Advantage on Arcana

The Party

At this blog’s inception I have few conversation partners; however, as time goes by, I assume that I will refer to other people more and more often. Any time I refer to someone twice, I will add them to the list here.

But there’s also something mystical about bibliographic citations. They invoke the muse after the fact. They hint at provenance, at pedigree, at parentage. They’re a glimpse into what had to come together in order to birth a new narrative. Bibliography is heraldry.

--Sunny Chan. "a Collection of things arranged in order." interfictions online, issue 1, May 2013. http://interfictions.com/a-collection-of-things-arranged-in-order/

Party Members

• Marcia B.
  • mentioned in "The AoA Fiction Bookshelf" and "RPGs, LLMs, Citational Ethics, and Lineage."
• Sunny Chan
  • mentioned in "RPGs, LLMs, Citational Ethics, and Lineage" and this page.
• Matt Colville
  • mentioned in "Example: Making a Literary Scene for a Single Culture" and "Wildermyth and Advancing Characters through Transformations."
• Nick Hendriks
  • mentioned in "My Character Sheet," "The Minimum Necessary Changes," "Two Kinds of NPC: Agroikoi and Bomolochoi," "Two Questions for Character Creation," "Two More Questions for Character Creation," "Reflections on Making up Genres for TTRPGs," "The Mysterious Appeal of Emergent Narrative," "Magical Diseases for a Magical Setting," and "Preparation, Interpretation, Improvisation."
• Amod Lele
  • mentioned in "Mundane Humans" and "Neither Hope Nor Cynicism: A Central Tension."
• Panic Pillow
  • mentioned in "Why Isn't Every Bride A Paladin?" and "June 2025 RPG Carnival Round Up: Magic Shops and Their Alternatives"
• Ben Robbins
  • mentioned in "Reflections on Making up Genres for TTRPGs" and "Preparation, Interpretation, Improvisation."
• Sandstone, aka @quartzen
  • mentioned in "Worldbuilder’s Book Club 2024" and "January’s WBC24: Politics, Crime, and Law."
• WF Smith, aka Prismatic Wasteland
  • mentioned in "The AoA Fiction Bookshelf" and "RPGs, LLMs, Citational Ethics, and Lineage."
• David Somerville
  • mentioned in "The Minimum Necessary Changes," "January’s WBC24: Politics, Crime, and Law," "Literary Genres as Worldbuilding Tools: An Introduction and Index," "Two Kinds of NPC: Agroikoi and Bomolochoi," "Storytelling Genres for Planegea," and "Neither Hope Nor Cynicism: A Central Tension."
• Colin Woodard
  • mentioned in "Example: Making Literary Scenes for Multiple Cultures," "The AoA Non-Fiction Bookshelf," "Worldbuilding with Colin Woodard's American Nations," "Mundane Humans," and "Geminites."
• Xaosseed
  • mentioned in "The Mysterious Appeal of Emergent Narrative" and "RPGs, LLMs, Citational Ethics, and Lineage."