Psychopomp is another of the many initial/proto game designs that Justin is musing over and playtesting, and he wanted to make sure it got into the scorching too. I had to think pretty hard about how to go into it, because it fits so strongly into a particular aesthetic and an existing set of variables, that I couldn't see any way to address it "on its own." So I took a risk, setting the whole conversation as a series of comparisons with existing games.
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Posted by: Ron Edwards
03 Mar 2019
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The topic is group preparation, when you spend some time together creating and customizing the setting and situation. Whether it's a pitch, a series of rules steps,a suggestion-and-approval process, or anything like that - we hit it from a lot of angles and a lot of examples.
Joining me are Ray, Herman, Ángel, Santiago, and Moreno, for what appears to be my first real success at production for a group activity. At last, no tiny head.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
16 Apr 2018
Games: Cold Soldier, Spark, Primetime Adventures, My Life with Master, Dialect, Everway, A Taste for Murder, Dirty Secrets, InSpectres, Sign In Stranger, The Pool, Universalis, Microscope, in a wicked age ...
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Posted by: Santiago Verón
09 Mar 2018
Games: Fate, SLUG, generic, The call of Cthulhu, FUDGE, Risus, Cold Soldier, systemless, on the fly
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My recent games of Cold Soldier - with Zac, Santiago, Ángel, and Moreno - make a powerful comparison.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
20 Jan 2018
Games: Cold Soldier
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Moreno and I have been meaning to do this for a long time, and finally got around to it: Cold Soldier, knives out.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
20 Jan 2018
Games: Cold Soldier
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Hey, more Cold Soldier in action! This time with Ángel, for a slightly less intercontinental session - Sweden and the U.K. But also, like the session with Santiago, placed in reference to a Spanish-speaking setting, based on Angel's home city of Madrid.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
20 Jan 2018
Games: Cold Soldier
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A couple of months ago, I invited patrons to play Bret Gillan's game Cold Soldier with me, using my slight re-write of the text (no rules revision; see attached), and to talk about it. Santiago and I did so shortly afterward, via Skype between Sweden and Argentina.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
20 Jan 2018
Games: Cold Soldier
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