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I have ordered the posts from newest to oldest:

2023-01-22 Hacking Org-Mode Export for Footnotes as Sidenotes
Yet Another Refinement to My Blogging Engine
2023-01-22 Enshittification Anti-Pattern and the Ongoing D&D Licensing Debacle
How a Corporation is Looking to Create a Platform
2023-01-22 “Cities without Number” stretch goal to include licensing
Yet More and Varied Reactions to OGL Antics
2023-01-21 Ongoing Bad Faith Actions of Wizards of the Coast
An Ongoing Attempt to Shift the Legal Field Beneath Creators
2023-01-19 Revisiting Section 15 Copyright Notice of the Open Game License
An Odd Little Section Containing Such Odd Signatures
2023-01-18 Listening to Phil Dragash's reading of “The Lord of the Rings”
Not Usually One for Audio-books
2023-01-15 On Safe Harbours, Shareholder Obligations, and Fey Contracts
Precedence, Common Rules, and Licenses
2023-01-13 A Moment on the Edge of Fey
To Find Magic in Paper and Place
2023-01-12 Using the Git Interactive Staging as a Moment to Facilitate Synthesis
Revisiting Past Writings, Further Describing Personal Workflow, and Issuing and Admonition
2023-01-10 The Open Gaming License and Potential Attempt at Revocation
Bearing Witness to Alienation and Seeing a Familiar Pattern
2023-01-10 How to Grow Programmer Instincts to Help You Avoid Bad Pathways
Or, How Does One Share Lessons Now Internalized?
2023-01-09 Reflections on the Skills That Have Helped Me Continue as a Developer
Hint, It’s Not About Chasing New Technology
2023-01-01 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 11
Once More to Isengard
2022-12-31 Wrapping up Another Year for Take on Rules
A Season of Writing
2022-12-24 The Wastelands of Discord and the Fall of Twitter
Ever Collapsing Channels of Digital Communication
2022-12-23 Other Hands and Other Minds Fanzines
Stumbling Upon a Fanzine Sparks Memories and Reflections
2022-12-21 Campaign-Level Questions for a Solo Campaign
Building a Mystery
2022-12-18 Get to Know Me: Table-Top RPG Edition
Twenty Questions and Some Answers
2022-12-18 Walkthrough of my Project Workspace Functionality
Moving Quickly to Project Work Spaces
2022-12-14 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 10
Prowling Around the Outskirts of Tharbad
2022-12-14 On the Considerations of Where to Post Information
Or Maybe Don’t Pull Eggs in Baskets That Aren’t Yours
2022-12-14 Using Git Bisect and Other Commands to Determine When Something Was Removed
Quickly Sleuthing through a Code Base
2022-12-12 Random Non-Player Character Generator for The One Ring
Responding and Building from Other Prompts
2022-12-11 The Purpose and Joy of Role-Playing Subsystems
Modeling the Guide Posts of Expectant Play
2022-12-10 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 9
Of Gathering Herbs and Revelations
2022-12-09 Playbook Article for Upgrading a Gem within a Ruby Application
Leveraging Checklists to Guide the Work
2022-12-08 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 8
Convincing a Group of Elderly Dwarves of Duinhir’s Qualities
2022-12-08 Reflections on Sessions 1 through 7 of the Travels of Duinhir Tailwind
The Joys of Solo Gaming
2022-12-07 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 7
Unexpected Discoveries En Route to Tharbad
2022-12-05 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 6
The First Fellowship Phase for Duinhir
2022-12-04 Describing the Semantics of My Site
Paying Attention to the HTML
2022-12-03 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 5
A Return to Bree with Three of the Kettlebar Family
2022-12-03 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 4
Family News Delivered
2022-12-01 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 3
Initial Meeting of the Kettlebars and Wondering If There Is More to Gandalf’s Request
2022-11-29 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 2
The Lure of the Barrow Downs and Chance Meetings along the Causeways
2022-11-28 The Travels of Duinhir Tailwind: Session 1
Exploring the Solo Play Rules of “The One Ring”
2022-11-25 Beren and Luthien of the Silmarillion
Finally Have I Emboldened Myself
2022-11-19 Project Dispatch Menu with Org Mode Metadata, Denote, and Transient
Creating a Means of Quickly Navigating Amongst a Projects Important “Pages”
2022-11-16 Autumnal Snow
The Snows of November Bring Broad Flakes
2022-10-30 Deactivated my Twitter Account
Time to Move On
2022-10-28 What are your favorite packages for improving vanilla emacs text editing?
2022-10-24 Adding a Function to Carry Forward an Org-Mode Agenda Item
Delving into org-mode and org-element-map
2022-10-16 Adding Another Function to My Workflow
Going down the Blogosphere Rabbit Hole to Find Further Inspiration
2022-10-16 Revisiting the Principles of My Text Editor
My Text Editor Must Facilitate My Engagement with the Ever Evolving Digital Aspect of My Life
2022-10-12 Analysis and Preliminary Work for Importing Functionality from Another Project
Adventist Analysis for AARKD ID (Slugs) Work
2022-10-09 Denote Emacs Configuration
A Literate Configuration
2022-10-06 On Breaking Down Larger Projects
A Meditation on a Question Often Asked of Me
2022-10-04 Analyzing Rails Application Code to Consider for Extraction into a Gem
Lifting the Custom Slugs Functionality from one Application into a Generalized-ish Solution
2022-10-03 Public and Private APIs versus Public and Private Methods
Using API Declaration to State Intention
2022-10-03 Ruby Memoization and Checking if Defined
Exploring the Implementation Details of Instance Variables
2022-10-02 Migration Plan for Org-Roam Notes to Denote
Laying Out a Game Plan
2022-10-01 Exploring the Denote Emacs Package
Some Analsysis of Features
2022-09-28 Leveraging Commit Messages as Pull Request Text
Favor Information in Commit Messages over Web Conversations
2022-09-27 A Walk Through of a Code Sleuthing Exercise
Using a myriad of tools to orient
2022-09-26 On Storing Glossary Terms in Org Roam Nodes
Hacking on Org-Mode
2022-09-26 Morning Sky
A Simple Poem
2022-09-26 The How of Take on Rules
An Overview of How I Make this Site
2022-09-26 Coming on a Year
A Year of Losing a Dog and Parenting a new Pup
2022-09-25 Rains of Autumn
A Haiku
2022-09-18 An Autumn Haiku
When Harvest Falls to Reap It All
2022-09-06 Org Mode Capture Templates and Time Tracking
Sharing My Workflow and Tooling
2022-08-24 Everyday Custom Git Commands
Paying Attention to What I Repeat…And Documenting It
2022-08-23 Differentiating Ruby’s Classes and Objects
Delving into the Foundational Distinctions
2022-08-22 Joining Scientist.com's SoftServ Team
A Quick Introduction to my Role and the Technology
2022-08-01 Today I Learned about Difftastic
Adding Another Tool for Code Review and Comparison
2022-07-30 Commit Messages Do Matter
Responding to Those Who Say They Don’t
2022-07-20 On Ruby Keyword Args, Structs, Splat, and Double Splat Operators (Oh My!)
