World Building and Woolgathering

This is a bit off my usual bill of fare. But after finding a recent review on the Hitchhiker’s Guide film adaptation and a subsequent rewat...

The New Model A.R.M.Y have taken over the forbidden City of Westminster. The Chiltern Hundreds are excavating the secret vaults underne...

I rather think I have posted as much as I can adequately for now on the setting I called Terrae Vertebrae. It was perhaps my first attempt a...

Thinking on the images of first level adventurers being dressed in near-identical (to the point of uniform) armour, it robs it of flavour. C...

On the basis that Hit Points are the ability to keep going and reflect an abstract will or morale as much as anything else (an idea explore...

Having established that in worldbuilding for Terrae Vertebrae that: a) The world in which Vertebrea and the other continents exists has so...

The following is taken verbatim from my notes. Derivative it might be, but I didn't want it to be a direct pastiche of Hindu myth - as,...

Imagine, if you will, a scene. There you are, sat in your favourite coffeehouse, tea room, pub or similar establishment. Five people walk ...

This is feeding somewhat off my Cosmopolitanism and Vietnam article. You may wish to give that a read. Let me pose a question: how would ...

One very definite source for Cosmopolitanism in Dungeons and Dragons  (cited in the famous Appendix N) has to be Lankhmar, from Fritz Le...