The feed of updates to Rambled Worlds
*Private education at Gordonstoun introduces traditions of brutality - dog fights. Purchasing and rearing hounds to kill each other in illegal rings excites the lingering arrogance in the youth. A demolished Tesco, abandoned near a pub, high fences stationed but failing to block entry. Sesh plans spread around; Saturday night. Bring your own mutt. ICD-10 Code W54 , a bad night for Luke Gearing’s…
This is an interview with Vera Kane, deceased SHIPMIND deputy, conducted by Isobel “ Poppy” Parker, a retired Vox Omnia Rex leader. Both of these were characters in the Baseline Drift roleplaying wargame that occurred from May 29th to June 14th, 2026. Kane, Vera: “ Good when you are ma’am.” Isobel “ Poppy” Parker: “ Do you want the intro music?” Kane, Vera: “ If you like, doesn’t make much…
Misery In Cathigan is a play-by-post LARP experience, intended as a collaborative writing and worldbuilding exercise within a GM-led framework. You play as a resident in the village of Misery, somewhere in rural Scotland. Over time, as you play, certain players will interface with elements of the world that the GM interferes with more, guiding the experience to a more sinister ending. Misery In…
Many years ago, in the time of DnD 4e, a sacred text was written. A blogpost, with content so condensed it would shake the earth. Or so they say - It went up in 2010, and I was six years old then. Monster Manual 3 on a business card is a brilliant little tool I used while I ran 4e a few years ago, fitting all the base creature math ( HP , AC , To Hit and Damage) onto one side of a business card.…
Marathon (2026) is an upcoming extraction shooter from Bungie, a revival of their old sci-fi shooter series from before Halo and Destiny - it’s the game that formed the bones of those two titles. Extraction shooters aren’t a new genre of game - titles like Escape from Tarkov and Hunt Showdown have been around for years, and the recent release of the disappointingly GenAI-riddled Arc Raiders has…
“ But Amber, what the fuck is this LODESTAR crap?” So, first post about this on the blog and we’re getting right into the weeds of some mechanical stuff - I should probably give some introduction as to what this is. LODESTAR is my high fantasy and science fantasy TTRPG built on Mothership’s Panic Engine. It hasn’t always been like that, I’ve been designing it for about a year now, but this…
The following is some creative writing I did for my GM persona in VANGUARD , a play-by-post wargame of a strangereal 1940s Indochina War. Jane sits with her mother and father in Trigonia (Not!Italy) and discusses her “ intense infatuation” with the Khitanian (Not!Mongolia) king. If you’d like to check out VANGUARD and maybe play for yourself, you can join the Discord via this link . “ Ganbaatar…