Dissecting an Approach to Solving a Coding Challenge I Encountered in the Wild
2022-07-15 SQL Proof of Concept for Collating Different Article Feed Selection Criteria for DEV.to
Scratching Down Some Ideas to Share
2022-07-06 Responsible Monkey Patching of Ruby Methods
Steps for Patching in a Responsible Manner
2022-07-03 That Time When the Only Test and Development Environment Was Production
If You Can Habitualize One Thing as a Developer It Is Create Quick Feedback Loops
2022-06-26 Core Pirates of Drinax: Session 1
A Letter of Marque from a Court Now Primed for Intrigue
2022-06-15 A Second Walk Through of Composing a SQL Query
Showing my Work as I Query a Forem Instance
2022-06-12 Walk Through of Using Postgresql and Blazer to Generate a Cohort Report
Step-wise Composing Larger Queries from Smaller Queries
2022-06-05 Redefining Ruby Instance Methods at Runtime
Or With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
2022-06-04 Leveraging Instance Variables in Ruby Classes
Hint - Prefer Methods over Instance Variables
2022-06-03 Adding Reproducible Randomization to SQL Queries
Or How I Spent an Afternoon Building Out More Creases for Extensibility in Forem’s Feed Query
2022-06-01 Using Ruby to Merge Traveller and Stars without Number System Generators
Or How to Use Your Hobby to Keep your Professional Skills Sharp
2022-05-31 Pitches for an Upcoming RPG Campaign
A Preponderance of Options
2022-05-30 On Gathering an Online Group for Gaming
Following up on a Reader Submitted Question
2022-05-25 "DayTrippers GameMaster Guide" by Tod Foley
An Impressive Book Furthering the Art of the RPG
2022-05-23 Gearing up to Run Creative Options Role-Playing Engine (CORE)
Seeking Free and Open Source Systems
2022-05-14 Benefits of Having a Call Method for Your Ruby Object
Exploiting Ruby’s Object Model to Ease Collaboration
2022-04-29 On Sharpening Your Tools
Using a Tool and Knowing Its Uses Are Not the Same
2022-04-28 Working on Open Source Community Software Is My Job
And How to Hopefully Create Win/Win/Win Scenarios
2022-04-23 Diving into Dev's Relevancy Feed Builder
SQL Composition by Configuration
2022-04-20 What's Bringing Me Joy in Game and Play
It’s about the Conversations
2022-04-19 Burning Locusts: Session 13
An Inspiring Escape and a Heated Exchange
2022-04-18 Burning Locusts: Session 12
Asking Campaign Questions Around the Game Table
2022-04-17 Burning Locusts: Session 11
Further Attempts to Track Down an Elusive Insurrectionist
2022-04-03 Burning Wheel's Factions Doctrines and Rituals from the Anthology
A Quick Exercise to Further Flesh Out the Campaign
2022-04-02 Org-Mode, Git Logs, and Org-Babel for Running Reports
Feeding the Personal Knowledge Management System
2022-04-01 Application Exception Handling in Rails
A Quick Tour through (Some of the) Layers of Propagation
2022-03-31 Today I Learned - Carrier Wave and How to Test Uploading a New Image to a ActiveRecord::Base Model
Managing Object State is Hard
2022-03-29 The Three Caches of Forem
A Quick Tour of Our Favorite Performance Enhancing Pain Point
2022-03-25 Using a File as a Template in Emacs
Minor Automation to Facilitate End of Week Reporting
2022-03-20 Remembering Corrie, Our Black and White Border Collie
Our Black and White Border Collie
2022-03-19 Regarding Documentation: A Letter to My Earlier Selfs
Apologies, Confessions, and Meanderings
2022-03-17 The Why and How of Yardoc
Inching Along the Never Ending Path of Improving of Documentation.
2022-03-13 Further Into Emacs with Pcase, Backquotes, and Commas
The Continuing Adventures of Writing to Learn
2022-03-12 Burning Locusts: Session 10
A Few Dossiers, a Street Chase, and a Warning from a Concerned Friend
2022-03-12 Burning Locusts: Session 9
Fleshing out Scintillante One Circles Test at a Time
2022-03-01 Trait Vote Sessions in Burning Wheel
Sometimes Talking About the Game is More Important than Playing the Game
2022-02-26 Burning Locusts: Session 7
Arson, Ambush, and Art Sales
2022-02-26 Note Taking with Org Roam and Transclusion
Ever Improving my Personal Note Taking Process
2022-02-23 Burning Locusts: Session 6
More Art Theft and a Socialite Party
2022-02-22 Burning Locusts: Session 5
Haggling, Hoarding, and Help
2022-02-20 Burning Locusts: Session 4
Further Exposition as We Learn of an Art Theft Scheme and Hiring Personal Mercenaries
2022-02-20 Musing about Failure Consequences in Role-Playing Games
Let Failure Open More Pathways
2022-02-12 Building via the Wises of Burning Wheel
A Mechanic for Player Pushback and Involvement
2022-02-07 Org Roam, Emacs, and Ever Refining the Note Taking Process
Always Be Refining Your Config
2022-02-02 An Eighth Winter Haiku 2022 Edition
2022-02-01 A Seventh Winter Haiku 2022 Edition
2022-01-29 A Sixth Winter Haiku 2022 Edition
2022-01-29 The Alt-Right in Gaming and Outlining the Pipeline
Empathy and the Reflex of Victimhood
2022-01-23 Fifth Winter Haiku 2022 Edition
2022-01-21 Fourth Winter Haiku 2022 Edition
2022-01-17 Burning Locusts: Session 3
Social Engagements and Contracts
2022-01-17 Switching from Company to Corfu for Emacs Completion
Thinking Through the Principle of Discovery
2022-01-16 Third Winter Haiku 2022 Edition
2022-01-15 Second Winter Haiku 2022 Edition
2022-01-13 Emacs Packages to Get Stuff Done
Recording and Replaying Keystrokes
2022-01-11 Resolving an Unable to Resolve Link Error for Org Mode in Emacs
Documenting to Share a Solution
2022-01-10 First Winter Haiku 2022 Edition
2022-01-09 Using PlantUML to Model RPG Relationship Maps
Leveraging Open Source Software for RPGs
2022-01-03 Forem Feed Experiment One
January Results
2022-01-03 Retrospective for 2021
The Years Start Coming and They Don’t Stop Coming!
2021-12-30 Burning Locusts: Session 2
Laying the Foundation for Future Sessions
2021-12-20 The Serendipity of Pairing with a New Developer
Learning as I Watch Others Navigate Their Toolbox
2021-12-16 Burning Locusts: Session 1
Disruptions at Villa di Mari
2021-12-12 Session 2: The Mistimed Scroll an Eberron Campaign
Crossing Paths on the Way to New Cyre
2021-12-10 Burning Locusts: Character Creation
A Campaign Building and Character Burning Session
2021-12-06 Session 1: The Mistimed Scroll and Eberron Campaign
Humble Beginnings
2021-12-02 Ruby Script to Find Local Branches with Deleted Remotes
Pivoting from One Strategy to Another
2021-11-29 Keeping the Stakes Low while Breaking Production
Using Existing Tooling to Make Changes Reversible
2021-11-25 Adding Emacs Function for my Forem Pull Requests
Automating the Repetetive while also Learning a Bit More about My Editor
2021-11-18 Gently Embracing Different Regular Expression Approaches in Ruby
A Straight-Forward Problem with Three Different Approaches
2021-11-14 First Snow
2021-11-13 Send Anything in OS X to Emacs for Editing
Hacking Away with Hammerspoon and editWithEmacs
2021-11-12 On Writing Documentation
Comments, Tests, and Commit Messages are All Documentation
2021-11-10 Further Hacking on Emacs for Github Pull Requests
You Ain’t Emacs-ing if You Ain’t Always Hacking Your Config
2021-11-08 Creating a Documentation Dashboard and Emacs Function
Reducing Friction on Adding Placeholders for My Future Self
2021-11-06 The Mistimed Scroll: Character Brainstorming
Laying Out Some Next Steps
2021-11-05 Emacs Function to Open Magit Log PR at Point
A Quick Hack to Help My Code Spelunking
2021-11-03 Building and Documenting a Nuanced ActiveRecord Approach
Or How I’m Working to Improve the Feed Relevance of DEV.to
2021-10-28 Practicing Postgresql and Postulating (Im)Provements
Returning Again to Databases
2021-10-25 Mental Model Minute: Relationship Triangles
Understanding Our Approach and Its Impact
2021-10-21 Orienteering in the Time of Remote Work
Or Navigating without One of Your Senses
2021-10-17 The Mistimed Scroll: An Eberron Campaign
Establishing a Situation for Character Creation
2021-10-16 Tangents that Cling to Memory
Avoid Focusing on a Singular Path and Leave Room to Wonder
2021-10-12 Recent Readings and Serendipitous Pairings
Pairing “Three Rings” and “Ghostways”
2021-10-08 Trick or Treat, I’ve Joined the DEV Team
With the Changing of the Season comes a Changing of the Job
2021-10-04 Being the Partner of an Entrepreneur
Be Prepared for Streams of Creativity
2021-09-27 Eberron’s Kalashtar for Burning Wheel Gold
A Minimum Viable Set of Lifepaths and Trait
2021-09-22 Caffeinated Dream States and Leaving a Job
And the Frustrations of Trying to Solve Problems in a Dreamscape
2021-09-20 What We Lose as We Change Platforms
A Season of Change
2021-09-19 Playtesting Eberron Shifters for Burning Wheel
Putting Forth Some Preliminary Designs
2021-09-19 Further into the Crucible of Burning Wheel
This Is a Game that Rewards Player and Character Engagement
2021-09-18 Revisiting the Dragonmarks for a Possible Burning Wheel Campaign
Writing Down Just Enough of an Idea to Proceed
2021-09-17 Slowing Down to Synthesize
Paper and Pencil Sooth My Soul and Feed My Brain
2021-09-02 Working through the Fallout of a Moldbreaker Artha Award
Something Must Change, Let’s Do Some Digging
2021-09-02 Do I Now Favor Online over Face to Face?
