The AD&D Series, 2026 Collector's Edition

The 2026 Bloggies are upon us, and I plan on submitting a handful of mine - and, of course, others'. If you've enjoyed reading this blog in 2025, I would greatly appreciate you submitting and voting for your favorite of my posts. Blogging has been a big part of my year, and it would mean a lot to me to at least make it into one or more brackets. Maybe one of my posts will go on a little run or hey, even win something. That would be neat.

First and foremost, I'd like to submit to the Best Series category my posts analyzing the AD&D DMG. The thing is, those posts were never intended to be a series, and weren't labeled as such. The series evolved naturally over time as interesting things to talk about continued to pop out at me. This makes it difficult to figure out what post exactly to submit.

So, here is one post with the whole series collected in one place:

• Stocking a Sandbox with the AD&D DMG (Part 1)
• Stocking a Sandbox with the AD&D DMG (Part 2)
• d66 Reasons Why the Castle is Totally Deserted
• Stocking a Sandbox with the AD&D DMG (Part 3)
• Dead Gods Waiting to be Reborn: Ruined Shrines and the Syncretist Cleric in AD&D
• Your High-Level NPCs Should Ride Dragons
• d100 Woefully Encysted Creatures
• Gangs of Teenage Dragons Roam the Wilderness: The Implied Lifecycle of Dragons in AD&D
• Death, Taxes, and Indentured Servitude in AD&D Cities
• There's a Road to the Dungeon, and It's Paid for by Adventurers
• Non-Descript Danger: Vagueness and Similarity in AD&D City and Town Encounters
• Dealing with NPCs Should Be Expensive and Irritating
• Good Henchmen are Hard to Find
• Adventurers Are a Threat to the Established Order
• It Did Not End with a Mere Slaying of Ogres: Treasure as a Source of Challenge in D&D
• Advanced Diseases and Diagnoses
• Warring Guilds and Rogue Assassins Plague the Streets of AD&D
• The Monster Economy of AD&D
• Speak with Monsters: The Languages of AD&D and the Adventurous Linguist
• Alignment Languages are Socially Repulsive
• Strangers in a Strange Land
• Where are AD&D's High-Level NPCs?
• The Implied Setting of AD&D Towns & Cities: Four Themes
• Who Can Rule a Stronghold in AD&D?

And yes, I did include this same list in my year-in-review post, which went up...yesterday. But submitting a year-in-review post didn't really make sense.

If you've enjoyed this series and what to submit it for consideration, please use this post. That is all the campaigning I'll be doing on the blog. Thank you!