The miniseries on alignment wraps up with some summary and a look at the corners not as the clear statements of position they are usually taken to be, but as the true places of tension between competing values.

This hopes to be the first of a new sporadic series of looks at designing the core of an adventure.  This first approach focuses on the enemy, building the adventure around what he is expected to do, rather than around what the players are to do.

In my dream, I saw some I knew yet didn’t know, some I didn’t know yet knew, some I knew and knew, and yet some I didn’t know nor know; and I knew that knowing and not knowing were part of who these characters were, and that in knowing this, I knew how those characters could help convey the dream to others.

Things change.  Don’t get locked into your maps.

Some thoughts on variations on an ancient puzzle as a game technique are presented.