2025 gloggies

Credit to Vivanter for kicking off the 2025 gloggies. 

I'm glad to see the gloggies have plenty of juice this year. Here's my contribution to the nomination pile.

Nominations 
Dungeon Nomination: 
Salty Goo's Hexcrawling (Baldur's Gate 1)

Class Nomination: 
Louis's University Don 

Also Good:

• Gokun's Woman Plus Habitation     
• Louis's Terror Bird 
  
  

Monster Nomination: 
Louis's Lantern Head 

Rules Nomination: 
Deus ex Parabola's Bazaar of the Memorable  

Also Good:

• Louis's DESTROYER
• the bad doctor's the most beautiful woman you've ever seen 
• Louis's At Your Order! 
  
  

Lore Nomination: 
Semiurge's KUOTOA = CROATOAN

Theory Nomination: 
Phlox's Scaffolds for Disaster

Other Nomination: 
Gokun's Trading Card Game

Also Good:

• Deus Ex Parabola's Firearms in Dungeoncrawls 
• the bad doctor's City of Ships
• Gorinch's Exquisite CΔrpse: Ochrana Ossis   

photo by CHUTTERSNAP

GLoGmas 2025: sameissharkinjapanese

I recently had the pleasure of receiving Halfalcon 「YAGH, Mall Rats」of sameissharkinjapanese for my GLoGmas assignment. Halfalcon aka walfalcon aka Lucas is a longtime GLoG contributer. His blog began in 2016 with a few posts written purely in Japanese. Since then he's cranked out a range of work including:

- The Rigatoni Cowboy which recieved high praise from our own GR Michael 
- A long glogtober streak in 2023
- Yet Another Glog Hack (YAGH), which lets you play as a spider
- Mall Rats, a game with a charming retro-pixel vibe and its own playlist

One post in particular caught my attention: GLOG Class: What Sound Does A Dragon Make. The post is a good one, describing a musician who finally gains self confidence. After reading it I was, however, for better or for worse, still interested in a more lizardic interpretation of the title, so here we go: 

More Answers to the Question What Sound Does a Dragon Make:

- they sound exactly like saltwater crocodiles
- they only speak audibly in their youths. During adolescence they develop fire breathing organs which prevent speaking aloud

- Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!
Tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!
Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff! 

- a dragon's claws sound like midnight
- a dragon's scales sound like the moon
- a dragon speaks of little nothings
- would that i heard such croons

 

 
photo by alejandro morelos