Game in the Brain

The Crash Course Geography Series has been a recent inspiration for Traveller. Especially for the Economics and Nuance Side. 

For me when it talks about the History of colonization, definition of development, and social issues and conflicts – it provides inspiration for worlds the PCs arrive in and how their goods, influence shapes these worlds. 

As independent freighters and traders, the more risky underdeveloped, developing and near Developed worlds and the markets these worlds are part of can be pretty interesting. Especially given the opportunity Travel, Do business and with Empathy the inhabitants can be their own universe of culture and narratives.

Travell + Empathy + History/Context + Languages makes the world even more special and strange. 

I hope it emerges from our writing and prioritization of how we designed the world generator that we are want to also see our world – we also want to see all the people and all the cultures – health, finances, and time allowing.  

I want people to find the book and go “Ok so these definitions would help talking a bit of jargon about space.”, “this complex idea will be boiled down to this mechanic, but this interpretation of the concept is open to more nuance and subverting expectations.”  “Oh wow I just made a world and system in a couple of clicks that can have so much detail that can be put on.” “That the material is available for editing if I believe or want to tweak it. The spreadsheet also and its javascript.” “Oh they gave me a way to render Planets and 2D terrain maps (Icosahedron maps). 

Hopefully the price is value since the tools save so much time and effort so we can produce more.