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Feeling the Heartbeat of HTT, and the Cumberland Style While I’ve been groping around for the tools and language for HTT (the High-Trust Traditional style of play Cumberland is devoted to) for as long as I’ve been a gamer, I’ve only blathered about it ope…

Over on the Dice Camp, groovy questioneer luxet asked a question both compound and substantial, so I'll treat it as a mailbag entry here on ye merrye blogge.

A few days ago I did two unusual things, simultaneously.

Well, it wouldn't do to let the whole of 2024 pass without a blog post on record, so I'll take this opportunity to look back over this year.

We're almost out of 2023!

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We've come to the final entry in the Lexicon series.

It’s time for another dip into the RPG Lexicon, where I explore the terms I use (for the concepts I need) to design RPG stuff.

Hammondal is pure game-design (with bursts of writing) at this stage, so it's harder to blog about in some ways since there's less to look at, and a lot more abstraction, and lists, and abstractions of lists and lists of abstractions (really; I do that).

Sometimes, Cumberland Games & Diversions makes games.

I'm clearly confused by how Blogger works.

Correspondent Diederik Van Arkel made a request for more nitty-gritty posts on how I produce graphics, in response to my post about 1-bit images.

Today I want to ramble about two closely-related decisions in RPG design, both relating to Hammondal.

This evening I've been so saddened by the state of the world (and our own failing country in particular) that I worked on fonts.

If you are (so-called) "pro-life," you're a piece of shit.

I've built my life around love, food, and roleplaying games.

I have Strong Opinions on matters of fantasy cartography.

This isn't normally a musing-about-Star-Trek sort of blog, but I've been enjoying the heck out of Star Trek lately, and last week's episode of Strange New Worlds was a new version of an old favorite, so that's got me musing.

The whole point of this blog-post is to mark that I've finally got all of Hammondal's street-names in place on the master map.

I wake up each morning excited about Hammondal.

Cumberland Games is participating in the TTRPGs for Reproductive Rights bundle on itch, and it's a very, very, very large bundle (nearly 300 items) for five bucks (or more, if you've got more to give).

The early, heady, research-heavy phase of an RPG project is, to me, the beginning of a rollercoaster ride.

The main "poster" map of Hammondal is complete.

The Hammondal poster townmap is nearly done.

It's easy to preview maps in progress, and writing in progress, but the actual design in progress is such a ghost of a thing ...

The short version of the story is that there was no surgery after all, because they wouldn't let Sandra enter the building with me, so I said no thanks.