Trey talks about the value of "lore" as a tool for helping the referee and the players establish a shared imaginary space for the game to take place in. This kind of lore doesn't directly affect the action, but it help dress the sets and costume the actors in the theater of the mind. #osr#ttrpg

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Good lore that I felt was being left out of the discussion. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-...

The Other "Good Lore"

There has been some discussion in various places over the last couple of weeks regarding "lore," which isn't a great term, maybe, but one we...

Today i’m actually blogging design thoughts — town and city design in particular. How do we make navigation interesting? playfulvoid.game.blog/2024/09/13/a...#osr

Actionable Insights in the Town

Let’s be frank, you don’t navigate a town — or a city — like you navigate a dungeon. It’s silly to do design your town that way. How do we facilitate interesting navigation in a town or city setting? ...

This week we take a bath on the Windswept island! playfulvoid.game.blog/2024/09/09/b...#osr

Bathtub Review: The Secret Vault of the Windswept Island

Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module desig...

New article that SUPPOSEDLY is a review of Barkeep on the Borderlands by @prismaticwasteland.bsky.socialwww.technicalgrimoire.com/david/2024/0...

The Immaculate Vibes of Barkeep on the Borderlands

This is superficially a review of Barkeep on the Borderlands. But everyone knows it’s good. It won a bunch of awards, it’s written by a killer team, and the book is absolutely gorgeous. So we’ll get t...

Nice! My overloaded encounter table post was probably my best post this year

🎲I wrote a post about Cascading Overloaded Encounter Tables, aka one roll to generate rich NPCs over interlinked multiple tables, quick and fun procedure The procedure is expanded over a blogpost by Prismatic Wasteland thelostbaystudio.substack.com/p/free-npcs-...

Free NPCs, design tricks and a vault packed with zines

Crack open the Vaults of Vaarn

New Microblog: Which Sacred Cow Doth I Kill? 🐄 In which I attempt to reconcile the joy of the natural 20 with the roll under mechanic www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/which-s...

Which Sacred Cow Doth I Kill? — Prismatic Wasteland

The worst part of the otherwise excellent "Roll Under" system is that rolling low on a d20, contrary to popular conceptions, is a good thing. Can we keep the bones of roll under while bringing it in...

We were asked the other day what our 3 favourite features we'd published were, of the three I picked one of them wasn't online yet, so here it is, free to read... @liberludorum.com@prismaticwasteland.bsky.socialwyrdscience.substack.com/p/a-party-of...

My entry in @prismaticwasteland.bsky.social#osr#ttrpg

My Barkeep Jam Entry - The Cockatrice Tail

This is my entry in the Barkeep Jam hosted by Prismatic Wasteland . I wanted to write something as different as possible from my previous p...

What a massive undertaking! Kudos!