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Worldbuilding for television production: Why Star Trek was hamstrung

Star Trek (1966, TOS) was pitched to studio management as Wagon Train (1957) “to the stars”. Whenever you hear literate science fiction fans complaining about how silly it is, remember that it’s not a show about space travel or the future. It’s not really about anything so much as it is for television.

Aug. 1, 2022 Flag of Antigua and Barbuda

Highlights of Star Trek TV: The best and most symptomatic of TOS–DS9

As a child I saw fragments of Star Trek (1966, TOS), The Next Generation (1987, TNG) and Voyager (1995, VOY) on broadcast television. From 2017, I watched all of TOS, The Animated Series (1973, TAS), TNG and Deep Space Nine (1993, DS9) in chronological order.

Aug. 1, 2022 Flag of Antigua and Barbuda

Square-foot module history: 15 years slowly making a wargaming terrain system

In my teens, I got into miniature games based on non-competitive pre-computer military simulations, which take up a lot of room. At the time, the standard size of a table for the game Warhammer 40,000 was 6 × 4 feet, which is about 18 × 12 dm.

June 3, 2022 Flag of Antigua and Barbuda miniature terrain wargame board

Square-foot module index: The units of a terrain system

This is a list of interconnecting terrain modules I have built for wargaming at home, starting in 2007.

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Namn och yrken för Varulv: En expansion

Det finns många utgåvor av Dmitry Davidovs sällskapsspel Мафия (Maffia, 1986). Här beskrivs en handgjord expansion jag har konstruerat till en specifik nordisk utgåva under titeln Varulv (Gameplay Publishing, 2021), där temat är Ragnarök.

Jan. 30, 2022 Flag of Sweden TRPG game design Creative Commons

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