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  • The Dolmenwood RPG is essentially old school perfected

    As I’d begun contemplating a modular reorganisation of the rules, I realised I could also improve organisation by collating everything around each topic in a single place. Indeed, the ideal would be for each rules topic to be completely covered on a single page or on a spread of two facing pages. An excellent interview…

  • Daring Fireball: Bad Dye Job

    Liquid Glass, especially as expressed on MacOS, is a lightweight poorly considered design system as a whole, and its conceptual thinness is not sufficient to properly allow the Mac to carry the weight it needs to bear. — Read on daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

  • The Most Beautiful Game Ever?

    “It’s a love letter to countless aspects and legends of music, art, and culture, and its passion to demonstrate this is all too clear: The Artful Escape exists to be enjoyed. As with all good love letters, it also ends on a remarkably emotional crescendo.”