Category: world building
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Demographic Decline and the Role of Government in the Philippines
Introduction The demographic crisis is no longer a distant threat. Countries like South Korea serve as clear warnings: fertility rates…
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Crowd Funding – Game in the Brain
So, Prynze and Nicco are almost done—at least with the 300DT ring habitat. The target is March 14. I’m surprised…
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AI futures in Mneme Setting.
NGO AI One day a group of altruistic Gamer Lawyers and Developers will create a set of Open Corporate goals…
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Brighter stars and Chthonian Worlds – reshaping our Image of space
Generating a Circumstellar Disk in the Brightest and Largest stars – would probably have orders of magnitude equal to…
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Developing Worlds – in World Building Mechanics
My biz experience being from the Philippines reflects how I make the mechanics for developing and underdeveloped worlds in Cepheus…
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Condensing what I’ve learned about Solar System Formation
On the table of Worlds: 1) Terrestiral Worlds (0.1 to +7 Earth masses) is a 30% Chance 2) Dwarf Planets…
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Updated Scifi Assumptions
1) hard sci-fi combat and problems are typically thinking outside the parameters “box” because someone’s already thought of it and…
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Operating the NPCs – My work experience applies to both the PCs and the NPCs
One of the takeaways from work experience is my understanding on logistics and support operations. the Family business is Construction…
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Hard Scifi Setting Notes – Homesteaders and Size References
Skyhooks or Inertia Bank Tethers are interesting to me because its created a paradigm where I’m trying to conserve Inertia.…
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Can Science Storytelling be Engaging?
Near Earth Prospects Doing some TRPG musing – How do I run a 2050-2100 TRPG setting without a lot of…
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Visualizing Hard Scifi Settings – Tethers.
Visualizing a freighter carrying hundreds of tons of material cargo in 2200. It deposits its cargo by having the cargo…
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Criteria to make my Careers Consistent.
I realize that anyone can tinker with this, and change the “Controlling Stat” depending on the “Culture” of the Entity/Institution.…
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Historical Games and Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking It was when I was catching up with old friends where my problem with running games came about.…
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World Building is a Skill
It was only recently I realized World building as a Skill. As a skill it has many components with the…
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IMTU: Defensive Doctrine Spitballing
Common features in Star Systems that have a built up Defense. This is in settings with no FTL communications and…
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Traveller Musings; the world of 2015 as opposed to the 70s.
reading up on traveller got me thinking: 1) a system for preparation and training lacking in the game system is…
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Scifi notes – accessibility and abundance tradeoffs
Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store…
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Back to Basics Narrative Tool of Scaling; Definition – World Building Game Style?
Scope and Scale: Individual vs Individuals with organizations. If I were to look at the Novels and Stories I’m currently…
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Work and Writing for 2014
Work is really what determines how much I can blog and the quality of my writing and material. It’s really…
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Adventures in SciFi Publishing presents DemiCon 24 panel “How to Build a Navy” with David Weber and BuNine — Adventures in SciFi Publishing
In case anyone missed this… this is a great outline method to write a Sci-fi setting’s source book. In the…
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Manoral Life of Various Cutlures
Finished Downton Abbey, I wish I can see various cultural version of a Manoral Household as inspired by their visit to a…
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Monetary Option for D20 DnD 3.5
Home brew excerpt regarding the value of gold. I know the ratio of gold to silver and to copper is…
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Ally or Contact – complexities of relationships
I was wondering about if one had only limited character currency what one should spend on, and I found allies…
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Scratching that Pedantic Urge: Economy Sizes
I just got to get this itch: Starting Wealth is determined largely by the size of the Economy. Imperial Rome,…
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Power Creep and Universal systems
This can be addressed by the same approach. Approaching systems with a stronger game theory understanding allows one to understand…
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Some Notes on Crisis Game
Crisis games are what I call games where things get really really bad but its not the end of the…
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Digesting a lot of Chinese History
Thanks to Laszlo Montgomery I found it easier to follow chinese history. As a filipino, i pretty much fall in between…
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Mr Hooks Sketch Up of RPG 3d and 2d Maps
This is awesome. Structure wise they are HUGE, so perfect for fantasy. It would be nice to have the time…