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+title: tabletop RPGs
+permalink: /RPGs/
+---
+
+<p 
+  style="font-size:0.75rem; font-style:italic;"
+  >This page is a freely available compendium intended to serve as a centralized repository to publish many of B.F. Griffith’s short writings pertaining to his much enjoyed hobby of collaboratively imaginative tabletop roleplaying games, especially Dungeons & Dragons (and primarily 5th Edition D&D, these days); in particular, this page compiles and links to some of B.F. Griffith’s preferred 5eD&D house-rules, customized homebrews, and powerfully “optimized” (as well as hopefully thematically interesting) player-character (or élite NPC/adversary) builds.
+</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>
+    <a href="/RPGs/5eDnD/house-rules/">5eD&D &#10137; house-rules</a>
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    <a href="/RPGs/5eDnD/character-builds/">5eD&D &#10137; “optimized” character-builds</a>
+  </li>
+</ul>

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   <span style="font-style:italic;">Menschliches, Allzumenschliches:&nbsp;</span>B.F. Griffith is just another middle-aged nerdy intellectual with too many hobbies and never enough time for them all; he’s a verbose, sardonic, discerning, skeptical, and sometimes cynical iconoclast — but also a convivial, amiable, voluptuary, and humanistic Epicurean. As a former history teacher and longtime student of philosophy with a keen interest in historiography, he spends much of his free time happily dwelling in the past (or in fantastical worlds of his own imagining), and is an insatiable bibliophile.&#128214;
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         title="“Tenet insαnαbile multos scribendi cαcœthes.” —Iuvenαlis Sάturæ (Sαtires of “Juvenαl” [Decimus Junius Juvenalis])">The Lifelong Ambitions of an Aspiring Author...</h2>
-      <p class="accordion_body">Coming soon: find out more about the ongoing progress of B.F. Griffith’s burgeoning <a href="{{site.baseurl}}writing-portfolio/">creative writing</a>, worldbuilding, and mythopœία projects!
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       <ul>
-        <li>Ɛxoτerran Légion Chronicles</li>
-        <li>Έpic of Ἄpειron</li>
-        <li>Æromariner Corsair Chronicles</li>
+        <li>
+          <a href="{{site.baseurl}}writing-portfolio/">Ɛxoτerran Légion Chronicles</a>
+        </li>
+        <li>
+          <a href="{{site.baseurl}}writing-portfolio/">Έpic of Ἄpειron</a>
+        </li>
+        <li>
+          <a href="{{site.baseurl}}writing-portfolio/">Æromariner Corsair Chronicles</a>
+        </li>
       </ul>
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+        title="—Isaac Asimov">“Education isn’t something you can finish...”</h2>
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+        <li>B.F. Griffith was fortunate enough to experience most of his primary and secondary schooling at <a href="https://www.mvcds.org/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;">Maumee Valley Country Day school</a> in Northwest Ohio — an idyllic and nurturingly rigorous extremely creative independent liberal-arts preparatory environment with an extraordinarily worldly pluralistic outlook and inquisitive Deweyan pedagogy.</li>
+        <li>As an undergraduate, B.F. Griffith earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from <a href="https://www.hamilton.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;">Hamilton College</a> in “upstate” Clinton, New York (near Utica) on May 25, 2003 — majoring in <span style="font-style:italic;">philosophy</span> with a <span style="font-style:italic;">history</span> minor.</li>
+        <li>Subsequently, B.F. Griffith earned a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from <a href="https://www.bennington.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;">Bennington College</a> in the beautiful Green Mountains of Southwestern Vermont on June 4, 2005 — before serving as an educator (mostly teaching history) for nearly a decade.</li>
+        <li>Before commencing his second career as a web-developer (and in addition to many eBooks and autodidactic online tutorials), B.F. Griffith studied front-end web-development at <a href="https://www.bloc.io/learn-to-code/bc/the-iron-yard" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;">The Iron Yard Academy</a> coding-bootcamp in Orlando, Florida from May 4 through July 24 of 2015 — followed by also completing the <a href="https://bootcamp.ce.ucf.edu/coding/" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;">UCF Coding Bootcamp</a> studying “full-stack” web-development at the Sanford / Lake Mary satellite campus of Seminole State College from March 28 through September 28 of 2016.</li>
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PAGES/writing-portfolio.md

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-<p>Coming soon: find out more about B.F. Griffith’s creative writing and worldbuilding projects!</p>
+<p>Coming soon: find out more about B.F. Griffith’s most extensive and ambitious long-form creative-writing and worldbuilding projects as a burgeoning novelist!</p>
 <ul style="float:left;">
   <li>Ɛxoτerran Légion Chronicles</li>
   <li>Έpic of Ἄpειron</li>