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The Sump

An introductory five-room cavern for The Black Hack Three rooms present combat, each showcasing one class's signature tool — though another class's ability may bypass it entirely, and that's a feature. Two rooms teach the rest. Room Spotlight Lesson 1. The Grate Thief Tests,

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The Probable Barrier Operator

What I Think I Know About What Delia Thinks About Us After seven in the evening, Delia will sometimes sit and stare at me. Not Nancy. Me. And cry. There are plenty of things a dog might accomplish by staring at a human, but more often than not this particular

Corpse Run: Onboarding the New Hires

A TiGGR Setting Expansion — here, the future has weekends. Touchstones: a certain grim darkness (you know the one) • Corpse Run • For personal use Getting Started Touchstone A second portal event in Receiving. A second displaced adventuring party — except these five aren't refugees from a game built around enjoyable

What the Machine Does

Stafford Beer said the purpose of a system is what it does. Not what the charter says. Not what the judge reads before the oath. Bald fact. A better starting point than good intentions. First, one has to define the system. If you draw the box around a courtroom, you

Keeping the Furniture

A companion to Reject Narrative Structure. There is a pressure that shows up during play — the small persistent tug to bend what you're doing toward a beat, to make this moment land, to give the scene a shape it hasn't earned yet. It is real, most

So You’re AR-curious

That is a normal thought. The rifle is everywhere, it takes a standard magazine, and half the internet will tell you that you are incomplete without one. You can want one without joining a militia, naming it, or writing a novel about the collapse. Here is the civilian version. An

Team Bravo: The One Year War

A 24” x 24" table. Six-sided dice. A tape measure. Index cards or Post-It notes. Any models you like. The Basics UNITS have five numbers, printed on a card and never modified by anything: Skill (2–5), Move (inches), Resistance (0+), Hits, Size (1–5). Plus weapons,

A Million Monkeys (Minus One)

Causal redundancy, and what a measurement can be asked to mean There's that old joke about a million monkeys at a million typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare. A recent MIT paper suggests a different experiment. Suppose the monkeys have been typing for some time, their pages collected to train

Neighbors: Tenants Not on the Lease

A yōkai bestiary for Neighbors Ten folkloric Neighbors, moved out of the mountains and into the city. ABOUT THIS SUPPLEMENT — READ THE LICENSING FIRST This bestiary adapts 《刀と妖怪 — Espadas y Yōkais》 by Mechanical Past (mechanicalpast.itch.io), a bestiary module for 《Espadas y Espectros》, a role-playing game by Sergio

What Does “Medicare for All” Mean?

“Medicare for All” sounds almost self-explanatory. Medicare exists. Extend it to everyone. Done. But the closer I have looked at S. 1506, the current Senate bill carrying that name, the less the phrase resembles a description and the more it resembles a compressed file. There is quite a lot