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Articles, essays, Substack archive links, and site feature updates from Gorgon’s Grimoire for readers who prefer the old web.
This page organizes public Gorgon’s Grimoire Substack articles by game line and subject, along with local site feature updates and Toolkit previews. Substack entries link back to the original post for reference and sharing.
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External Substack essays on DAD design, fantasy society, old-school assumptions, worldbuilding pressure, and campaign-scale practical problems.
A DAD design article about menu-first character construction, splatbook option culture, system mastery, and why world-first play preserves broader player agency.
A fantasy worldbuilding article about population, capital cities, magic, logistics, and the hub-and-spoke model of premodern kingdoms.
A grouped series of DAD worldbuilding essays about creating believable fantasy societies from sacred beliefs, institutions, moral order, and inherited culture.
Part one of a worldbuilding series arguing that believable cultures begin with sacred beliefs, moral order, divine reality, authority, death, and the people’s place in the cosmos.
Part two of the Culture Begins with the Sacred series, continuing the method for building fantasy societies from theology, sacred history, institutions, and social order.
Part three of the Culture Begins with the Sacred series, focused on why geography and maps are not enough to create a culture without belief, sacred order, and institutions.
A grouped series of DAD worldbuilding essays about magical infrastructure, civic authority, maintenance, sanitation, roads, ports, fortifications, and campaign consequences.
Part one of the Wizards of Public Works series, explaining why magic changes the amount of labor in civil engineering but does not replace surveying, design, maintenance, authority, or knowledge.
Part two of the Wizards of Public Works series, focused on roads, waterways, construction sequence, infrastructure design, and the practical limits of magical civil engineering.
Part three of the Wizards of Public Works series, covering waterworks, urban infrastructure, ports, fortifications, and how magical power interacts with civic systems.
Part four of the Wizards of Public Works series, examining power, law, maintenance, obligations, institutional control, and how public works fail when systems break down.
Part five of the Wizards of Public Works series, connecting magical infrastructure to civilization, campaign consequences, domain play, ruins, and long-term setting history.
An addendum to Wizards of Public Works about lost knowledge, declining magical infrastructure, broken chains of craft and authority, and why later societies may inherit works they cannot reproduce.
An addendum to Wizards of Public Works focused on practical magic for sanitation, environmental protection, waste, water, and the civic problems that fantasy settlements must still solve.
A DAD design article from Gorgon’s Grimoire discussing coin marks, bullion marks, fraud, and the practical handling of money in fantasy campaign play.
A DAD design article from Gorgon’s Grimoire discussing balance, risk, role, and old-school play assumptions.
The articles below belong to the Toolkit shelf. They cover The Family RPG Campaign Toolkit as software support for DAD, GOV, and The Family RPG System.
A look at the public beta launcher for The Family RPG Campaign Toolkit, including the DAD Player Tools, Adventure Master Tools, GOV tab notation, and the release-version note on Developer Tools.
A screenshot-heavy feature comparing the old DAD Character Generator against the rebuilt parchment-style DAD Character Creator in The Family RPG Campaign Toolkit.
Uses hard-currency economics to explain why fantasy banking would remain local rather than central-bank driven, and why that reinforces a focused twenty-mile adventuring radius.
Public previews and guide articles for The Family RPG Campaign Toolkit, including DAD character workflow, expedition planning, and launcher coverage.
Design essays and table-facing notes for DAD, fantasy campaigning, and the rules spine behind The Family RPG System.
Historical roleplaying essays and Adventure Master support notes for Ghosts of Vietnam: The RPG.
These Substack posts are kept here as publisher notes. The public creator license guide remains on the Licenses page.
Discusses why software, VTT, miniatures, and other IP uses require clear licensing instead of assumptions.
A practical public note for creators approaching publisher intellectual property and permission.
