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September 2026 - Two bracket fungi by the workshop Erin photographed two clusters on opposite sides of the driveway near the workshop. Photo-confirmed sightings on the property - no mushroom should be eaten based only on a photo. IDs are guesses from photos al...

What this is Homegrown household cooking knowledge: what Chris and Erin cook, recurring projects (grilling racks, Christmas cookies), and the spice cabinet. Content accrues as projects actually happen. Subsections Baking - baking projects; near-term: Christmas...

Household baking projects and plans. Chris is the family baker (Erin was the brewmaster). The prolific apple tree feeds baked apples, cobblers, and cider - and the cookie tins at Christmas. Near-term: Christmas cookies 2026 Chris plans to work with Rowan on th...

Chris's go-to procedure for spare ribs on the Fuego Element 21 inch grill. Settled on 2026-06-21 during a live session, refined with the Fatty Butts BBQ rub recipe (The Best Rib Rub, https://fattybuttsbbq.com/recipes/best-rib-rub-recipe). Covers the dry rub, o...

Household plan (agreed 2026-09-06) to stop cooking with stale ground spices. Several jars are years old and past usefulness - flagged while checking the rib rub. Deferred - plenty of other projects first; will happen in pieces, not all at once. Already doing r...

Overview Overview Dungeon-Mind teaser key art. "No monster fights alone." Overview dungeon-mind is Chris's roguelike (ASCII dungeon crawling, procedural generation, LLM-powered content). The current direction (Sept 2026) is a redesign of the combat and monster...

Tick Engine and PER Cycle The combat clock is a global discrete tick, not real time. Player-paced: the world advances only when the player commits an action or explicitly waits. "Whenever it's time for the user to enter something, everything stops." Granularit...

Resolution, Initiative, and Reactions Tick resolution Each tick runs one loop over every actor, in initiative order: Actor action processing. Does the actor have an action in progress? No - select the next action (monsters: from the profile's ranked triggers; ...

Cancellation and Readability Cancel actions Cancelling is itself an action with its own PER cycle - not a special-case mechanic. There will be multiple actions that implement cancels: Boundary cancel - the deliberate cancel at the prep-to-exec edge (below). De...

Movement and Terrain Movement is a PER action like any other. Terrain is paid at the borders: Phase Source of cost Prep Departure difficulty of the tile you're on (getting off the log is hard) Exec The transfer itself - physical or mental traits Recover Arriva...

Action Profiles (Ammann Framework) Each monster type gets an action profile: a combat archetype (brawler, sniper, support, skirmisher, ...) plus a ranked list of actions with trigger conditions. Profile structure Archetype from inherent physical and mental sta...

Knowledge State and Decision Models The judgment layer Most trigger conditions are computable in code (round/tick counts, HP fractions, allies alive, distance). A few are genuinely judgment-shaped: "Is this party vulnerable / outmatched?" "Is the player kiting...

Rules and Licensing (ORC / Pathfinder) The short answer Building a Pathfinder-2e-inspired roguelike is legal. The PF2e Remaster rules are under the ORC License (Open RPG Creative License) - perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, and explicitly covering video ga...

Open Questions Open Questions Open Questions Things deliberately left undecided as of 2026-09-27 (design sessions 1-3): Damage during exec: no auto-abort by default - large spells stay viable. Design direction: significant damage triggers a concentration check...

Roadmap and Next Steps Spike 1 - tick engine core (first build) The smallest thing that proves the system: Two actors (player fighter vs goblin), one action each with full PER cycles. The whirlwind exec window (zone damage while active). A spell prep + interru...

Representation and Feedback Doctrine Purpose This page fixes the game's presentation stance: what game objects are allowed to look like, what the interface is allowed to tell the player, and how harm is modeled and communicated. It is a governing principle, no...