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• Blogwagon Summons: How to Be a Good Player
  from Prismatic Wasteland · published 2026-10-13 · 3 min
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  I invite you to blog about your best Player Advice for the latest Blog Bandwagon.
• Pawn Stance is Objectively Correct*
  from Dice Exploder · published 2026-10-14 · 13 min
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  *and if you disagree you’re doing it wrong. Defining our TermsPawn Stance is an approach to play that treats the characters and events of your game as tools for...
• Hirelings and You
  from AMONG CATS AND BOOKS · published 2026-10-18 · 10 min
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  Leveling with you.
• I was Wrong about Hirelings
  from Valeria Loves · published 2026-10-20 · 6 min
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  A case study in procedural atrophy
• Player Advice Bandwagon - Gadda's Entry
  from Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft · published 2026-10-27 · 2 min
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  You after reading this, probably   Howdy, Farmhands!     The blog bandwagon is about advice for players. But a beautiful woman told me I should be posting shorter blogs so....
• Zoning Out
  from Luck Roll · published 2026-10-24 · 4 min
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  Instead of giving wide-ranging player advice for Prismatic Wasteland's blogwagon, I want to focus on one specific - um, sorry, what were we talking about?You're reading a book...
• what would elmcat do
  from AMONG CATS AND BOOKS · published 2026-10-15 · 9 min
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  pay your tithe to find out
• What is a Mystery?
  from AMONG CATS AND BOOKS · published 2026-10-13 · 5 min
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  Who knows.
• Negative Space Playstyle Principles
  from Writing my Odd Game · published 2026-10-09 · 5 min
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  I refuse to use the word manifesto
• Good Adventures and Great Adventures
  from Patchwork Paladin · published 2026-10-08 · 3 min
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  Checklists for what makes adventures good and what might make them great.
• Making a Character You'll Enjoy Playing
  from To Be Resolved · published 2026-10-29 · 9 min
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  I saw this question asked in a comment thread responding to Seraphim Seraphina's Pawn Stance is Objectively Correct post and it finally inspired me to hop on Prismatic...
• Making a Cool Monster
  from Prismatic Wasteland · published 2026-10-27 · 32 min
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  A checklist you can use to make your monsters more interesting.
• Why is the rumor false?
  from Rise Up Comus · published 2026-10-26 · 7 min
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  I don't like false rumors.  A false rumor is a wasted opportunity to give players an information key to a future lock. Too many false rumors create an unvirtuous pattern where...
• 50 Excuses for Good Players
  from Explorers Design · published 2026-10-23 · 4 min
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  Or, "Why I'm flaking only five minutes before game night."
• thirty questions for sandbox campaigns
  from AMONG CATS AND BOOKS · published 2026-10-22 · 6 min
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  i want the answers
• What players want to know: 21 needed answers for session 1
  from Rise Up Comus · published 2026-10-19 · 3 min
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  When you want to tell your players about your unique setting for fantasy medieval campaigns, you need to be able to answer some basic questions. There are other versions of...
• d100 - What's In The Dungeon Vending Machine?
  from Bommyknocker Press · published 2026-10-18 · 7 min
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  In the depths of the catacomb stands a strange machine: a heavy metal cabinet, painted in bright colours. A light blinks above a small slot with a picture of a coin beside it....
• Notes on Hearts Aglow Session 33 – From Winter to Spring
  from Roll to Doubt · published 2026-10-17 · 10 min
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  I came to session 33 quite renovated for the campaign. I took the helms as GM for the last two sessions, presenting an intermission scenario which was frustrating in the first...
• Getting suffocated by books
  from Copper Shaman · published 2026-10-17 · 3 min
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  I can't do this shit anymore. Over the last year or so I backed these projects: €60 - DURF Expanded €54 - Dungeon, Inc. £45 - Gallows Corner £35 - Toe Beans $80 - Dungeons of...
• it ain't about you
  from Nate Whittington · published 2026-10-15 · 3 min
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  its bloggin time according to mr prismatic, so ten things to do to be a better player: do your homework. if you can’t read what the gm put together for you, you can’t play....