Jay Dragon (Steve Jackson Games/Possum Creek Games) Interview - Seven Part Pact

I recently spoke with Jay Dragon, the creator of Seven Part Pact, Wanderhome, and Yazeba’s B&B about Seven Part Pact, which recently was successfully funded on Kickstarter for more than a million dollars. We spoke the final day of the Kickstarter, and I asked her questions about summoning 1,001 imps, gnostic esotericism, mechanical maximalism, invisible womanhood, and more. You can read my initial review of Seven Part Pact here. If you want to make a late pledge on Kickstarter, you can do so here. This interview was lightly edited for readability.I saw that your mother, Jen Dragon, is an antique map restorationist and the artist for your hand-illuminated Orrery. Did growing up with a map restorationist/artist/curator as your mother shape the way you worldbuild or your internal topography? How do you think about maps and their aesthetics?What a great question. I've been obsessed with maps ever since I was a little kid. I remember sitting on the floor of my mom's studio while she…