“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.” — Goethe Regardless of how involved the gods are in your game world, your players’ characters will undoubtedly interact with powerful forces of a more earthly sort. I’m talking about ‘the man’. Governments…
“Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a God, you say yes!” — Winston Zeddemore, Ghostbusters If you are running a fantasy RPG, its only a matter of time before before someone call out for divine assistance. Even in…
“We need the tonic of wildness…at the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things.” — Henry David Thoreau Probably following the arc of expanding power in many zero-to-hero role-playing systems, most GMs have said…
“Civilization is a race between disaster and education.” — H.G. Wells Following the conversations across Facebook and the web, it seems that those who don’t carve out complete continents and ages of history before they unleash players into their creations…
“Maps codify the miracle of existence.” ― Nicholas Crane Alright world-builders, lets get to work. We’re looking to put together a fantasy setting with a bronze age feel built from the shell of a titanic primal turtle’s shell. And we’re…
“Since the dawn of man” is really not that long, As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song. — ‘Big Bang Theory’ theme Why do it at all? Starting with a creation myth…
“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” ― Sidney Sheldon Our readers are looking for a game that is easy-to-run, but we don’t want to throw away good…
“The medium is the message” — Marshal MacLuhan Our polling samples show that most of us like to build from scratch, so lets do that. There is a world of inspirations, so why be limited to a specific backdrop borrowed…
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ― Abraham Lincoln Its been widely reported that a world can be created in less than a week, but my experience…
“If we don’t play God, who will?” — James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA I suppose it only makes sense to start this out with a statement of purpose: I intend (with the help of collaborators and blog…
