Prismatic Wasteland🔜PAXU
@prismaticwasteland.com
3x Ennie-winning TTRPG designer
My blog: https://www.prismaticwasteland.com
My games in print: https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/shop
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PrismaticWasteland
My blog: https://www.prismaticwasteland.com
My games in print: https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/shop
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PrismaticWasteland
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I’m W.F. Smith, tabletop RPG designer and blogger at Prismatic Wasteland, best known for Barkeep on the Borderlands, a pubcrawl fantasy adventure.
⬇️ for my top blogposts, my published adventures, and where you can find me other than my blog, prismaticwasteland.com
⬇️ for my top blogposts, my published adventures, and where you can find me other than my blog, prismaticwasteland.com
“Run your character like a stolen car” is great advice because D&D characters are clearly just cars. HP? Horse power. AC? Air conditioning.
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“Run your character like a stolen car” is great advice because D&D characters are clearly just cars. HP? Horse power. AC? Air conditioning.
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My board game brain wouldn’t let me relax until I wrote something using @riseupcomus.bsky.social’s Stepladder Table
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
My board game brain wouldn’t let me relax until I wrote something using @riseupcomus.bsky.social’s Stepladder Table
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Blogpost: In appreciation of the humble stimpak - how can we make each one unique and reflect the vast array of competition in the corporate medical marketplace? pointlessmonument.blot.im/so-you-ve-de... #mothershipmonth
So, You’ve Decided to take a Stimpak - Pointless Monument
Is there a more widely used item than the humble stimpak in the Mothership universe? No matter the anti-canon, literal cannon or obstacle at hand,
pointlessmonument.blot.im
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Blogpost: In appreciation of the humble stimpak - how can we make each one unique and reflect the vast array of competition in the corporate medical marketplace? pointlessmonument.blot.im/so-you-ve-de... #mothershipmonth
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Released an update to Corpslayers! It's got one (1) other color now.
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binary-star-games.itch.io/corpslayers
Corpslayers by Binary Star Games
Rise and grind, runners.
binary-star-games.itch.io
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Released an update to Corpslayers! It's got one (1) other color now.
binary-star-games.itch.io/corpslayers
binary-star-games.itch.io/corpslayers
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Got a player who can't always make it reliably? Well, now there's a class where their absence is a feature. Sort of.
wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Leaper
Every Table has that one friend who wants to play, and we want them to play, but their awful schedule makes committing to anything nearly im...
wayspell.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Got a player who can't always make it reliably? Well, now there's a class where their absence is a feature. Sort of.
wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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And now in blog form: playing multiplayer co-op Warcry.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Co-op Multiplayer Warcry
My friends were over to kitbash minis and play Warcry to celebrate our friend Richard’s birthday. There was a small posse of us, so Richard came up with a simple and ingenious way to play mutli-player...
save.vs.totalpartykill.ca
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
And now in blog form: playing multiplayer co-op Warcry.
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What I have been up to and a digression re: my current rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation. weirdwonder.bearblog.dev/a-yawn-from/ #osr
A yawn from the void
Today is a grab bag.
I am finishing up my next adventure and preparing to run a minimum viable version of it at PAX Unplugged. I am tempted to make my ow...
weirdwonder.bearblog.dev
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What I have been up to and a digression re: my current rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation. weirdwonder.bearblog.dev/a-yawn-from/ #osr
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Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Stepladder Tables
I am not certain that I am the first to have this idea. In fact, I most certainly am not; there's nothing new under the sun (especially in R...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
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Tonight in #Over/Under, I did a drinking contest with nasty drinks. If you want to put the nasty drinks in your Mothership (or other RPG) game, here's the menu: personabler.blogspot.com/2025/11/ten-...
Ten Nasty Drinks for Mothership or other RPGs
I have recently been playing a lot of Over/Under (and hence not been writing any blog posts), and I was recently asked to provide my servic...
personabler.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Tonight in #Over/Under, I did a drinking contest with nasty drinks. If you want to put the nasty drinks in your Mothership (or other RPG) game, here's the menu: personabler.blogspot.com/2025/11/ten-...
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@prismaticwasteland.com has summoned the bloggers for a collaborative hexmap based on the Rankin/Bass Christmas films. Fluorite Guillotine answers the call with the Silver Steppe! Visit for our airship and stay for the butch reindeer.
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
blogwagon: broken bronco on the silver steppe
The beacons are lit. Prismatic Wasteland calls for aid. A new blog bandwagon emerges. This holiday season, Warren has assembled us to write a hex based on the Rankin/Bass Christmas cinematic universe....
www.fluoriteguillotine.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
@prismaticwasteland.com has summoned the bloggers for a collaborative hexmap based on the Rankin/Bass Christmas films. Fluorite Guillotine answers the call with the Silver Steppe! Visit for our airship and stay for the butch reindeer.
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
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New Blogpost! I like Trains, and I think they're incredibly useful for your TTRPG Elfgames! I've written up some theoryslop about your many options and reasons for adding in a choo choo.
Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/i-like...
Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-li...
Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/i-like...
Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-li...
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
New Blogpost! I like Trains, and I think they're incredibly useful for your TTRPG Elfgames! I've written up some theoryslop about your many options and reasons for adding in a choo choo.
Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/i-like...
Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-li...
Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/i-like...
Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-li...
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It's ya boy, Joshy McCroo aka Worm McGurk aka Big Baby Jeshua, back at it again with another Middle-earth Hexmap post (feat. @skerples.bsky.social).
The Southfarthing has it all! Wicker-hobbits! Lobelia Sackville-Baggins! Pissing contests!
The Southfarthing has it all! Wicker-hobbits! Lobelia Sackville-Baggins! Pissing contests!
