Month: March 2023
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Anti-Canon Worldbuilding
Anti-canon is a response to the Tolkien style of worldbuilding typically emphasized in fantasy fiction. It is a rejection of the creation of a world with a complete history, rigid geography, and rigid boundaries. Anti-canon instead sets out to create a world which changes as stories are told in it. While the world is consistent…
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Character Components
Over the last few months on break from running campaigns, while tinkering with homebrew and pawing through games I have come up with a theory that a TTRPG character can be broken down into four-ish essential components: fiction, statistics, perks, and items. Fiction is the part of a character which has no connection to the…