Words about worlds
Building for Change: Playing groups
Collective work session at Bostanie urban garden, CC BY 4.0 by SA, The Green Ark - Bostanie“So, what you’re saying is, this group brings heavy baggage,” said our GM last night. Our GM was grinning that special grin. All of us knew why. In a group that consists of...
Bottom-up Worldbuilding
We decided to start with a bottom-up world building exercise. In bottom-up design, the creator starts with a single piece of the world: a place, a creature, a culture. From that point, they build out the wider world as needed for the story. They want to keep the...
Building Worlds
If you are a creator, there’s a good chance you will find yourself building a world one day. Words, music, light, paint, wood, stone, math, a privet hedge...whatever your medium of expression, someone has probably used that medium to express their vision of a new...
Uncanny glade
There I was, working on the Nth draft of Seoithín Seó, an adventure which is built around a group of Fair Folk who are traditionally associated with winter. Yes, I was writing about Unseelie. It was a sunny, chilly weekend afternoon. Stiff and stale, I needed a break...
Embrace Awkward
Modern American society (and others but I’ll stick to the waters I’m swimming in at the moment) makes it hard to be awkward. Growth and exploration include making mistakes. If you knew all the answers, if you had already felt all those emotions and knew all the “best”...
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