The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game. For creators. English German. Log In Sign Up. Green Ronin Publishing. Project Update: An Interview with N. Jemisin We wanted something special for the last three days of the crowdfunder and here it is: an interview with N. Jemisin herself! Q: Roleplaying games and speculative fiction are close cousins. Do you have any experience with RPGs yourself? My group back then was mostly into adventure with a lot of fighting, which I wasn't much into, but they were my friends.
I had fun with them no matter what or how we were playing. Since then, I've been invited to join a couple of groups, but just didn't have time -- juggling two careers doesn't leave a lot of room for leisure.
Also playing around with world concepts for if I decide to try GMing for the first time. As for bringing the Stillness to tabletop, honestly, I'm still just fascinated by the idea of other people wanting to go to this place where the apocalypse happens every Tuesday! For fun! But I can't wait to see people play it. Q: You incorporated a lot of real-world orogeny, geology, volcanology, and plain physics into your novels. What was the most interesting thing you learned in your research for the Broken Earth?
Mount Rainier. This probably isn't super interesting to other people, but I constantly see character in concepts and natural forces, maybe because I partially grew up along the Gulf Coast where hurricanes have names, and we speak of them like they're people I'd been to Seattle before and just thought, "Ooh, such a pretty mountain. It could wipe out Seattle and Tacoma like that, in a variety of absolutely horrific ways. There are worse volcanic threats out there there's a chance the Yellowstone supervolcano could wipe out humanity , but the specific danger of Rainier is its beauty.
People want to live near it, and I can't blame them. I would love to wake up to the sight of that mountain every day -- but a population that size in the vicinity of a mountain that terrible is a horror movie waiting to happen. Nothing but respect for people who choose to live in such places. I get that the ephemerality of it is part of the appeal. I just prefer for my own natural disasters to be slower-moving, and not so apocalyptic.
