Been tinkering with some advice for pacing a game of Intergalactic. I suspect I'll go a bit further than this, but it's a start.The speed at which the group moves through...

Or patches, badges, tattoos. This covers a broad category of unofficial trophies that can be earned by a member of a starship crew in the form of some sort of physical mark to...

So what about those unsettled and unexplored worlds in Intergalactic Bastionland?They won't get the same detail that the main worlds get, but I want to include some information...

 A good chunk of Intergalactic Bastionland's current iteration focuses on the element of living and working on a starship, managing relationships, negotiating the hierarchy,...

I've had a few people ask about playing Mythic Bastionland with larger groups of players. I've found the game flows at its best with 2-4 players, but getting up to 5 or more...

This was prompted by hearing a discussion about tracking torches in a dungeon crawling game. This is something that I find that adds work, rarely becomes impactful, and the...

Intergalactic Bastionland is now ready for public playtesting. Go here to find everything you need.We're a way off the Kickstarter yet, but you can be first to follow here.

Dock is the second spoke on the Wheel that makes up crew life, between the drudgery of Transit and the enterprise of Layover.I'm aiming for a good clear procedure to work...

That's right. When you run a playtest it's not about those parasitic players. You're the one who should be under the microscope.Not exclusively, and I talked about player...

Sometimes it matters which tool we pick up. It's 1981. The Roland TB-303 is a new bass synthesiser. It was designed to act as a substitute for a bass guitar player, much like a...

Oh, you thought your job on the ship would give you skills?As if. Only life can give you skills, and that's something you don't get much choice in.When rolling an Intergalactic...

Intergalactic work continues. I'm constantly reminding myself that the first Mythic Bastionland playtests (then Primeval Bastionland) were based on an extremely rough document,...

Setting a BearingBefore casting off, the ship must set its bearing to an agreed destination. This requires a meeting of the Bearing Council, which consists of the captain and...

That's a wrap on another series of the Bastionland Podcast! If you haven't been following for long, here's the line up who each discussed three games that are important to...

Getting around a ship can sometimes be worse than getting around the galaxy. Any point on a ship is defined by its Deck and Compartment numbers. DecksStandard-sized ships have...

I wonder how many games I need to make before I stop feeling shame at the very thought of talking about my creative process. Today is not that day, but let’s push through...

Starship crew refer to the reliably repetitive pattern of ship life as a rotating wheel with three handles.Transit, Dock, Layover, Transit, Dock, Layover, and so on forever. 1...

Ships large enough to travel between the stars are a big investment, so most interstellar travellers get around as part of a captain’s crew. A standard sized ship has a crew...

The life of a Knight isn’t all myth-seeking and feast-eating. Sometimes you’re called in for proper work, namely taking stuff from vassals and bringing it to their ruler.  Of...

You’ve probably met knights from other realms, but these are different. While they resemble familiar knights in many ways, they have a different oath and a different set of...

Glorantha is a famously deep but daunting setting. I won’t try to summarise it here, but open up any of the books and you’re sure to be swarmed by proper nouns you’ve never...

The Mythic Bastionland realm creation procedure suggests a 12x12 hex Realm, but I've drifted more toward 12x18 mostly because it's a nice easy fit to print out on a regular...

Mythic Bastionland has this spark table for it's lands.Want to go a further step deeper? Let's see how deep this place...

I’ve been making games professionally for long enough now that people sometimes ask me how I got here. I don’t really know the answer, but I know these things are true: I’d be...

What makes a Feast? Three things, as you’d expect.Ceremony - How is the official purpose of the feast observed?Spectacle - How is the host showing off how wealthy, powerful, or...

You’ll have noticed that if you stick around a holding in Mythic Bastionland then the land is, well, less mythic. In fact, Myths kind of pause when the Knights aren’t out...

Not The River, of course. A typical Mythic Bastionland realm, following the procedure in the book, has a navigable river. It’s an extremely fast way to get around! You might...

Just got back from GenCon, so this one is fuelled by jet lag. In triple Ennie award winning smash hit Mythic Bastionland there are a number of effects that can cause Virtue...