bookwormburrows·enter the burrow

BB is an AI-assisted reading and seminar game where a human Dimensional Master and AI work together, texts become worlds, wormcards become characters, study becomes adventure, and player work changes what the world remembers.

How BB is played

  1. Choose the anchor text. A story, poem, article, speech, myth, play, film, image, song, game, or historical document becomes the world.
  2. Make wormcards. Each player builds a burrowing character who can step through pages, mirrors, screens, images, and other thresholds.
  3. Give the wormcards to the Dimensional Master. The AI translates each bookworm into an in-game character, while the human Dimensional Master mediates the table and protects the source.
  4. Open the burrow. Play happens around, before, after, beside, and through the world the text or medium makes possible.
  5. Turn assignments into quests. A letter, journal, debate, research note, paragraph, map, scene, or reflection gives the character something to gain, repair, unlock, discover, or risk.
  6. Let work quality drive consequence. There are no dice. Careful reading, strong writing, research, revision, and discussion decide what the world can return.
  7. Let time matter. Quest windows can open, close, echo later, or become repair paths depending on what the player finishes and how well it is done.
  8. Record the adventure as learning. The group leaves with written work, quests completed, scars, discoveries, open problems, and stronger reasons to keep studying.

Made first for voluntary seminar play

BB is built for reading groups, clubs, tutoring, families, adult seminars, independent learners, and other groups that choose to enter together. Schools can use the same world logic: required work becomes quests, roles, discoveries, and consequences inside the game.

For players

Make your wormcard.

Answer simple questions, choose people you admire, and mix their best traits into a new character that belongs to you. Print the card or fill it on screen. Bring it into the game when your group opens a text-world.

seminarschools.com/bookwormcard/
For Dimensional Masters

Run a burrow with wormcards.

AI-assisted BB is the priority workflow. The human guide and AI work together as the Dimensional Master, using the BB rule file, the anchor text, the players' wormcards, and CC* campaign records. A paper or document version remains playable.

seminarschools.com/polymyth/dmboard/
For DMs, teachers & seminar leaders

Dimensional Master rule library.

Open the full rule library for Dimensional Masters. It keeps the BB and PolymythDND rules, quest logic, NPC types, character steps, learning-credit notes, and design ledger. The student version is shown first, with the full teacher/archive note kept underneath.

seminarschools.com/polymyth/bookwormburrows/
For players, families & learning groups

Read why it helps learning.

A clear explanation of how role-playing can turn reading, writing, research, discussion, and assignments into motivated intellectual play, with the full education research essay kept below.

seminarschools.com/bb/why/
Upcoming research branch
Research assembled · system unbuilt

BBT · BookwormBurrows Therapy.

BBT is the planned therapy branch of BB. It will synthesize therapeutic tabletop role-playing, bibliotherapy, psychodrama, transformative role-play, bleed and dual-consciousness research, affective modifiers, and the human-plus-AI Dimensional Master. The research foundation exists. The therapeutic system, practitioner architecture, testing, and evidence remain to be built.

seminarschools.com/bb/bbt/