Trollish Delver

The magic circle is the space and time when the usual social constructs of reality are replaced with the artificial notion of play. We gather around the table or computer to play a TTRPG and the circle is formed. We become others. We create heirarchy. We roll dice to find out.

For the past couple of years I’ve been fascinated with the LBBs of OD&D. While I’ve previously attempted to delve into them, I couldn’t seem to grasp much of what it was saying. I felt like someone trying to make sense of an enochian manuscript. Of course, this was before Holmes had put things into a neater ruleset, when really what I was reading was scraps of houserules and a Jackson Pollock of thoughts.