rootring
rooted in blogs, linked in a ringTo Be Resolved
Visit site Feed Incoming links Search this blog
On the ring since 2026-03-19
Latest activity 2mo ago
82 posts
Brick
Older posts · Back to profile
Earlier
-
There is a concept in set theory called cardinality which refers to the number of individual objects in the set. The wrinkle is that sets with an infinite number of members...
-
I finally broke through my mental block on preparing the ashcan copy of Honeybees, so here is some more progress on the "Before Play" part of my outline. Here, we discuss...
-
When winter settles over your beehive home, the pace of life in the hive slows to a crawl. The surviving workers cluster together around the queen and gently buzz their muscles...
-
Something I didn't realize before I plunged into the tabletop blog scene is that the term "game design" is fraught. It's partially fraught because nearly every hobbyist has...
-
A few weeks ago, Lyme at Brackish Draught made an observation that really stuck with me: The "in times of crisis you revert to your training" thing isn't just for gunfights. It...
-
Last year I wrote a couple of essays wrestling with the concept of Narrative in tabletop RPGs. In the first, I waddled through the delineation of diegetic and non-diegetic...Linked by the ring
- The Explorateur: Issue #22 Explorers Design
- Rules Don't (Necessarily) Elide Orkish Odyssey
- The 46er - July 2026 Table 46
Show 1 more
-
What a busy June, good heavens! This month been quietly productive on the Honeybees front. I completed a first (and instantly obsoleted) draft of Queen Bee Ambitions and...
-
This past weekend I was listening to the Queens of the Stone Age 2013 album ...Like Clockwork while I was choring around the house. I love this album but I hadn't chewed on it...Linked by the ring
-
I jumped the gun and posted an entry to Prismatic Wasteland's Random Blogwagon about four months early, before he had even set rules and a topic for it. I very much enjoyed...Linked by the ring
-
Last week I pushed out Goodbye Hexes and enjoyed a weekend of relatively free time. Unfortunately, that free time only let the bee madness fester - I was happy with the concept...
-
Another design journal, another sequel. About a week ago I was 7 or 8 days into working on the Community family of Queen Bee Ambitions. I'd been reading about Drone...Linked by the ring
-
Last winter I put together a draft of rules for swimming and drowning in His Majesty the Worm because I was running Michael Madsen's Caves of Cowardice module, which heavily...Linked by the ring
-
Howdy! It's been a crazy week and a half but in the small hours I've had time to work some more on Ambitions. Today we'll look at a case study on the second rung of our...
-
A few fellow bloggers and I held a Work in Progress show-and-tell last weekend, and I was excited to talk through some of the development work that I had come through on...
-
One of my most-visited web pages in the last two years is d4 Caltrops's Dungeon Stocking - Expanded table. I could not have finished and stocked my megadungeon for my year-long...
-
Meta Image from Michael Q Powell's Photography Blog I've spent the last few days going back through the notes and feedback from last week's playtests. In The Wax Marches I...Linked by the ring
-
I had a chance to run a second session of the Honeybee RPG this past Friday afternoon with my friends Zak (of Bommyknocker Press), Kati (of The Play Reports), and Scott (of...
-
My friends David and Sandro AD were kind enough to join me on a maiden voyage of my Honeybee RPG tonight and we had a rip-roaring good time. This past weekend I decided to...Linked by the ring
-
WF over at Prismatic Wasteland called for a blog bandwagon back in February to discuss the topic of maps. I perseverated for a while about whether I had anything interesting to...
-
Hello! Long time no blog. The last month has been busy as all get-out and I haven't been trapped inside by a snowstorm in a little while, so I've been occupied with my day job...Linked by the ring
-
This morning I was listening to Boonta Vista, an Australian comedy podcast, and they were discussing a part of the brain called the Corpus Callosum. This is a bundle of neurons...
-
This post was originally titled "A Lightweight Reputation System" and it turned out to be truly anything but. Meta Image courtesy of DesertUSA. I've been sharpening up the...
-
Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers, Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin… Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not Chronology, for that is left to...
-
Meta image for this post courtesy of DUNGEON WEED at bandcamp Over on the His Majesty the Worm Discord, one of the perennial pairs of questions is: How the hell do I restock...Linked by the ring
-
This morning Liz over at Magnolia Keep offhandedly made a joke about a tactical RPG for concealing your affair at a Coldplay concert (it made sense in context of the...Linked by the ring
-
My friend over at A Shrike for my Dreams made a very fun post last week about the Overloaded Reaction Roll. It's an awesome post, so this is a pretty paltry contribution to the...
-
Last time we took a step back from the playtested mechanics and meditated on the first principles of this survey game project. We arrived at three major themes for future...Linked by the ring
-
My friend Blazer19 recently prompted me to take a read through Vincent Baker's blog series reflecting on Apocalypse World and Powered By The Apocalypse. It was an entrancing...
-
I've been thinking about loot for the past two days, ever since Sandro wrote The Loot Sicko's Dilemma. I think Sandro's interests and touchpoints vary from mine, so it was a...
-
There has been some discussion in the ether over the past month about the function and utility of randomness in adventure modules. This discussion probably goes back to the...Linked by the ring