Regarding Table-top Role-Playing Games, I Think I Do
2021-08-31 Crafting an In-Game Letter with Player Commentary for a Burning Wheel Game
Letter from Viscount Nentres Rhydulf to Count Rhydulf
2021-08-29 To Link Test or Not in Burning Wheel Gold
Balancing Decision Fatigue, Time Budgets, and Fictional Pacing
2021-08-28 Whipping Up a Quick Emacs Helper Function for Hugo
Continuing to Build Out Utility Functions
2021-08-26 The Circles Subsystem of “Burning Wheel Gold”
A Higher Order Reaction Roll
2021-08-26 Adding More Tag Rendering Functions for SHR in Emacs
Adding More Default Styles of Browsers
2021-08-24 A Wonderful Cascade of Tests in Burning Wheel
The Dice Helped Tap Some Amazing Narrative Beats
2021-08-24 Coming Up on the 8th Anniversary of Full-Time Soapy Gnome
Stumbling Down Memory Lane
2021-08-23 Diving into the Implementation of Subject Menus for Org Roam
It’s Macros, Functions, and Property Lists…Oh My!
2021-08-22 Ever Further Refinements of Org Roam Usage
Leveraging Some Org Roam Version 2 Changes
2021-08-15 Once Again, Vendors at a Festival
Remembering the Hustle of Years Past
2021-08-03 Using Magit Built-in Functions for Workflow
Improving on a Hacked Together Function Using Magit
2021-08-02 Emacs Script to Review Git Status of Repositories
Generating a Quasi-TODO List for a Common Mental Model Task
2021-07-20 Burning Wheel and What’s the Deal with Wises
Or Hey Where’s My Investigation Skill?
2021-07-17 An Evening Poem
2021-07-17 Organizations Live and Die by Process
Steward Those Processes in Service to the Goals and Values
2021-07-11 Using the Eberron Setting and “Worlds without Number” System
Doing Just in Time Translations
2021-07-10 Interrupting the Game to Refocus
Diversions Are Fine but Sometimes You Need to Stop and Clarify
2021-07-10 What Do We Lose When We Sack Libraries?
The Cult of Efficiency Demands Sacrifices
2021-07-06 “The Legend of Vortigern” by Simon Heywood
A Pre-Arthurian Legend Teetering on Myth
2021-07-02 Whom Do You Miss the Most?
Reflections of a Blog Post, an Epic, and Parenthood
2021-07-02 Night's Garden
2021-06-29 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-29)
RSS, Procrastination, and Chipping Away at Boundaries
2021-06-28 “Borges and Me: An Encounter” by Jay Parini
2021-06-27 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-27)
Not Much But Figured I’d Write Something
2021-06-21 “On Self-Knowledge” by Kahlil Gibran
A Truth from a Certain Point of View
2021-06-20 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-20)
Alternatives, Balance, and Jargon
2021-06-19 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Session 7)
Shaky Plans, Shared Meals, and Desperate Bargains
2021-06-18 The Steadfastness and Mutability of Fiction
We are the Light that Illuminates the Stories
2021-06-17 Firefly
2021-06-17 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-17)
Campaign Play, Mystery, and Group Mythology
2021-06-15 The Ruby Throne
An Elric Graphic Novel
2021-06-13 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-13)
2021-06-12 Delving Further into the Why of Emacs
It’s Reducing Context Shifting
2021-06-11 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-11)
Campaigns, Bingo, and Breakinig Changes
2021-06-10 Embracing Tropes while also Substituting an Ingredient
More than Just Amplifying the Blogosphere
2021-06-10 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-10)
Railroads, Scholarly Research, and Worldbuilding
2021-06-09 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-09)
Old School Adventures and Maps
2021-06-09 Organizing Information for Retrieval
On Table of Contents, Indices, Glossaries, Citations, and Search
2021-06-08 Further Molding Emacs to Reinforce Habits
It Ain’t Emacs if You Ain’t Hacking on Your Config Daily
2021-06-08 Iterating on a Hiring Process (Part 2)
Never Underestimate the Lowly Spreadsheet
2021-06-08 “Total Systems Power” by Barry Oshry
The Conditions We Experience in Our Roles within Systems
2021-06-08 Insomnia, Language, and Poison Ivy
A Potent Mix to Agitate Both Body and Mind
2021-06-07 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-07)
A Mix of Old and New Gaming and Software
2021-06-07 Molding Emacs to Reinforce Habits I Want to Develop
But Also, Don’t Go Out and Implement a Bunch of Things
2021-06-06 Revisiting the “Red Hand of Doom”
Reflecting on Campaigns Past as Fuel for Campaigns Future
2021-06-06 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-06)
The Comingling of Gratitude, Inspiration, and Sharing
2021-06-06 Hiatus: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
2021-06-04 Iterating on a Hiring Process (Part 1)
Remember, It Is a Project that Impacts People
2021-06-02 Proposing a Documentation Structure and Rationale
Diving a Bit Deeper Into Structure
2021-05-24 Exploring Documentation Location Options
It’s Not Just about Where but Also Sharable Current State
2021-05-22 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Session 6)
Joining a Grand Scheme
2021-05-20 Emacs Function to Rename Hugo Blog Post
Writing a Function to Practice Lisp and Complete an Uncommon Task
2021-05-20 Conceptualizing a Process for Where and How to Publish the Thing
As a Knowledge Worker, I Generate a Lot of “Information Sharing Artifacts”
2021-05-19 Process Development and Documentation as a Deliverable
Before You Get to Work, Make Sure to Sketch out a Process
2021-05-17 Responding to “How to be a senior Engineer?”
