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Historical Materialist Feminism| 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.| Traverse Fantasy
There was a certain graffiti during the attempted 1968 revolution in France: "Structures do not walk on the streets!" Žižek summarizing Lacan (haven't read Seminar XVII unfortunately) submits that the opposite is true, and this is where one might appreciate his relative conservatism: that the street fights between the student revolutionaries and the police were in fact expressive of and overdetermined by the social order, which is in a constant and dynamic process of self-definition (comp...| Traverse Fantasy
This isn't that interesting! Just noticed that I have a sort of schedule throughout the year:| Traverse Fantasy
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 online platforms (business people say stupid shit about it) before I shifted my research wholly into Greco-Latin poetry, but I still like the analysis and sometimes wish I could refer to it. So, here it is! Sorry for any eighteen-year-old bullshit. Also I removed the footnotes because they were annoying to reformat, but the works cited section is still there.| Traverse Fantasy
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 proselytize radical liberalism right before the American Revolution.| Traverse Fantasy
Digital version of my eight-fold zine on Itch which itself is an abridged version of my webpage Talking Trans!| Traverse Fantasy
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 :)| Traverse Fantasy
Finally published the 'dry' version of CINCO! Table-Talk Odyssey on Itch! If you're seeing this here then you probably know what its deal is, but essentially: this is my home campaign ruleset, which are meant to isolate the character-driven dynamics of my D&D 5E subculture into something geared specifically towards making silly quirky characters and playing with them. The setting is... pirates, or really like... Haitian revolution... Caribbean. Yeah :D Also Norn Noszka illustrated the boo...| Traverse Fantasy
I wanted to keep making mini versions of Capital volumes because it'd be fun, besides hopefully being useful for others to get a conversational grasp on Marx's critique. Like, "Yeah, I've read Capital, in the form of these stupid little things." But while working on this and revisiting the second volume, now published on Itch, a thought struck me which I've included as a postface. Let's start with the content of the zine, and then I'll get into that.| Traverse Fantasy
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
People have praised the bastion rules from the One D&D playtest materials for massively simplifying the complexity of building and running ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
We got 100 responses ! This makes it very convenient for us, so let's work with it. Bitch. Results & Analysis Below are the five basic tiers...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
This is a little silly, but: Often when I run little dragon games, I will ask people to roll D20 without a specific DC in mind. I feel like ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Remixing pieces from " Genders Without Number " in a non-game context. This is a blog, not a published work; don't expect it to be perfect o...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
There is a weird gap between armor proficiency and everything else. Armor proficiency just means you get to use the armor without getting di...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
A bit of a mouthful! I had the thought: why not give each instance of a weapon constant damage, but roll to determine that constant amount? ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Need to write something to stay in the habit. Story's going well, just trying to avoid burnout. There are three separate "problems" I have: ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
My friend Ènziramire shared a paper with me, "Wages against Artwork: The Social Practice of Decommodification" by Leigh Claire La Berge. Th...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Over the last couple of weeks. Features? I'm not confident that features are, in the end, very interesting relative to the 'weight' of under...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Sooooooooooo. Hi! I feel like my brain was fixed. Haven't thought about this stuff for a minute. Been writing fiction, like real actual fict...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Hashtag OSRisOverParty, Hashtag RIPBozo, etc etc. The initial… “edition” of Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition tried to present itself as a ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
