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Blog Posts

  1. Many Small Steps Make Pivoting Easier

    Introducing small changes, step by step, to ensure that pull requests are small and easily understood, thus minimizing potential overloading other team member’s review capacity and context.

  2. How I’m Feeling Emacs Command

    Adding an #Emacs function to help me address #anxiety and entwined emotions by asking me to name those feelings and then providing prompts to help me response and move through those emotions.

  3. Re: Appreciate Blogger While You Can

    Extraction and capture collapses our online platforms, ever impoverishing us, moving us towards digital serfdom.

  4. The (Subtle?) Brilliance of Mythic Bastionland’s Time

    As an #RPG about heroic and mythical knights, #MythicBastionland necessarily considers time. Both fairy tale logic as well as heeding the admonition for creating a “meaningful campaign.”

  5. Questing for Camelot

    Continuing a lifelong fondness of King Arthur’s court.

  6. First Session of Running Mythic Bastionland for Others

    The start of a new age and a new campaign for a pair of knight tenants.

  7. Questions as Flashback Tech

    In preparation for my #Stonetop #ttprg session, I wrote several questions to walk through a flashback sequence. I felt it was a rewarding experience keeping the story in the present, yet giving access to the past actions.

  8. System Hacks: The Long Defeat

    Part of game culture is re-mixing and accumulating a toolbox of cool tech.

  9. Back to Powered by the Apocalypse

    Reflections and thoughts on running #Stonetop and thus revisiting #PbtA games, having remembered some of the past challenges.

  10. Stonetop Session 1 Preparation

    My thoughts for building up my questions for the first session.