Review: Outlaws of the Iron Route — Prismatic Wasteland
Reviewing one of the earliest adventures for 5th Edition D&D: how I would improve player agency and how my proposed fixes grind up against the play culture of 5e.| Prismatic Wasteland
Lycanthropy is played out. Instead of using another werewolf in your game, try some weregilt.| Prismatic Wasteland
Reviewing one of the earliest adventures for 5th Edition D&D: how I would improve player agency and how my proposed fixes grind up against the play culture of 5e.| Prismatic Wasteland
I present a cheat code for breaking through writer’s block and coming up with a gameable idea from all the cultural detritus that has built up inside your brain.| Prismatic Wasteland
An example for our I prepared to run a (great) published adventure.| Prismatic Wasteland
On the perils of artificial intelligence when it comes to the tabletop gaming medium.| Prismatic Wasteland
You are stranded on a hostile planet, but fortunately its subterranean tunnels are rich with the fuel you need to get back home. Less fortunately the tunnels are also home to hulking monsters that can break into your ship and drink its fuel.| Prismatic Wasteland
It says something about your game’s setting if orcs can be killed on sight by “good” characters just as it says something entirely different if you can wantonly slay bandits without remorse. I detail lots of different potential targets for violence and what they might say about a given campaign setting.| Prismatic Wasteland
Look, I’m just as surprised and delighted as I’m sure you are.| Prismatic Wasteland
Instead of punishing being over-encumbered, would players be more willing to track their inventory if we rewarded being under-encumbered?| Prismatic Wasteland
A roleplaying game about explaining what a roleplaying game is.| Prismatic Wasteland
If you start from the premise that languages in D&D make sense you can extrapolate a bit about its implied setting.| Prismatic Wasteland
If the best TTRPG writing has, for at least a decade, proliferated online (which it has), shouldn’t we start putting that writing where it belongs on our bookshelves?| Prismatic Wasteland
I’ve spilt so much digital ink about making a wizard’s magic feel more arcane, but now it is time to think about how to make a cleric’s magic feel more divine.| Prismatic Wasteland
Why the hell would you bring a baby into the dungeon? Here are some rules to adjudicate your foolhardy endeavor if your character is saddled with a bundle of joy and can’t afford a babysitter.| Prismatic Wasteland
Ten Thousand Random Spells and How to Cast Them (in roleplaying games, of course).| Prismatic Wasteland
Instead of rolling for initiative, here is a method for playing cards instead to determine who acts and when.| Prismatic Wasteland
Could a depressed person make this?! A DIY board game using Risk and Monopoly components that you can use to generate the history of your fantasy setting before embarking on a D&D campaign.| Prismatic Wasteland
I want to play as a scheming priest amidst other scheming priests.| Prismatic Wasteland
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.| Prismatic Wasteland
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 reach for most of the campaign. In addition to my lament, I present a new character class: the Tempestarius.| Prismatic Wasteland