For me, it’s about Communication and Mentoring
2021-05-16 Sandhill Cranes
2021-05-16 Burning from Within
Starting a Burning Wheel Campaign in the Warhammer Fantasy Setting
2021-05-15 A Year or So of Emacs
Swapping out Ivy for Selectrum
2021-05-08 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Session 5)
Leaning on Circles and Wises to World Build
2021-04-19 Session 16: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
A Short Session with some Information Gathering
2021-04-18 Peach Blossoms
2021-04-17 Authenticity
2021-04-16 An Eighth Spring Haiku
2021-04-14 Bluebird
2021-04-10 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Session 4)
When Law-wise is the Workhorse Skill
2021-04-08 Bringing the Whole Toolkit to Problem-Solving
Some Background, a Work Story, and a Game Plan
2021-04-07 Magnolia
2021-04-07 Brown Thrasher
2021-04-05 A Seventh Spring Haiku
2021-04-04 A Sixth Spring Haiku
2021-04-03 Let's Read “Worlds without Number: Tales of the Latter Earth”
Framing Expectations of Genre and System
2021-04-02 A Fifth Spring Haiku
2021-04-01 A Fourth Spring Haiku
2021-03-31 A Third Spring Haiku
2021-03-30 A Second Spring Haiku
2021-03-30 A Spring Haiku
2021-03-24 Following Up on My Work Experiment
Hint: People Want Time to Focus
2021-03-17 “On Children” by Kahlil Gibran
Poetry Reviews Deep Truths
2021-03-17 Let's Read “Worlds without Number”
An Old School Inspired Fantasy RPG
2021-03-17 Work Experiment the Second
Flexing a More Disciplined Approach to My Calendar
2021-03-15 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Session 3)
Forgery, Failure, and Feeding Horses
2021-03-08 Session 15: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Prosthetics and Petty Thievery
2021-03-04 Meetings as a Service
A Strange Work Experiment
2021-03-03 Playing in Seneschal Facilitated by Brad Murray
Building up a Game’s Ruleset One Turn at a Time
2021-02-28 Recontextualizing my Relationship with Burning Wheel
Community Requires Governance and Accountability
2021-02-27 Giving Platform
That Which I Give Energy Invariably Owns Me
2021-02-26 A Journey to Conjure Those Now Gone
Memories that Stick and Haunt
2021-02-25 Last Breath of Winter
To a Passing Friend
2021-02-22 A Twelfth Winter Haiku
2021-02-21 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Session 2)
Prognostication, Scavenging, and Coveting the Written Word
2021-02-21 Session 14: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Digital Forensics and Oracular Skulls
2021-02-20 An Eleventh Winter Haiku
2021-02-20 Technology Doomed to Repeat Itself
Second Verse, Same as the First, Just a Little Bit Worse
2021-02-20 Help Building Your Résumé
Some Concrete Exercises to Connect Your Résumé to Job Postings
2021-02-20 A Tenth Winter Haiku
2021-02-17 A Ninth Winter Haiku
With a Reflective Journal Entry
2021-02-16 An Eighth Winter Haiku
2021-02-15 A Seventh Winter Haiku
2021-02-14 On Game Balance
It Ain’t a Noun; It’s a Verb
2021-02-13 Preamble to Session 14: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Exposition
2021-02-13 A Sixth Haiku
2021-02-12 A Fifth Winter Haiku
2021-02-12 Project Initiation and Change
Building a Coalition to Clarify, Ideate, Design, and Implement
2021-02-12 A Fourth Winter Haiku
2021-02-11 A Third Winter Haiku
2021-02-11 Posts that Caught My Attention
Two Dots Daring Me To Connect Them
2021-02-08 Winter's Pitch
The Otherworld Calls
2021-02-08 A Second Winter Haiku
2021-02-08 Haggle
To a Harsh Mistress
2021-02-08 A Winter Haiku
2021-02-07 Session 13: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Charting a Course through the Intersection of Future and Past
2021-02-07 Sending some Interstitial Love Letters to the New Vistas Crew
Dear Player Characters, Tell Me More
2021-02-07 Session 12: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Skullduggery and Explosions
2021-02-06 Holding Off on Chasing a COVID Vaccine
And I Hope You Reflect Deeply on When Should Be Your Turn
2021-02-06 Winter's Reverie
To Conjuring Memories Old and New
2021-02-05 To the Ghosts, Haunt Elsewhere
This Blog and My Coding Image Is Not For Sale
2021-02-02 Happy 10th Birthday Take on Rules
With a Decade Behind Me, Let’s See What I Learned
2021-02-01 The Light Hangs Low
But Not Low Enough for Me
2021-02-01 Perhaps An Odd Farewell
Reflecting on a Dream, These Days of Mine, and Wishing Well A Friend Moving On
2021-01-31 Eager to Spill Ink
I Explore My Love of Winter
2021-01-31 Winter's Passing
The View from My Window
2021-01-30 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Session 1)
Of Mutton, Brandy, Shark Teeth, and Love Letters
2021-01-29 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Alternate Character Creation)
Burning Up a Different Character
2021-01-27 On Plain Old Boring HTML
And The Hubris of Disruption
2021-01-24 Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Character Creation)
Positioning a Character for the First Session
2021-01-23 Strategies for Cold Opens of Impromptu Games
Also Applicable for Getting Any Game Going
2021-01-17 Separated from the Cadence of Life
On Fleeting Winter and Exhaustion
2021-01-16 “The Book of the New Sun” by Gene Wolfe
A Complex Dream-like Journey and Transformation Story
2021-01-14 Letter Sent to Samvera Community in Regards to Github
A Call to a Community Response
2021-01-13 Farewell Github Pages, Hello Nearly Free Speech
Ever Moving Towards my Values
2021-01-12 The Why of a Blog?
Because Writing Helps You Learn
2021-01-09 Deplatforming
Don’t Cede Your Voice
2021-01-07 These Opening Days of 2021
In Which 2020 Isn’t a Fluke, and a New Year Won’t Deliver Us
2021-01-03 A Situation and Adventure Design Process
An Approach that Works for Me
2021-01-02 A Beauty in Winter's Burden
Grey Skies and Snow Covered Ice Cling to this Day
2020-12-31 A Refinement to the Ubiquitous Initiative Procedure
Increasing the Unpredictability of Combat
2020-12-31 Wrapping up the Year
Accomplishments Echo Hollow when We’ve Set the World Aflame
2020-12-30 Discussing the Open Gaming License
Poor Clarity of Open Game Content Sucks; And Doubly so for the Aggressive Product Identity Declarations
2020-12-29 Session 11: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Fleeting Thoughts and a Gunfight in a Library
2020-12-28 Probability of Stabilizing the Dying in “Stars without Number”
Another Foray into Probability and Computations
2020-12-25 Session 1: A Grain of Truth in the World of Ardu
Investigating Descrepencies in Provincial Reports
2020-12-21 Thinking Through Group Rolls for Stars and Worlds without Number
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Everyone Rolls
2020-12-21 Session 10: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Stacks of Papers, a Medical Facility, a Pre-Tech Workshop, and a Psychic Hazard
2020-12-20 Many Small Tools Make Light Work (in Emacs)
Stiching Together YASnippet, Hugo Short Codes, Shell Commands, and YAML Files in Emacs
2020-12-18 Directory Structure for my Org Instance
Sharing Some Personal Documentation
2020-12-18 Toggling Keyboard Mapping for Org Roam
Dynamically Changing Keyboard Shortcuts to Match Working States
2020-12-17 An Initial “Worlds without Number” Situation from the Ministry of Harvest
Beginning a Campaign in the Latter Earth
2020-12-17 The Geemit - A Worlds without Number Demihuman
A Sentient Species of Amoeboid Storytellers
2020-12-15 Using the Organization Generator from “Soft Horizon” with a “Worlds without Number” Campaign
Drawing Inspiration from the Collision of Varied Randomization
2020-12-14 Session 9: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Shots Fired, Lab Entered, and Talking with a Rock
2020-12-13 The Kvarzflett - A “Stars without Number” Sophont
A Rock and Lichen-Based Psychic Creature
2020-12-12 Tweaks in “Worlds without Number” to the “Stars without Number” Engine
Refinements to the Sine Nomine engine
2020-12-08 Revisiting Hydra Menu for Org Roam Lookup in Emacs
A General Solution (Thusfar)
2020-12-07 Session 8: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Bringing Chekov’s Gun to a Recon Party
2020-12-06 Adding Hydra Menu for Org Roam Lookup in Emacs
Pre-Populating ‘org-roam-find-file’ to Help Topic Lookup
