T. Kurt Bond's µBlog

2026-09-21 15:43:25-04:00 - If you don't want your GitHub repos full of Oberon code to show up as Modula-2 code... ... add this to a .gitattributes file: *.mod linguist-language=Oberon *.Mod linguist-language=Oberon

2026-07-25 00:16:55-04:00 - Helen of Wyndhorn I highly recommend Helen of Wyndhorn, from Dark Horse Books.

2026-07-24 21:59:56-04:00 - Cairn Player's Guide - 2E Keywords: RPG, Ciarn, Cairn 2E, Into the Odd, Electric Bastionland, Chris McDowall, Knave I'm reading the Cairn 2E Player's Guide today.

2026-05-11 20:37:24-04:00 - Chaosium's QuestWorlds arrived today!

2025-11-26 14:18:13-05:00 - My TMNT books arrived!

2025-11-24 22:22:33-05:00 - Quick Scan through Wight-Box I scanned quickly through Wight-Box by The Basic Expert.

2025-11-24 21:30:25-05:00 - My Dolmenwood Loot Arrived!

2025-10-31 14:21:30-04:00 - NocoDB — No Code DB Keywords: NocoDB, no code database So, I'm always looking for things that could be the modern POISE.

2025-10-29 22:46:39-04:00 - Mythic Game Master Emulator, Second Edition Keywords: RPG, Mythic Game Master Emulator, MGME2E, Wordmill Games This was very well organized and comprehensive.

2025-10-19 21:39:15-04:00 - Middle-Earth Roleplaying Keywords: Middle Earth Role Playing, MERP, Tolkien, RPG, ICE, MERP2E [I may add to this later.]

2025-10-09 14:35:28-04:00 - Reading Middle Earth Role Playing, Second Edition (MERP #2001) from Iron Crown Enterprises Keywords: Middle Earth Role Playing, MERP, Rolemaster, Tolkien, RPG I started reading *Middle Earth Role Playing* (MERP) Second Edition…

2025-10-09 14:07:04-04:00 - C and Ada Keywords: Ada, C, safety, foot guns I learned C in college,and Ada at about the same time.

2025-07-24 13:10:37-04:00 - Lightmaster Keywords: RPG, Lightmaster, Rolemaster, Gurbintroll Games, in progress [I'm still in the progress of revising this post, but since I'm two months and change from when I wrote the first version I thought I should put…

2025-07-10 19:58:17-04:00 - Stellar Adventures by Arion Games This was a post I made on Reddit, saved here for posterity, and to put it on the Web and Geminispace where it may be easier to find.

2025-06-27 14:54:20-04:00 - Still putting along I haven't had much to say lately, but I'm still putting along.

2025-03-07 12:44:50-05:00 - Modern Unix terminal emulators and VMS 5.5-2, emacs, and EDIT/TPU I maintain a VMS computer for work that for hysterical raisins is running VMS 5.5-2.

2025-01-11 23:44:10-05:00 - I downloaded the ACKS II Kickstarter PDFs finally I finally got around to downloading the Adventurer, Conqueror, King System, Imperial Imprint (ACKS II) PDFs from the Kickstarter, and I have been very pleased with what I found…

2025-01-11 23:36:11-05:00 - My typical setup in Fantasy Grounds D&D 5E

2024-12-27 12:02:00-05:00 - RE: Failing at Ada Again: Things Are Looking Better!

2024-12-22 17:01:25-05:00 - The Book of Uncommon Beings, by Howard A.

2024-09-08 10:52:05-04:00 - Did I mention that I like the Ada programming language?

2024-06-28 15:01:06-04:00 - A quick description of how to use Text Mapper and Hex Describe Text Mapper Hex Describe Text Mapper and Hex Describe are very useful.

2024-06-13 20:05:05-04:00 - The Fantasy Trip Bestiary Finished I finished reading The Fantasy Trip Bestiary today.

2024-06-01 15:21:17-04:00 - Using Text Mapper for generating a map for a hexcrawl Updated: 2024-06-02 09:18:18-04:00 I'm working with a neat application to generate random terrain called Text Mapper.

