Esperanto Words with Ambiguous Segmentation
Some Esperanto words can be parsed into roots and affixes in multiple ways.
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The Prehistory of Cycladic League
Early versions of my civ-lite BASIC game, Cycladic League.
Esperanto Homographs
A look at seven word forms in Esperanto that are homographs.
The Caves of Ateşkazé: Two Tables for Immersive Caving
The details and discoveries tables from “The Paths of Ateşkazé” by Jeremy Strandberg in Perilous Almanacs remain my favorite caving adventure.
Mango Man
Mango man, mango man Thinks he’s the entire universe, man Usually mean to smaller man Mango man Is he depressed or is he a mess? Does he feel totally worthless? Who came up with mango man? Degraded man, mango man.
The Stages of Learning
As an adult, I rarely try to do things I’m no good at. At work, I do things I’ve done for decades. Same for my hobbies. Trying something new means being embarrassingly bad at it. That was awkward and difficult to work through.
Cyclades Boardgame vs. Cycladic League
I developed Cycladic League by re-imaging what Cyclades might be like it were a BASIC game, then iterating on the design in an agile fashion.
Planet of the Week, Summer 2026
I have created three new background playbooks for Planet of the Week: the Belter (inspired by The Expanse), the Throwback (think Buck Rogers, or Steve Rogers, and maybe John Crichton), and the Terran.
Agon: A TTRPG Odyssey
"On their way back home from the war, the heroes have become lost among strange islands populated by mythical creatures, dire beasts, treacherous landscapes, legendary kingdoms, and desperate people—all somehow cursed or abandoned by the cruel power of the capricious gods." — Evil Hat
Lapine: The Rabbit Language from Watership Down
Richard Adams' Watership Down (New York: Macmillan, 1972) is one of the classic works of xenofiction (the fiction set in strange cultures, real or imagined), placed as it is among and between the warrens of rabbits in the English countryside. Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created.
Furbish
This is an analysis of the Furbish of the first-generation Furby toys.
Intermythic English
Inspired by Tamarian, here's a modest proposal for a mythometaphorical conlang: Intermythic English. Intermythic English is English with the addition of 150 words.
Pidanjinu
In 2002, I started a sketch of a fictional Astronesian pidgin, reflecting a then emerging obsession of mine: conlangs that used all 26 Latin letters. I wouldn't return to Pidanjinu until 2021-2022, working on it 15+ minutes a day, at which point it became the conlang that I am the most proud of: Muna Lingi. Here are its humble beginnings.