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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • You need a method to quick jot stuff down in the moment. I use google keep for those thoughts/ideas. It’s on my phone, very low friction always to just pull it out and get something out of my head. Make it good later, just use your notes app (or an actual notepad if you’re oldschool) to get it out of your head so you can think of other stuff without worrying about losing it.














  • Spent some time looking for ideas on how to do a security training (compliance requirement) that didn’t suck. Cribbing from some reddit posts, I think I’m going to give everyone a notecard with something like “Is Bob Bobson a client here”, have them pair up, and do a little phone conversation roleplay where one person is a visher trying to trick the other into revealing the piece of information, while the other person gets practice saying “No.” Seemed like a good way to let the staff dip a toe into thinking like an attacker.





  • There are some formats where inventory management becomes interesting again. We tried doing a Hexcrawl earlier this year and there was a lot of interesting gameplay to be had in the risk/reward management of how many supplies they wanted to carry vs how much they wanted to invest in pack animals, limiting their ability to carry loot back, carrying this vs that, guessing how much they’ll use before they can resupply or where future resupplies might be, gambling on whether to press forward and risk running out or turn back, that kind of thing. It’s just the more currently popular adventure structures right now (eg linear or branching narratives) where inventory tracking is superfluous.