by H.Osborne | Dec 28, 2022 | Games
In the middle of a thick wood, an icy stream splashes down an artificial waterfall. Who would build a waterfall in the middle of nowhere? Geography has stories to tell. That is the truth at the center of worldbuilding by map. Map a galaxy or a city block: stories...
by H.Osborne | Dec 14, 2022 | Games
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...
by H.Osborne | Dec 7, 2022 | Games
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...
by H.Osborne | Dec 3, 2022 | Cypher, Games
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...