I wanted to keep making mini versions of Capital volumes because it'd be fun, besides hopefully being useful for others to get a conversat...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
A spectre is haunting society — the spectre of society! - The Joker? I made a stupid Twitter thread thinking about monsters. Copy/pasted: g...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
When you're the only secondary character who's male and have no choice but to be yaoi bait. Returning to the topic of Sword Art Online ! A ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Ughghgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Okay. Deep lore time. I didn't watch anime growing up, or really much now. Up to a point—put a pin in it—I did...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
This is not a long post; just a reflection. There’s a passage in Romans that always struck me as strange:| Traverse Fantasy
I found this folded up and thought it was a paper I presented at a gender studies conference. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the presentation I gave at the end of my undergraduate thesis program, but I was already part-way through re-typing it. Oops.| Traverse Fantasy
Before I broach this topic, I must perform a little social ritual. Hail Charlie Kirk! I ask this saint of free speech, wherever he is, to intercede on my behalf while speaking my mind. This isn’t about him, but about his alleged assassin: the 22 year-old Tyler Robinson whose alleged motives have eluded political identification and thus disturbed partisan media (liberal and conservative), to the extent that both sides are starting to reach for the new “nihilistic violent extremist” label...| Traverse Fantasy
I feel like I glossed over Romans 1:18–25 (NSRVUE) in my previous post:| Traverse Fantasy
I’ve been interested in Pauline theology for a while: first, for his emphasis on community organization against the norms of 1st century Greco-Roman politeia; second, his relatively egalitarian and universal outlook on gender/sex and nationality (in as much as nationality could be said to exist at the time whether on the basis of ancestry, geography, or politeia); third, his self-understanding as a Pharisee and apostle of Jesus to the Gentiles, which was contrary—or at least orthogonal—...| Traverse Fantasy
Part twooooo from part oneeeee . I think this is maybe the more interesting half? 11. The Metamorphoses Uhh I fucked up and somehow forgot...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
In most campaigns I've played, the passage of time on a larger scale is handled liberally. We tend to see the value in handling smaller scal...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I’ve gotten comments from people asking questions that I thought would be nicer to answer in longer form! Thank y’all so much for your interest and responses :) Question 1: Commodity Fetishism From “ Marx’s Capital Vol. 1 For Dummies ”: I would like to add a thought/question that came to my mind a bit after commenting. You do use the term ‘social ilusion’ describing commodity fetishism and this may just be language issue but i have always had a bit of an issue with the trans...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
This is Part 1 because I didn't want to be late to my own party but I also don't like blogging for a topic in advance even if it's my idea. Feels like homework. And I like homework! Anyway, I wanted to think about what works have influenced the fiction I write (whether or not it's related to elf-game bullshit, which it both is and isn't since most of it isn't typical D&D shit but neither is most of the D&D I run). Bon appetit!| Traverse Fantasy
My partner got me and herself really into Dandadan, which she described at one point as Mob Psycho for people who go to the club. It's so so so fucking good. Momo and her friends are my queens. Okarun is such a precious squishy boywife. The stories of the monsters they encounter and how others get wrapped into their life pull you by your heartstrings to the edge of your couch. Anyway, I was reminded that the most popular RPG in Japan is Call of Cthulhu, and it struck me how Dandadan is a p...| Traverse Fantasy
There's a really good post by Elmcat about prepping settlement-based adventures by designing neighborhood blocks and representing buildings (etc.) as people! But it also has a petty desire table that I felt like would be nice to generalize: that although people's relationships are often overdetermined by their relative positions in a social matrix (in TTRPG terms, we can refer to these as factional allegiances), it's interesting when a socially determined relationship is complicated by a pers...| Traverse Fantasy
Following Lich Van Winkle's post about dee-five-six , I wanted to post about a realization I had that I'm sure others know but thought would...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Feminism has a metaphysics problem. This isn't specific to feminism: it's just that feminism is a label applied to a variety of discourses which all claim to have the same political premise or subjective vantage, while differing in both respects—usually this is visible when describing white feminism, bourgeois feminism, liberal feminism, cishet feminism, in contrast to some idealized black feminism, proletarian feminism, radical feminism, trans feminism. It's a hall of mirrors no matter whe...| Traverse Fantasy
Put some thoughts on a Discord server:| Traverse Fantasy
Wrote a minizine about A.I. because people outside of tech often ask me what the deal is and why I’m so anti-passionate about it. Printable version on Itch!| Traverse Fantasy
This is partly my attempt to modularize more complex rules from Cinco! (I can’t decide how to type that) as opt-in rules for characters, as well as coming up with additional ones because they’d make more sense as special abilities than as general (if complex) rules. The following subsystems would be impacted and restricted only to characters with the appropriate feats:| Traverse Fantasy
Hi all! I've been sneakily uploading changes to my home game Cinco! over the past month. Here's a changelog: Armor items act as a virtual ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
This is a paper I wrote for a seminar on archaeology (specifically on the field's philosophical premises with respect to the relationship between history, the past, and artifacts) in 2020. Not perfect, and I adored my professor for that seminar, but fuck OOO!| Traverse Fantasy
