# related links (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover related links. Page: Feed: --- ## [First Session of Running Mythic Bastionland for Others](https://takeonrules.com/2026/08/10/first-session-of-running-mythic-bastionland-for-others/) _2026-08-11 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< rpgs \> · \< sessions \> Summary: The start of a new age and a new campaign for a pair of knight tenants. On Saturday I ran a face to face game of Mythic Bastionland 📖 for two players. The players opted to start as knight tenants (e.g., middle-aged knights). We had: Ser Denish the Tiger Knight Ser Larkin the Fox Knight I asked Ser Denish what animals he had bested at… ## [Questions as Flashback Tech](https://takeonrules.com/2026/07/26/questions-as-flashback-tech/) _2026-07-26 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< rpgs \> Summary: In preparation for my #Stonetop #ttprg session, I wrote several questions to walk through a flashback sequence. I felt it was a rewarding experience keeping the story in the present, yet giving access to the past actions. In our Stonetop campaign, one of the character’s tall-tales involved sneaking to the ruined tower with her friend, finding some magic… ## [System Hacks: The Long Defeat](https://takeonrules.com/2026/07/22/system-hacks-the-long-defeat/) _2026-07-23 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< rpgs \> Summary: Part of game culture is re-mixing and accumulating a toolbox of cool tech. Yesterday I stumbled upon Mick’s Advanced Mystery & Manners: Together Through Ages of the World… . In which the author shared The Long Defeat , a hack of Mothership 📖 , that can swap out the rules engine of The One Ring 📖 , while preserving much of the source material of that… ## [Back to Powered by the Apocalypse](https://takeonrules.com/2026/07/17/back-to-powered-by-the-apocalypse/) _2026-07-18 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< reflections \> · \< rpgs \> Summary: Reflections and thoughts on running #Stonetop and thus revisiting #PbtA games, having remembered some of the past challenges. It has been over a decade since I’ve run a Powered by the Apocalypse ( PbtA 📖 ) game. In that time I’ve run the following: The Black Sword Hack ( BSH 📖 ) Burning Wheel Gold 📖 Dungeon Crawl Classics ( DCC… ## [Stonetop Session 1 Preparation](https://takeonrules.com/2026/07/17/stonetop-session-1-preparation/) _2026-07-17 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< rpgs \> Summary: My thoughts for building up my questions for the first session. After writing Session Zero of Stonetop , I sat down with pencil and paper and wrote down four headings: “I Wonder” Questions Possible Threats Opening Scenes Follow-up Situations I read over my notes to form the “I wonder” questions. Then started thinking about the notes and discussion from last… ## [Session Zero of Stonetop](https://takeonrules.com/2026/07/10/session-zero-of-stonetop/) _2026-07-10 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< rpgs \> Summary: Preparing for a face to face game of Stonetop, and considering how to approach the game and inevitable note taking. Last night Teddy and Tricia hosted Brian and I for our first session of Stonetop . Teddy had prepared an amazing taco salad spread, which we enjoyed before getting down to co-creating the characters and community. My task for today is to… ## [Persistent copyright & licensing information in client-side JavaScript, CSS and similar – feedback and second proposal](https://matija.suklje.name/persistent-copyright-licensing-information-in-client-side-javascript-css-and-similar-feedback-and-second-proposal) _2026-07-01 · Matija Šuklje · Hook’s Humble Homepage_ Answers to some questions and concerns gathered at FOSDEM 2025 and LLW 2025, that ultimately led to a different proposal. ## [On Listening to an Entire Album](https://takeonrules.com/2026/06/27/on-listening-to-an-entire-album/) _2026-06-27 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> Summary: Musing on the finite nature of a CD and the false infinity of streaming. A few months ago, we stopped in at a pop-up shop that had lots of music equipment. A musician was downsizing and had some fantastic stereo equipment for sale. We purchased it and two days ago I set up the stereo in the basement recently cleared and cleaned by Jenny and her friend.