FIELD NOTES
Design notes, frontier history, and the occasional excerpt from the books-in-progress. Read in any order; each piece stands alone.
Tools · For any game
We built two small browser tools we wanted for our own table and couldn't find anywhere else: a Pressure Dashboard for tracking the slow variables of a campaign, and an Honest NPC generator with a Lies field. Free, no account, works with any system.
22 June 2026·3 min read
Design · Cappadocia
What if the rooms of your dungeon were the months of the year, and what the party did in each was the same thing they would do in any good dungeon — look around, talk, take a position, leave the place changed?
12 June 2026·5 min read
History · Amorium
By 838 the Romans had fought the Arabs on the Taurus for two hundred years and had — in the parts they did not lose — won by refusing to fight in the way the Arabs wanted. Here is the system that did the winning, and why it was not used in the year of Amorium.
5 June 2026·7 min read
Design · Cappadocia
The design promise of the book, plainly: a full year of sessions can be played end-to-end without a single round of combat. Not because the country is safe, and not because the GM is pulling punches.
28 May 2026·4 min read
New piece roughly every fortnight while the Cappadocia book is in editing.
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