June Content Update: Letters from Hallowford
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June Content Update: Ordering A Society - Settings and Storytelling
Over the past year or so, I've been talking a lot about how to build a society, in the pursuit of building a believable, internally consistent setting which can stand up to narrative expansion and change. Of course, I have a lot to say about it, and worldbuilding itself, while enjoyable, is also ...
2022-06-11 00:26:15 +0000 UTC View PostJust a Quick Update
About three days ago, the primary storage HDD on my PC died. While my boot drive is still fine (and therefore, my PC is still useable), I *did* lose a all of my page and art templates for my Patreon stuff.
What this means is that it may take a bit for me to put together new templates and gr...
2022-06-05 08:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostWanted: Topics for June
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May Content Update: Ordering a Society Pt 8B
Last month, I talked about determining the basic shape of a fictional army by asking two questions: what kind of society that army is recruited from, and what kind of enemies that society intends to face. This time, we're going to continue to use those two questions to build a theoretical framewo...
2022-05-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-04-10 06:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostApril Content Update: Ordering A Society Pt 8
Picture this:
An army is lined up for battle on an open field: thousands of nearly-identical soldiers, laid out in tightly-drilled ranks in orderly battalions, underneath a cloud of fluttering banners all emblazoned with the colours and symbol of the kingdom. Their equipment marks them out ...
2022-04-10 03:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post
April Content Update: Excerpts from the Journals of the Earl of Leoniscourt
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March Content Update: Ordering A Society Pt 7
Human beings do not need to be governed in day-to-day life. Families do not need a king, a pub crawl does not need a dictator, a neighbourhood street does not need a parliament. However, this is because the individuals in these day-to-day groups are ones who are capable of interacting with every ...
2022-03-10 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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February Content Update: Battles of the Fledgling Realms Pt 3B
February Content Update: Ordering A Society Pt 6B
Last time, I suggested that I could go on a digression about the development of currency, and you all voted that this was a good idea, despite the fact that I am neither an economist nor an economic historian. So, before I begin, I'd like to state for the record that I'm more or less going off th...
2022-02-09 07:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostWanted: Topics for February
Sorry this one took a while. I've been dealing with a lot of work for Lords of Infinity, so I got to these relatively late this month.
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2022-01-10 07:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post
January Content Update: Battles of the Fledgling Realms Pt 3A
January Content Update: Ordering a Society Pt 6A
People seemed to like last month's article on worldbuilding an economy, enough to vote for a continuation on that theme. So, I've gone and put together some more thoughts on the topic, which might be useful to anyone seeking to put together their own fictional economy.
Specialists L...
2022-01-10 07:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostWanted: Topics for January
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2021-12-10 01:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
December Content Update: Battles of the Fledgling Realms Pt 2
December Update: Ordering a Society Pt 6
Last time, we talked about the spiritual backbone of a fictional society. This time, we'll be talking about building the material backbone: the economy.
Economic activity is fundamentally an answer to a very simple human problem: most people can't create everything they need out of whole cl...
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