Another blog bandwagon has come to a close, and I have a fucking bevvy of posts for you to read. 50 bloggers wrote 57 posts, and I’m sure I probably missed one or two. As one member in good standing of my Discord server opined, “This bandwagon legitimately sextupled the total volume of player advice blog posts”. If that is true, it is only because of the relative dearth of writing on this topic in comparison to the deluge of advice intended for advice-greedy game masters. You could probably take all of these, print them out, bind them, and it would be a better actual player’s handbook than anything yet committed to ink and paper. Clear your calendar, start reading, and improve your player skills (or maybe you shouldn’t try to be a good player; that take is represented as well).
4 Steps to a Good Player (Indie Game Reading Club)
10 Tips for Roleplaying Characters in a Faction (Lost Watcher Games)
A Guide for New DMs: Young Player Advice (A Shrike for My Dreams)
Advice on Playing Games and a Recipe for Glazed Carrots (Billhook Blog)
All I Really Needed to Know (to play RPGs) I Learned in Kindergarten (A Shrike for My Dreams)
Being A Good Player (Population: One)
Being A "Good" Player (B/X Blackrazor)
Become a Great TTPRG Player With Improv (Made by Zinnia)
Blogwagon: Be a Good Player! (Ladino’s Rogue Thoughts)
COMMUNICATE – Improve your Play Experience TONIGHT (Cleric Cabin)
Conspiracy! Or How to Collaborate With Your Fellow Players (Bennoni)
Elementary School Soccer, and How It Helps Us Be Better Players (52 Monsters)
Get Going, Keep Going (Player Advice Blogwagon) (Seed of Worlds)
Giving Feedback in a Game (Patchwork Paladin)
Go for the Schmuck Bait (For Want of a Silver Bullet)
How to Be a Good Player, Thursday Night Edition (Githyanki Diaspora)
How to be a Great TTRPG Player (Personal Advice I've Learned) (YMMV) (Jellyfishlines)
How to Player (Wombat’s Gaming Den of Iniquity)
How to Not Freeze Up (Ape Encounter)
HUMANS ACT NOT HUMAN: The Scariest Monster That Has 2 Arms 2 Legs and 0 Magic (I Cast Light)
I Am Sorry, But You Should Show Your Entire Ass (Loot Loot Lore)
Invited to the Table (Ryan Latta Games)
It Ain't About You (Nate Whittington)
Magic's Psychographic Profiles Work For RPGs Too (For Want of a Silver Bullet)
Making a Character You'll Enjoy Playing (To Be Resolved)
My Dungeon Master Put Me on a PIP (Prismatic Wasteland)
Pawn Stance is Objectively Correct* (Dice Exploder)
Player Advice Bandwagon - Gadda's Entry (Farmer Gadda)
Player Advice: Questions (Dungeon Mecha)
Player Principles (Troy Press)
Player Principles (Bastionland)
Players Should Not Try to Be Good (Valeria Loves)
Players Should Try to Be Good (Fluorite Guillotine)
Roleplaying Advice - Act and Narrate (Ladino’s Rogue Thoughts)
Playing Beyond Gaming (Traverse Fantasy)
Playing with Preferences (Kreggar Wandering)
Proactive Play Advice for Live Games (The Garden Below)
Questions to Ask Yourself as a Player (Personable)
Real Player's Advice: Write a 30 Page Backstory (A Shrike for My Dreams)
Rules for Good Players (Kraftpaperhat)
Run Your Lines (Sparked Thoughts)
Slightly Curmudgeonly Advice for Players (Complex Oscillations)
So, What Do You Want to Do (Gibbering Pudding)
Stop Playing (Red for Roseline)
Successful Adventures, or How to Win in AD&D (Forlorn Encystment)
The Centre (Today, I Was…)
The Three "I"'s and What I Want in a Player (Bearded Mouse Games)
Waste Money, Build Things (Seaside Cyclops)
What Makes a Good Player: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (I am a Wonderful Starfish)
What to Know: Advice for Players (I Cast Light)
What Would Elmcat Do (Elmcat)
Why Are New Players the Best Players? (Writing my Odd Game)
Why Should I Care? (Sparse Glades, Saphire Sky)
Your Character Was There. You Weren't. But That's OK (The Other Side)
You Probably Already Know How to Be a Better Player - You'll Just Have to Take It Seriously (Dungeon Merlin)
Zoning Out (Luckroll)
Did one of these posts particularly speak to you deep in your soul? Consider nominating it (and lots of other posts that weren’t listed) to the 2027 Bloggies, the annual awards in blogging excellence that recently put out the call for submissions. Submit!
