Motivation, which can be an internal drive or an external stimulus, propels our behavior. It might be toward something we want or, conversely, away from something we don’t want. Each Enneagram type comes with specific motivators, ones that propel people The post Motivation and Enneagram Type | Type Three appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Motivation, which can be an internal drive or an external stimulus, propels our behavior. It might be toward something we want or, conversely, away from something we don’t want. Each Enneagram type comes with specific motivators, ones that propel people| The Enneagram in Business
19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Asian-American Studies, Postcolonial and Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theories The post Malini Johar Schueller appeared first on Department of English.| Department of English
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A few things recently happened in the discourse that raised the question, “what do critics owe us?”, in various forums across the TTRPG space. I have a response, but to understand it we must meander through a few other points first. Please, bear with me. I started reviewing modules and games largely selfishly, for two […]| Playful Void
I was drawn to the rigid-heddle world because it didn’t have as much formality surrounding it as the shaft-loom world. It seems like this was a loom full of pure potential. Most of the creations were based on how to manipulate the threads regardless of their named interlacements. To me this is more freeing. I ... Read more The post What is a Structure and Why Do We Name Them So? appeared first on Yarnworker.| Yarnworker
Three heddles provide a way to translate structures requiring 4 threading positions, or 4 shafts to the rigid-heddle loom. Essentially, a draft is telling you what kind of sheds you need and in what order to weave them. Sheds are created by the threading order and how you lift or lower the warp ends to ... Read more The post Translating Shafts to Sheds appeared first on Yarnworker.| Yarnworker
My standard advice for managing selvedges is, whenever possible, place selvedges in a slot. This puts less strain on the selvedge threads and allows you more freedom to pick them up with your shuttle. If necessary, you can weight them using an S-hook or similar object. By placing the ends in a slot, you are ... Read more| Yarnworker
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The new spring is a small convention for Norwegian roleplaying game designers and other enthusiasts. The concept is somewhat similar to the Finnish Alfacon, but more limited, in that the event is targeted to game designers and has a focus on playtesting, rather than being a general gathering of people active in the hobby. The […]| ropeblogi
Min D&D-kampagne: Plotpoints, kirjoittajana Morten Greis Petersen, esittelee miten hän käyttää juonipisteitä Luolien ja lohikäärmeiden uudehkossa laitoksessa. Library use 90 %, kirjoittajana Mo…| ropeblogi
"In adapting larp practices to be suitable for artistic spaces and audiences, embodiment, and player agency is susceptible to compromise – potentially sacrificing the artistic essence of larp itself," says Alex Brown.| Nordic Larp
‘Defending’ in poker is a more complicated concept than it may seem at first. It raises the question: “Defending against what?” The post Bluff-Proof Your Defense: The Power of Raising appeared first on GTO Wizard.| GTO Wizard
Motivation, which can be an internal drive or an external stimulus, propels our behavior. It might be toward something we want or, conversely, away from something we don’t want. Each Enneagram type comes with specific motivators, ones that propel people The post Motivation and Enneagram Type | Type One appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Type Overlays Type Nine: country and family Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path| The Enneagram in Business
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Kapitel ”FRP” i ”Shared fantasy” af Gary Allan Fine sammenligner rollespil med lignende hobbyer og fortæller hvordan en rollespilsklubber og hele hobbyen er organiseret. Kap…| ropeblogi
All the hammering and pounding and forge-labor is done (for now). The first draft of the Ground Table principles has been nailed to the door. But how do you test a thing like that? How do you know you got it right? Well one test is the basic gut-check: does it *feel* right. Another is […]| ars ludi
It occurred to me that even though our crew has all these ideas about how we think games should be — all these principles and conclusions from years and years of play, including eight years of Story Games Seattle — they are not all together in one nice, neat, easy-to-read place. So we decided to […]| ars ludi
What is a game? What is a role-playing game? What is a story game? Buckle up because today I am tackling the big fish: definitions. When I talk about definitions, what I’m looking for is a *useful* definition. I want something that reflects the truth of what we actually do. A definition that sheds light […]| ars ludi
