World Building and Woolgathering

In response to Throne of Salt 's latest , please see below for my take on a version of Episode VII. Premises: I am not starting from...

Over at Against the Wicked City , Joseph Manola has been doing a very decent series of reveiws of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, 1st and 2nd e...

Catapaulta , by Edward Poynter, 1868* The Horatione Empire produced numerous expressions of martial valour. Troops that were the fir...

An ongoing topic here has been Punth and the Qryth. A desert land, split by rivers, ruled by four-armed folk taller than men - who take the ...

As before, there's been a rumbling notion in the back of my brain for a while about an 18th Century setting to put together, which needs...

I have been in the midst of a moderate nostalgia kick for Age of Mythology , a real-time strategy computer game from 2005. The premise of se...

Currently at the Sir John Soanes Museum of Lincoln's Inn fields in London, there is an exhibition on Postmodern Architecture; see this L...

An ongoing topic here has been Punth and the Qryth. A desert land, split by rivers, ruled by four-armed folk taller than men - who take the ...

Vorn, as many of those reading this may well know is God of Rain and Rust; for whom the city of Vornheim is known - and the 'complete ci...

The Monastery itself is built on a hill. A fast-flowing stream runs past it from north to east. The monastery is surrounded by a stockade, w...