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Backwards or forwards?
Right now I have the second draft of the first novel I ever wrote loaded into Scrivener, as well as somewhere between 800 and 1000 words (i.e. almost nothing) of a third draft. While it makes sense to me that I’ve stalled out on this project, especially given a panoply of other projects in my…
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Fruitful voids
Around the new year I began prepping and plotting for a new fantasy setting that I’ll eventually use in my next RPG campaign. Since then, I’ve been getting closer to the actualization of this new campaign from two directions: I’ve been writing bit by bit, but also the game I’m currently running is getting closer…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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;…
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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…