"The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode" turns 15 years this month. A look back at the game and its reception.| Gold Machine
Blogs on Tape recorded my Six Cultures of Play article for anyone who finds reading giant walls of text difficult.| The Retired Adventurer
In this post I am going to present the taxonomy of the six main play cultures as well as a few notes about their historical origins. I am doing this to help people from different play cultures both understand their own values better as well as to encourage stronger and more productive cross-cultural discussion.| The Retired Adventurer
I've been keeping myself busy in quarantine during 2021 by reading academic papers.| The Retired Adventurer
I was talking with Jojiro of Dungeon Antology yesterday about designing dungeons for 5e, and while doing that I used the terms "digestive cookies" and "Barbie clothes" and then had to explain them. I thought I might as well share them for others to use.| The Retired Adventurer
[Context for this post: this is a re-write of an old post of mine I wrote back in 2021. I wasn't happy with my explanation, and it's filled with errors, but people link to it frequently anyway. Please update your links to this version, instead.]| A Knight at the Opera
Nine works that have influenced my practice for the Appendicitis N bandwagon.| Mediums and Messages
Historian Emilia Salvanou, asks what forms of memory and political responsibility are foreclosed when the accusation of antisemitism is deployed to silence critique of Israel’s war in Gaza. The post Haunted Pasts and the Politics of Grief: Memory-Shells and the Struggle for Ethical Grief after Gaza appeared first on Void Network.| Void Network
Is Existentialism closer to Anarchism than Marxism? The clearest anarchist element in Sartre’s political thought is the pursuit of a society free from authoritarianism and social forces designed to quash individual freedom. The post Sartre’s Anarchist Philosophy appeared first on Void Network.| Void Network
What the hell is wrong with the world where, on top of all the shitty things going on, we have to say that an ongoing genocide requires more from us than symbolic or peaceful protest?| Void Network
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Some mutual decisions by Canyon reports play of ”It was a mutual decision”, including the social dynamics around the table and playing out (or not) sex scenes. On the frames (Them deepe…| ropeblogi
Check out the evidence for this fascinating theory.| TrekMovie.com
The craft of building websites evolves when it follows web browsers, instead of fighting against them Websites have evolved over the years, but in the name of evolution, there seems to be mistaken thinking that the process of building a website needs to get more complex, using Javascript frameworks and| Good Internet
Making a website would be so much easier if the web came with a good conceptual model for thinking about site construction. If you’re making a spreadsheet, the spreadsheet grid provides a vital conceptual and spatial scaffold for your work, helping you break down your data entry and analysis| Good Internet
Should designers explain what rpgs are in their games? My short answer is no. My long answer is complicated.| Explorers Design
In Part I, I discussed those questions that distinguished Catholicism and Orthodoxy, on the one hand, from all of Protestantism, on the other. In Part II, I began to discuss questions that distinguish "High Church" traditions (Catholicism and Orthodoxy again, but also including Lutheranism, much of| LarrySanger.org
I picked up the Vermis fictional game books, and it sparked some ideas about the nature of game design. I’ll repeat the thread here, since it seems the internet is disappearing things quicker…| Deeper in the Game
Schema theory is now officially on MCT! In a hurry – read: Schema Theory – A Quick Background Have the time? Dig in to: The Schema Theory overview page| Mass Communication Theory
New page on Systems Theory is now live! Systems theorists study the interaction of an input through a system to its output, anything influencing this that isn’t part of the system can either be termed “environment” or “noise” depending on … Continue reading →| Mass Communication Theory
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Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Overlays for Type Eight: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Overlays for Type Seven: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Economists have developed different types of models describing the interaction of agents in markets. Early models in general equilibrium theory describe agents taking prices as given and do not consider the incentives of agents to manipulate prices strategically. With appropriate convexity assumptions on the preferences, such models can be cast as convex optimization problems for which efficient algorithms are known to find a competitive equilibrium. Price-taking behavior might be a reasonabl...| cacm.acm.org
