Mailanka's Musings

meeting_the_emperor by klausmasterflex First, I want to thank my fans for their patience.  This project has led to a startling drop in v...

This will be my last "design notes" post for Orphans of the Stars.  I'm going to post the actual draft next week at this tim...

We know what the overall themes of gameplay are now, but we need to know what the PCs, themselves, do with it.  The ruling noble might dec...

After I had laid out my plans for the pieces of the game, I found it necessary to think my w how the game would play .  This turned into a t...

One core element I wanted for Psi-Wars was ideology .  I wanted religion, culture and the flow of ideas to be a major element of gamepla...

The Imperial Court by Pictsy The next of our triumverate is organizations , the people who actually build, maintain and attack the capit...

In my previous post, I noted that physical capital can provide a basis for political power.  To represent this, I settled on Bill Stoddard...

The first thing we chose to focus on, and what this series will devote all of its attention to, is politics.  I wrote the following post a...

This week I take a break from Psi-Wars to present: Orphan of the Stars At the year's end (in the heart of Iteration 5 for Psi-Wars),...