A little under a year ago, in the summer of 2023, my friend Marshall asked me for advice on picking a tabletop game for him to run. I threw ...

I played a 3ish-month campaign where we made up the rules as we went along. Here are the rules we came up with and my impressions of this experiment.

Intro This post has existed in an endless number of forms in my head for months now, so this might as well be the energy we're bringing int...

I briefly had this up on Itch but it somehow didn’t feel right and I’m moving it here. It’s a wierd time here right now. We flew halfway around the world ...

Your guide to catching up on a deluge of blog posts from a single day

I presented a method to run B/X adventures for two D&D4 characters. Now I'll meditate about the differences in math and philosophy between B/X and D&D4, sho...

Amanda P. discusses dungeon design, specifically themes.

This is my contribution to the 'Elements' Blog Bandwagon from the Prismatic Wasteland Discord server. I've never been the biggest fan o...

A recurring element of many role playing games is crafting systems, whether for alchemy and magic, or more mundane pursuits. These system o...

Control Weather is a cop-out of a spell, combining what should be many different magic effects into a single spell that is high level and accordingly puts a very interesting field of magic out of reac...

Hey folks! Today is Periodic Table Day 2025, and as a result, a bunch of us in the Prismatic Wasteland server have decided to grace your ta...

I'm jumping on the elements bandwagon, we're doing alchemy! Specifically with oozes and acids. It's a little puzzle monster for players to interact with. You...

I made a little jig out of index cards to make a hex map, and I figured other people might benefit from the experience. Maybe you don’t have hex paper,...

When I got His Majesty the Worm in paper, I livetweeted me reading the book. I was pretty happy with my impression, but it's stuck on twitter so here it is, ...

D&D4 is famous for . It presents a world, but is infamously wishy-washy with the specifics. This aesthetic complaint is the strongest complaint against D&D4....

Awhile back we were in a bit of a fuss about . I also remember a conversation about information and how to make players feel at home in the world. At the tim...

On the very last day of November 2024, two months ago as of writing this, I attended Dragonmeet. There’s a lot I can say about the convention, and the gr...

Awhile back we were in a bit of a fuss about . I also remember a conversation about information and how to make players feel at home in the world. At the tim...

In many RPG books, character creation is right in the front of the book to give the new reader a sense of what the game is about, help them ...

This is a new way to play your B/X compatible adventures. Anything where the monsters are measured in Hit Dice really. With a single index card you can conve...

This is a new way to play your B/X compatible adventures. Anything where the monsters are measured in Hit Dice really. With a single index card you can conve...

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,

I discovered Mermaid recently – a syntax to easily write flowcharts with. It’s integrated into Notion, which I use for a lot of my brainstorming/storing of ideas, so that’s pretty…

Another year passes, another set of Bloggies is awarded. A round of applause is in order for the category winners, and a flower bouquet and...

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Caro Asercion's game of doomed musicians delivers one hell of a shot

In this chapter, you’ll draw a simple map with 30 rooms.

An anti-fascist game