A Tour of the Southfarthing - Middle-earth Hexcrawl
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. The Southfarthin...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It's ya boy, Joshy McCroo aka Worm McGurk aka Big Baby Jeshua, back at it again with another Middle-earth Hexmap post (feat. @skerples.bsky.social).
The Southfarthing has it all! Wicker-hobbits! Lobelia Sackville-Baggins! Pissing contests!
The Southfarthing has it all! Wicker-hobbits! Lobelia Sackville-Baggins! Pissing contests!
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Here's a rather unusual class I wrote for your #OSR games 𓅦𓅦𓅦𓅦.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Killer Ostrich and their Retainer, a dual character class
An Ostrich Race as Class for OSR games.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Here's a rather unusual class I wrote for your #OSR games 𓅦𓅦𓅦𓅦.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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NEW BLOG BANDWAGON
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas
Blogwagon Announcement: Merry Hexmas — Prismatic Wasteland
A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has all the information you n...
www.prismaticwasteland.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I dug through AD&D to find out: where are all the high-level NPCs? I talk about why it's an important question to ask & do some number crunching using an average AD&D city & some demographic figures I made up. It's better than nothing!
Where are AD&D's High-Level NPCs?
This is a question I've pondered quite a bit in my exploration of AD&D. Theoretically, my assumption would be that there's nothing to restri...
forlornencystment.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I dug through AD&D to find out: where are all the high-level NPCs? I talk about why it's an important question to ask & do some number crunching using an average AD&D city & some demographic figures I made up. It's better than nothing!
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I'm joining Ryan over on The Weekly Scroll to talk about the dos and don'ts of self-promotion and marketing. Leave us some questions in the comments!
And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
Following up on his wonderful article linked below, Clayton will be joining me on Friday to discuss promotion and marketing in tabletop games. We'll be hitting a variety of topics but if you have any questions let us know in the comments!
Join us live Friday at 10am pst
twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
Join us live Friday at 10am pst
twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm joining Ryan over on The Weekly Scroll to talk about the dos and don'ts of self-promotion and marketing. Leave us some questions in the comments!
And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
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So what's your job on the starship?
www.bastionland.com/2025/11/life...
www.bastionland.com/2025/11/life...
Life as Crew
Ships large enough to travel between the stars are a big investment, so most interstellar travellers get around as part of a captain’s crew....
www.bastionland.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
So what's your job on the starship?
www.bastionland.com/2025/11/life...
www.bastionland.com/2025/11/life...
“OSR” stands for Old School Rococo
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“OSR” stands for Old School Rococo
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I conducted mini-interviews with seven new @mothership.bsky.social designers last week. Find them all here:
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I conducted mini-interviews with seven new @mothership.bsky.social designers last week. Find them all here:
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
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Of the different types of dungeon rooms, "Special" can be one of the hardest to write towards. This list of sub-categories of special rooms has great prompts!
In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)
In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)
The 10 types of special rooms
"A Special is anything not exactly a trap, but placed for special reasons." Moldvay Basic pg. B52 Traps, monsters, secret doors, and treas...
traipse.hexarcana.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Of the different types of dungeon rooms, "Special" can be one of the hardest to write towards. This list of sub-categories of special rooms has great prompts!
In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)
In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)
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The fever dream of the future's future ~ The boiling pot that humanity let itself cook in ~ An opportunity ~ A sprint ~ A vision ~ A proof of life ~
This is your first look at Inheritors (officially PWYW on Itch~)
sandroad.itch.io/proof-of-life
This is your first look at Inheritors (officially PWYW on Itch~)
sandroad.itch.io/proof-of-life
INHERITORS - Proof of Life - Quickstart by SandroAD
apocalyptic future-tech mayhem
sandroad.itch.io
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The fever dream of the future's future ~ The boiling pot that humanity let itself cook in ~ An opportunity ~ A sprint ~ A vision ~ A proof of life ~
This is your first look at Inheritors (officially PWYW on Itch~)
sandroad.itch.io/proof-of-life
This is your first look at Inheritors (officially PWYW on Itch~)
sandroad.itch.io/proof-of-life
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Heyy, I have a blog now!
PUT PIKMIN IN YOUR MAUSRITTER GAME YOU COWARDS
I figured I’d test out my new blog by reposting one of my favorite takes on with some quick art.
Happy !...
toucant.bearblog.dev
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Heyy, I have a blog now!
Dreidels are the ideal d4. It’s frankly some type of antisemitism that we have to put up with those stupid little pyramids
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Dreidels are the ideal d4. It’s frankly some type of antisemitism that we have to put up with those stupid little pyramids
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A blogpost that I made out of pettiness. Gamemasters are Game Designers!
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afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...
Gamemasters are Game Designers!
Yes. Tabletop RPG Gamemasters are Players as well. But they are also Game Designers.
What made me to make this blogpost? Pettiness. Someone said that one ...
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A blogpost that I made out of pettiness. Gamemasters are Game Designers!
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...
New blogger alert!
meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
I've started a blog! My very first post is joining in the Hexmas Blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. (It is christmassy, in a catholic way, maybe not Rankin Bass-esque but it does have a headless cleric class to unlock, if you'll indulge me)
I've started a blog! My very first post is joining in the Hexmas Blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. (It is christmassy, in a catholic way, maybe not Rankin Bass-esque but it does have a headless cleric class to unlock, if you'll indulge me)
The Chapel of the Green - Hexmas Blogwagon 2025
I’ve been meaning to start a TTRPG blog for a while and the Hexmas Blogwagon from Prismatic Wasteland seemed as good an excuse as any. In s...
meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
New blogger alert!