Framing Everything to Come

The very first blog.

Here we go. I hope that I can do a bunch of a half-assed dissections of complex systems, but really I'm just gonna rip pieces of stuff and plug it into my endless log of ideas for RPG campaigns.

Alternatively let's look at ants, plants, and ecology to tear apart their systems in a haphazard manner too. Either way it should be interesting.


See you later.

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