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Behind the scenes of The Western Horizon — design challenges, iterations, and the thinking behind the framework.

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The Shadow Map: A Wave Function Collapse Engine for Living Settlements

How quantum mechanics, graph theory, and children's fantasy novels converge on a generation engine for West Marches campaigns

“The whole thing moves around according to the needs of narrative… if we act like the kind of folk who would find a Fairy city whilst on various adventures involving tricksters, magical shoes, and hooliganism, it will come to us.” — A-Through-L, in Catherynne M. Valente’s The Girl Who Circumnavigated...

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