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The Missing Quadrant

Why TTRPGs Struggle With Kind Chaos Mapping the Emotional Landscape If we plot tabletop roleplaying games along two axes—order versus chaos and kind versus mean—we get four quadrants that describe most of the hobby's emotional territory. And when we look at what games actually occupy those

The Luminous Republic Gazetteer: Extra Edition

Special Civic Supplement for New Arrivals in the Furnace of Light Issued by Order of the Bureau of Renewal, Chicago, October 1920 A TiGGR One-Shot Set in the Republic of Madame Lumière FACILITATOR SIDEBAR: SETTING UP THE SESSION Before You Begin: Download and read the TiGGR rulebook. You’ll need

A Playable Folktale: The Gallian Autumn

After the armistice, the harvest still comes. So does the cold. Tone: Melancholic hospitality. Harvest light fading into frost. Beauty that knows it's temporary. Length: 2–4 hours (single session or 2–3 session arc) THE WORLD Gallia is an alternate Europe—composite of French villages, Alpine valleys,

A Playable Folktale: The Patch

In a town that outlived its own future, the archives remember too much. Tone: Melancholic resilience. Fog and sodium light. The quiet after loud noise.Length: 2–4 hours (single session or 2–3 session arc) THE WORLD A coastal Oregon town once hosted server farms for Pacific Node West.

The Silence at Saint Corvin's: The Mirror Text

A designer's essay on inverting Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose through procedural gothic INTRODUCTION: THE INVERSION ENGINE The Silence at Saint Corvin's is a mirror text to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. The monastery remains. The investigation remains.

Communiqués of the Luminous Republic

For Internal Transmission Only — Distribution Strictly Prohibited RESTRICTED / FOYER OPERATIONS / CLASSIFIEDIssue A-1 (Winter 1920) OPENING MEMORANDUM From: Civic Renewal BoardTo: Executive CouncilSubject: Quarterly Attrition FiguresClassification: EYES ONLY The quarterly assessment ██████████████████ attrition acceptable within parameters ████████████████ lesions consistent with grace doctrine ██████████████████ public morale remains ████████████████ numbers withheld for morale purposes ██

Women At Arms: The Silence At Saint Corvin's

A One-Shot Scenario of Women at Arms WHAT YOU NEED * Mörk Borg Bare Bones Edition (core rules) * JARLS: Pressure Drop (Stress, Bonds, Heat mechanics) * Four players, one GM * Standard polyhedral dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) SETTING & TONE You are officers of the Ordo Arbitrae —a sisterhood empowered

The Luminous Republic Gazetteer Vol 1, No 3

Official Organ of the Republic of Madame Lumière Vol. I, No. 3 — January 1921 — Price 5¢ EMPIRE EDITION THE LIGHT OF MADAME LUMIÈRE NOW SHINES ACROSS THE SEAS Global Adoption of Renewal Technology Marks Dawn of Luminous Age WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Harding proclaimed January 15th, 1921, as "International

The Luminous Republic Gazetteer Vol 1, No 2

Official Organ of the Republic of Madame Lumière Vol. I, No. 2 — October 1920 — Price 5¢ HARVEST EDITION RENEWAL NUMBERS BREAK RECORDS: 37,842 CITIZENS RESTORED THIS QUARTER Municipal Councils Report Unprecedented Success in Civic Purification WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Civic Renewal announced that 37,842 citizens underwent

The Döömenvalley Heist

Mörk Borg One-Shot of Nordic Vengeance THE SITUATION The DNS Regime (Definitely-Not-Sees, pronounced "duns") has stripped Döömenvalley of everything gentle. They're transporting the looted gold—including Döömenpapa's ancestral hoard—via armed convoy to their fortress. This is your chance to take it back. The