Writing for players: the editing passes' lessons, and the template written by them

The conventions gain a list of the habits players read as generated text
(a semicolon in every paragraph, statement-colon-explanation, "The" plus
an abstract noun as a heading, clipped fragments in threes, closing
aphorisms, "X, not Y", the page talking about itself), and of the errors
that come from inherited text: hidden information where there is none,
points where there are none, "both" at a larger table, unchecked claims,
and ledger-stored words reworded. new-game.sh points at the list.

The template follows it: the about link loses 'a labor of love', the
tabs are Origins and Games so far, and the hall, lobby, room, report
slip, table talk, guide and demo board read as Waving Hands' and
Hnefatafl's now do. The landing page and family.json carry the two
games' new taglines and lose their semicolons and the tip jar's aphorism.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0141G6xqLeNRYEtviLWSB5Up
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Eric Wagoner
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"slug": "waving-hands",
"name": "Waving Hands",
"url": "https://hands.kestrelsnest.social",
"pitch": "Duelling wizards. Two hands each. The right run of gestures is a spell.",
"pitch": "Wizards duel with their hands, and the right run of gestures is a spell.",
"players": "2 to 12",
"origin": "Richard Bartle's pencil-and-paper duel, 1977"
},
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"slug": "hnefatafl",
"name": "Hnefatafl",
"url": "https://tafl.kestrelsnest.social",
"pitch": "The Viking board game. One king, one throne, four corners, and a ring of attackers closing in.",
"pitch": "The Viking board game of a king breaking for safety and a ring of attackers closing in.",
"players": "2",
"origin": "the Norse tafl game, reconstructed from Linnaeus's 1732 notes; Copenhagen rules or Tablut"
},