Mailanka's Musings

 The winner of this month's "Release the Balloon People" poll was Federation Remnant Culture , a lengthy document detailing th...

"I can do Calamari Flan… But I can only pay half." ― Greef Karga, the Mandalorian Do you know what Psi-Wars needs more than anythi...

  I have a bad habit lately of not talking about what I'm doing with Psi-Wars.  This is partially because I'm busy with several diff...

So, I've been struggling a bit with Cultural Familiarity in the established  world of Psi-Wars. I've touched on this topic before in...

Keleni traditionalists call Annara the pure form of Communion, the one that Keleni practiced in the past and still practice today. This m...

Aniconism True Communion believes that depictions of the supernatural, be they idols or symbols, tend to unduly distract one from his...

Akashic Symoblism The Akashic Record According to initiates of the deepest Akashic Mysteries, a successful initiate finds the Akashic Re...

The Akashic Mysteries deeply tied to the Maradon culture and its rise to Galactic dominion.  The roots of the Akashic Mysteries lie in the M...

Neo-Rationalists tend to be less formal than other philosophies. They lack strict organizations and what passes for Neo-Rationalism tends to...

This is a bit of a last-minute addition.  When I wrote the Alliance, I finished it up and released it to my Patrons and then put all the p...

Today, I've got not one, but two, Patreon posts!  In the first, I've got the Names of Humanity, a proposed expanded list of the gene...

The point of all of the previous posts in this mini-series is to give you ideas on what do for a new and unusual culture in your setting....

Philosophy is devoted to rational discourse, whereas mysticism tries to reach beyond the limits of reason to what cannot be said or even th...

Most of the distancing mechanisms we've discussed have, ultimately, been very superficial:  how a culture dresses, how a culture plays, ...

In designing our distancing mechanisms, we need to be careful not to clutter up our setting.  The point of Psi-Wars isn't  to explore ex...

For a lot of people "Culture" means the fine arts: ballet, museums full of beautiful paintings, exquisite sculptures and the h...

"So, what are we eating?" Ever played in an RPG where someone's in a tavern and he goes to order food, then stops and asks w...

First Ship of the Year by Dress-7 We've already touched on Psi-Wars economics when we looked at Psi-Wars infrastructure .  This time...

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English. -Korben Dallas, the Fifth Element In a campaign, language diversity has ...

The GM’s most important trick in this kind of campaign is distancing mechanisms: situations, customs, or objects that are alien and perplex...