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When sabotage damages Jupiter's engine, Earthborn arrivals and cloned natives must overcome their resentment, find the saboteur, and rebuild the engine before the exit window closes.

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World Building · 6 min · Sep 2, 2026

Magic Will Take Your Job

Magic would not sit on top of a medieval world. It would create something entirely new, affecting crafting, politics, culture, and what it is like for those without access.

By Jelte ten Holt · Filed under World Building

In Other Words · 5 min · Aug 5, 2026

How We Use AI

How we use AI at In Other Worlds, and how we don't. Our disclosure rules, where the lines sit, and why we made this deal with our eyes wide open.

By Jelte ten Holt

World Building · 11 min · Jul 21, 2026

Six Ways to Worship a God You're Afraid Of

In most fantasy, religion is wallpaper. Make the god real, present, and dangerous, and worship becomes strategy: six ways to live with what you cannot fight, flee, or love.

By Jelte ten Holt

World Building · 9 min · Aug 26, 2026

If Schrödinger Wrote Fantasy

The Flux takes a quantum mechanics concept as its world-building premise and follows it all the way down, to where wanting to be alone is a sin.

By Jelte ten Holt · Filed under World Building

Game Design · 5 min · Jul 15, 2026

Spell Lists Are a Failure of Imagination

A spell list is a menu. Treat spells as sentences instead, a verb on an object, and a handful of symbols covers a near-infinite range.

By Jelte ten Holt

4 min · Jul 7, 2026

D&D Is Not Roleplaying

A player thanks D&D for a moment the rules never allowed. Mistaking one game for the whole hobby quietly costs it players.

By Jelte ten Holt

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