Design Doc

Character creation in Questlandia 1 lasted two hours. Character creation in Questlandia 2 is five minutes. What changed?... Read more

In this episode we talk about completing a project that made us our own worst bosses and what it's like coming back from... Read more

How we built worlds in the original Questlandia, and what's to come.

We've finished the first two playtests of Questlandia and something is still missing. In this episode we talk about how ... Read more

The junk poets are changing again. This time, maybe in a spoooooky way.We talk again about the junk poets as GMing tools... Read more

We attempt to put theory into practice as we prep for Questlandia's first playtest.

Questlandia 2 is a campaign game with no Game Master. Without a designated person in the GM role, that responsibility mu... Read more

Good games are often built on an avalanche of bad ideas. We talk about the worst ideas we've had so far, and how to turn... Read more

With one playtest down, we talk about what went right, what went wrong, and what we'd like to change.

Why are our worlds turning out horrible? After playtesting at Metatopia, we talk about how the framing for worldbuilding... Read more

The first playtest that takes us all the way through character creation. Meet beasts of burden, puppeteers, and the quee... Read more

Alanna Shaffer joins us to talk about how, even when telling made-up stories, we can be aware of biases in the way we ta... Read more

What happens if a player achieves their big character goal in the very first scene of the game? We found out.

The Make Big Things team talks about making games as a cooperative.

With no GM, players in Questlandia 2 are responsible for framing their own scene types. As a result they animate object... Read more