Hobbies and play
Campaign settings, fantasy leagues, chess, puzzle hunts, gardens, brews and builds.
Recipesnine recipes
- 52 A tabletop campaign settingFor a game master running a homebrew fantasy campaignThe harbour town your players know on one shelf, who really runs it on another. One search at the table finds the magistrate’s public face and her real motive.
- 53 A fantasy league almanacFor the commissioner of a twelve-team fantasy football leagueThe rules email everyone lost, a Tuesday report with the weekend’s injuries and waiver targets, and a scoring calculator that ends the argument.
- 54 A garden journalFor a vegetable gardener with six raised beds in USDA zone 7bWhich tomato split in the August rain, when the beans went in, and the whole harvest shaded day by day, from the first peas to the last Cherokee Purple.
- 55 A homebrew recipe book and batch logFor a homebrewer forty batches into all-grain brewingWhy batch 44 beat batch 42, in numbers: every brew day in a table, the gravity charted each morning, and the house recipes on one link for the club.
- 56 A car restoration build bookFor a hobbyist restoring a 1972 half-ton pickup truckThree winters of receipts, sorted into a build book: every part number, every specification from the manual, and a graph showing the brakes block the road test.
- 57 A youth coach’s playbookFor a volunteer coach of an under-10 recreational soccer teamSixteen practices planned in an evening, a heatmap that shows who keeps getting the short end, and one page parents can read on their phones.
- 58 A chess opening repertoireFor a club player building an opening repertoireWas it 8.Nbxd2 or 8.Qxd2? A repertoire with the plans, the traps and your own losses, flashcards for the move orders, and a board that plays each main line.
- 59 A puzzle hunt or escape-room nightFor someone writing an escape-room night for friendsTwo books that must never meet: the players’ pack on one link, and your answers, staged hints and playtest notes in documents that have none.
- 60 A Hobonichi planning libraryFor a Hobonichi Techo user who plans the year on paperA summer of habits shaded day by day, the year’s goals on one chart, every pen and ink you own with how it behaves on thin paper, and a daily page to plan.