth WIPs of Croaker RPG future games.

Sneak Leaps is about Croaker RPG games, a place to discuss play-testing, concepts and other insanity not yet fit for The Lone Toad.

- Croaker

Wez’s Twisted Homebrew D&D system.

What is this? Its an amazing new Dungeons and Dragons system.

La esquina del rol Newsletter

By Mario

La esquina del rol is a Spanish/English Newsletter about indie tabletop roleplaying games and their designers. Here you will find news and interviews. We send out two newsletters a week: one in English on Tuesdays and one in Spanish on Thursdays.

A fantastic Spanish language RPG newsletter that interviews creators from around the world.

- Croaker

Eynowd’s Substack

A collection of solo roleplaying actual play reports, and related thinking.

A great solo actual play series. Eynowd is a great writer and creates imaginative stories.

- Croaker

The Dragon's Den

By Eric Dill

A solo ttrpg gaming blog

Eric's stories are only rivalled by his art and map making. Well work subscribing to.

- Croaker

Castle Grief

Settings, house rules, adventures, and ideas for your TTRPG experience.

Rediscovered Realms

By J.Q. Graziano

The weekly (3,000+ subscriber) Fantasy newsletter that reconnects you with heroic fantasy worlds of your favorite books, epic games, unearthed magazines, forgotten gamebooks, movies and enchanting art - old school & new. 👑

The Digital Wasteland.

By Reece

An Eldritch Gremlin masquerading as a human disaster and failed filmmaker, writing about TTRPGs, Movies, TV. || Welcome to the last stop in the Digital Wasteland, my own personal waste of digital space.

Skeleton Code Machine

By Exeunt Press

Spark your creativity as a tabletop game designer or enthusiast, and think differently about how games work. ENNIE-nominated!

Playing With Myself

By Write Firster

Playing games (roleplaying, journaling, board games) by myself

A great written solo Actual Play.

- Croaker

The Bone Brew

By Howler

A Solo TTRPG Experiment. Each session navigates through changing narratives and characters, twisting tales where the world is the protagonist.

PTFO

By SGH

Fantasy and sci-fi stories serialized on substack. PTFO is part of the AP Fiction genre: stories created through the solo play of a TTRPG and influenced by readers' votes. Currently playing: Blades in the Dark

Cezar Capacle talks Game Design

Indie tabletop game design ideas, insights, discoveries, and ruminations.

Win Conditions

By Sean McCoy

A deep dive newsletter on publishing games in the tabletop industry. From the creator of Mothership RPG, #dungeon23, and co-creator of Two Rooms and a Boom.