A look at some old notebooks (Intro)

I've been sorting some things out at home while I build a new library for my collection of gaming books and other texts. As a part of that sorting, I've found a whole heap of notebooks stretching back over 30 years of design 

I don't know if anyone's interested in actually seeing a few scanned pages from these books, mostly because even though I've had hundreds of thousands of views last year, I've only had a handful of comments and most of them have been spam... so I'm just throwing more stuff into the void to see what might get a bit of traction. 

So for the next few days (or weeks), I'll just upload a few scans from different old notebooks, and consider what I might have been thinking at the time. A part of this will probably then go on to explain how my game design and worldbuilding ideas might have changed in the meantime.

We'll see what happens. 

Comments

Vavadario said…
I exist ! Been following on and off since your map tutorials from way back (I was a teenager getting into DnD), glad to see you're still posting stuff :)
Thursday, 15 January, 2026
Vulpinoid said…
Awesome... thankyou. It's nice to know it's not just bot and AI trawlers reading through my stuff.
Saturday, 17 January, 2026
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