I think that my default tone in discussing games is supportive/hypothetical/creative rather than critical, just because that’s who I am. But if you’d like critique from me, just kinda explicitly flag to me that it’s what you want. I think my “critical” tone is still a hilarious conciliatory one, but I do want the challenge [...]
So I did some online barter an got a copy of old-school Basic D&D (Moldvay) in the mail. Woo! I only flipped through it so far, but the next night, I had this… vision of a missing chapter from Basic D&D. It’s mainly trippy, but I guess it also comes from a glimpse of fantasy-in-D&D [...]
...was quite fun and I’m glad it’s come to my hometown of Morristown, NJ.
I was part of an awesome college spec-fic/games/geekdom group, and it formed a big part of my friend circle and my interests. It’s great to watch new kids roll in, year after year.
On the mailing list, it sounds like many of the RPG enthusiasts are getting together for an RPG Design group, which is also [...]
For quite a while, I was using “story-games” to refer to the larger set of all sociable games which were involved with creating a story. So, RPGs but also improv activities, certain card games, etc. Over time, “story-games” started to refer to a certain class of small-press sorta-non-traditional RPG. This definition totally took hold at [...]
“The Dream Renaissance”. Discusses how many Narrativist-derived (“Story Now”) techniques are sub-optimal for the kind of exploratory Simulationist (“Right to Dream”) games, and basically calls for some more creativity in this direction.
I’m going to describe this system which I once described to JWalt; it’s kinda of a precursor to the poker-based mechanic I posted earlier.
When you’re on a mission, draw a card whenever you’re attempting to make progress on your goals, if you’re delayed/waiting, or whenever the Operator/GM indicates that you should draw.
2-10: Nothing change yet.
J/Q/K: [...]
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