2020-12-05 Creating a Post-Human Ethnicity for a “Worlds without Number” Campaign
The Konuk, One of the Governing Ethnicities of the Latter Earth
2020-11-30 Session 7: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Detectors, Escapees, and Beauracratic Moles
2020-11-27 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Example Character Creation
Rolling up a quick and random character
2020-11-11 Synchronizing OSX, Terminal, and Emacs Dark/Light Appearance
Composing Shell, Applescript, and Emacs Eval
2020-11-09 Session 6: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
A Quick Meeting at a Public Tavern
2020-11-09 Using Emacs While Running Online Games
These Are The Tools I Use for Table Top Gaming
2020-11-06 Session 5: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Back from Haitus with Subterfuge and Reconaissance
2020-10-30 Reducing Duplication in my Emacs Config
Learning from One Small Refactor
2020-10-29 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Piecing Things Together”
A Few Random Tables to Launch a Campaign
2020-10-28 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - The Sindal Sector”
A Quick Overview of a Third Imperium Sub-Sector
2020-10-27 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - World and Universe Creation”
Procedures Make the World Go Round
2020-10-26 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Trade”
Worldbuilding Through Random Commerce Tables
2020-10-25 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Psionics”
Even Mind Powers Abide by Conservation of Matter
2020-10-24 Visual Changes to Take on Rules
Minor Tweaks to Colors and Hover State
2020-10-18 Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor
Hint: I Took the Time to Build What I Needed
2020-10-14 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Common Spacecraft”
Quirky Ships and Isomorphic Maps
2020-10-13 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Space Combat”
For Sci-Fi RPGs, I Envision Spaceship Combat
2020-10-10 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Space Operations”
Space Ships Ain’t Cheap and There’s a Lot to Them
2020-10-08 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Vehicles”
Plains, Trains, and Automobiles
2020-10-04 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - A Fourth and Final Example of Character Creation”
Having Loads of Fun Rolling Up Characters
2020-10-02 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - A Third Example of Character Creation”
Because Rolling Lots of Dice is Fun
2020-10-01 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Equipment”
Gadgets, Augmentations, Weapons, and Armor
2020-09-30 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Encounters and Dangers”
In Space, Dangers are More Varied
2020-09-29 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Combat”
Quick and Dangerous with Some Nice Skill Additions
2020-09-28 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Skills and Tasks”
Mechanics for Characters to Take Action
2020-09-27 To Father Jenkins, President of the University of Notre Dame
Please, Ask of Yourself What You Ask of Others
2020-09-26 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - A Second Example of Character Creation”
More of the Traveller Character Creation Mini-Game
2020-09-25 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - An Example of Character Creation”
Playing Through the Traveller Character Creation Mini-Game
2020-09-24 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Character Creation”
A (Deathless) Mini-Game to Create Your Character
2020-09-23 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook”
A New Look for an Old School Game
2020-09-18 Session 4: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Many an Interview Leads to a Reveal
2020-09-13 The Player Characters (and new Alien) of New Vistas
Not a Warrior Amongst Them
2020-09-02 Session 3: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Archaic Laws and Arms Sales Gone Wrong
2020-08-16 Thel Sector System Overview
A Systems Overview from New Vistas
2020-08-12 Session 2: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Making an Arms Deal and a Contact
2020-08-05 Session 1: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Into the Utopic and Pastoral Past
2020-07-21 Once More, a “Stars without Number” Campaign
Getting Started with a Campaign and Repurposing Past Work
2020-06-26 Samvera is Hiring a Community Manager
Perhaps You’re Interested in Joining an Open Source Community
2020-06-23 Reading and Reflecting on “I'm Still Here” by Austin Channing Brown
2020-06-14 Let's Read “The End of Policing” by Alex S Vitale - Chapter 3 (Part 2)
The School to Prison Pipeline
2020-06-10 Let's Read “The End of Policing” by Alex S Vitale - Chapter 3 (Part 1)
The School to Prison Pipeline
2020-06-07 On Open Letter to the Samvera Community: Strike For Black Lives
To Those in Academia, Let’s Look to What We Can Do
2020-06-07 Let's Read “The End of Policing” by Alex S Vitale - Chapter 2 (Part 2)
The Police are not Here to Protect You (Part 2)
2020-06-06 Let's Read “The End of Policing” by Alex S Vitale - Chapter 2 (Part 1)
The Police are not Here to Protect You
2020-06-05 An Open Letter to My Graduating Children
The Illusions, I Hope, Are Dissolving. Now We Must Work to Shape Something Far Better.
2020-06-03 Let's Read “The End of Policing” by Alex S Vitale (Chapter 1, Part 2)
2020-06-02 Let's Read “The End of Policing” by Alex S Vitale
Reading for Further Context on Systems
2020-06-01 To Those with White Skin and Therefore Systemic Privilege
2020-05-25 Principles of My Text Editor
Once Again Exploring a Different Solution
2020-05-20 Today I Learned (May 20th 2020 Edition)
Learning Some New Distributed Tech
2020-05-20 Connecting to Bridgy for backfeed and POSSE service
Using Standards to Connect Conversations
2020-05-17 “Bread and Freedom” by Albert Camus
“Freedom is made up especially of duties” – Albert Camus
2020-05-15 The Court Procedure from Lavender Hack
Social Encounters Deserve Procedures
2020-05-14 Today Has Been a Hard Day
Looking for Hope in Dreary Days
2020-05-10 Upcoming Dungeons and Dragons Game
Playing a Wood Elf Druid
2020-05-09 Documenting Decisions to Build Buy-In
Don’t Rely on a Group’s Memory, Write It Down
2020-05-08 Desperate Role-Playing Moments
Shared Fictional State with Clear Tightening Consequences Build Desperation
2020-05-06 Highlighting Posts from my RSS Feed
Noodling on 3 (of many) Posts That I Found Interesting
2020-05-05 Pushing Simplicity Around
Or the Old Adage: There’s No Such Thing As a Free Lunch
2020-05-04 The Joys of a Simple Site
Keeping Simple So It Doesn’t Become a Burden
2020-05-02 Adding Webmention Features
Providing a Framework for Citation and Conversation
2020-05-02 Online Playtest of Lavender Hack by Phil Lewis
Playtesting and Gaming via Google Docs and Zoom
2020-05-01 Hugo Tips and Tricks #1
Transforming Dynamic Data via Dispatch Strategy and Set Logic
2020-04-27 The Resolution System of Soft Horizon
Exploring Soft Horizon’s Uniform Conflict Resolution Procedure
2020-04-26 Free Time During a Pandemic: Three Weeks Later
Writing Software, Retelling Folktales, Reading Camus and Leiber
2020-04-19 Software to Migrate Data from Square to Shopify
2020-04-17 Seeking Inspiration
Finding inspiration in “The Silk Road” and “DCC RPG Annual”
2020-04-12 Switching from Inoreader to Newsboat for RSS Reader
2020-04-04 Free Time During a Pandemic
2020-01-03 Books I Read (or Started to Read) in 2019
2019-12-20 Influences on my Blog's Design
Waxing philosophical about marginalia, unique and durable tables, pedantic tests, javascript, and updates.
2019-12-18 Farewell to Google Analytics
2019-12-13 5th Edition House Rules: Ray of Wounding
2019-12-11 Precognitive Prep - A Divination Spell for 5th Edition
2019-12-11 5th Edition House Rules: Modified Injury and Recovery - Take 2
2019-12-08 5th Edition House Rules: Modified Injury and Recovery
2019-12-05 “Five Torches Deep” by Sigil Stone Publishing
2019-10-13 It Finally Happened: A Doppelgänger Infiltrated the Party
I’ve been playing for 31 years and this was the first time a doppleganger infiltrated the party.
