I've added a new draft of the Hierophant for Seven-Part Pact! This new version of the Hierophant has new rules for the temples (to reflect them as centers of faith for the entire populace of Isha),...
2025-10-11 18:23:27 +0000 UTC View PostI've got a lot going on. In two weeks (October 15!) I'll be getting bottom surgery. I'm extremely grateful for all the amazing people who already donated to my recovery fund. If you missed the chan...
2025-09-30 17:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello my dear readers, fans, friends, and foes,
I've been in Alabama at Auburn College as a visiting writer, and I've been working on a new article. It's gonna be really big and explosive whe...
2025-09-05 16:40:49 +0000 UTC View PostHere's Avery's suggested feedback notes from part one of her work on Seven-Part Pact. Thank you Avery for letting me share this with all of you!
2025-08-29 18:06:35 +0000 UTC View PostAt the start of the month, I received the first wave of design feedback from the Developmental Editor Avery Alder. This isn't the first time we've worked together, but every time I get to sit with ...
2025-08-29 18:05:56 +0000 UTC View PostDevelopmental editing is a sobering process. When you’re writing a game you get used to careless writing, leaving gaps that only you know for certain how to fill. For a game as broad as Seven-Par...
2025-07-23 18:15:12 +0000 UTC View Post
No! Yes! Well, maybe? Depends on what rules are! No, it depends on what a game is! Depends…<...
2025-07-22 19:38:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi new folks! Before I get to the article, I just wanted to say wow; there's a lot of you who have joined — thank you so much! I'm extremely grateful for everyone putting eyes on Seven-Part ...
2025-07-03 14:35:47 +0000 UTC View PostI've been fascinated by toys lately. I have a deck of magic cards (my Pistols At Dawn Battlebox 2025-06-11 21:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm reaching the point where Seven Part Pact, the core of it, barring any certain upheavals or revelations from playtesting (or feedback from certain developmental editors who will be assi...
2025-05-23 13:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostI want to think for a moment about another way to talk about games, TTRPGs, and play.
"Game" is a strange word, as it refers to a mode of engagement rather than an object in its own rig...
2025-05-13 14:19:46 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a piece of advice I often give people when they're working on their crowdfunding, and it's also extremely true in game design — as growth scales linearly, effort scales expontentially...
2025-05-01 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, there's a new update to Seven-Part Pact. It's available for Rapscallions and Tatterdemalions at t...
2025-04-30 16:58:49 +0000 UTC View PostOccasionally I've remarked that board games are similar to poetry in the way TTRPGs are similar to prose. I'm still not confident in this claim, and I don't think it's universally applicable. I wou...
2025-04-01 17:11:23 +0000 UTC View Post
While I’ve been working on a new game lately (Seven-Part Pact, as if I’m ever working on anything...
2025-02-17 15:06:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, happy new year. I've got a ton of stuff going on, and amongst them is my continuous tinkering with Seven Part Pact, my strange and enigmatic Wizardgame. I've been working on a new update fo...
2025-01-14 22:09:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis is hardly a blog post. It's really more of a series of rambles from an overworked girl trying to get some thoughts she's been carrying around on paper. This isn't really explicitly about S...
2024-12-11 20:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostHi new Patrons! This is a design diary, a series of articles I write (mostly-weekly) to provide insight into what I'm currently grappling with. They tend to be focused on Seven-Part Pact, but t...
2024-11-19 02:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostI spent all last weekend playing Seven-Part Pact with my friends. It was a miraculous experience, and I’m so grateful to my buddy Taylor Moore for setting it up, renting the AirBnB in up...
2024-10-18 23:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostI like to joke about two sets of hypothetical scenarios. I want you to read both sets, and compare: in which situations would you personally describe the player as “playing the game” and which ...
2024-10-07 16:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks! Finished up the next round of updates on the Seven-Part Pact, available at the same link&n...
2024-10-03 02:25:52 +0000 UTC View PostI went upstate recently and visited home after a couple years in Philadelphia. I played in a LARP at my summer camp for the first time in ages — dressed up as an old vampire and read tarot f...
2024-09-25 21:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve been struggling for a while now with a central conflict between two desires buried within the Seven-Part Pact. One desire was to make the game as much of a sandbox as possible for e...
2024-09-18 18:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grimoire in Seven-Part Pact is a really interesting and very dense text. It’s a 99% fictional description of a huge variety of spells, and then players interpret those spells into mechanical ...
2024-09-06 19:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Seven-Part Pact patreon docs are out — lots of people are checking them out, I'm getting a lot of good feedback, I'm running some playtests, all is well. However I quickly spotted a pret...
2024-09-01 16:46:04 +0000 UTC View PostI've had an idea for an LCG for the past couple of months (ever since I was on a train with a couple friends of mine heading up to NYC to celebrate their birthday and I was complaining about a TTRP...
2024-08-30 16:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! After six months of non-stop toiling, I've finally finished the third draft of the Seven Part Pact! You should upgrade your tier and check it out, if you're interested in it.
I'm back from Gencon, and ready to get back into Seven-Part Pact design. On the long drive home with Ruby, I had some important breakthroughs around the game, specifically around the two most power...
2024-08-09 16:14:19 +0000 UTC View PostI'm writing this design diary inbetween two of the most stressful possible weeks of my life. Possum Creek is having a rough time (something which I'll be able to talk more about after Gencon), ...
2024-07-27 16:57:35 +0000 UTC View PostI'm gonna be trying something new, which is posting periodic design diary entries on Seven-Part Pact as I continue to work on it. I'm constantly musing on this-or-that aspect of its design, so ...
2024-07-16 14:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post