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  • Learning How to Bake

    The chocolate chip cookies were exactly golden-brown and hot from the oven. Using an oven mitt, I took the cookie sheet out, slipped the parchment paper and the dozen cookies onto a cooking rack.  In another few minutes we’d have cookies and tall glasses of cold milk.  For now, though, we would wait until they……

  • Revisiting The Morrow Project

    The Morrow Project is one of my favorite tabletop roleplaying games. Some of this is clearly nostalgia; I played it when I was in college back in the 1980s, and I met my partner Lynn through my gaming group. Some of it is related to my academic and personal study of nuclear war – something……

  • Tékumel Thursday 14: EPT Rules Updates-Combat Additions

    The range of combat additions made in the “mimeo” Empire of the Petal Throne is fairly remarkable, given that it was written in March and April 1974, just after OD&D was released. [NB: all section references in this blog post are to the sections as listed in the mimeo EPT.] A summary of the combat……