this is maybe the longest post ive ever made and certainly the longest theory post and yet it also contains: invisible things to show your players, alternatives to "resolution" as a means for interacting with fiction, a kung fu fighting procedure, 1d6 ways to win d&d, and two whole entire games. so you'll just have to take a chance won't you.| wasitlikely.blogspot.com
We're talking about violence, racial killings and rape - Which uhhh, very heavy needless to say. I'm not sure I handled it all with the grea...| www.failforward.moe
Wondering how to best organize your folders in Obsidian? After many years I found a solution I like, which I call FINVA.| Obsidian Rocks
This is the second set of questions and answers about the distinctive doctrines of the Christian denominations. My aim in this series is to help me to decide on my proper denominational home. […]| LarrySanger.org
I had never watched Bob Ross’s Joy of Painting series until that magnificent twitch run back in 2015. The thing that really stuck with me (other than the fact that Bob Ross was a saint now but had clearly been through some shit) was how much he emphasized that paintings were entirely optical illusions. It’s […]| ars ludi
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss this game's approach to authority.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss this game's approach to consequences.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss the rules for combat.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss the rules for Companions.| A Knight at the Opera
We sometimes joke that blogging is a method of exorcism for the game design demons inside us. And right now, I'm possessed by the demon called Legion, for it is many. That's right, I speak once more of The Seven-Part Pact. I'm going to blog about this game until I've purged myself of Wizard Madness.| A Knight at the Opera
In a previous post on LarrySanger.org, I listed some “questions that distinguish the denominations.” More precisely, I attempted to list, tentatively, questions that, taken together, are minimally adequate to distinguish the doctrinal commitments of the major denominations (and quite a few minor ones, as well). I got much useful feedback on that list. What follows reflects the first section of an edited list, i.e., not the original list. I will cover later sections in later posts.| LarrySanger.org
Digital version of my pamphlet on Itch ! Investigating the historical context and legacy of Thomas Paine's Common Sense , written to prosel...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
There are so many urgent—one could argue, dire—issues which members of the community of historians face. The ongoing right-wing war against public and higher education…| The Tattooed Professor
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Overlays for Type Six: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth| The Enneagram in Business
This piece is part of a series of essays from artist Kandis Williams on Octavia Butler. Across her works, Octavia Butler taps into and destabilizes a primary process of Eurocentrism—relativizing […] The post Writing Against a Fascist Aesthetic appeared first on MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food.| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
This piece is part of a series of essays from artist Kandis Williams on Octavia Butler. “(Euro)Futurism failed to depict the terrors of captivity shaped by race, reality, and materiality. […] The post Octavia Butler and Creative Resistance appeared first on MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food.| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
Politicians regularly partner with business, when they should collaborate with grassroots movements.| Waging Nonviolence
You can make a game that is very easy to learn and play if you ask the players to do very little. But here’s my theory: the more a game lets you contribute — the more it asks of you — the more rewarding play can be. And I mean rewarding in the sense of […]| ars ludi
Truth in finance is often subjective. This is a case study in fighting natural bias, avoiding blind spots, and dealing with human nature.| Portfolio Charts
There's a cliché quote often falsely attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power." Thankfully, thi...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Talia Bhatt wrote a really good essay called “ The Third Sex ”, about how the third-sexing of individuals who display male-to-female cross-s...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Overlays for Type Four: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth| The Enneagram in Business
Free will and determinism have exercised me since my teen years, and I’ve thought of myself as a compatibilist since college. I have found no reason to change my mind. Since my conversion in 2020, questions about freedom and divine sovereignty have weighed on my mind, and Calvinists—crusaders for God’s sovereignty that they are—have sternly insisted that I join their side. Well, I do think God is sovereign, and I am inclined to compatibilism. So, I do have much in common with my Calvi...| LarrySanger.org
