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As part of the very early work on revising my novel, some free-association on “roleplaying.” Feel welcome to add your own in the comments.
Play pretend
Escapism
Empathy
Cops & robbers
Teaching/learning
INFURIATING: Teaching/learning
Deception
“Trying it on”
Eliot’s thing about putting on the face to meet [...]
Also angry, anxious, ashamed, lonely and other tonalities and harmonics of the negative aspects of Panksepp’s primal circuits. If I try to hear the very beginnings of that song of woe and bother, it probably starts some time around second grade, as just a quiet noodling melody like the [...]
It’s Speak Out With Your Geek Out week! I have some thoughts.
First, awesome! All for it. Something close to ten years ago now, I read a really good piece about presenting your roleplaying hobby to non-gamers without fear, guilt or shame and the various socially dysfunctional behaviors that go with those emotions. That [...]
Doyce Testerman, who I know from the internetz and gamed with a few times when I lived in Colorado, posted awhile back a sweet story of finally getting his mom and family to play a roleplaying game with him:
Still, it’s always been a bit of a sticking point with me; a sour [...]
There isn’t an explicit gaming angle, but Alyssa Rosenberg’s “Feminist Media Criticism, George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire, And That Sady Doyle Piece” seems to have applications for all of us “who want the nerdosphere to be a more progressive place.” I know Rosenberg plays video games, but I’m still efforting [...]
I’m covering another book by Chris A. Field tonight, and there’s one more in the queue after this. (I was originally going to cover both here, but found I wanted to share enough of this one to justify splitting the post.) Fursona II: New Options for Anthropomorphic Heroes is 20 pages long and is $2.99 US [...]
This was originally a True20 supplement and I enthused about it on LiveJournal at the time. Now I’m going to enthuse about it again in its incarnation as a Mongoose RuneQuest supplement. The Survivor’s Guide to the Age of Blood, RuneQuest edition, is a 185-page PDF available at DriveThruRPG for $9.96 US. The setup [...]
This is a follow-up post to “Enhanced Interrogations,” below.
One of the most infuriating experiences in RPG play is when the GM decides to “teach the players a lesson.” (Sometimes the GM imagines he’s teaching the characters a lesson.) Most of us have suffered it from the player side; too many of us have [...]
Today I’ve got a Pathfinder RPG book from Paizo itself, one of the entries in their series of 36-page Companions, each covering a specific place or group in their world of Golarion. Andoran, Spirit of Liberty is $7.99 US for PDF from Paizo. (Paizo does its PDFs well, too, with heavy bookmarking and all. They’re [...]
Two posts on other blogs, one game-related, one not, collided right in front of me this evening.
One is by my friend Julian Sanchez, who blogs professionally about civil liberties, technology, and philosophy. I hesitated identifying him as “my friend Julian Sanchez,” because in Washington DC and environs, and in big-time blogging, the phrase [...]
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