World Building and Woolgathering

A comment on False Machine  sent my mind in the direction of dungeon  émigré groups. Now, this is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek exercise - appl...

An idea I've had knocking about for a while. Not really connected to other Golem posts, which have their own implicit setting. The Keep ...

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 ...