At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Prosery (144 words of prose) with an invitation to use a line from Leonard Cohen’s ‘You Want It Darker’ – “There’s a lullaby for suffering.” dVerse Poets – Prosery – Leonard Cohen Photo: decathlon.com “It’s dark often at these times.” Juliana Spahr Ill Winds When I’m hiking in winter I notice when I’m not moving my body temperature drops, hypothermia is a risk. The…

The entire story of Ill Winds* has been:

- add a lot of features

- review what is absolutely necessary

- remove a lot of features

- repeat

At least every cycle a feature or two finds a way to be streamlined into the minimum viable ruleset. Unfortunate that the cycle will continue indefinitely until I actually get it back to playtesting - a problem complicated by the fact that I myself am a horrible game master.

Oh, and as an aside, this will probably be the last game notes thing on this blog. Looking to move game stuff to another tumblr in hopes of going more in depth on things there and just leaving the crappy art archive going here. In theory.

I keep trying to keep enemies for my RPG simple but instantly fail every time because the game has four health bars and I think it's cool how you have to manage different survival aspects and all but that means everything has FOUR HEALTHBARS

I’ve completely readjusted Ill Wind’s weight and carry capacity a good three or four times now. Trying to keep it easy to use but also an active concern.