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Prismatic Wasteland

Random Blogwagon Roundup - In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!
6 hours ago
Rise Up Comus

Keying a Dungeon with Class-specific Descriptions (Microblog) - I bet you've seen notes in dungeon keys that say something like: The murals depict an ibis-headed god handing out the tools of writings to grateful huma...
1 day ago
False Machine

A Review of Forgotten Realms; Underdark - By Bruce R.Cordell, Gewndolyn F.M. Kestrel and Jeff Quick. Art direction by Robert Raper. Graphic Design by Robert Raper and Robert Campbell, Cartography ...
2 days ago
Explorers Design

How to Pick a Page Size - There's more to an rpg's format than cost and page count.
2 days ago
Roll to Doubt

Arden Vul Weasels Session Five Report - This is Lykourga, the Glamorous Threadspinner. In other news, FUCK ARDEN VUL MAPPING JESUS CHRIST. The Players: Note that spuk was absent from the session,...
4 days ago
All Dead Generations

The Tyrant's Hand - The Ruins of Fantasy Every fantasy RPG world I know, or more certainly every one I want to run a dungeon crawl game in is filled with huge ruins. Above ...
6 days ago
Was it Likely?

arms and armor of a stolen world - SHOUT! OUT! i think??? much violence is done with the body alone in the Stolen World; your guts can be braided with wire until they turn to garottes, your g...
1 week ago
Indie Game Reading Club

Two Great Tastes etc: Lavender Hack + Trilemma Adventures - IGRC Global Operations had gamer visitors from California recently. We knew we’d be playing something while they were here, but we never quite nailed down ...
1 week ago
Sam Sorensen

June 27th Megagame: Super-Diplomacy - The evening of Saturday, June 27th, 2026, some friends and I—including Walid from Dead Letters and ty from *OVER/UNDER*—are running a megagame version of...
1 week ago
Traverse Fantasy

Weapons: An Informal Review - I’m considering this post to have been co-authored by my partner. She had seen the movie closer to when it had come out, and she told me it quite frustra...
1 week ago
Pointless Monument

I Ran: The Dose Makes The Poison (Using Mothership) - *A rescue (note: definitely not a kidnapping) on an art deco pharma lab with multiple ticking clocks — I ran The Dose Makes The Poison and these are my t...
2 weeks ago
Fail Forward

Micro-Blog: Preview and Micro-Reviews - OKOK so I want to get at least one post out every month and here's my hurried last-minute entry for May (been dealing with a lot lately, but I have a fe...
3 weeks ago
Failure Tolerated

Treasure Encumbrance Matrix - Here’s a structure for planning out your treasure. See if you can create a good variety of treasure that is easy to sell vs hard to sell and easy to carr...
5 weeks ago
Mindstorm

My Favorite Map - Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a blogwagon, this time about maps, and I’ve got to land this hot air balloon before the deadline ...
2 months ago
The Soloist

👥 Playing Solo RPG's Together - Plus New Solo Games, My Exploration of Old Morris Cave, and a SOLO BORG Playtest
2 months ago
Knight at the Opera

How to Talk About Difficulty - Artist credit: Jeffrey Hummel Gamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversation. It's mire...
2 months ago
Weird Wonder

I went to GaryCon 2026 - *and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet* Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked...
2 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...
3 months ago
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
3 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Sacrament of the Minotaur - This is the first of a small series of posts which will be about how I am running Luke Gearing’s *Gradient Descent *in my Mothership home campaign. This ...
4 months ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Rings Of Reminder - It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been. I am still not over stuff t...
5 months ago
Hendrik Biweekly

In 2025 I played twenty-nine role-playing games - The year is almost over, and I didn't do a *lot* of blogging here, regrettably. Turns out I can't really juggle a day job, a crowdfunding campaign, and a ...
5 months ago
Technical Grimoire

TTRPGs That are Actually Fun to Prep - It’s helpful to find a media reviewer with clear preferences. If you know what that person likes, then their review is much more useful to you. “She hates ...
5 months ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

tricks taught: risk, thought, and the Marxist (un)truth of myth in Sukumaland - *a matched pair of mabindas (Sukuma articulated dance figures) on a performance cord* “*For revolutionary consciousness is subjective consciousness...
1 year ago
Sachagoat

BLOGGIES 2024 Concludes! - The Bloggies 2024 have come to a close, and what an incredible celebration of TTRPG blogging it has been! A phenomenal range of talent, creativity, and p...
1 year ago
Bones of Contention

Folie à Trois: Trophy Gold - Below is a shared review of *Trophy Gold (2022)*, a fantasy adventure game designed by Jesse Ross and published by The Gauntlet. Although it is informed ...
2 years ago
Permanent Cranial Damage

Carrion - *Carrion is the endless city. Time began in* *Carrion, and in Carrion shall it end.* *When the world was new, the Hornèd* *Mother's child, the demiurge Cann...
8 years ago

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