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Latest — 24 Jul 2026

What Happens If This Ship Exists?

From Traveller tonnage to political consequence Dungeons & Dragons may have been my first exposure to tabletop role-playing games, but Traveller was the one that truly caught my imagination. Part of that was surely the presentation: three steadfastly nondescript black booklets in an equally monolithic black box, bearing the

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Reading the Wake

A designer's afterword to Neighbors This is not part of the game. The rules don't need it, and a table that never reads it will play exactly the same game as a table that does. It's here for the curious — an account of where

A Milk Run: Part Three

Scene 4 — Hyperspace (the immovable middle) Forty-eight hours sealed in the dark. Nothing you do shaves it. No rolls touch the Margin here — protect it. This is the breath between the relay and the arrival, and it's where the doubt grows. The comms rule (your own physics,

The Specimen

An essay about AI and water that spends more words taking its headline back than making it — and why that is the most honest thing about it First in a series on how debates about scarce resources get told as stories about personal guilt. You have probably met the number

Neighbors

Play tonight. 1 GM, 2–4 players, 30–45 minutes. The city has always been shared. Most tenants just aren't on the lease. THE PITCH A city has cracks — literal ones, and the gaps between old agreements. Things live in those cracks: the accumulated residue of a city&

A Milk Run: Part Two

Every roll below is standard TiGGR: 2d6 + stat vs. Risky 6 / Dramatic 8 / Climactic 10. Where a saver says "beat by 4+," that's the threshold for the great result. Failure always fails forward — describe the wrench, dock the Margin, keep moving. Scene 1 — The Pitch &

The Riflemen and the Hares

Notes on Building TALUS TALUS started as a pun. Porg Borg. Say it out loud once and you can already hear the problem: a doom-metal apocalypse engine pointed at a CGI seabird that exists mostly because the real seabirds on a real island wouldn't leave the set.

The Other F-Word

It started, unsurprisingly, with a long-overdue doctor appointment. High blood pressure. High triglycerides. Low HDL. Numbers on a patient portal, followed by the seemingly universal Mediterranean diet recommendation, as if every physician in America had quietly bought shares in hummus. A month and a few days later, the surprise

Grots & Gretchens

A Lasers & Feelings Hack · While Da Waaagh Rages · Many Dice · Few Answers YER GROT OR GRETCHEN Name your Grot or Gretchen. There is no reason for this. Do not ask. Pick a Trait. This is how you endure. Trait How It Helps What It Costs Bitter Rallies other Grots

A Milk Run: A TiGGR Scenario

Touchstone: Jacques Tati's timing comedy + Lupin III's competent-crew improvisation — dignified people versus an uncooperative system, with a deadline. Components: 2d6, pencil and paper, the TiGGR core rules, an LLM optional but encouraged. Players: 1 GM + 2–4 crew. Playtime: One long session or two short