Advantage on Arcana

The Party

As time goes on, I find I quote some of the same people again and again; these are people I think of as my conversation partners, even if they don't always respond to me. Any time I refer to a living person 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

• B., Marcia
  • mentioned in "The AoA Fiction Bookshelf" and "RPGs, LLMs, Citational Ethics, and Lineage."
• Chan, Sunny
  • mentioned in "RPGs, LLMs, Citational Ethics, and Lineage" and this page.
• Colville, Matt
  • mentioned in "Example: Making a Literary Scene for a Single Culture" and "Wildermyth and Advancing Characters through Transformations."
• Hendriks, Nick
  • 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," "Preparation, Interpretation, Improvisation," "How I Find Pictures For My Posts," and "My Plan For Better TTRPG Settings."
• Lele, Amod
  • mentioned in "Mundane Humans" and "Neither Hope Nor Cynicism: A Central Tension."
• Michael of 1999 A.D.
  • mentioned in "The End Times and After: December 2025 RPG Blog Carnival and "Scavenging in the Lakelands."
• Newbury, Scot
  • mentioned in "RPGs, LLMs, Citational Ethics, and Lineage" and "Carnival, Festivals, and a Thought on Realism."
• Panic Pillow
  • mentioned in "Why Isn't Every Bride A Paladin?" and "June 2025 RPG Carnival Round Up: Magic Shops and Their Alternatives."
• Robbins, Ben
  • mentioned in "Reflections on Making up Genres for TTRPGs" and "Preparation, Interpretation, Improvisation."
• Ross, S. John
  • mentioned in "Both Grounded and Fantastic: A Central Tension" and "Carnival, Festivals, and a Thought on Realism."
• Sandstone, aka @quartzen
  • mentioned in "Worldbuilder’s Book Club 2024" and "January’s WBC24: Politics, Crime, and Law."
• Seedling Games
  • mentioned in "Neither Hope Nor Cynicism: A Central Tension" and "Both Grounded and Fantastic: A Central Tension."
• Smith, WF, aka Prismatic Wasteland
  • mentioned in "The AoA Fiction Bookshelf" and "RPGs, LLMs, Citational Ethics, and Lineage."
• Somerville, David
  • 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," "Neither Hope Nor Cynicism: A Central Tension," and "Hrönir and History."
• Woodard, Colin
  • 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."