Had such a fun session of my home campaign! Got to use my new travel rules and (due to the all-you-can-roll nature of them) honestly I had to convince my friends to end each leg of the trip to actually play where they were wanting to go... But we love it when journeys aren't about the destination, right? The rulebook for Cinco! now has all the latest updates I've been using to play if you're curious :) I'm tired and a little buzzed so I'm gonna summarize this session with bullet points.| Traverse Fantasy
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I did the oopsie of assuming that a controversial, or at least non-consensus, position was actually a non-controversial consensus. From “Inaugurating the Icon0clasm Ball”:| Traverse Fantasy
The true picture of the past whizzes by. Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell in the moment of its recognizability, is the past to be held fast. “The truth will not run away from us” – this remark by Gottfried Keller denotes the exact place where historical materialism breaks through historicism’s picture of history. For it is an irretrievable picture of the past, which threatens to disappear with every present, which does not recognize itself as meant in it.| Traverse Fantasy
One common complaint about feats or even class features is that they foreclose particular actions from characters in general by cloistering them within specific character options. For this reason, I tend to like what I currently have going on in my home game CINCO, where a character's equipment in combination with their aspects determines their capabilities, which feels both more flexible and more natural.| Traverse Fantasy
I like fluxcrawls, but there's little choice involved as such. Instead of rolling for a random event or the quality of an event, check D20: on 9–, pick 1; on 10–19, pick 2; on 20+, pick 3:| Traverse Fantasy
Guess it's. Never. Really. Over! Although I thought it'd be neat , I didn't like the feel of rural hexes being both home- and work-places. J...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
With respect to my last blog , I want to clarify: I am not a medical student. I know many medical students, but I'm not one. I'm just nosy ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Combat in OD&D is different than from subsequent editions of D&D . Characters make one attack per hit die they have, against “man-sized” o...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Before I get going, check this: DISCLAIMER The author wrote this article out of her interest in this hobby, and also to synthesize this w...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Knave by Ben Milton was my first light-weight old-school D&D sort of game that I ran for my friends. I suggested using it because although...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I think 90% of people take for granted that Dungeons & Dragons (1974) has a market economy totally unlike whatever predominated in medieva...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Hi all! Hosting The Icon0clastic Ball on Itch.| Traverse Fantasy
Put this together! My partner's grandfather, since we reconnected, keeps sending me crackpot stuff about climate change being fake and the ice caps reformulating (if you're curious: the ice caps grow and melt seasonally, but a lesser rate than which they're melting due to increased global temperature). Although I had an idea of why climate change occurs, I didn't know specifics or how I would answer if someone asked me to explain how it works from top-to-bottom (or perhaps, as a good dialecti...| Traverse Fantasy
Okayyy this is going to be a lot. Had a breakthrough so I don’t feel quite done yet. Hex Assignment One of the original benefits of discrete...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
There was a certain graffiti during the attempted 1968 revolution in France: " Structures do not walk on the streets!" Žižek summarizing La...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
This isn't that interesting! Just noticed that I have a sort of schedule throughout the year: January & June: Reading February to April: P...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
This is a paper I wrote for my first semester of undergrad in 2018. I actually wanted to expand it into a thesis about the economics of onli...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Updated a zine I wrote last year during the pro-Palestine student protests. Printout on Itch . 1. Current Day In April 2024, hundreds of...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I had a suspicion the other day that HD 1 figures are more like HD 2 figures than HD ½ figures in terms of longevity since it will usually t...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
FIVEY uses brackets to place monsters in one of five categories: mooks, grunts, elites, lieutenants, and bosses. This makes it really easy ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I've had three general tendencies lately: (1) desire more freeform role-play that relies more upon fictional positioning than mechanical opt...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
After play-testing , I want to combine titles and skills into one category called aspects . The difference between titles and skills was ki...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
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
I left my Switch at home so I've been borrowing my partner's to play her copy of Shadows Over Loathing , a silly quirky goofy point-and-cli...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I've been struggling with how I kinda really hate game design. No matter if I play things or run things or design things, the number one thi...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
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
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
This is based on two recipes on Damn Delicious and Cafe Delites that were relatively quick and easy but I felt like didn't taste enough. M...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I'm working on aggregating the posts on this blog into a big book so I can eventually delete it for my personal safety, considering the stat...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
My homebrew heartbreaker Cinco is looking right at home with a non-granular " hits-to-kill " measure for opponents in violent encounters. B...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
my intent has been less to emulate or condense 5e as a formal ruleset than to facilitate the spirit and play style of 5e without the trappi...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Before I say anything else, I want everyone to know that Joshua E. Lewis is a terrible human being who (allegedly): Got dropped from his m...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
