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Valthorne

A collection of 21 issues

The Law Listens: Valthorne Is Now Live

We began with a question: What if justice didn’t punish? What if it listened? What if the Law was alive—not as code or crown, but as chorus? We followed that question into the desert. We came back with a city. We’re thrilled to share that Valthorne: City

Valthorne: Resonant Play Toolkit

A guide for collaborative, reflective, and improvisational RPG storytelling Jam Table TL;DR Session Structure (The Setlist) Phase What It Is What to Do Tuning Opening stillness One minute of silence. Listen to the room. Arrive together. Invocation First offering A player begins with a word, image, or memory. Movement

Valthorne: Remembered in Drift

A Designer’s Diary on Building a City That Hums Back Opening Reflection: Why Build a City Like This? Every RPG setting is a mirror—some cracked, some polished—reflecting our anxieties, our dreams, our unspoken wars. But what if a city could be more than a shadow of our

Valthorne: Making It Yours

A Guide to RPGs and Folktales Valthorne, the desert gigapolis where the Living Law thrums through its people’s emotions, is a setting that thrives on mythic resonance and communal storytelling. Its psychic procedural vibe—part Law & Order, part desert folklore—makes it a perfect canvas for roleplaying games

Valthorne: A Reflective Journey Through the City of Living Law

Beneath the relentless sun of a desert plain, where ley lines hum beneath cobblestone streets and adobe spires glow with rune-lit warmth, Valthorne sprawls—a gigapolis that listens, a city that feels. Over the course of our journey into Valthorne: City of Living Law, we’ve woven a mythic civic

Valthorne: Playing the Flow

Civic Tools, Emotional Lexicon, and the Future Drift of Valthorne Valthorne isn’t just a setting—it’s a city that listens, its adobe spires and rune-lit canals thrumming with the psychic breath of its people. Here, justice isn’t carved in stone or decreed from a distant throne; it’

Valthorne: Resonance Over Function, Community Over All

In Valthorne, you don’t wield a WAND. You harmonize with it. It’s not a weapon forged in fire, nor a badge pinned with pride, nor an artifact locked in a vault. It’s a whisper made visible—a trembling, sun-warmed feeling given form in the desert air. When

Valthorne: City of Living Law

Overview Valthorne, a sprawling desert gigapolis built on ancient ley lines, pulses with a psychic force known as the Living Law—a collective resonance shaped by the emotions, beliefs, and rituals of its people. This sunbaked metropolis of adobe towers, rune-etched courthouses, and bustling markets is not merely a city

Valthorne: WAND & Warrant in the City of Living Law

Welcome to Valthorne, a desert gigapolis where the Law is a living, psychic force shaped by the people’s dreams, grief, and joy. As Arcane Constables, you wield your WAND* to enforce this fluid justice, solving crimes that ripple through the city’s soul. Inspired by Law & Order’s

Riding the Drift

Toward a Mood-Centered Narrative Mechanic for The Current and Beyond Some games race toward climax. The Current knows how to linger. Narrative flavoring mechanics exist not to resolve conflict, track resources, or activate powers—but to shift tone, deepen mood, or reframe perspective. These are mechanics of symbolic or emotional