Workshop

Frame · Work and creation thematic

Craft, invention, mastery – a place where raw material becomes something valuable through skill and patience.

Design question – Imagine your game is set in a workshop. What is made, which material is the most valuable – and what happens if the commission fails?

Reference example – Potion Craft: grinding, mixing, brewing ingredients – the workshop as a laboratory. Patchwork: cutting fabric pieces and putting them together into a quilt, button by button.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Crafting, Building, Repairing, Experimenting
• Typical roles – master/apprentice, client, guild
• Typical spaces – workspace with stations, tools, material stores (→ SP-15)
• Typical conflicts – production, repair, invention, commission

Atmosphere

focused, hands-on, proud, dusty-warm

Coherence

Implied Activities: Crafting, Building, Repairing, Experimenting. Mechanisms: Engine Building (expanding the workshop), Resource Management (materials), Crafting (recipes/plans), Worker Placement (allocating work steps). Ludic Organisational Structures: economic order (production), developmental order (apprenticeship).

Compatible with

• Serenity (AT-02)
• Contemplation (AT-04)
• Breakdown (SI-07)
• Rivalry (SO-02)
• Cult (SO-07)
• Crossroads (SP-15)
• Far Future (TM-06)
• Amid Upheaval (TM-09)

Tension with

• Ocean (TH-03) – An underwater workshop where coral reefs are repaired. Craft meets ecology: every restored reef changes the game’s ecosystem.