6 rooms
Work Dinner · First Date · Wedding Guest · Rainy Weekend · Home Bar · Coffee With Friends. Each room states the question, the promise, the answer, and the kit by lane, with the swaps for weather, stakes, and budget.
Pre-order · Vol. I
The Field Manual.
Six Rooms.
Everything on this site, bound. The six rooms and their kits. 38 objects with their inheritance dossiers: how to use them, repair them, and how long they should last. The rulings. The philosophy.
Written by a father for a son. Printed to be handed down.
Reserving costs nothing. You are charged when it prints, and the edition can be changed until then.
What's inside
Four parts, one standard.
38 inheritance dossiers
Shoes, watches, outerwear, knitwear. What each object is for, the standard it must meet, what to avoid, expected lifespan, the repair path, and an honest cost line.
The first dated ruling
Every position QuarterMaster has published to date, with the physical reason and the evidence, and every ruling issued before the print date. When a ruling changes, the book says when and why.
The philosophy
Start with the room. Prefer the repair path. Make restraint visible. Publish the change. Plus the S-through-D grading instrument and the five tests behind every letter.
Editions
Printed to order. Nothing sits in a warehouse.
Hardcover
$59
6 × 9 in., printed to order, cloth-look cover, ribbon marker. Ships in gift season.
Reserve hardcover →Digital
$24
PDF and EPUB, typeset for reading on a phone at the door of the room.
Reserve digital →Both
$69
The book for the shelf and the file for the pocket.
Reserve both →Prices are pre-order prices and hold for reservations placed before the first print run. Print-on-demand fulfilment; digital editions are delivered by email on release. Published by Dark Vector Cognition LLC, Austin, Texas.