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  • Nat meets Donnie, part 2

    Read part 1 of this story. Orientation went on, much in the way that you’d expect. Here’s how campus is laid out, here are the dining facilities. These are the ground rules, please call campus security if you’re with someone passed out drunk. These are our big campus events, this is how to get to…

  • More anxiety dreams

    I woke up this morning from another anxiety dream; I had just finished a semester of college and was waiting with dread to see what my grades were. Of course, the dream also featured my parents heavily, making the tie to real anxiety a little more logical and palpable. Even with that link, it is…

  • Play to find out what happens

    ‘Play to find out what happens’ is one of the Agendas from Apocalypse World, and it cemented  the broad intent of the game in a way that, when it came out, few games had really done so before. We were still in the thick of maximalist trad games even in the early 2010s, and people…

  • Surreality

    It’s another week where posting has been disrupted due to travel. I’m back in the UK, here for a meeting and then hopping home after a fairly short stay. I don’t usually travel this often, but March had three trips scheduled within, and the biggest is yet to come. On to the title of the…

  • Reality

    I missed posting this Monday, a somewhat obvious statement. I’m traveling, over in the UK on business but with a little mini-vacation bolted onto the front. For some reason the first quarter of the year is a travel season for me this year, with a couple other work trips coming up soon. Work trips are,…

  • Being Perceived

    I’m in my tenth year of ‘writing on the internet’ at Cannibal Halfling; although I’ve arguably been writing on the internet since I had a LiveJournal in high school, joining forces with Seamus and attempting to have a consistent mission and editorial stance marked the addition of something my writing never really had before: Readers.…

  • We sure do love our cameos

    Every once in a while our gaming group has what we’ve been calling a ‘Nexus’ campaign. In essence, an excuse to revisit old characters and inject some nostalgia and fun callbacks into our games. I like these games because they provide a good release valve for the desire to recall old characters and old events;…

  • Tarot read for February, 2026

    We’re going to try something a little different today. Now that we’ve had a few months reading a simple three-card Tarot spread, I’m going to switch it up and use a spread specific to storytelling and RPGs. A while back there was a game called Querent released via Kickstarter. While the game part of it…

  • In Dreams

    There’s been a lot going on in my life here in January, but I had allocated some time on Saturday to write more of ‘Nat Meets Donnie’ and hopefully get part 2 up today. Instead, an RPG ruleset came to me in a dream and I had to write it down. I’m not kidding. There’s…

  • Whither nerds?

    I’ve been thinking on this topic in one way or another for a long time, but have been reluctant to write on it. Gatekeeping is very real in most hobbies, and for the most part it’s toxic. What value does it have to tell someone going on 12mph rides trying to get in shape that…