The nice thing about doing this is that it helped me understand what the game will actually look like in play, which is one of those things that's often trickier to work out than you expect.

I have long since accepted the fact that if I want to get ridiculous wizardgames to the table, I need to put on the GM's wizard hat.

The cycle continues unbroken.

(Shout out to @realwizardmartin.bsky.social, @hiriadunning.com and @norightturnnz.bsky.social for co-writing what still, I think, stands as the most impressive larp-writing feat Aotearoa has ever seen.)

Joking aside, I actually have a wide range of things I want to achieve this year, not all of which are resolutions, so I think some kind of matrix or quadrant or other thing of such a nature might help arrange things in a useful sort of way.

It was raining up through the Desert Road, lovely for most of the North Island, then bam, back into a rainstorm just as we left Waikato.

"And furthermore..."

The same friend once pulled the Tower for me and the 10 of Swords for my best friend/creative partner, at NYE midnight on what turned out to be one of the more traumatic years of our lives. So she's got prior form, y'know?

(yes Hogswatch is Christmas but it's also Hogmanay/the last night of the year)