2019-09-15 A Morning Walk Through Gray Skies and Steady Rain
2019-09-14 End of Summer and Campfires
2019-09-09 Playstorming a Burning Wheel Fight using Twilight in the Duchy Verdorben stat blocks
2019-09-05 Why Hugo when I'm A Rubyist
2019-09-02 Burning Dragonmarks - Design Thoughts on Dragonmarks
2019-09-02 Burning Warforged - A New Stock and Lifepaths for Burning Wheel
2019-08-25 Once More Into the “Tomb of Annihilation”
2019-08-24 Exposing More Metadata for Take on Rules
2019-08-23 Playstorming a “Stars without Number” Space Combat - Take 2
2019-08-22 Playstorming a “Stars without Number” Space Combat
2019-08-20 A New Fighter Class Starship for “Stars without Number”
2019-08-17 Ruby Script to Extract Post for RPGGeek
2019-08-16 Session 2 exploring the Thel-Sector of “Stars without Number”
2019-08-15 Session 1 of a “Stars without Number” Campaign
2019-08-08 Preparing a Short-Term “Stars without Number” Campaign
2019-08-07 Adding a “Stars without Number” Dataset for gm-notepad
2019-07-26 Introducing GM Notepad: A Command Line Tool for GM-ing
2019-07-23 Just Arrived: “Dungeon Crawl Classics: Lankhmar”
2019-07-23 Keith Baker announces “Project Raptor”
2019-07-22 Guess Who's Coming to Graywall
2019-07-20 Situation Mining: It Begins in Graywall
2019-07-19 Revisiting Eberron: Why I am Excited to Explore the Campaign Setting
2019-07-17 Random Eberron Regional Origins
2019-07-14 The How and the Why of Indices of Game Crunch
2019-07-14 Index of Allowed Classes, Races, Cultures, and Backgrounds
2019-07-13 Rite of Admixture - A Ritual for the Dark Six of Eberron
2019-07-13 Eberron Resources
2019-07-11 Books in Progress and Recently Finished
2019-07-04 “Ode to a Nightengale” by John Keats
2019-06-23 A Hearty “No Thank You” to Interstitial Cut Scenes in Novels
2019-06-23 “The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time” by David L. Ulin
2019-06-22 “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk
2019-05-19 Reading Challenges
2019-05-14 The Trees Lean In
2019-05-07 Grinding through the Tomb of Annihilation
2019-05-06 Thank You for the Donations (and We Still Need More)
2019-04-27 Prelude to Fables: Part 1
2019-04-26 I'm Helping to Open Fables Bookshop in Downtown Goshen Indiana
2019-03-30 “Faust: A Tragedy” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2019-03-30 Daniel Collin's “Book of War”
2019-03-17 Better World Books Closing Goshen Store
2019-03-15 Finding Cartographic Inspiration
2019-03-12 Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun” - Seeds of Stranger Fruit
2019-03-11 Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun” - Black Stars Uncounted
2019-03-10 Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun”
2019-01-19 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Game Master Resources
2018-12-27 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Factions
2018-12-26 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Xenobestiary
2018-12-24 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Adventure Creation
2018-12-23 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Sector Creation
2018-12-23 Tables of “Take on Rules”
2018-12-22 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - The History of Space
2018-12-22 “The Riddles of the Hobbit” by Adam Roberts
2018-12-21 Own Your Game System
2018-12-19 Dreams of Adventure: Classes
2018-12-19 Helmets and Halberd Podcast
2018-12-19 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Starships
2018-12-19 Diving Further into Embarkation
2018-12-18 Playstorming Embarkation Tweaks in Adventures in Middle-earth
2018-12-18 Building Scripts for my Website
2018-12-17 Adventures in Middle-earth is in the Bundle of Holding
2018-12-17 Reflecting on Migrating from Wordpress
2018-12-02 Three Book RPG
2018-11-28 Using Adventures in Middle Earth procedures for Tomb of Annihilation
2018-11-28 Ten Influential RPGs (for me)
2018-11-27 Marching through the Sandbox
2018-11-27 Procedures for the Liberation of Sir Uravulon Calcidius
2018-11-27 Looking to the Horizon
2018-11-20 Own Your Tools
2018-11-09 Everything I Ever Wanted in an RPG
2018-11-05 Medieval Demographics Made Easy
2018-11-05 Following-up on Character Attachment
2018-11-04 Premature Character Attachment Disorder
2018-11-01 Reviewing Top Content from My Old Wordpress Site
2018-11-01 Welcome to My New Take on Rules
2018-10-31 My Blogging Engine
2018-10-31 Kibitzing Burning Beards, Or Thinking Up Consequences for Failure
2018-10-30 In Response to “I'm Bowing Out” - Hack & Slash
2018-10-28 Witchburner in Burning Wheel
2018-10-28 Witchburner by Luka Rejec
2018-10-26 King of Feathers Brings the Chomp
2018-10-18 Keeping the RSS Fires Burning
2018-10-17 That One Session of Dwimmermount
2018-10-16 Discovered an Unknown to Me Sibling of the Old School Primer
2018-10-12 My Response to an OSR Guide For The Perplexed Questionnaire
2018-10-10 Burning Wheel Lifepaths Inspired by Warhammer Fantasy
2018-09-26 Rethinking the Failed Climb Check
2018-09-16 The Stage is Set for an Epic Battle in Omu
2018-09-09 Steelhart
2018-09-02 Plan for Complications - Tomb of Annihilation
2018-08-21 Behind the Screen
2018-08-03 Doom of the Savage Kings - Review
2018-07-28 Polymorph, Wild Shape and the Barbarian Rage
2018-07-17 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Equipment and Vehicles
2018-07-16 Do you prefer your RPG Combat as War or Sport?
2018-07-15 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - “Systems - Hacking, Advancement, and Hazards”
2018-07-14 Tomb of Annihilation - a quick update
2018-07-12 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” – Scenes, Saves, and Skill Checks
2018-07-11 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Combat and Healing
2018-07-10 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Psionics
2018-07-09 Let's Read “Stars Without Number” - Character Creation
2018-07-08 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Into the Waiting Light
2018-07-07 Let's read “Stars without Number”
2018-07-05 Random Encounter Table for Bitterweed Barrow Region
2018-07-04 Barrow Wife - A DCC Monster
2018-07-03 Chip - Plague Ensorcelled Corpse - A DCC Monster
2017-10-22 Randomizing My Way Through Tomb of Annihilation
2017-09-13 Celebrating 17 Years of the Open Gaming License
2017-08-13 The Known World Thusfar
2017-07-04 Blades in the Dark by John Harper
2017-06-06 Blades in the Dark Probabilities
2017-05-28 Ruins of the Dwarven Delve [Session #9]
2017-05-21 Facilitating better RPG combats
2017-05-21 Raiding the Ziggurat of Dis Pater
2017-05-09 Going Local
2017-05-08 A Slow Path to Dungeon Crawl Classics
2017-05-07 Making Their Way to Steelhart
2017-04-30 The Campaign Timeline Thusfar
2017-04-30 The Portal Under the Stars at International Tabletop Game Day
2017-04-30 Heeding Gygax's Admonition
2017-04-28 Closing out the Tower of the Stargazer [Session 6]
2017-04-25 Expanding on My Procedures for Open Table Gaming
2017-04-23 My Procedure for Facilitating Open Table Gaming
2017-04-23 They're Coming to the Barrow
2017-04-21 Trauma and Forced Retirement in DCC
2017-04-19 Guess Who’s Coming to Bitterweed Barrow?
2017-04-11 Preparation for Session 2 of DCC Better World Gaming
2017-04-07 Dungeon Crawl Classics - Tower of the Stargazer [Session 5]
2017-04-04 Random Tables to Help Preparation for the Unexpected
2017-03-25 Concluding the Doom of the Savage Kings [Session #4]
2017-03-19 Exploring Ruins of Ramat for Game Day
2017-03-17 Dungeon Crawl Classics - A Deal is Made [Session #3]
2017-03-12 Dungeon Crawl Classics - Going Beyond the Funnel
2017-03-11 Dungeon Crawl Classics Agenda and Advice
2017-03-03 Play Through of Nebin Pendlebrook's Perilous Pantry
2017-02-28 Running DCC at my Friendly Local Book and Game Store
2017-02-27 Campaign, Rulings, Descriptions, and Questing
2017-02-26 The Rise (and Fall) of Session 0
2017-02-26 Randomness, I Forgot that I Needed You
2017-01-31 Have Fun Storming the Castle
2016-12-20 FLGS Quick Start
2016-12-19 Skeleton of Referee Section for Basic Fantasy RPG
2016-12-18 Skeleton of Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game
2016-12-13 Some Questions and Answers with James Spahn of Barrel Rider Games
2016-12-12 White Box Gothic by Barrel Rider Games
2016-09-18 Burning Sanctuary - Session 1
2016-09-15 Further Work on Beliefs for Burning Sanctuary
2016-09-12 Working Through Beliefs for Burning Sanctuary
2016-09-09 Dungeon Crawl Classic: Portal Under the Stars
2016-09-07 Game Night with my Son
2016-09-06 Burning Sanctuary - Session 0
2016-09-01 Life During a Wartime Random Table Redux
2016-08-28 Situation Mining: To Save a Would Be King
2016-08-28 Situation Mining: The Bargain of Burgundy
2016-08-27 Situation Mining: Dwimmermount
2016-08-25 Gearing up for a Dungeon Crawl Classic
2016-08-24 Situation Mining: the Black Plague
2016-08-21 Burning Sanctuary
2016-08-15 What Makes a Good Role-Playing Session (for me)?