… ## [Life and How to Live It](https://takeonrules.com/2026/05/16/life-and-how-to-live-it/) _2026-05-16 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> · \< poetry \> Summary: Exploring my personal multitudes. I’m in a bit of a blogging desert. In part because my daily life feels full and rich. I’ve been learning about my attachment styles and working hard on becoming a better person. This has meant lots of crying; of digging through my multitudes; of talking and listening; of being vulnerable and… ## [Osprey on the Lake](https://takeonrules.com/2026/04/21/osprey-on-the-lake/) _2026-04-22 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> · \< poetry \> Summary: Seeing nature unfold before me. Yesterday , mid-day I saw a large bird land and perch on a tree across the lake. I grabbed our binoculars, stepping onto the porch to identify the bird. Was it a bald eagle or an osprey or something else. No white head and I the white shoulder markings and recognized an osprey. Paddling on our shore… ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/S3rPRZmzFBLL) _2026-04-22 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [Local Library Programming](https://takeonrules.com/2026/02/27/local-library-programming/) _2026-02-27 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> · \< poetry \> Summary: Establishing intentional plans for personal enrichment. As I understand it, in mid- 2025 the topic of personal curriculum started emerging on TikTok. Jenny, then working at a small local library, sought to add a Personal Curriculum segment to the library programming. The schedule up until the turn of the year was packed. So they… ## [«A Poetry Handbook» by Mary Oliver](https://takeonrules.com/2026/02/10/a-poetry-handbook-by-mary-oliver/) _2026-02-11 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< poetry \> Summary: A brief reflection on a #poetry #handbook that I just read. I’ve been reading more poetry, and scratching out efforts at poetry. Today I finished reading A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver. A compact guide into the writing and reading poetry; describing the basics, presenting a few examples, and most importantly giving bits of advice. If one must choose… ## [Prairie Poor](https://takeonrules.com/2026/02/08/prairie-poor/) _2026-02-08 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< poetry \> Summary: A #poem reflecting on land and language. My ancestors carried with them a lowland language, From flat Frisia to the banks of Motława, later amongst the golden fields of Ukraine, then, with treasured seed in tow, the prairie of Nebraska. Listening to my father, aunt, and uncle speak Their low German, I hear my poverty revealed. This past year, I recorded… ## [Inverness](https://takeonrules.com/2026/02/06/inverness/) _2026-02-06 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< poetry \> Summary: A #poem of #winter reflection, of painting a ceiling not in white but in a bold color, and a mind thus adrift. I sit and ponder this canopy of evergreen, Painted the long year prior; Bringing a sense of summer amongst the trees, Even in this stick white winter amidst the perma-cloud, Muting all color, joy, and—dare I say—hope. Inverness, the green so… ## [Serendipity and Verse](https://takeonrules.com/2026/02/05/serendipity-and-verse/) _2026-02-06 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> Summary: It is through epics and poetry that I my home. I’ve been enjoying narrative verse, poetry, myths, and legends. Recently , I finished Yvain by M.T. Anderson. I felt the thrill of story and primacy of archetype. I found the artistic style deeply textured and enchanting. It interwove with my reading of The Once and Future King and The Book of Merlyn ;… ## [Does One Call Oneself a Poet?](https://takeonrules.com/2026/01/17/does-one-call-oneself-a-poet/) _2026-01-17 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< poetry \> Summary: A bit of introspection and a #haiku. In part a post to say I’m still here. I wonder, what makes one a poet? And perhaps not the general case, but the self-centered case. Am I a poet? I write poetry. I am an adept conjurer of analogies and metaphors. I have an above average command of the English language. I write poems, scratching out words to find… ## [Bolstering Against the Permeating LLM Language](https://takeonrules.com/2026/01/07/bolstering-against-the-permeating-llm-language/) _2026-01-07 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> · \< poetry \> · \< responses \> Summary: On being human, embracing the analogue, and working through private deep introspection. From Being creative requires taking risks : Children will say stuff that will shock you, because you can see where they are coming from, but it’s just not the thing you say. They’re not yet collapsed. But we are collapsed.