Andy Goodman's Expedition to the Grizzly Peaks podcast is a worthy artifact - essentially, this guy missed all the ins & outs of the role-playing scene for about twenty years, mid-80s to mid-00s, and now he's looking at today's scene in mingled love, curiosity, and understandable bemusement.
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Posted by: Ron Edwards
17 Mar 2020
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... Has This Been Goin' On? Alternative equally music-meming title: My Only Friend, the End. Or, wait, how about, Stop! In the Name of What?
This is about how long we play, in real time. It can refer to the length of a session, how many sessions relative to a given fictional situation, how long
Posted by: Ron Edwards
03 Sep 2018
Games: RuneQuest, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, My Life with Master, Hero Wars, Amber, Burning Wheel, Everway, Fiasco, Kult, Apocalypse World, Monsterhearts, Primetime Adventures, Sorcerer, Spione, Swords of the Skull-Takers, Clover, Stock Birmingham 0:0, They're Onto Me: Red, Bacchanal, Zombie Porn, The Mountain Witch, The Beast, The Quiet Year, Chronicles of Skin
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Intent, Initiation, Execution, Effect - fictional things, probably the single most direct fictional content to be interfaced with real-people speaking and using rules, in the hobby. In a recent dialogue with Zac Porcu, he called it "the beating heart of role-playing."
Posted by: Ron Edwards
09 Jul 2018
Games: Exalted, RuneQuest, Champions, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, TFT: Melee, Over the Edge, Amber, Sorcerer, The Pool, InSpectres, Burning Wheel, The Riddle of Steel, Primetime Adventures, Blades in the Dark, My Life with Master, Dogs in the Vineyard, Spione, Circle of Hands, Lovecraftesque, Dirty Secrets, Mongrel, Undying, Zero, Hero Wars, Castle Falkenstein, Lace & Steel, Comme Il Faut
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It is crazy how common and how widely-developed craziness is, in role-playing. As much as world-building, as much as combat options, as much as magic systems, this is a definite feature of the hobby with its own schools and aims. It is clearly a primary path toward characterization, character development, player agency (through its managed lack in many cases), and emergent plot.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
11 Jun 2018
Games: Warhammer, Call of Cthulhu, Tremulus, Psychosis: Ship of Fools, Sorcerer, Over the Edge, Estimated Prophet, Dread, Cthulhu Dark, Vampire: the Masquerade, Mage, The Book of Madness, Shattered Dreams, Wildest Dreams, Asylum, Unknown Armies, Cyberpunk, Kult, Bite Me, Don't Rest Your Head, The Masks of Nyarlathotep, InSpectres, Champions, Headspace, Khaotic, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Robots & Rapiers, A Penny for Your Thoughts, Bluebeard's Bride, Shadows, Little Fears, Monsterhearts
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Part 5, final video out of five. Presenting a couple of definitions, asking a few pointed questions, copping to what I think.
Let the rumpus start.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
10 Apr 2018
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Finding D&D, part 4! This one is scaring me. Remember how I warned that the one about fundamentalism and the OSR wouldn't be insulting? I fear this one can't say the same, and even if it doesn't go too far, I know it's going to gore a lot of oxen.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
05 Apr 2018
Games: Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Finding D&D, Arduin Grimoire, GURPS, GURPS Fantasy, Lejendary Adventures, Skyrealms of Jorune, Talislanta, Dangerous Journeys, Warhammer, Forge: Out of Chaos, Hahlmabrea, Legendary Lives, Earthdawn, RuneQuest, Numenera, Torchbearer, DragonQuest, Tunnels & Trolls, 13th Age, Ysgarth, Harnmaster, Empire of the Petal Throne
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Here's part 1 of my series "Finding D&D," or rather, my first pass at working it up into a formal presentation. I'm looking forward to a fair piece of response for it. There's some history, based on several discussions at my old Adept forum, and a lot of private correspondence since then across a number of people with very different views from one another.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
24 Feb 2018
Games: Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, RuneQuest, Tunnels and Trolls, Boot Hill, Finding D&D, The Arduin Grimoire, Chivalry & Sorcery, Melee, Wizard, Villains & Vigilantes, Champions
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