2016-08-13 Additional Burning Wheel Procedures
2016-08-12 The Disservice of Modern Dungeons & Dragons Initiative Systems
2016-08-12 Playing at the Game Store
2016-07-30 World of Steve - Session 2
2016-07-28 Exhuming My Dungeons & Dragons
2016-07-25 Adding More Mortar to the Three Pillars
2016-07-21 Features of Burning Wheel That I Enjoy(ed?)
2016-07-20 Campaign Random Encounter: Library of Ancients and Surrounding Village
2015-11-08 Early Experience running Out of the Abyss
2015-10-21 Out of the Abyss - Session #1
2015-09-29 Wrath of the Autarch by Phil Lewis
2015-09-10 Running a Fifth Edition Character Funnel
2015-08-26 Musing about Upcoming Campaign (and System)
2015-08-23 Fate Point Economy: All the Glories of Accounting and Fiduciary Obligations
2015-03-27 My take on a terrible law
2015-01-25 Circle of Hands Clash System Shout Out
2015-01-11 Tables in the DMG and their Page Number
2015-01-11 House Rules for upcoming D&D 5E campaign
2015-01-10 Building a Set of D&D House Rules
2015-01-05 An Upcoming Campaign Map with Tech Tomfoolery
2015-01-03 Back on the Gaming Treadmill (maybe)
2015-01-02 An Incomplete Catalog of Random Tables for Future Reference
2014-12-30 A Random Book Name Generator
2014-12-28 End of Year Organizing
2014-12-15 Working and Creating within Constraints
2014-12-14 Divorce - A Personal Experience
2014-10-19 Porting Apocalypse World style moves into D&D 5E
2014-09-22 Apocalypse World: Dark Ages Session Report
2014-09-21 Apocalypse World: Dark Ages Playtest and Observations
2014-09-07 Wondering About Adventure Presentation Format
2014-08-30 Dragonknights - Session #1
2014-08-03 Thulian Echoes by Zzarchov Kowolski
2014-07-30 Why I am a Tabletop RPG Cheerleader
2014-07-23 Dangerous Space Jail by Phil Vecchione
2014-07-21 Seeking a 2015 Ennies Nomination
2014-07-18 The Gnomes of Levnec by Zzarchov Kowolski
2014-07-17 Scenic Dunnsmouth by Zzarchov Kowolski
2014-07-14 Fond Memories of the Kenku
2014-05-29 Fascination with the Flame Princess
2014-05-25 Getting the Band Back Together
2014-01-28 Backing Project: Dark by Will Hindmarch
2014-01-14 Translating Old School Items to Dungeon World
2014-01-11 Saving Throws or Defying Danger
2014-01-07 Random Relationship Graph Builder
2014-01-07 Torchbearer with the kids
2014-01-03 Random Clergy Generator
2013-12-29 Observations of Dungeon World at Michiana Board Gamers
2013-12-29 Dungeon World at Michiana Board Gamers
2013-12-11 A Collection of Short Session Recaps
2013-12-07 Burning Wheel or Dungeon World
2013-12-06 Fade into Fey – Session 2
2013-11-25 Torchbearer: An Inaugural Run
2013-11-13 Why the Fantasy Genre
2013-09-22 Fade into Fey - Session 1
2013-09-13 Evil Wizards in a Cave by Johnstone Metzger
2013-09-11 Dashing Hero by Jacob Randolph
2013-08-30 GenCon's Apocalypse World KristaCon Event
2013-08-25 How to Hack Apocalypse World with the AW Hacker All-Stars hosted by Pete Figtree
2013-08-21 A Spark in Fate Core by Jason Pitre
2013-08-20 To Everything there is a Season
2013-05-20 Take on the Lower Depths
2013-05-19 Forgotten Years - Dungeon World Campaign Session 1
2013-05-08 Dungeon World Campaign Playbook
2013-05-06 Dungeon World Playbooks
2013-05-05 Inverse World - A Dungeon World Sourcebook
2013-04-28 Bracers of the Bound - A Dungeon World Item
2013-04-06 A Preview of Things to Come
2013-02-08 Dungeon World Update and Some Resources
2013-02-05 An Ongoing Thought Experiment for an Adventure Conversion
2013-02-02 A Night of Android: Netrunner
2013-01-31 Take on Game Day (Part 2 of N)
2013-01-28 Goshen Game Day - Follow-up Survey
2013-01-28 Take on Game Day (Part 1 of N)
2013-01-24 The Role Playing Games of the Goshen Game Day
2013-01-20 Remember the Reaction Roll
2013-01-12 The When and Where of Goshen Game Day
2013-01-11 A Father and Son Night of Marvel Heroic RPG
2013-01-09 Just Arrived - A Thousand and One Nights
2013-01-02 Random Bonds Generator for Dungeon World
2012-12-30 Ice Mummer - A Dungeon World Monster
2012-12-15 Dungeon World Zine for January 2013
2012-11-29 Moleskin Maps II by Matt Jackson
2012-11-14 Dungeon World PDF is Available!
2012-11-07 Take On Establishments
2012-11-05 Gaming Violence and Children
2012-11-04 Dungeon World is Jeopardy the RPG
2012-11-01 And the Winner Is…
2012-10-25 Celebrating My 202nd Post
2012-10-24 Transitions in Table Top RPGs
2012-10-19 An Odd Duck that Dungeon World
2012-10-15 Take on Magic Items – A Dungeon World Magic Item Compendium
2012-10-15 Thornburg by J.B. Mannon and Jeremiah Shepersky
2012-10-07 Helping Other Gamers With Consideration for the Visually Impaired
2012-09-28 Examining the RPG Sessions That I Ran and Think Were Awesome
2012-09-24 World of Steve - Session 1
2012-09-24 Dungeon World - Google Hangouts Session 3
2012-09-19 Moleskin Maps: Volume 1 by Chubby Monster Games
2012-09-11 Dungeon World, Google Hangouts, and Tabletop Forge
2012-09-03 First Steps for the Game Day
2012-09-02 School Daze by Tracy Barnett
2012-08-26 Coordinating a Game Day
2012-08-26 So GM Burnout has Happened
2012-08-24 Cthulhu Dark – GenCon 2012 Edition
2012-08-23 Dungeon World – GenCon 2012 Edition
2012-08-20 May Not Haved Played A Lot of Games at GenCon…
2012-08-07 Wampus County Honorable Mention
2012-08-07 Follow-Up to First Play - Marvel Heroic Role Playing Game
2012-08-06 First Play - Marvel Heroic Role Playing Game
2012-07-29 An Arrival Entirely Unexpected - Wampus County Edition
2012-07-29 Cataloging Performance Art and other Ephemera
2012-07-21 A Bizarre Ritual of Mine
2012-07-20 Just Arrived - Monster of the Week by Michael Sands
2012-07-18 Crippled by Knowledge
2012-07-17 Sitting Down to Run a New Game
2012-07-08 Diaspora Character Creation – Alexandros Teleman
2012-07-08 Nostalgically Wishing I Would've Been Part of the Old School
2012-07-07 Who Knew the Apocalypse Would Spawn So Many Games
2012-07-05 Just Arrived – Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space
2012-07-05 Microscope Session – New Force Changes Society
2012-06-28 Dungeon World Denizens of the Moathouse
2012-06-25 Adventures in Adventure Conversion
2012-06-10 Success and Failure in Role Playing Games
2012-06-09 Just Arrived – Skyward Steel and Darkness Visible
2012-06-06 World of Dungeons by John Harper
2012-06-04 Kick In the Door…Dungeon World Kickstarter is Live
2012-06-02 After a Few Dungeon World One-Shots
2012-05-27 Stomping Through “A Few Acres of Snow” on a Hot as Hell Day
2012-05-26 Garage Sale Hack
2012-04-16 At the Intersection of Work, Play, and Learning
2012-04-06 Preparing for Diaspora
2012-04-04 Dungeon World Custom Moves for Ziggurat of the Sun Princess
2012-04-01 Floundering Around the Burning Wheel
2012-03-31 Dining with the Baron
2012-03-12 What Should the Game Master Fight For?
