June Content Update: Letters from Hallowford
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 ...
2022-06-11 00:26:15 +0000 UTC View PostAbout 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 Patreo...
2022-06-05 08:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for June's articles.
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2022-05-08 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLast 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 t...
2022-05-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for May's articles.
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2022-04-10 06:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostPicture 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 flutterin...
2022-04-10 03:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the voting post for April's articles.
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2022-03-10 18:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHuman 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 be...
2022-03-10 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for March's articles.
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2022-02-09 23:44:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 economi...
2022-02-09 07:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostSorry 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
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 ...
2022-01-10 07:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for next January's articles.
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2021-12-10 01:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2021-12-09 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for December's articles.
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2021-11-09 09:19:37 +0000 UTC View Post