Welcome to the Pile

I make zines. Some are about goblins, some are about quantum field theory, most are about both in disguise. I also run TTRPG games, build weird software, and occasionally publish physics papers under conditions of questionable sanity.

This is my corner of the internet. A polymath's workbench where the sawdust is from dice, code, and the occasional existential crisis. Everything I make ends up here eventually.

Expect zines that hit different, projects that shouldn't work but do, and games that leave marks. If you're here, you're probably the right kind of weird.

Code & Research Cryptographic AI tools, vacuum simulators, GPU memory hacks, hexmap generators. Mostly open source. Zines & Writing Handmade zines on whatever I can't stop thinking about. Each one is a finished artifact, not a blog post. The Table TTRPGs run for hire, tabletop & card games designed at home, video game work when an idea won't fit on cardstock.

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From the Blog

  • Goblin quantum paradox
    Notes on why every goblin in fiction is, at the limit, a localized perturbation of a chaotic vacuum state. With diagrams.
  • D12 & delusion theory
    On why d12 is the most underused die and what running a six-month campaign on it taught me about probability honesty at the table.
  • Necromancers: the doing about it
    An ongoing notebook on the necromancer-as-systems-engineer trope, and the moral weight of every reanimation tax.
  • Goblin quantum theory, part two
    Another quantum content to read, this time addressing observer effect inside a 30-foot dungeon corridor.