… ## [Fallacy of Record](https://takeonrules.com/2026/01/01/fallacy-of-record/) _2026-01-01 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< responses \> · \< technologies \> Summary: Exhuming a reflection I wrote in October around “leaving a record.” We cross the line, who pushed who over? It doesn’t matter to you, it matters to me We’re cut adrift, but still floating I’m only hanging on to watch you go down, my love. — U2, \*So Cruel\* In Printed is not the Point , I encountered the following quote: What… ## [The Books of 2025](https://takeonrules.com/2025/12/31/the-books-of-2025/) _2025-12-31 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> · \< reading \> Summary: Not all of the books of the year, but an overview of the ones that stuck out. This year, my partner and I are participating as a team in our local library reading “challenge.” The goal is for the team to read 100 books. Thusfar we’ve read 150 or so books; me having read about 50 and my partner over a 100. What have been the… ## [Yuletide](https://takeonrules.com/2025/12/30/yuletide/) _2025-12-30 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> · \< poetry \> Summary: I can think of no better time than that between Winter Solstice and New Year’s Day. Myth is a tear in the fabric of reality, and immense energies pour through these holy fissures. Our stories, our poems, are rips in this fabric as well, however slight. ―Jay Parini, Borges and Me Yule-tide, the twelve days between Winter Solstice and… ## [Pirate.io on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QC2GSz58dOSv) _2025-12-30 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Pirate.io listing on Google Play to view the app’s details. ## [Lake Effect Snow](https://takeonrules.com/2025/12/29/lake-effect-snow/) _2025-12-29 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< poetry \> Summary: A winter poem celebrating snow. Out windows, white flakes Dancing, twirling, falling hide All past nearest shore— What darkening winter keeps Curtains drawn our secrets near. Reply by Email ## [That Time In Between](https://takeonrules.com/2025/12/29/that-time-in-between/) _2025-12-29 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< personal \> · \< poetry \> Summary: On that sacred time during winter dark. Folly is to name the days between Christmas and New Years. There’s hardly enough daytime to warrant such. Instead, let us embrace these long winter’s night; Where story presses against the glass, breath hot, frozen fog forming crystalline lace. No logs split nor tallow lit, that once did dance.… ## [Serializing Somewhat Large Emacs Alists](https://takeonrules.com/2025/12/23/serializing-somewhat-large-emacs-alists/) _2025-12-23 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< emacs \> · \< programming \> Summary: Creating a bespoke process to dump and load data in manageable chunks. In my Mythic Bastionland Emacs package I’ve been populating an Emacs 📖 alist with information related to the state of the map for my Forged from the Worst campaign. I have 14 top-level keys in that alist : barriers , curses , dwellings, escalations , hazards ,… ## [Game Procedures as Bridges from Potential to Actual](https://takeonrules.com/2025/12/21/game-procedures-as-bridges-from-potential-to-actual/) _2025-12-21 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< reflections \> · \< rpgs \> Summary: Considering the great utility of procedures and tables as a means of developing the fictive world, passing from potential to actual. I’ve been playing a solo game of Mythic Bastionland 📖 , tracking the story in my Forged from the Worst series. This morning Ep 4: Mythic Bastionland Solo Campaign rolled through my feed. And I noted… ## [Forged From the Worst: Session 5](https://takeonrules.com/2025/12/21/forged-from-the-worst-session-5/) _2025-12-21 · jeremy@takeonrules.com (Jeremy Friesen) · Take on Rules_ Related Links :: Tags: \< rpgs \> · \< sessions \> :: Series: \< Forged from the Worst \> Summary: In which the Knights learn of a blood feud and yet another Myth plaguing the realm. Three horses, two with riders and the smaller other riderless. Both riders armed and armored. A bow shot away, they see the eastern gatehouse of Castle Steimfluss, its squat towers gleaming proud, gates open with… ## [Tmp Downloads](https://matija.suklje.name/tmp-downloads) _2025-06-14 · Matija Šuklje · Hook’s Humble Homepage_ Using systemd-tmpfiles to regularly clean up my downloads folders. ## [Trying out KOReader and Wallabag (the first few days and months)](https://matija.suklje.name/trying-out-koreader-and-wallabag-the-first-few-days-and-months) _2025-05-24 · Matija Šuklje · Hook’s Humble Homepage_ I tested KOReader, Plato and Wallabag on my Kobo and am very happy with the outcome. (Plus some improvement suggestions.) ## [Persistent copyright & licensing information in client-side JavaScript, CSS and similar – a proposal & call for help](https://matija.suklje.name/persistent-copyright-licensing-information-in-client-side-javascript-css-and-similar-a-proposal-call-for-help) _2024-09-17 · Matija Šuklje · Hook’s Humble Homepage_ I propose using SPDX Snippet Tags in a slightly inventive way to tag front-end code, so the information stays in-line even after minification. I present some limited PoC and ask for testers, more PoC and feedback. ## [Summarise all the FOSDEM videos!](https://matija.suklje.name/summarise-all-the-fosdem-videos) _2024-08-24 · Matija Šuklje · Hook’s Humble Homepage_ How I used Kagi’s AI to summarise FOSDEM videos of talks I did not manage to attend to. (Bonus: mini-review of Kagi)