The Doug Alone PROLOGUE

  Beginning to Migrate (some) Content to the NEW Doug Alone I have had the idea since early on in this blog to possibly move it from this sort of hosted/third-party set-up to something more owned by me. This past week, I started to make this a reality: https://www.dougalone.com There are a lot of reasons behind this but let us start with caveat. I have exactly one real complaint about Blogger/Blogger and otherwise most of the decisions are about my creative process itself.  The One Real Complaint The newer Blogger themes tend to be plenty responsive as they are but there is still some degree of back-end handling that tries to serve up a "mobile-friendly" version of the page [note, this is based on looking into the errors and messages sent, I could be wrong]. This is the exact same page but Google, itself, treats this as a website trying to share multiple copies of the same content and basically passes this off as a reason to not index the site.  After over a year of havin...

    This, and the rest of The GLOW, has been migrated to the new Doug Alone home: https://www.dougalone.com/2025/09/28/the-glow-1992-agent-johnny-blue-vs-the-kid-part-4-celebrations-tricubes-mythic-dixit/

  Bringing Back the Fourth Wall Breaks It has now been very nearly three months to the day since the last proper Fourth Wall Break  and since tomorrow [which would actually be the actual three-month-iversary] was supposed to have a Bleak + Pearl  session that is not ready to go out, I figured I'd combine those two needs into one and post this in a few minutes.  Why is this  a Fourth Wall Break while the " Waking Back Up " post wasn't? I don't know, Space Pilgrim, I just volunteer here. Afterall, this is my personal solo rpg play journal that is largely posted online because the pretense of talking to other people helps me to sort my thoughts.  Where Is Bleak + Pearl  Then?  I mean, it's right here [imagine me pointing to some files on my hard drive]. It's only been around a week since I actually got my internet fully set-up on my main comp and even then there are a couple of pieces I should get for EU compatibility before I consider things more st...

On the day I am writing this, which should be about a month before I post this, False Machine posted blog entry called 'On Guard' . The tl;dr version is that the "game" is a set of guards simply guarding the back entrance of a magical academy. They cannot leave the post — per se — and therefore the game is mostly played out in the construct of "doing nothing." The four pillars, as laid out by False Machines, are "Stay in Place," "No Drama," "Long Term Awareness," and "Minor Situations." The post then goes on to discuss visual and other sensory elements, structures, questions about how this could played. It sounds, to my ears, like something you might see in the Nordic LARPing community . In that context, it is easy to imagine a game where everyone stands around an actual door and then various things occur when a Greek Chorus of sorts suggests intrusions into the calm. Nowadays, I do very little of that type of...