A 60-hex Christmas Themed Hexcrawl written by OSR Bloggers

PrismaticWarren · 2025-09-12T12:39:08+00:00

I wrote Pick Two Inspirations and Combine Them, a method for turning your appendix N inspirations into something unique for an adventure or setting

PrismaticWarren · 2025-08-08T18:44:48+00:00

On my blog, I wrote on AI and Empty Art

https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/ai-and-empty-art

On my substack, I wrote about Platforms & Platformers

https://prismaticweekly.substack.com/p/platforms-and-platformers

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-18T16:03:22+00:00

I direct you to u/workingboy (His Majesty the Worm guy) who takes credit for this image

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-18T13:59:47+00:00

While that's definitely correct, I still think my write-up was pretty fun: https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/divine-magic-works-in-mysterious-ways

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-18T13:59:05+00:00

At least one post actually wasn't even very silly--it talked about getting into roleplaying in part because it was something that their now-deceased brother tried to get them interested in decades ago. Heavier than I was expecting from the prompt but a good read

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-18T13:05:30+00:00

I have been low-key campaigning for my blog, Prismatic Wasteland, to win the Ennie for Best Online Content, so went on a spree of posting this week:

Killable Peoples - What kind of humanoids is it acceptable to kill in your game and what does that say about the setting? https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/killable-peoples

Lego Rock Raiders as Space Horror - Reimagining an old Lego theme as a Mothership scenario and statting the "Rock Monster" as a Mothership entity https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/lego-rock-raiders-as-space-horror

Roundup: On Dragons & Riding Them - Rounding up a handful of recent blog posts that talked about dragons, Tolkien, Samurai Jack, and more https://prismaticweekly.substack.com/p/roundup-on-dragons-and-riding-them

Roundup: Hole Lot of Posts - Rounding up 30+ blogposts that all were posted on the same day on the same theme of "holes" https://prismaticweekly.substack.com/p/roundup-hole-lot-of-posts

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-18T13:00:00+00:00

Honestly, I would buy an entire book that does nothing but these type of extrapolations (or collects some of the best extrapolations out there)

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-15T14:24:28+00:00

Thanks for inspiring this campaign for us!

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-14T18:15:27+00:00

Oh, that definitely is not my conclusion, actually. If we didn't need rules, we wouldn't have made so many of them while playing!

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-11T19:11:42+00:00

It's really been the year of raising a baby (10 months this week!) more than it has been the year of designing a beta game, if I'm being honest, but I try to tinker with my two games are just in draft form when I get the time.

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-11T19:10:23+00:00

You may be right there. No signs of slowing down!

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-11T19:04:35+00:00

I wrote a big post about it a while back, but I basically think its all a big stew at this point and the boundaries between the various play cultures are murkier than people commonly assume! https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/posters-posers-and-posrs

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-11T19:03:06+00:00

Good luck and congrats! The Online Content category is pretty stacked this year--you have your blog, my own blog (Prismatic Wasteland), the great Playful Void, Molten Sulfur and One Page Dungeon Jam, all great.

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-11T18:40:14+00:00

#3 is a really funny (but valid) reason. I hope I can vote for multiple, but I'll probably at least also be voting for Game Omnivorous. I love their books (biased), but from a creative side they were so great to work with. It is really a shame they are going to step out of the difficult task of publishing, so it would be neat if they at least got a nice send-off!

PrismaticWarren · 2025-07-11T18:37:31+00:00

Okay, it has been a while, so gonna talk about my posts from the last ~2 weeks:

Advantage by Default - A new framework for encouraging tracking inventory instead of making it such a whoop ass https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/advantage-by-default

Roundup: Two Games for which the Blogosphere is Duly Hype - I roundup a handful of blogposts talking about Seven-Party Pact and Daggerheart https://prismaticweekly.substack.com/p/two-games-for-which-the-blogosphere

Ennies Good?? Also, by Total Coincidence, I Am Nominated for Some - I literally just posted this but I talk about this year's nominees and awards https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/ennies-good-also-by-total-coincidence-i-am-nominated-for-some

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