Welcome to the Unwritten Earths Symposium! In each episode, tabletop RPG designers Nathan D. Paoletta and Epidiah Ravachol try to trick each other into designing a game they wouldn't otherwise make.
Unwritten Earths Symposium
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Welcome to the Unwritten Earths Symposium! In each episode, tabletop RPG designers Nathan D. Paoletta and Epidiah Ravachol try to trick each other into designing a game they wouldn't otherwise make.
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May 27, 2026
The Prompts & Standards Episode
<p>We come back from a brief sabbatical to consider a bundle of topics from our Scholars. We talk about prompts in truly true roleplaying games (and reclaiming them from their AI-related meaning), things in our lives we've adopted from games and that we adapt into our game design, and different interpretations of the idea of a "standard" in game design. An assumption, yes, but what about a mode of experimentation, like a Jazz Standard? This is one of our more after-hours style conversations that touches on lots of the things we're always thinking about.</p> <p>Show Notes:</p> <ul> <li>Jorge Luis Borges Quote (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Garden of Forking Paths</a>): "Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary."</li> <li><a href="https://www.backwardstabletop.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Asa Donald/Backwards Tabletop</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Poul Anderson</a>, author of The Broken Sword and Three Hearts and Three Lions</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Design of Everyday Things</a> by Donald Norman</li> <li>Jack Vance's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dying Earth</a></li> </ul> <p>Games Mentioned:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://dig1000holes.wordpress.com/vast-starlit/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Vast & Starlit</a></li> <li><a href="https://dig1000holes.wordpress.com/what-is-a-roleplaying-game/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">What Is a Roleplaying Game</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usagi_Yojimbo_Role-Playing_Game" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sanguine Games' Usagi Yojimbo</a></li> <li><a href="http://apocalypse-world.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Apocalypse World</a></li> <li><a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/420087/flip-7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Flip 7</a></li> </ul> <p>And there's more:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://unwrittenearths.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Unwritten Earths Symposium</a></li> <li><a href="https://patreon.com/UnwrittenEarths" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Our Patreon</a></li> <li><a href="https://discord.gg/cgJa5hWcVq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Join the Discord</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ndpdesign.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Nathan's games</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dig1000holes.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Eppy's games</a></li> <li><a href="https://willjobst.carrd.co" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Music by Will Jobst</a></li> </ul>
April 29, 2026
The Works In Progress Episode
<p>Nathan and Eppy finally turn in their spring semester homework, discussing where they are at with The Marian and Robin Roleplaying Party Game (and spinners!), and Fair Winds and Following Seas (and music!), respectively. Informed by both formal exploration and input from Scholars over at our Discord, both of these games are starting to get somewhere.</p> <p>Show Notes:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://twohundredaday.fireside.fm/60" rel="nofollow">Two Hundred a Day "Live" Episode with Emily Care Boss</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkn3PzdaByY" rel="nofollow">Numberphile "Cones Are Messed Up"</a> (Martini Glass Video)</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_Marian_and_Her_Merry_Men" rel="nofollow">Maid Marian and Her Merry Men</a> (BBC series)</li> </ul> <p>Games Mentioned:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.gregorhutton.com/boxninja/remember/index.html" rel="nofollow">Remember Tomorrow</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwinkle_and_Rocky_Role-Playing_Party_Game" rel="nofollow">Bullwinkle & Rocky Role-Playing Party Game</a></li> <li><a href="https://bullypulpitgames.com/products/the-skeletons" rel="nofollow">Jason Morningstar’s The Skeletons</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Trader_(role-playing_game)" rel="nofollow">Rogue Trader</a> (2009), but Nathan was probably playing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Heresy_(role-playing_game)" rel="nofollow">Dark Heresy</a> (2008)</li> </ul> <p>And there's more:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://unwrittenearths.com" rel="nofollow">Unwritten Earths Symposium</a></li> <li><a href="https://patreon.com/UnwrittenEarths" rel="nofollow">Our Patreon</a></li> <li><a href="https://discord.gg/cgJa5hWcVq" rel="nofollow">Join the Discord</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ndpdesign.com" rel="nofollow">Nathan's games</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dig1000holes.com" rel="nofollow">Eppy's games</a></li> <li><a href="https://willjobst.carrd.co" rel="nofollow">Music by Will Jobst</a></li> </ul>
April 15, 2026
The Haters Episode
<p>No, this isn't about games we don't like; following up on a question from our Wisdom Episode, we talk about the parts of making games that are not fun, from merely boring all the way to actively hate. This turns into a conversation about how we get through those periods, how the unique nature of truly true roleplaying games makes perfection impossible, and harnessing the hate that flows through you for good. We balance that out with an update on something we're loving right now, the incoming artwork for Swords Without Master!</p> <p>Nathan's game <strong>Mortal Skein</strong> is out! <a href="https://ndpdesign.itch.io/mortal-skein" rel="nofollow">Here's the playtest materials on itch</a>.</p> <p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://shop.thegreatcourses.com/english-grammar-boot-camp" rel="nofollow">Great Courses: English Grammar Boot Camp</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS" rel="nofollow">CSS</a></li> <li><a href="https://tailwindcss.com" rel="nofollow">Tailwind CSS</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique" rel="nofollow">Pomodoro Technique</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.forestapp.cc" rel="nofollow">Forest Timer App</a> (the tree-growing one)</li> <li>Will Jobst's <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goodluckpress/plasmodics" rel="nofollow">Plasmodics: Mutant Freaks in the Weird Future</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Swords Artists:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.portablecity.net" rel="nofollow">Shel Kahn</a></li> <li><a href="https://goblinprincete.com" rel="nofollow">Jabari Weathers</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.gorangligovic.com" rel="nofollow">GORAN</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/simonamroy/" rel="nofollow">Simon Roy</a></li> <li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/unwrittenearths.bsky.social/post/3mjiatsmso22s" rel="nofollow">Big Bluesky Thread</a> of the Swords artists</li> </ul> <p><strong>And there's more:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://unwrittenearths.com" rel="nofollow">Unwritten Earths Symposium</a></li> <li><a href="https://patreon.com/UnwrittenEarths" rel="nofollow">Our Patreon</a></li> <li><a href="https://discord.gg/cgJa5hWcVq" rel="nofollow">Join the Discord</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ndpdesign.com" rel="nofollow">Nathan's games</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dig1000holes.com" rel="nofollow">Eppy's games</a></li> <li><a href="https://willjobst.carrd.co" rel="nofollow">Music by Will Jobst</a></li> </ul>
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