Hey,

Quick check-in from the last week.

The bracket keeps moving

We’ve closed out the Sweet Sixteen and moved into the round of 8.

If you haven’t been following along, the whole thing is sixteen games, four lanes, one winner. I’m writing up each matchup, making the case for both sides, and then making the call based on actual table experience.

The latest posts:

• https://footofthemountainadventures.blogspot.com/2026/04/tabletop-sweet-sixteen-under.html
• https://footofthemountainadventures.blogspot.com/2026/04/tabletop-sweet-sixteen-kingdom-v-toon.html

Non-spoiler version:

One lane comes down to two different takes on small-scale play. Both care about place and pressure, but they get there in very different ways. It turned into a question of what kind of engagement I want from the table right now.

The other is chaos versus structure. One game runs on momentum and table energy. The other asks harder questions and makes you sit with the answers. Both knocked out stronger seeds to get there, which tells you how weird this bracket has gotten.

If you want the full setup and bracket, it’s all here
Round of 8 is underway. Things are getting tighter.

New IWTT is out, and there’s a bundle

It’s Worse Than That! – Spring 2026 is live.

If you’ve used IWTT before, this one pushes harder on escalation and follow-through. More situations that don’t resolve cleanly and instead stick around to cause trouble later.

Here’s a piece from inside:

The kid stands in the doorway, soaked from the rain, clutching the evidence bag you told them not to touch. Inside, the object pulses faintly. The hallway lights flicker in time with it.
Setting: A cramped apartment, a motel walkway, or a temporary field office.
Iris steps forward before the kid asks a question neither of them wants answered. The object is already active. The kid is now part of the problem whether anyone wants that or not. Iris moves to take the object directly from the kid's hands before it registers what's happening. They ask for a Devil's Bargain.

Prompts:

• What do you offer?

• How does the offer change if the kid seems unaware of the pulsing?

• What offer puts the kid into future scenes instead of resolving them here?

You can take a look here

There’s also a bundle running that pulls the series together

If you’ve been meaning to grab the earlier volume, this is the easiest way to do it.

Beneath Ahknoor is still growing

Latest devlog is up, digging into retainers and how they’ve changed between versions:

Short version: taking something familiar and making it pull more weight at the table. Less bookkeeping, more consequence.

That’s the week.

If you’ve got opinions on the bracket, especially who got robbed, I want to hear them. Half the fun is arguing about it.