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Real world maps vs Fantasy Maps: Which makes sense?

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Real world maps vs Fantasy Maps: Which makes sense?

Real world maps vs Fantasy Maps: Which makes sense? Over the past few years I’ve been introduced to a number of ways that gamers are using apps to turn real world maps into gaming platforms. The first example I ever encountered was a game called “Ghost Escape”. Essentially the game took a smart phone’s GPS […]

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To be an archer

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After watching the British Archery team go out in the first round of the Olympics, it made me realise just how much we have fallen in the world rankings in the last seven hundred years. So, presented here are my thoughts on the bowman in a role playing game. Enjoy. The following tips and advice […]

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Offering World Building Info Outside of a Story

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SF Signal just ran an interesting article in its “Mind Meld” feature area called The Rules of Worldbuilding. This article quotes “rules” from various sf authors, giving their take on do’s and don’ts in this area. One author, Robert Bennett, touched on something that I think applies especially to people who approach fiction writing from a […]

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This weapon can punch an inch deep into corrugated iron but many role players never use it

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I haven’t done a weapon post in a while, because I like to bring something to the table that might not be common knowledge. As much as I could wax lyrical about basic sword fighting techniques or go on at length about my favourite kind of axe, it’s all stuff that most gamers will be […]

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Cosmology: Building the nature of your universe.

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Greetings fellow blog enthusiasts and welcome to this special edition of The World Building School. My name is Simon Provencher and Nate was kind enough to allow me to make a guest post here in order to share some of my experiences relating to the creating fictional worlds. More specifically, I wanted to take a […]

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Help grow a fantasy village with Facebook

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Help grow a fantasy village with Facebook

Ed: This is a guest post by James Vernon from the Eleajia project The Eleajia project is an experiment in community village building for a fantasy world. The project came into being because from the very moment I started thinking about The Three Moons Realm (the land Eleajia resides) I wanted to really build a […]

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