World Building and Woolgathering

A rousing tale of swordplay and sorcery, an appealing love story and a shrewd and subtle commentary on problems of politics, morals, and phi...

Some of the below have been referenced in Chapters of the Primer and other blog posts. Other inspirations have not been hitherto mentioned. ...

 OR, A Primer for the Primer NB - the below is all untested. It is trying to provide a suitable framework to make the Primer usable, but the...

This looks to be the final post of the Primer proper; two other posts are in the works to round things off. Punth! Aristocratic republic of ...

Half as big again as a full-grown man. Hunters; Soldiers; Magistrates; Central Planners. Green four-armed aristo-commisars, acting out Star ...

Punth! Square cities by the bending river. Gene-mod oxen pull the ploughs. Goatherds gather their flocks into elevated shelters for fear of ...

I read most of the Erast Fandorin novels a while ago. They're Russian mysteries and thrillers by a chap with the nom-de-plume of Boris ...

I recently read over the proto-design document for Patrick Stuart’s Goose-Gold and Goblins (see here ). There were elements in it that put ...

These were intended for use with Terrae Vertebrae as Zodiac-cum-Tarot-cum-Pseudo-Jungian-archetypes - nominally the remnants of a defanged P...

On Monday (Monday 13th July, 2020, for posterity) the last episode of Series Four of the BBC Radio serial Tumanbey was broadcast on BBC Rad...