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Published by wlsonheim on Saturday, July 24, 2021

The Name Scribbles and Horrors

This is a blog containing musings, ramblings, and content related to roleplaying and wargames. Opinions are my own. There are no assurances about the quality of my work; this is just a bunch of stuff I’m doing.

The name of this blog comes from a nickname of a dungeon I started working on during the Christmas of 2019. The full title was The Ruins at Altreboenar, or, A Maze of Scribbles and Horrors. In this place there was a creature known only as “The Thing”, and was described variously by those who encountered it as “a great and scrabbling morass”, “too horrible even to describe”, “like gnashing and tumbling and snapping all at once”, and “making songs of such purity and awful laughter–hideous joy and rambunctious sorrow”. You could hear the singing of The Thing in The Ruins at Altreboenar from far off, and were well to get away from that place with haste.

I am none of these terrible things.

About Me

I am Wesley. I have been into this kind of thing since 2006. I began with D&D 3.5, until I discovered AD&D 1e, until I discovered the 3 LBBs. My other roleplaying interests include Bunnies and Burrows, Traveller, and Microscope.

Other gaming interests of mine include Nomic, Dwarf Fortress, and historical wargaming.

I am not really into trains and railfanning, but I would like to be.

About the Content on my Blog

Much of this blog is my own creative work. If you would like to use something in your game you are welcome to. If you would like a higher resolution image or map, am happy to oblige. Just email contact@imaginaryhistory.org.

It is my policy to continue editing the posts here until long after their initial publication. The whole corpus is one document that I am constantly updating. This is a particular kind of editorial control, which results in two effects:

  1. Some of the content here will appear in a messy, not-perfect draft form. This may, or may not change over time.
  2. Each entry, with the exception of those which explicitly mention it, are a-chronological.