the tarot-driven roleplaying game
I think of the world of Divination like this:
About a hundred years ago there wasn’t much magic in the world, for whatever reason. There were Artists, but they were few and far between, and thought of themselves as occultists, sorcerers, priests, etc.
Then, Pixie drew the deck in a period…
CONTINUE READINGArtists change callings all the time, I know from experience.
I began my artistic life in my 20s trying to fulfill my dream of being a rock star. I wrote funny piano-based songs and I dreamed of big, dazzling stages and wild seas of fans.
That dream didn’t come to pass.
CONTINUE READINGI have a friend, a poet and a philosopher, who likes to say: “we are all part of the same thing.”
There’s a lot inside that little phrase. It makes me think of another quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson: “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
CONTINUE READINGSo, it’s a weird world getting created. In Divination, I mean.
The Art is trickling into the Apparent world, and the trickle is starting to turn into a stream, and as it does, it opens the Third Eyes of more and more Artists.
It’s been entering the minds of Students on the Road of Two Lands; giving visions to the Seers on the Unwritten Road. It’s been making Artists on the Road of Death immortal, and has been offering power…
CONTINUE READINGI think about gardens a lot.
I don’t have a garden; I live in a big city and my apartment doesn’t have that nice kind of outside space where you could grow tomatoes or something. I do have lots of natural light though, so I have lots of houseplants.
Most of my houseplants are succulents, because when my husband and I got married…
CONTINUE READINGThere is a law that goes above the laws of man. It’s a law of nature—the law of nature—and a concept we make the subject of constant discussion.
In its simplest, most base form, that law is: there is no law.
CONTINUE READINGOne of the first things everyone learns about the Death card is that it doesn’t mean death, it means transformation. That doesn’t stop it from coming up in every movie about witchcraft.
While a lot of the Road of Death—The Shivering Road—is still being written, some of its elements are among the oldest of my creations in Divination.
CONTINUE READINGSo—this game isn’t quite a horror game, and it isn’t quite an adventure game, but I haven’t played a game of it yet that hasn’t included both horror and adventure.
I think most games I’ve played rely on an antagonist to bring the horror. I get that. If I encounter a monster in the real world somewhere, I’m going to scream and run and die, and I’d be genuinely horrified as I went. That’s a true source of horror: facing the unfaceable as it advances on you, intent on murder.
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