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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 [...]
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 [...]
Jason Morningstar quoting Viola Spolin offers a hook to start talking about roleplaying ‘n’ improv. Since I’m really tired now (gaming night), I can only take the very first step along what could be and may well end up as a thousand miles of posts.
One confounding factor is that not only is (tabletop) [...]
I want to talk about Dogs in the Vineyard in light of some discussions here recently. And I want to talk about what I see as some of its limits and even flaws, despite that fact that I love it at least as much as any game. I’ve been known to say that Graham [...]
I will now tell you why everybody roleplays. I don’t need any variation on a threefold schema, nor will I carefully hedge my claims. My theory covers everyone ever including you. Especially you.
People roleplay to feel.
There, that wasn’t so hard. You will object that I haven’t said much, like for instance, “to feel [...]
I disagree with Vincent Baker reluctantly because he’s pretty smart, and often I decide I don’t disagree with him after all. But I have a cavil about his recent renewal of the assertion that “the purpose of an rpg’s rules is to create the unwelcome and the unwanted in the game’s fiction.” (Which harks [...]
Discussion on the previous post touched on social systems. I’m in the group of gamers who are “over” social “conflict” qua conflict, mechanically speaking. My reasons are close to Malcolm Sheppard’s: it often has the wrong flavor to it, and it’s also often a morally questionable, or downright vile. Treating a marriage proposal as my [...]
Make new friends
But eat the old
They’re delicious
Either hot or cold
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As 20 by 20 Room eases quietly into its Second Act, here’s a personal selection of noteworthy posts from Act One. A couple of them aren’t [...]
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