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Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Sovereign - Independence Charter

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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 colo...
Wednesday, 8 July 2026

The Free Exchange Trust

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It’s easy to underestimate the great institutions. Look no further than the FXT, which some mistake for a corporation.  They control money, ...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2026

NCA Directives

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Although the six great institutions sprawl across the Home Cluster, your Ship is independent, at least in principle. It’s a certainty that y...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2026

Ski Jump Design

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Continuing from last week’s thoughts .  In a recent conversation we had, Ed Jollyboat used the analogy of an airport runway as a linear int...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2026

A Game you Play

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Pandemic Legacy (2015) wasn’t the first legacy boardgame, but it was the breakthrough moment when many players became aware of the format. ...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Factions Without Borders

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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...
Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Space is for Fantasy, not Sci Fi

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Mythic has a lot of blank spaces left open for improvisation. In my experience, this works well enough, granting many advantages too. Impro...
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