Prismatic Wisdom
Prismatic Wisdom collects all of my blog’s best advice, theory, and mechanical innovations from my blog’s inception in 2020 up to 2024, when I really peaked to be honest. Practical advice and tools for running exploration-based adventures and sticky encounters exist alongside my hottest takes on Keep on the Borderlands, apolitical TTRPGs, the state of the OSR, and many more essays, in a beautiful, full-color tome with eye-popping illustrations and layout.
At 200 pages, it is filled with more wisdom than can be efficiently bullet-pointed, but some of the certified bangers include:
The Complete Hexcrawl Checklist
The Keep on the Borderlands is Full of Lies
The Basic Procedure of the OSR
Spell Lists are Not Magical
30+ more essays (now with fewer spelling errors!)
Online writing is fragile, susceptible to all manner of linkrot and enshittification. It’s so much nicer to have something on your shelf, in your hands, at your gaming table, where you can flip to a page and say “ah, here it is!”
What you’ll get…
The book: A5 Hardback, 200 pages, high-quality print and paper. The cover is die-cut which gives the eye a nice three-dimensionality. 1st printing, limited copies
The downloads: a PDF of the book is automatically sent to your inbox so you can put it on your iPad to appease children that crave the glowing screen
The team you know and possibly love?
Writing: W.F. Smith
Layout: Guilherme Gontijo
Publisher: Games Omnivorous (the team behind the Mausritter Box Set, the Hexcrawl Toolkit and more)
Prismatic Wisdom collects all of my blog’s best advice, theory, and mechanical innovations from my blog’s inception in 2020 up to 2024, when I really peaked to be honest. Practical advice and tools for running exploration-based adventures and sticky encounters exist alongside my hottest takes on Keep on the Borderlands, apolitical TTRPGs, the state of the OSR, and many more essays, in a beautiful, full-color tome with eye-popping illustrations and layout.
At 200 pages, it is filled with more wisdom than can be efficiently bullet-pointed, but some of the certified bangers include:
The Complete Hexcrawl Checklist
The Keep on the Borderlands is Full of Lies
The Basic Procedure of the OSR
Spell Lists are Not Magical
30+ more essays (now with fewer spelling errors!)
Online writing is fragile, susceptible to all manner of linkrot and enshittification. It’s so much nicer to have something on your shelf, in your hands, at your gaming table, where you can flip to a page and say “ah, here it is!”
What you’ll get…
The book: A5 Hardback, 200 pages, high-quality print and paper. The cover is die-cut which gives the eye a nice three-dimensionality. 1st printing, limited copies
The downloads: a PDF of the book is automatically sent to your inbox so you can put it on your iPad to appease children that crave the glowing screen
The team you know and possibly love?
Writing: W.F. Smith
Layout: Guilherme Gontijo
Publisher: Games Omnivorous (the team behind the Mausritter Box Set, the Hexcrawl Toolkit and more)
Prismatic Wisdom collects all of my blog’s best advice, theory, and mechanical innovations from my blog’s inception in 2020 up to 2024, when I really peaked to be honest. Practical advice and tools for running exploration-based adventures and sticky encounters exist alongside my hottest takes on Keep on the Borderlands, apolitical TTRPGs, the state of the OSR, and many more essays, in a beautiful, full-color tome with eye-popping illustrations and layout.
At 200 pages, it is filled with more wisdom than can be efficiently bullet-pointed, but some of the certified bangers include:
The Complete Hexcrawl Checklist
The Keep on the Borderlands is Full of Lies
The Basic Procedure of the OSR
Spell Lists are Not Magical
30+ more essays (now with fewer spelling errors!)
Online writing is fragile, susceptible to all manner of linkrot and enshittification. It’s so much nicer to have something on your shelf, in your hands, at your gaming table, where you can flip to a page and say “ah, here it is!”
What you’ll get…
The book: A5 Hardback, 200 pages, high-quality print and paper. The cover is die-cut which gives the eye a nice three-dimensionality. 1st printing, limited copies
The downloads: a PDF of the book is automatically sent to your inbox so you can put it on your iPad to appease children that crave the glowing screen
The team you know and possibly love?
Writing: W.F. Smith
Layout: Guilherme Gontijo
Publisher: Games Omnivorous (the team behind the Mausritter Box Set, the Hexcrawl Toolkit and more)