Consulting

CONSULTING

Here's where I post about my current role-playing game design consulting, with the permission of the clients. Sometimes it's a text piece, sometimes it's video or audio. Sometimes it's a discussion, and sometimes it's a playtesting session. Check out the Testimony and What I Do items below to see what it's about.

If you want to become a client, please click on the "Come into the Lab" link to contact me for initial discussion.
If we agree it's a good fit, then the fee is $100 (~925 SEK; ~90 Euro) for three sessions.

To Crawl or not to Crawl

Tor and I continue our discussion of his embryonic, not-5th-anymore fantasy adventure design. We talk about inspiration/behavior mechanics, the large context for play I call the Crawl (with juicy game references), and the importance of making it your own, gloriously embarrassing fantasy.

Posted by: Ron Edwards

19 Feb 2018

Games: Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition, Dungeons and Dragons Mentzer 1985, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Torchbearer, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Tunnels and Trolls, Elfs

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Finding direction

Here's the first consulting session with BPG, author of Directions Storyplaying System, of two sessions we've done which includes a pretty detailed amount of "let's play" across two of them. I found working with this system simultaneously with Tales of Entropy to be a little challenging, as they share the rhetorical philosophy of design and play, but fortunately they turn out to be rather different.

Posted by: Ron Edwards

17 Feb 2018

Games: Directions Storyplaying, Hillfolk, Malandros

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To get a diamond, you crush the coal

I've stitched together two consulting sessions with Petteri Hannila, the author of Tales of Entropy. The first part is audio only, but please view rather than listen, because I've filled it all with visual content. I'm beginning to make these sessions work both privately and publicly.

Posted by: Ron Edwards

15 Feb 2018

Games: Tales of Entropy, Soap, Universalis, Ganakagok, Spione, Primetime Adventures, shock:, Sorcerer, in a wicked age ...

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Proto-concept from D&D play

The absolutely nascent stage of game design sometimes isn't any different from how you found yourself spinning some feature of some other game you happened to be playing. One may even "know" that hey, wherever I go with this will be something different, even when still thinking so closely to the primary experience that it's pretty much the same as tweaking it at the table.