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
More issues
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
Combat Log: OGRE Unit Mk. V
SERIAL CV-7 ("STEADFAST")
Engagement Reference: WAAAGH/INDETERMINATE
Transcribed from recovered memory core, condition: operational
Classification: FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
[T+00:00] Mission parameters confirmed. Advance on Paneuro firebase designation CRESTLINE. Destroy command post. Eliminate resistance. Return for maintenance cycle. Estimated engagement duration: four hours.