Sword of Symphonies

This week on Cat’s Cradle, how do you come up with a character?

Worse, how does Bill do it?

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Music by Kathleen!

Listener, have you ever felt yourself melt out into the world around you? Felt your body relax as your mind takes its leave for a moment?

In Amylte, the world responds to this feeling. When a person t…

Sometimes when you see yourself slipping away, you see another self. But then you begin to understand that this self is also your self, and it is all selves.

Lines of distinction begin to blur, and yo…

A couple days ago, the Chosen Emperor conjured a stately pleasure barge from thin air. It was crewed by eager daemons and fueled by supreme egotistical force.
Spikes of coral and poison and love drov…

On a high plateau decorating the sacred Origin Island, where, centuries ago, a great temple one stood, there is now a ruined garden.

You may remember the Conqueror’s Coin, the gold-colored flower tha…

Do you remember the Conqueror, listener? The Coral Coast remembers him, even if its people have forgotten. He once collected a rich garden of different peoples and traditions under his banner through…

Far to the south of Amylte, there is a chain of islands surrounded by mist and jagged stones like the teeth of a monster. Here, the Princess of the Southern Islands lies in wait for passing ships to …

The gods of Amylte sleep in their treacherous homes. Augustine rests at the center of a huge whirlpool, Hector dreams from the back of the King of the Desert.

These are the gods of Amylte, and have be…

This week on Cat’s Cradle, a bonus episode where the team builds an encounter all together!

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This week, on Cat’s Cradle! Harmony Drive is live now, so it’s time to talk about SRDs, or System Resource Documents, the moddable hackable huggable lovable TTRPG systems we love!

SRDs Mentioned in th…

A couple days ago, there was a girl, and it was time for her to become an adult, though she didn’t know it at the time. She ventured into the forest on no particular errand, with no particular goal b…

There is something to be said for adversaries. Big or small, external or internal, adversaries help us find direction, help us channel our power, help us learn who we are and what we are capable of.

A…

Anyway, the life cycle of a relationship, if you squint, follows the same trajectory as the life cycle of any living being. The humiliating, invincible youth is a time spent building, growing, learni…

This week, we don’t have a Kathleen, but we do have a lot to say about designing encounters!
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Hundreds of years ago, there was a girl, and it was time for her to become an adult. Like countless youths before her, she ducked her head into the ritual space her family had built her. A cup of tea…

There is this wonderful myth some people tell, the story of Progress. The mythical idea that everyone is moving forward, that we as a society know things now that we did not know in the past. Even in…

Nestled between the lava flats and a mountain they call Orchid Sister, there is a village called Pavillion. A traditional stilt-home village with a small reputation for traditional arts, built around…

History is a game of telephone, twisting with each telling, twisting and warping until it’s another story. The only way to know it, truly, is to have been there. Even that’s sometimes up for debate.

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Whenever we learn something about the world, we leave marks on it, little handprints as a record of our clumsy exploration. We discover things as if we were the ones to bring them into being, lovingl…

The world is always moving. Everything changes, whether those changes be cataclysmic or invisible. Every day we open our eyes to see a world that has never existed before, and before we know it, it h…