"Did you hear that? It sounds like... click bait!"| Spouting Lore
I've got a little process that I use whenever I start a game of Dungeon World or Homebrew World. It's similar to the first session procedure that's described in the book, but different in some key ways. I've found that this approach reliably kicks off a new game quickly and with a lot of energy, in a way that makes it pretty darn easy to run and improvise. | Spouting Lore
I've been working on the GMing chapters for Stonetop, and it's made me think about how the conversation really flows. I've also been thinking about GM moves, and Principles and Agenda, and how they all work together. I thought I'd talk about them a little here. | Spouting Lore
As I’m writing this, it’s January. Soon after ‘Blue Monday’, in fact. Said to be the most depressing day of the year And I’m thinking about comfort. The ways that we can soothe ourselves through the dark days of winter and the things we might need to help us achieve that aim. Even though the […] Source| theoretical minimalist
“If everyone paid their bills like Tim, I wouldn’t have a job!” This is an actual quote from my utility company. I am unusually good at paying bills, and I barely even think about it. How do I do it? I have a system. But it wasn’t always this way. I used to wake up […] The post Paying Bills in Obsidian appeared first on Obsidian Rocks.| Obsidian Rocks
I have a contentious relationship with clipping articles in Obsidian. Here are a few reasons why you may or may NOT want to clip articles,| Obsidian Rocks
While writing my review of Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors , I sketched a model of patriarchal ideology and society. It can be read t...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I read Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg around December 2023, and I’ve vaguely gestured towards having opinions about that book in ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
(Continued from Part 1, which looked at the state of TTRPG dungeon design pre-Jaquays. These two posts are cleaned upContinue Reading| Pathika
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …| Pathika
Yavor Tarinski The man who wears the shoe knows best that it pinches and where it pinches. ~John Dewey [1] One of the main pillars of contemporary oligarchies worldwide is the institution of electi…| Equality by lot
My house rules and mouse-sized hacks for the sword-and-whiskers roleplaying game, Mausritter.| Explorers Design
Tabletop rpg design is plagued with either-or fallacies. "A book can be usable at the table, or it can be fun to read," is just one of them.| Explorers Design
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth| The Enneagram in Business
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth| The Enneagram in Business
I’m a big fan of On/Off data, which compares a team’s point differential with a player on the court versus when he’s off the court. I’ve referenced it frequently in the past and think it’s one of the more telling reflections of a player’s value to his team in the advanced stat family. The nice part […]| Back Picks: Fleeting Sports Thoughts
The post How to Perform a Quarterly Business Review (QBR) in 2025 (w/ template) appeared first on Wallaroo Media.| Wallaroo Media
The post How to Get More Email Subscribers Without Spending a Fortune appeared first on Wallaroo Media.| Wallaroo Media
As search engines and digital interactions evolve, traditional SEO is being reshaped by the rise of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini.| Wallaroo Media
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The US administration recently announced a sweeping series of tariffs on seemingly every country in the world, and the immediate market reaction was starkly negative with stocks falling double digits in just a few days and volatility shooting through the roof. Naturally, many people who track markets for a living are freaking out. If you’re…| Portfolio Charts
Pssst! If you're coming here from the Glatisant, Part 1 is here!| A Knight at the Opera
Does this guy have any actual solutions for us? Of course I do! I'm not just here to poop parties! But first, we must once again return to the ancient wisdom: the difference between game design and level design.| A Knight at the Opera
Ready for a major departure from everything I've been arguing in this series so far?| A Knight at the Opera
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Revisiting the old-school maxim "Combat is a fail state" and redefining what it means at my table and as a design theory for the OSR.| Explorers Design
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Do we have good communities, how can we build better ones, and what role do award shows have in community-building?| Explorers Design
