by Tracy Barnett | Aug 15, 2016 | Grimsbury
In my last post about Grimsbury I talked about how points of change in a setting’s history prompt questions for the designer. There’s sort of an extension of that exploration that I want to get into with this post. Where my focus in the last post was the...
by Tracy Barnett | Aug 11, 2016 | Grimsbury
Everything changes and nothing stays the same. I think that’s true no matter who you are or what your circumstances. It’s certainly true across history. Take any one area and chart its course through time. You’ll see some threads of continuity, but...
by Tracy Barnett | Aug 8, 2016 | Grimsbury
Maybeck County – Circa: Now I did some research on the kind of geography that I want to see in Maybeck County. As I talked about last time, I knew I wanted there to be a swamp, and a river. To me, that said southern United States, but I didn’t want to...
by Tracy Barnett | Aug 4, 2016 | Grimsbury
One of the things I’ve said is important to me about this project is place. I almost gave it a capital P just then. Both personally and professionally, I’ve been giving place a lot of thought recently. There’s a lot to be said about how place shapes...
by Tracy Barnett | Aug 1, 2016 | Grimsbury
At the end of my last Grimsbury post, I wondered out loud about what Grimsbury would ultimately be. Fiction? An RPG? Something else entirely? I think I’ve come up with the answer. To get to it, I’m going to have to tell a small story. Once Upon a Time Two...
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