Prismatic Wasteland
@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
A short musing today about religion in fantasy worlds, childhood, statues, fish trophies, The Chicago Bulls, pancake breakfasts, and a dog named Scott. Hope you like this break from the usual. www.explorersdesign.com/religious-by...
Religious by Design
Religion in fantasy worlds, games, and walleye trophies.
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SUN🌞ROT is a cool game that seems to be recreating the muddy evolution OD&D took from wargame to RPG and I've been trying to wrap my head around what it's asking me to do, while painting some fun miniatures: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/08/sun-...
SUN ROT: Inq28 And OD&D Kiss?
While work has kept me from doing a lot of thinking on BX D&D, it hasn't kept me from exploring a latent hobby of mine very close to D&D, wh...
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Using starbursts or other candy as enemy minis in your D&D of choice and then eating them when they’re defeated has a certain primal appeal because we learn to do imaginative “play” around the same time we learn to feed ourselves independently
BLOG PREVIEW! Patrons at my $1 tier or higher can read this a week before it goes live! What does any good D&D parody need? A Giant Beaver! What does your Into The Oddish campaign deserve? A Giant Beaver! What's Gadda got ready for you? That's right! A GIANT BEAVER! www.patreon.com/FarmerGadda/...
Bibarel, A Giant Beaver for Into The Oddish | Farmer Gadda
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Convincing my friends to play Into The Oddish I got from the @plusoneexp.bsky.social booth at #Gencon so I can recreate Pokémon episodes for them... and eventually ambush them with *the* beach episode
I recently played Into the Oddish, Vileplume Mountain by @prismaticwasteland.com and had a good time! Some more thoughts: ponderthegoose.blogspot.com/2026/08/revi...
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NEW BLOG POST! Warren F. Smith's "Into The Oddish" is out and unfortunetly, incapable of covering the entire expanse of the Pokemon Franchise it's parodying. Here's a short list of Gen 1 stuff that's up for grabs by us bloggers to flesh out! 🔫 get to work. farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/missin...
Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft : Missing? No! - Absent and Misplaced Content from Into The Oddish
I did the work so now you have to
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My only Gencon purchase that wasn't for a bit was Into the Oddish, and my takeaway is that guys rock actually
It's the End of the World! Calm down, it's not that dramatic. It's a starting city for your adventurers to set off from as they embark out into an Astral Sea. wayspell.blogspot.com/2026/08/hmtw... #HMtW #HisMajestytheWorm
[HMtW] The End of the World
Alright, (the intended to be, but failed) brief sabbatical to purge my brain meat of whalecraft is over. It got real bad for a moment, worse...
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I converted Dungeon Module B1: In Search of the Unknown to Into the Oddish! I present Pokémodule B1: In Search of the Unown. This post details the upper level of the Caverns of Quagsqueton. Can the player Pokémon claim the long lost Brain & Brawn Badges? #TTRPG #IntotheOddish
Pokémodule B1: In Search of the Unown (an Adventure for Into the Oddish), Upper Level of the Caverns of Quagsqueton
Many years ago, rumor has it, two noted Pokémon trainers in the area, Rogahn the Blackbelt (a Fighting-type trainer of renown) and Zelligar ...
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Played these bad boys the other night and absolutely love how well they captured classic games. The moves system is just *chefs kiss* Hope to see more in this vein. @prismaticwasteland.com
Woke up hungover after winning gold at The Ennies for Best Kiss. Anyway, here’s this month’s Explorateur. Only the freshest links from July. Two really fun reviews. My new favorite podcast. And three thoughts on layout from me in the upfront. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...
The Explorateur: Issue #22
Monthly jams, critique, theory, and resources for rpg designers.
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Scraped over the finish line with my appendix n jam module. Phew! Incan Empire, 1536. Kill the time travelling Nazis. Take their weapons and repel the hated Spanish.
