Words about worlds

Worldbuilding: Unanchored Detail

CC BY-SA 2.0 by Alan Hawkes, part of the Geograph project and hosted on Wikimedia CommonsThink of a series of stories you love. Can you think of a moment when a seed of detail, planted in an early book or episode and left behind, suddenly sprouts and blooms several...

Worldbuilding: Reflecting on Resources

Photo by Postdiff, CC BY-SA 3.0I was writing an article on invoking characters when I found myself side-tracked by a flea market. I’ve decided to run with it. In the world we're constructing, how do people acquire goods? It’s one of those innocent-looking questions...

Report from Metatopia

So, a few weeks ago, when it became clear that our family member was going to be fine, we gained back some emotional energy, and we gained back some time. This led us to decide, at just about the last minute, to go to Metatopia with some of our games. Getting there...

Nebula

Lambda Centauri nebula, courtesy of NASA/JPL-CalTech/UCLANebula is our free-form game of competitive star formation. At the end of a game, your playing surface should be covered in gleaming colors.Nebula playtestNebula grew from a seed of desire planted when I was...

The story so far…

Where have we been? Following the raven.The Unseelie Saga cover art by Teresa GuidoThat is absolutely true.  But it's not the whole story. We have been following the raven. Creating The Unseelie Saga was a fabulous experience requiring a lot of time and effort....

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