Comment on “Worldbuilding 3c: Control”

Im preparing to begin running new players in about a week .New both to my table and to RPGs overall. Very excited, they are an intellectual, curious, and artsy bunch who I believe will grow into fabulous players.

I am following along with this series but not just in reading, am also working on a map. Not "continent sized" unless I resize and refill the hexes, but plenty of biggish and littleish realms fit on it. My climate, geography might be a bit thin, or foolish but just having concepts of "who has lots, who has nothing, what's rare here and what's scarce there" set me off spinning reasons for Stable Realm A to trade with Buffer State B and Tertiary State C; to want to invade and annex weak Tertiary State X but refrain, for now, because would mean longish new border with Aggressively Expanding State E... ah, but E may move to make war in the more heavily contested center of the continent and if they do they will be preoccupied - not in as much of a position to care if A swallows up C, eh?

Been busy family emergency but would like to upload something soon. Finger budget better than usual lately.