Blood-Pact of Paititi by Bommyknocker Press
Resurrect the Incan emperor. Kill the Nazis. Take their weapons and repel the hated conquistadors.
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I'll reiterate the real honor was just to be nominated, but of course I'm enormously happy to have won. Thanks everyone for all your support. If you haven't seen what the fuss is about, check out the course. It's free! dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games
If you’re at GenCon and want to pick up Into the Oddish, they’re at the PlusOneExp booth! @plusoneexp.bsky.social
No hype, no fanfare, no award shows, no spell checking, no nothing. Just the Ramanan Sivaranjan Awards for Excellence in Gaming 2026. Once again we barely made it! #FuckTheEnnies
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Ramanan Sivaranjan Awards for Excellence in Gaming 2026
I just got back from Ottawa for work. I fly out to Victoria tomorrow to enjoy the sights of the West Coast. The summer is rushing by and I have been quite busy. How is it already GenCon? I feel partic...
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Thanks for a great first day of feedback! I've made a configuration file for playingcards.io and uploaded it to the itch page to support virtual play! Hope to see yall around the hive soon.
Agreeable Chatter@69dinguses.bsky.social · 7d agoMy honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...
Un très beau et intéressant Ovni ludique. Into the Oddish, le très non-autorisé jeu de Pokémon qui fonctionne avec les règles de Into the Odd. Publié (jusqu'à un avertissement de on sait qui) chez @prismaticwasteland.com 🙌♥️
My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...
Honeybees is officially The Wax Marches - Alpha Playtest Live on Itch!
Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically...
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You can now convert any Pokemon into an enemy for Cairn, Mythic Bastionland or, most importantly, Into the Oddish #osr #ttrpg #pokemon
Convert Any Pokémon to Into the Oddish Stats — Prismatic Wasteland
Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.
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New post! Reviewing my new favorite RPG-adjectent book, trying to identify what makes its gameplay *tick*, and what lessons you can get from it as a Game-Master. Presenting: Nalsco's ZYMO. behindthehelm.bearblog.dev/lessons-from... #osr
Lessons from Zymo - the necessity of a gameplay loop
TW: the game i'm reviewing is about body horror, which i’m not discussing in depth and leaving in the footnotes anyway if you wanna skip them, but be warned~...
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An argument for human connection masquerading as a book review. valerialoves.com/why-didnt-si...
Why Didn't Silent Titans Change the World?
Apprehension is worth the effort
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You can now convert any Pokemon into an enemy for Cairn, Mythic Bastionland or, most importantly, Into the Oddish #osr #ttrpg #pokemon
Convert Any Pokémon to Into the Oddish Stats — Prismatic Wasteland
Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.
prismaticwasteland.com
I finally took a dive into a section of the AD&D DMG I've been neglecting: Combat! I discuss Gygax's musings about hit points & saving throws, examples of combat, & some handy rules for morale, evasion & pursuit, psionics, lingering injuries, intoxication, & more. #TTRPG #D&D #AD&D #OSR
AD&D DMG Slush: Combat
While I have discussed the AD&D DMG in great length on this blog , my interest has largely been in interpreting the general feel of the game...
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A different kind of blog post today about connection and creation ~ For anyone who needs to hear it <3 www.failforward.moe/2026/07/auth...
Authenticity
[this is generally a non-gamey post so you've been warned] Who is the real you? Is it that gorgeous girl, whose killer wings coax a "you hav...
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Second playtest of cramOS! Lies, cannibalism and playing catch with your unhinged and insane robot sibling. writeodd.bearblog.dev/playtest-rep...
Playtest Report v2
cramOS Playtest: Session 1 - Sowing the seeds of mistrust and lies.
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Which has more tactical options, 5e or Shadowdark or OSE? Tldr: OSE. Why? I posted this week on retainers in OSR and trad game tactical choices: dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/07/in-o...
In one round a lifetime: round 2
In many old school games and AD&D, you hire retainers to help you in the dungeon, which can give a player lots of actions (see my last post...
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