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Grant Law
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I build weird systems—some float, some breathe, some evolve. Game designer/ecologist/musician/sailor Currently creating Disciples of Enki, a board game about alchemical horror, emergent monstrosity, and cooperative failure. Beelzebubbadub.substack.com
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 28
Containment breach in the archives. The familiar has claimed the fragments.

#BoardGames #GameDev #DisciplesOfEnki #Cats
Cat plays with paper clippings
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 28
Every alchemist requires a scribe. Mine insists on sleeping atop the codex.
#GameDev #DisciplesOfEnki #CatsSleepingOnBoardgames
Cat sleeping on game cards under construction.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 25
"Every border has a cost. Every number is a choice."
The DOE map isn’t just backdrop — it’s the leash of the homunculus.
#BoardGames #GameDev #TabletopGaming #DisciplesOfEnki #Maps
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 25
Tracing coastlines, fitting continents into hexes, and wrestling with scale.
The DOE map wasn’t easy to build — but it’s finally ready for playtesting.
#BoardGames #GameDev #Tabletop #MapDesign
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 25
"The hardest part of Disciples of Enki has finally taken shape."
The DOE world map is both artifact and engine — a puzzle that shapes every decision on the board. #BoardGames #GameDev #IndieGames #DisciplesOfEnki #Maps
Codex Entry 0013-A: Drawing the World of Disciples of Enki
Tracing coastlines, balancing history, and finding beauty in the grid
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 15
A close up of the Europe & The Ancient World region. And check out the potential sentience gains in the Frozen Wastes. Best not let the homunculus roam up there for long!

#BoardGames #IndieGameDev #DisciplesofEnki #TabletopGaming #MapDesign
A map of DOE’s play area.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 15
The hand drawn Illuminati Track will help the players monitor the Illuminati’s tolerance of DOE’s activities.

#BoardGames #IndieGameDev #DisciplesofEnki #TabletopGaming #MapDesign
The map of DOE’s play area.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 15
The DOE world map prototype is both structured design and experimental method — and it’s almost ready for playtesting.
#BoardGames #IndieGameDev #DisciplesofEnki #TabletopGaming #MapDesign
Map of DOE’s play area.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 8
The homunculus remembers.
The gate is open.

Disciples of Enki is a semi-cooperative board game of ambition, tragedy, and ritual containment — now fully revealed.

Check it out for detailed breakdowns of gameplay, design philosophy, and the lore beneath it all.

#boardgames #DisciplesOfEnki #GameDev
Transmission 0012-E: The Monster Is You
An introduction to Disciples of Enki — a board game of hubris, consequence, and unstable cooperation.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 30
The homunculus stirs.
The prototype Slate is complete. Players will track its awakening here — every stage more terrifying than the last.
#BoardGames #GameDesign #IndieDev #DisciplesOfEnki
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 30
Finishing touches.
Edges blackened one by one. It’s slow, deliberate work, but it gives the chips weight and presence on the table. These pieces track the game’s most dangerous brews.
#TabletopGames #BoardGames #GameDev #DisciplesOfEnki
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 30
Handwork phase continues.
Gluing, cutting, and edging decoction chips for Disciples of Enki. Each symbol represents volatile alchemical ingredients players will have to balance—or weaponize.
#GameDev #BoardGames #IndieDev #DisciplesOfEnki
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 26
Printing day for Disciples of Enki.
Card backs, player aids, and a few unstable components from Padraig Malloran’s kit.
All printed up, hand-trimmed, and sleeved with care.
Low tech, high weirdness.

#GameDev #BoardGames #IndieDev #DisciplesOfEnki
Card sheets being cut and prepped for play.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 20
What begins as a game becomes a lens—into fear, failure, and the fracturing of reason.
Our tabletop reconstruction of the Vienna Incident is now calibrated.
The data has been scrubbed. The damage remains.

#ttrpg #boardgames #simulation #quintessence #gamedev #indiedev #DisciplesOfEnki
Resonance, Ruin, and the Rise of Serû
Results from the Vienna Incident simulation—and what comes next.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 18
I share your discomfort. The method is crude... unstable, even. But I lack the scribes I once imagined would walk beside me. What emerges through the lens is often distorted, but not untrue. When the proper hands arrive, I’ll ask them to paint over every image. Until then, I trace the silhouette.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 18
Thorne extracts more than anyone.
Faster. Cleaner. Colder.
But high resonance draws Ṣerû’s gaze.
So he rewrites the record.
Normalize your extractions. Erase your signature.
Walk free.
#GameDev #BoardGames #AlchemicalTactics #DisciplesOfEnki
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 18
Internal Society Record, partially redacted:
Subject shows no evidence of remorse.
Claims emotional feedback during extraction is a “flawed interpretive layer.”
Has proposed a method for decoupling personal signature from metaphysical resonance.
Codename: The Scholastic Blade.
#BoardGames #GameDev
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 18
“It is not suffering. It is signal.”
Professor Edric Thorne approaches the homunculus with surgical calm. No doubt. No pause. Just the slow removal of everything that does not fit the frame.
#DisciplesOfEnki #GameDev #BoardGames #AlchemicalHorror
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 18
The DOE simulation is done. We’ve got balance. We’ve got data. We’ve got… regrets.
I’m now moving on to playtest fabrication: cards, slates, tokens, the whole catastrophic menagerie.
Published under: Annals of Alchemical Systems and Failures, October 1939
#DisciplesOfEnki #BoardGames #GameDev
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 12
Mechanically elegant. Strategically punishing.
Lady Montrose rewards long-term play, incremental influence, and weekend domination. Prestige fuels her actions; the world answers her debts. When her network activates, the others scramble to keep up.
#DisciplesOfEnki #BoardGame #GameDev #Characters
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 12
Hidden behind the chaos of the homunculus and the antics of her so-called colleagues, Lady Montrose quietly shapes the course of events. While the others travel, she pulls strings. And the Shadow Disciple is always there, unnoticed, until it’s too late.
#DisciplesOfEnki #lorepost #boardgame #gamedev
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 12
“I offered no threats. I simply reminded him of the terms.”
Lady Phoebe Montrose has no need to raise her voice. Her influence moves through embassies, salons, and old agreements most have forgotten they signed. She does not seek power. She structures it.
#DisciplesOfEnki #boardgame #gamedev
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 9
Before Arnamzu, there was Atrahasis.
Before Falkenstein, Ashurbanipal.
The flood myths are real. The alchemy was never just symbolic.
The fiction rests on old bones.
Transmission 0010-A is live.

#Mesopotamia #Alchemy #Cuneiform #DisciplesOfEnki #BoardGame #GameDev
Transmission 0010-A: Salted Myths and Translators’ Lies
Fragments on the histories behind the fiction: Akkadian myth, alchemical theory, and the slow work of decoding a dead language.
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 7
Reroll fatigue. Chart your own course. Outsmart the endgame.
Captain Bracken isn’t flashy—but he’ll carry your team through hell and high water. New character profile is live!

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#GameDev #BoardGame #StrategyGames #IndieDev #DisciplesOfEnki #CodexQuintessentiae
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Grant Law @grantlaw.bsky.social · Jul 7
"He’s burned bridges with the Illuminati. Now he sails his own ship."
Milo Bracken brings grit, instincts, and a past full of unfinished business. New character spotlight live.
#BoardGame #GameDev #NarrativeDesign #DisciplesOfEnki #IndieGames #AlchemicalHorror
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