My friend WFS at Prismatic Wasteland came up with the following algorithm for using dice to randomly determine the money-value of your trea...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I was hanging with my friend Ènziramire and he asked me if I had read either Settlers or “The Breadbook” ( The Conquest of Bread ) 1 , whi...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
This is something I wanted to isolate from my post about mosaic worlds [1] because I thought it was worth drawing out and expanding upon. I...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I released TURN last week, on April 20 [1]. TURN is a trifold pamphlet that offers a generic (i.e., system-neutral or whatever) dungeon ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I've had a post on the back burner for a while about reading rulebooks and other materials procedurally, and I wish it were finished prior t...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
the dungeon exploration procedure for the 1974 edition of dungeons & dragons is given in volume 3, pages 8-10. here is a selection of passa...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I've been working in a pride org at work to advocate for a better understanding of health benefits for trans people and more representative,...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Thank y'all so much for y'all's interest in the last one! Will respond when I can, just preparing for a (nice) busy week and weekend :) in a...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
PART 1 i don’t think this article will ruffle anyone’s feathers. i’ve had the pleasure of only interacting with old-school gamers [1] that a...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I’m worried this post is going to make me look stupid, so I wanted to say first that I really enjoyed David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Y...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Well, woman, the way the time cold I wanna be keeping you warm I got the right temperature for shelter you from the storm Oh Lord, girl...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
the main difference between [fascist Italy and communist China] is ideological, i.e. aesthetic. mussolini conceived of fascist italy as a ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Procedure? I hardly know her! Harharharharhar. Travel, exploration, combat. That's what we're talking about. Wait, what's this? DISCLAIMER...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Okay so basically last Friday I was going to post about play procedures—the basic bitch shit for travel, exploration, and combat—but then I ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Oh yeah, I forgot I was doing this! Here's some gorgeous art by Norn Noszka to start. :) Last time, I talked about the UX side of your char...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Taking a break from my home game because real life has gotten a little crazy (later edit: unrelated to the election results!). What better t...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Check me out, bitches! I said I wasn't going to, but I did! This morning I ran my first session of OD&D or, rather, my retroclone Fantastic...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Lately, I keep seeing people discuss whether there can exist markets without capitalism. This is often phrased in terms of Marx's terminolog...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Above is a WIP background for a referee screen, drawn by Emiel Boven for Errant by Ava Islam ! Okay, whatever, I keep mentioning this in p...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
This one has been a long time coming! I think I must have read this over a year ago, like two reading sprees ago (next one incoming). It's b...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Sometimes, I (try to) talk about economics and end up bringing up a weird phrase: “social” value, or even “value” by itself. When I talk abo...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
From my personal play packet! Possibly the laziest setting ever, but it’s honest. All the gorgeous art shown here is by the delightful Norn ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Free adventure or whatever? This is my prep for the first two proper sessions of Turtle Island ( S1 , S2 ). There's only one statistic of n...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Zombies and vodou and marital drama oh my! Crew Roster Participants this session are in bold! Nicole: Elf arrested for bodysnatching, now...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
No one understands Euphoria like I do. Obviously, I'm exaggerating haha. It was one of the most popular prestige television shows of the la...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I read so many books that I enjoy that sometimes I wonder, or worry, whether I just accept whatever I read. Thankfully, I’ve had critical re...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
The official “first”, i.e. non-introductory, session of Turtle Island! Unfortunately, Makandal (played by Ènziramire ) couldn’t make it this...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Started my long-awaited pirate campaign! I don't know if I've mentioned it here, although I've definitely talked about it in conversations w...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
It's been really fun working on Resourciv! A lot has happened since my first post: wrapping maps with proper continents and climate simul...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Told y'all I wouldn't be gone-gone! Sorry for not responding to anyone anywhere yet. I so appreciate y'all's encouragement and support, espe...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Prereq.: Why Am I Here? The booklet versions of Fantastic Medieval Campaigns are out now (at-cost as per usual)! Links below: Volume 0: C...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I've spent the last two weeks making a super basic Civ -like. You can see in the picture how far I've gotten: units, cities, research, fog o...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I watched a video that YouTube recommended like a cat dragging a dead mouse onto my front porch. I don't usually watch videos like these, an...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I have been writing and printing one-page leaflets. Above is a template; basically you fold the page into eighths, and cut along the dotted ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
