Introduction The demographic crisis is no longer a distant threat. Countries like South Korea serve as clear warnings: fertility rates dropping drastically, populations aging, and societal structures weakening. The Philippines,…
Read more →So, Prynze and Nicco are almost done—at least with the 300DT ring habitat. The target is March 14. I’m surprised by how bad or short my reach is on this.…
Read more →NGO AI One day a group of altruistic Gamer Lawyers and Developers will create a set of Open Corporate goals and policies that will prevent organizations from making naked money…
Read more →Generating a Circumstellar Disk in the Brightest and Largest stars – would probably have orders of magnitude equal to Jupiters and F to M stars. The total mass of…
Read more →My biz experience being from the Philippines reflects how I make the mechanics for developing and underdeveloped worlds in Cepheus Engine. As a child that was carried along by…
Read more →On the table of Worlds: 1) Terrestiral Worlds (0.1 to +7 Earth masses) is a 30% Chance 2) Dwarf Planets (0.1 to 7 Moon Masses) is a 24% Chance 3)…
Read more →1) hard sci-fi combat and problems are typically thinking outside the parameters “box” because someone’s already thought of it and it doesn’t work. Someone has to always think of a…
Read more →One of the takeaways from work experience is my understanding on logistics and support operations. the Family business is Construction and Manufacturing. This is a very logistics heavy type of…
Read more →Skyhooks or Inertia Bank Tethers are interesting to me because its created a paradigm where I’m trying to conserve Inertia. I’m not thinking of reaction mass, I’m thinking of inertia…
Read more →Near Earth Prospects Doing some TRPG musing – How do I run a 2050-2100 TRPG setting without a lot of prep and with believable world-building? For feedback. 0) The goal…
Read more →Visualizing a freighter carrying hundreds of tons of material cargo in 2200. It deposits its cargo by having the cargo drift out of its wake and get slowed up and…
Read more →Because of the Stress Mechanic (its like HP but the Stress doesn’t go away so quickly without coping mechanisms like Vices and Habits; unified Conditions see 200425 GITB Quick Combat –…
Read more →I realize that anyone can tinker with this, and change the “Controlling Stat” depending on the “Culture” of the Entity/Institution. Someone can just change the INT to a CON and…
Read more →Systems Thinking It was when I was catching up with old friends where my problem with running games came about. My first instinct is to look for a simple algorithm.…
Read more →It was only recently I realized World building as a Skill. As a skill it has many components with the goal making an immersive setting. Immersive settings have many traits…
Read more →Common features in Star Systems that have a built up Defense. This is in settings with no FTL communications and no “stealth in space“ Underground Vaults. IMTU giant worms or…
Read more →reading up on traveller got me thinking: 1) a system for preparation and training lacking in the game system is strange. If they have 168 hours on the ship per…
Read more →Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store and the app available has worn my patience) I’ve almost…
Read more →Scope and Scale: Individual vs Individuals with organizations. If I were to look at the Novels and Stories I’m currently into, they are different from the stories that focus on…
Read more →Work is really what determines how much I can blog and the quality of my writing and material. It’s really a part time thing like everyone else who has a…
Read more →In case anyone missed this… this is a great outline method to write a Sci-fi setting’s source book. In the illustration, the parts in red is one of the focus…
Read more →Finished Downton Abbey, I wish I can see various cultural version of a Manoral Household as inspired by their visit to a Scottish Manor – I’d like to see a Chinese Version…
Read more →Home brew excerpt regarding the value of gold. I know the ratio of gold to silver and to copper is based in modern market value, but I want players to…
Read more →I was wondering about if one had only limited character currency what one should spend on, and I found allies quite interesting. How much can you tap from an ally?…
Read more →I just got to get this itch: Starting Wealth is determined largely by the size of the Economy. Imperial Rome, in its height had a very large economy with a…
Read more →This can be addressed by the same approach. Approaching systems with a stronger game theory understanding allows one to understand the dynamics specialized systems do to enhance and developed a…
Read more →Crisis games are what I call games where things get really really bad but its not the end of the world. A coup d’état, a war, a large scale terrorist plot,…
Read more →I’m currently working with some artists right now for the Map. Now, wondering what would be a fast way of introducing a setting and setting concepts? I was considering using…
Read more →Thanks to Laszlo Montgomery I found it easier to follow chinese history. As a filipino, i pretty much fall in between western and eastern culture… especially since our culture is weak…
Read more →This is awesome. Structure wise they are HUGE, so perfect for fantasy. It would be nice to have the time to learn and produce some historical generic locations like this.
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