You’ll see a mention in the video as well as in the comments to one of Robbie’s playtesting posts that I am staying a little hands-off with the Weighting Rooms consulting, which may seem like a “but isn’t getting hands-on the point” question.
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Posted by: Ron Edwards
30 Jan 2019
Games: Weighting Rooms, Best Friends, The Shab Al-Hiri Roach, InSpectres, Annalise, Zombie Cinema, Kagematsu
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Intent, Initiation, Execution, Effect - fictional things, probably the single most direct fictional content to be interfaced with real-people speaking and using rules, in the hobby. In a recent dialogue with Zac Porcu, he called it "the beating heart of role-playing."
Posted by: Ron Edwards
09 Jul 2018
Games: Exalted, RuneQuest, Champions, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, TFT: Melee, Over the Edge, Amber, Sorcerer, The Pool, InSpectres, Burning Wheel, The Riddle of Steel, Primetime Adventures, Blades in the Dark, My Life with Master, Dogs in the Vineyard, Spione, Circle of Hands, Lovecraftesque, Dirty Secrets, Mongrel, Undying, Zero, Hero Wars, Castle Falkenstein, Lace & Steel, Comme Il Faut
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It is crazy how common and how widely-developed craziness is, in role-playing. As much as world-building, as much as combat options, as much as magic systems, this is a definite feature of the hobby with its own schools and aims. It is clearly a primary path toward characterization, character development, player agency (through its managed lack in many cases), and emergent plot.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
11 Jun 2018
Games: Warhammer, Call of Cthulhu, Tremulus, Psychosis: Ship of Fools, Sorcerer, Over the Edge, Estimated Prophet, Dread, Cthulhu Dark, Vampire: the Masquerade, Mage, The Book of Madness, Shattered Dreams, Wildest Dreams, Asylum, Unknown Armies, Cyberpunk, Kult, Bite Me, Don't Rest Your Head, The Masks of Nyarlathotep, InSpectres, Champions, Headspace, Khaotic, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Robots & Rapiers, A Penny for Your Thoughts, Bluebeard's Bride, Shadows, Little Fears, Monsterhearts
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The topic is group preparation, when you spend some time together creating and customizing the setting and situation. Whether it's a pitch, a series of rules steps,a suggestion-and-approval process, or anything like that - we hit it from a lot of angles and a lot of examples.
Joining me are Ray, Herman, Ángel, Santiago, and Moreno, for what appears to be my first real success at production for a group activity. At last, no tiny head.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
16 Apr 2018
Games: Cold Soldier, Spark, Primetime Adventures, My Life with Master, Dialect, Everway, A Taste for Murder, Dirty Secrets, InSpectres, Sign In Stranger, The Pool, Universalis, Microscope, in a wicked age ...
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