"A blog is a beautiful thing, the least private form of diary, the sketchbook that is simultaneously a gallery, the social media that is slow enough that thoughts aren’t drowned out by noise and may instead foster long-lasting communication and collaboration.
But it is vulnerable to the enshittification and platform decay that we humans of the earliest part of the twenty-first century know all too well. But not books." - W.F. Smith
About Prismatic Wisdom:
Prismatic Wisdom is a compilation of Prismatic Wasteland (link opens in new tab/window) (link opens in new tab/window) blogposts between 2021 and 2024. A kaleidoscopic deep dive into tabletop roleplaying design, this is one of the best practical toolkits for the OSR and beyond. What started as a digital collection of musings has now become a full-color tome of essays, tools, and spicy takes.
Inside you'll find notorious posts like:
Hexcrawl Checklist
The Keep on the Borderland is Full of Lies
The Basic Procedure of the OSR
Encounter Checklist
Spell Lists Are Not Magical
And much more
The Team:
Written by W. F. Smith
Design by Guilherme Gontijo