2024-05-28 18:51:06-04:00 - Arrived: BESM Retro Second Edition RPG plus BESM 4E Expansions I have a lot of fond memories of running BESM 2nd Edition back in the day, and even more of building things for it.

2024-05-09 21:03:45-04:00 - More RPG books: Hexagram #12, Quick Quest #10, and Longshot City These were all the physical results of Kickstarters.

2024-05-08 11:15:55-04:00 - System76 serval: Pop!

2024-05-07 19:56:32-04:00 - Today's book haul: Muster, Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, and Enchanted I don't buy fiction in print anymore, except for a few very special items, but there are still some books that I get in print: roleplaying games, some comput…

2024-02-28 12:11:51-05:00 - The Fantasy Trip Bestiary I downloaded the PDF of The Fantasy Trip Bestiary today.

2024-02-14 13:10:38-05:00 - Don't want the first line of a git commit COMMIT_EDITMSG buffer in emacs to wrap?

2024-02-12 22:35:16-05:00 - Absolute Power Superhero RPG: Seasons One and Two + Anthology arrived My copies from the Absolute Power Superhero RPG: Seasons One and Two + Anthology Backerkit campaign came today.

2024-02-10 18:06:31-05:00 - Generating random TFT labyrinths using the drop chart in the bottom of the TFT Legacy Edition box Updated: 2024-02-17 21:42:50-05:00 So, today I spent part of my day generating (part of) a labyrinth for The Fantasy Trip using t…

2024-02-03 13:22:18-05:00 - Sandbox Generator by Atelier Clandestin I really like this hexcrawl sandbox generator.

2024-02-02 21:48:12-05:00 - My Copy of Knock #4 Arrived!

2024-02-02 09:00:42-05:00 - Dyskami Owns Tri-Stat/BESM Outright Listening to an interview with Mark MacKinnon about Dyskami's current kickstarter I found out that Dyskami owns the Tri-Stat/BESM system outright again, having bought it back from Paradox Int…

2024-01-29 18:53:20-05:00 - OpenQuest Dungeons My copy of OpenQuest Dungeons arrived yesterday.

2024-01-26 17:37:26-05:00 - Folstavia - Anime 5E RPG World Setting & Monster Expansions Warning: This post is under construction.

2024-01-21 20:28:24-05:00 - Why Is Gnome So Annoyingly Useless?

2024-01-21 19:53:30-05:00 - Sudden Interest in Wargames?

2024-01-21 18:53:41-05:00 - Putting all your emacs backups and autosaves in two directories has security implications Recently, I noticed someone talking about putting all their emacs backups and autosaves in two directories, no matter where the file they…

2024-01-21 15:03:08-05:00 - Don't want a line to break in emacs even in auto-fill-mode?

2024-01-19 16:00:31-05:00 - Finished Reading The Hero System Basic Rulebook for Hero System Sixth Edition Yay!

2023-12-31 17:42:16-05:00 - L.

2023-12-13 23:16:28-05:00 - Adept Press, Adept Play, Ron Edwards in 2023 I was happy to find that Ron Edwards has a current web site: Adept Play (When did he move to Sweden?)

2023-12-09 18:42:57-05:00 - Getting Emacs to Beep/Ding/Ring-the-Bell Again!

2023-11-29 10:29:56-05:00 - Programming Fonts This is Emacs, displaying an enriched text file with text that I find useful for comparing fonts.

2023-11-04 16:01:12-04:00 - Pasting images into org-mode files from the clipboard I've long wanted to paste images into org-mode files as easy as one does with WYSIWYG editors.

2023-10-22 22:11:12-04:00 - Pages that are often missing in used copies of Metagaming's Advanced Melee, Advanced Wizard, and In The Labyrinth I never got to play The Fantasy Trip back in the day, and at some point a few years ago (this was before Steve Ja…

2023-10-20 19:14:41-04:00 - The Lords of Underearth & Dragons of Underearth Updated: 2023-11-27 00:18:08-05:00 Warning: this post is still being revised.

2023-10-13 15:13:52-04:00 - How do the Dolmenwood Core Rules differ from B/X or OSE?