Just wanted to give an update that progress continues on Into the Oddish with all of the art for the "Vile Plume Mountain" starter adventure complete, and layout for the test version of the "Red Ve...
2025-11-09 12:35:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This one will be going up on the blog soon but you get an ever-so-slight (and seasonally inappropriate) head start:
It is...
2025-10-31 16:03:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes when it rains it pours when it comes to writing blog posts. Here is one for you good folks. If you're interested in being a part of these playtests, I run them from time to time on the di...
2025-10-23 21:30:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of my writing time has been devoted to playtest or upcoming games as of late, but I, of course, needed to write at least one post for spooky season. This year I wrote about the monster that de...
2025-10-20 20:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post
To call these "beta" rules would be overly generous, but it is at least something minimally viable that I am going to begin playtesting in the discord server this week. If you are free on Thursday,...
2025-10-07 19:13:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy pard,
I hope you've had a good month! Not a ton of new blogs from me (day job plus toddler aren't productivity boons), however Into the Oddish will go into playtesting soon once I finis...
2025-09-28 15:36:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis will be posted as the upcoming blog bandwagon on Sept 8. If you're a blogger, you should come up with something of your own!
Pick Two Inspirations and Combine Them
M...
2025-08-17 15:20:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a fully playable game. I plan on starting the playtests soon, as well as writing the starting adventure. Open to feedback (and ESPECIALLY if you note any typos, wonky bits, bugs [other than...
2025-08-10 02:38:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I won two Ennies last night! Thanks to all who voted for me. Nothing else changes though, we still out here blogging.
Track Encumbrance and Only Encumbrance
One of, if not the, ...
2025-08-02 14:25:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I am committing double avian homicide by means of a rock (monster) with this post. For those in the know, I called for the silliest yet blog bandwagon, on the nebulous topic of 2025-07-13 23:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Ennies Good?? Also, By Total Coincidence, I am Nominated for Some
The Prismatic Wasteland blog and my book with Games Omnivorous are nominated, respectively, for Best Online ...
2025-07-05 18:30:14 +0000 UTC View PostDumpster Deep Dive: You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge Prep Example
So you probably celebrate this or that nation’s independence from this or that other nation (trivial), b...
2025-06-30 22:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Have I already posted this one? I hope not.
AI and Empty Art
Humans create art because at some level we need to and always have. We spend all of our li...
2025-06-14 14:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote this for the Knock Kickstarter, which ends soon, so this one will be a "preview" for much less time than other postlings.
There has never been a better time to stock u...
2025-05-17 21:21:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy! I have a new book out, published by Games Omnivorous (if you've never heard of them, they put out extremely high quality physical products) called Prismatic Wisdom. I'll save you the hard se...
2025-05-13 00:24:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This one will likely be posted to the blog sooner than the many others that are currently in the queue because some bloggers and I are thinking of doing a bunch of posts during the upcoming conclav...
2025-04-29 02:16:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Thought of this one while pushing the stroller around the neighborhood.
All Along the Clocktower
When E.G. Gygax commanded that all must keep strict time records...
2025-04-20 01:57:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Another little blog post, this time inspired a bit by a recent Between Two Cairns episode.
Killable Peoples
In some of the first adventures for D&D, there we...
2025-03-29 18:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Closer to fiction that any blogpost I've written to date, but just had a stray idea I wanted to get out of my head. I bet Goblin Punch could've really taken an idea like this to the next level, but...
2025-03-22 20:29:44 +0000 UTC View Post
My parental leave has ended, and I am back to my real-world job. The domestic economy teeters on the brink of collapse, and my various bosses want to wring as much value out o...
2025-03-09 20:24:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one! Sometimes I watch a movie and wanna write a few hundred words about it.
I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf
[Hodag RPG, you can stop reading now]
I r...
2025-02-02 20:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Some explanations about how to make heavy armor feel different than just being good at dodging attacks.
Playing Dodgeball in Plate Armor
What even is armor class in D&a...
2025-01-31 23:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post
An argument about a spell I find underwhelming and a whole-ass character class. The level progression table didn't format correctly in Patreon, so you can check the google doc if you need that.
... 2025-01-25 15:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post
So I ran a "Calvinball" style campaign recently and it is high time I talk about it and all the wacky rules the group came up with.
You Don’t Need a Game System Before You Play: The...
2025-01-25 01:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostBeen a while since I've shown off WIP of Prismatic Wasteland. I am still chugging along to releasing the full Beta sometime this year (hopefully July), so this document is still VERY messy and not ...
2025-01-22 16:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Really quick post for next week probably about a simple GM technique:
I don’t often write advice for running games not because I don’t consider myself especially adroit at the practice bu...
2025-01-21 15:34:33 +0000 UTC View Post
As a forward, voting has begun for the Gameable category in this year's Bloggies! One of my posts (Overloading the Random Encounter Table) is nominated and I would appreciate your vote today and ea...
2025-01-10 22:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post
2024 Prismatic Retrospective
Year-end retrospectives are a rare blogging mismatch in that they are important for the blogger to write but typically of little interest to read...
2024-12-31 20:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
My first post of the new year is ready:
2025 Is the Year of the Beta
Did you know that every baby you’ve met recently is an alpha? Unfortunately for zoomers, that is the official name...
2024-12-30 16:10:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Was discussing social interaction rules in the discord server and came up with my take that will go in Prismatic Wasteland's beta rules. Might as well share it separately now, although you'll see i...
2024-12-15 12:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post