There’s a saying that all of the institutions are really just about pushing pencils. The FXT buys the pencils, the NCA tells you what colour you’re allowed to use, and...

It’s easy to underestimate the great institutions. Look no further than the FXT, which some mistake for a corporation. They control money, but they aren’t a bank. They control...

Although the six great institutions sprawl across the Home Cluster, your Ship is independent, at least in principle. It’s a certainty that your Captain holds the favour of some...

Continuing from last week’s thoughts. In a recent conversation we had, Ed Jollyboat used the analogy of an airport runway as a linear introductory section to a game, which...

Pandemic Legacy (2015) wasn’t the first legacy boardgame, but it was the breakthrough moment when many players became aware of the format.Imagine you play a game of monopoly...

Intergalactic is going to be the first game I make that actually has a canonical map.Not that this is the whole galaxy, of course, but it’s a start. There are concrete places...

Mythic has a lot of blank spaces left open for improvisation. In my experience, this works well enough, granting many advantages too.Improvise a castle town? Sure, I’m...

What pressures do you face as a Head in the top 10% of a thousand crew starship in Intergalactic Bastionland?It comes down to what each other crewmember might want from you,...

In writing the setting for Intergalactic Bastionland I feel pulled between the gravity of three stars:Reality - What would it really be like to be in space as we understand it...

Something I'm testing out for my Intergalactic testing, recently added to the playtest doc.Being part of a thousand-strong crew on a huge starship has become a key part of...