I've heard some folks only allow characters in dnd to wear two magic rings—one on each hand. Well, I say that's dumb. I've got ten fingers, after all (and that's before we even get to toes), so why can't I wear more rings? In the spirit of my bountiful phalanges, I present four TTRPG webrings followed by a well-intentioned sermon and a magic item:

The first one I learned about, and I think the first one in this collection to exist, is the Wood-Paneled Web Ring, started by Stu Horvath of Unwinnable, Vintage RPG, and Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground fame.

Then there's cartweel's TTRPG webring, which is actually part of the Wood-Paneled Web Ring—rings in rings!

Next is the New Old Gaming Blogring, run by Daniel Sell, who made Troika.¹

Finally, and the main reason for this post, there is rootring. Elmcat of Among Cats and Books has been killing it in the TTRPG blogging scene lately, first with the Blogosphere Map and now this.

With the big web platforms getting worse by the day, more and more folks are returning to personal websites, blogs, and webrings as a way to take back the 'net. Combine a personal website and blog with a webring or two (or ten) and a blogroll (with bonus points for using a feed reader) to make something better than social media—something that's all your own.

This website can be found in both the Wood-Paneled Web Ring and the rootring (pending acceptance), among other non-ttrpg—but still just as magical—webrings.

Join me!

(Okay, I'll stop preaching now. On to the magic item.)

Ring of the Web. Crafted by an ancient race of interdimensional hyper-intelligent spiders, this magic ring creates telepathic links between other rings crafted of mundane metals. Each mundane ring can be linked to two other rings in this way, granting the bearer one daily use of the spell ESP, targeted at the bearer of one of that rings linked rings or the bearer of the Ring of the Web.

1: The first three blogrolls are all powered by onionring. Onionring is nice because setup is easy—it's just a few JavaScript files and some CSS. But it's not so nice if you prefer to keep on-site JS to a minimum, and there are security implications to running JS files you don't host yourself—they could be changed at any time. (I've got a hacky local way to get around this, but that's a topic for another time.)↩︎