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Troupe Play and Community Creation in Perseverance
Discover how Troupe Play can transform your QuestWorlds stories, where players create a shared pool of characters tied to a struggling community .
Perseverance Tale – Dustbound Justice
A Perseverance Tale about a wandering Ranger and their posse, riding the wilds to uphold justice where the law can’t — or won’t.
Perseverance Tale – The Long Haul
A Perseverance Tale about a smuggling crew scraping by on dangerous jobs, dodging patrols, betrayal, and ruin across the lawless frontier.
What do you do on Perseverance? Defining Core Activities in Genre Packs
Establishing the core activity that makes playing in Perseverance easier, sharper, and more fun.
Fuel, Fire, and Frontier Life – How Energy Shapes Perseverance
Is Perseverance a space western or a planetary one? This post explores the setting’s grounded stories, hidden tech, and the cosmic weight hanging just overhead.
Stars Above, Dust Below – What Kind of Western Is Perseverance?
Is Perseverance a space western or a planetary one? This post explores the setting’s grounded stories, hidden tech, and the cosmic weight hanging just overhead.
100 Pages and Counting – Perseverance in Genre Pack Format!
Perseverance isn’t about winning. It’s about surviving long enough to make your mark. It’s about holding on to your people, your ship, your town – or just your word.
Welcome to Perseverance
Perseverance isn’t about winning. It’s about surviving long enough to make your mark. It’s about holding on to your people, your ship, your town – or just your word.
Character Growth in Perseverance
Characters in Perseverance grow through scars, not stats. Explore how XP, flaws, and rewrites shape their journey across the frontier..
Incredible Powers in Perseverance – Optional, Mysterious, and Dangerous
Optional rules for mysterious powers in Perseverance – rare, eerie, and best used with caution.
Two Months of Perseverance – Dust, Danger, and Designing the Frontier
Marking two months of worldbuilding in Perseverance – reflections on what’s been done and what’s still to come.
Running Perseverance – GM Introduction & Advice
From smuggling jobs to survival horror, this post arms you with tools to run Perseverance. Pacing, stakes, factions, NPCs—everything you need to make the frontier breathe.
Temporary tags and lasting consequences – Adding narrative tags to QuestWorlds
A homebrew system for QuestWorlds inspired by Legend in the Mist's temporary tags, introducing lightweight narrative conditions called tags.
Dust Runner Blues (Part 2) – The Rest of the Crew
In Part 2 of this character creation walkthrough for QuestWorlds, we meet Mira and Grim, and explore what troupe play means in the context of Perseverance
Dust Runner Blues (Part 1) – Building a Smuggler Crew for QuestWorlds
Meet the crew of the Dust Runner in this two-part character creation deep dive for QuestWorlds. Part 1 introduces the setting, the ship, and the first two members of the crew.
Factions and Figures of Perseverance: Secret Societies & Fringe Movements
The hidden hands shaping Perseverance from the shadows, from doomsday cults to rogue scientists and secret rebels.
Adventure Spot: Iron Mesa – Blood and Riches Beneath the Dust
Adventure Spots give GMs the tools to create high-stakes, narrative-rich encounters. This entry explores Iron Mesa, a plateau where miners dig for fortune, corporations fight for control, and the land itself threatens to swallow them all whole.
Community Keywords in Perseverance
Community Keywords define relationships, affiliations, and the connections that shape characters in the Perseverance setting.
The Hazards of Frontier, Part 2 – Creatures and Wild Dangers
On Perseverance, survival isn’t just about outdrawing an opponent—it’s about outlasting the world itself.
The Hazards of Frontier, Part 1 – Surviving the Elements
On Perseverance, survival isn’t just about outdrawing an opponent – it’s about outlasting the world itself.
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