Justin Nichol and I continue our discussion, or training, regarding game design. This session (in 5 videos) delves into the way we talk / the way we roll. The topic shifts quite logically from whether & when describing things colorfully works, to gaudy and painful consequences of moment-by-moment decision-making.
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Posted by: Ron Edwards
09 Dec 2018
Games: Wushu, Tunnels & Trolls, Dogs in the Vineyard, Primetime Adventures, Cyberpunk, Trollbabe, Venus 2041, Sorcerer, Champions, Kinfolk
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Hey! Alex cleverly informed Paul and me that he wanted to do an interview after we were trapped in the back seat on the way to Lucca from our apartment (in Viareggio? one of those coastal towns). I can now boast that I was able to unburden my soul to a geisha! Because cosplayers count.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
13 Nov 2018
Games: The Clay That Woke, Sorcerer, Champions
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Usually I wait a week to post Monday Labs, partly to get enough time to edit properly, partly to keep at least something on a regular cycle at the site. But this time I couldn't help myself, it's been only two days and here you go.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
19 Sep 2018
Games: Call of Cthulhu, Tunnels & Trolls, Trail of Cthulhu, Flashing Blades, Apocalypse World, Alternity, Trollbabe, Extreme Vengeance, Champions, Space Master, Blades in the Dark, Planescape, No Country for Old Kobolds, TFT: In the Labyrinth, Usagi Yojimbo
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In the recent Globalism seminar comments, Alan Barclay talked about encountering ditto copies of Dungeons & Dragons probably bootlegged from the GenCon release in 1974.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
06 Sep 2018
Games: The Window, Champions, GURPS, Chivalry & Sorcery, Fantasy Hero, Mage, Dungeons and Dragons 1974, Legend of the five rings
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A conversation with Jonathan Tweet!
Posted by: Ron Edwards
03 Sep 2018
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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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(First time posting here, at Ron's suggestion.)
Posted by: Theron
03 Jul 2018
Games: Champions
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"Everyone knows" what a relationship map is, but they're definitely not all the same thing, especially with these variables exposed:
Posted by: Ron Edwards
17 Jun 2018
Games: Sagas of the Icelanders, Sorcerer, The Sorcerer's Soul, Resistor, Circle of Hands, Sprawl, High Fantasy, Legend of the five rings, Amber, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, Ganakagok, Pendragon, King of Sartar, Champions, Microscope, Deadlands, The Watch, Urban Shadows, It's Complicated, GURPS Goblins, Dogs in the Vineyard, Undying, Monsterhearts
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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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Hello to backers and to interested parties! Here's a place for asking questions and sharing notions about Champions Now, in Kickstarter crazy stage at the time of this posting.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
01 Jun 2018
Games: Champions
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