2012-03-11 Make a Decision Already
2012-02-20 Dual Duel of Wits and Dangerous Stakes
2012-02-13 Liberating the Village only to Stumble into the Dungeon
2012-01-22 …And Finally, Bloodstone
2012-01-22 Survey of Methods of Advancement
2012-01-21 Just Arrived - A Few Acres of Snow
2012-01-21 Just Arrived - A Brief History of the World
2012-01-20 Advancing the Timeline in an RPG Campaign
2012-01-19 GM Questionnaire
2012-01-17 Just Arrived - A Boatload of Louie
2012-01-16 The Wheel is Burning My Mind's Eye
2012-01-15 Border Crossing and Culinary Explorations
2012-01-15 Interview with Robert Bohl
2012-01-14 Misspent Youth by Robert Bohl
2012-01-13 Just Arrived - Loviatar
2012-01-11 A Circles Epiphany - Burning Wheel
2012-01-10 Deluge by VSCA
2012-01-10 What Makes a Game So Hackable?
2012-01-09 The Now 400 Pound Gorilla Has Awoken
2012-01-09 Rules Lite Games and the Open Game License
2012-01-08 Keeping Aspects Interesting
2012-01-08 Acceptable Weight of Conflict Resolution
2012-01-07 Apocalypse World moves in the Fellowship of the Ring
2012-01-06 Necromancers' Maze
2012-01-03 My Present Gaming Group
2012-01-02 Survey of Conflict Structure in RPGs
2012-01-02 A New Year's Eve Tradition - The One Shot
2012-01-01 RPG Bucket List Or Gaming Resolution for 2012
2011-12-31 2011 In Review
2011-12-23 Carcosa by Geoffrey McKinney - PDF Edition
2011-12-15 Bloodstone Observations
2011-12-13 Bloodstone Session #4
2011-12-09 Assassin Lifepaths for Burning Wheel
2011-12-01 Stealing Cthulhu by Graham Walmsley
2011-11-27 Part-Time Gods by Third Eye Games
2011-11-24 Never Split the Party - Worst Duel of Wits Compromise Ever
2011-11-22 Inn Witch They Pig Out
2011-11-19 Contributions to the Rolemaster Standard System
2011-11-18 The Enjoyable Chaos of Scripted Actions
2011-11-16 Irv the Mole
2011-11-14 Bloodstone Session #3 Recap - It's Always More Interesting When a Cuddling Instinct Comes Into Play
2011-11-11 Burning Wheel Gold - Connecting BITs and Artha
2011-11-10 In Which They Find Their Tub
2011-11-08 A Wedding and a Wyrding
2011-10-31 Playing Burning Wheel Gold With The Kids
2011-10-21 Hacking Together a Burning Wheel Conflict Resolution on the Fly
2011-10-20 FoRK-ed off
2011-10-18 A Missed Opportunity for Burning Wheel - Duel of Wits
2011-10-13 Life During a Wartime - Random Village Generator
2011-10-11 The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker
2011-10-04 Family Role-Playing and Unexpected Events
2011-09-27 Gamemastering by Brian Jamison - A Behind the Screen Look
2011-09-26 Bloodstone Character Beliefs, Instincts, and Traits
2011-09-13 Bloodstone Character Questionnaire
2011-09-12 Bloodstone Party Composition
2011-09-12 Interesting, Albeit Pointless Stats for My Blog
2011-09-11 Weird Fantasy - Lamentations of the Flame Princess
2011-09-05 Cribbing Ideas from Apocalypse World and Dungeon World for Bloodstone
2011-08-31 Contemplating Scene Economy with Seven Players
2011-08-30 Running and Playing Bloodstone in Burning Wheel
2011-08-26 Burning Wheel and Bloodstone
2011-08-25 Bloodstone Campaign Introduction
2011-08-20 Bloodstone - It Is Time
2011-08-18 GenCon Games on Demand - Bulldogs!
2011-08-17 Burning Wheel Gold - Initial Impressions
2011-08-16 GenCon Games on Demand - Dungeon World
2011-08-15 GenCon Games on Demand - Lady Blackbird
2011-08-14 Random Notes from my Burning Wheel Campaign Journal
2011-08-13 Translating Empire Strikes Back into Dungeon World Moves
2011-08-12 Character Creation Session for Family Bulldogs Adventure
2011-08-11 GenCon After Hours - Savage Worlds
2011-08-10 GenCon Games on Demand - Hollowpoint
2011-08-09 Mustering into the GenCon Volunteer Corp
2011-08-08 Ran my First Game of Dungeon World
2011-08-02 Hollowpoint - Player vs. Game Hack - Take 1
2011-08-01 Hollowpoint Review
2011-08-01 Hewards Handy Haversack - GenCon Edition
2011-07-31 Hollowpoint Session Observations
2011-07-31 How to Protect Your Geeky Treasures - A Step By Step Guide
2011-07-30 Using Hollowpoint to flesh out our Diaspora campaign
2011-07-30 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #5
2011-07-29 Customer Service - Evil Hat Style - It is Fabulous
2011-07-28 Change of Plans - GenCon Edition
2011-07-20 A Night of Race for the Galaxy
2011-07-02 FrieCon I - Before the bomb
2011-06-28 Converting Star Frontier's Vrusk into Bulldogs!
2011-06-26 Bulldogs! Pre-Release Review
2011-06-26 What a Difference a Year Makes
2011-06-23 Welcome to the Hive
2011-06-20 Master of Bandwidth
2011-06-20 The Phoenix of Tichu
2011-06-17 Good News Everyone…Bulldogs! RPG is Here!
2011-06-15 It's Only a Model
2011-06-14 Diaspora RPG Cluster Creation
2011-06-09 Loading Chekhov's Gun
2011-06-09 Role Playing Games I Want to Play at GenCon
2011-06-06 GenCon is a Go!
2011-06-05 Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #5
2011-06-05 The Dragon of Tichu
2011-06-03 What is the favorite character that I have played
2011-06-03 Breaking the Stonewall with Vincent's Admonition
2011-06-02 Finally, Dogs in the Vineyard
2011-05-11 The Dog of Tichu
2011-05-11 Apocalyptic Casting of the Pods
2011-05-04 Index for 2011 A to Z Challenge
2011-05-04 Recapturing that Old Gaming Magic
2011-04-29 Diaspora Spacecraft Rules Addendum #1
2011-04-29 Z is for Zebullon's Guide to Frontier Space
2011-04-28 Y is for YINSH
2011-04-28 X is for Xizors
2011-04-27 W is for Wyatt Earp
2011-04-26 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #4
2011-04-26 V is for Versions
2011-04-25 U is for Underdark
2011-04-24 T is for Too Many Games
2011-04-22 S is for Scales of War
2011-04-22 R is for Red Hand of Doom
2011-04-22 Q is for Queen of Spiders
2011-04-21 P is for Puerto Rico
2011-04-21 O is for Obanar
2011-04-21 Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #4
2011-04-18 N is for Night Below
2011-04-16 M is for Magic the Gathering
2011-04-13 L is for Light Speed
2011-04-13 K is for Kickstart
2011-04-11 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #3
2011-04-11 J is for Jaiman the Land of Twilight...kind of
2011-04-10 I is for Ingenious
2011-04-09 G is for Guillotine
2011-04-09 H is for H-series The Bloodstone Pass Saga
2011-04-07 F is for Family Gaming
2011-04-05 E is for Eberron
2011-04-04 D is for ...
2011-04-03 C is for Candyland
2011-04-02 B is for Burning Empires
2011-04-01 A is for Alpha Dawn
2011-03-28 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #2
2011-03-28 Diaspora military campaign
2011-03-26 Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #2
2011-03-25 T1 System Ships of the Exxon Theocracy
2011-03-24 Pondering a Social Conflict in Diaspora
2011-03-24 A Couple of T2 Intended to Traverse Hostile Regions
2011-03-23 Two T1 Diaspora Spaceships
2011-03-21 A Handful of T2 Diaspora Spaceships
2011-02-28 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #1
2011-02-09 Discussing Layers of a Role Playing Game
2011-02-07 The Mah Jong of Tichu
2011-02-04 Open Game License
2011-02-03 Cluster Creation Diaspora
2011-02-02 A special thank you
2011-02-02 Incentivized Role Selection - Part 2
2011-02-02 Fate Points for Burning Wheel
2011-02-02 Incentivized Role Selection
2011-02-02 A First Take