Sean Hillman and I discuss some confusing things about situations in play, specifically, what does preparation have to do with them. Seems easy, right? You prep it, then the group plays it - hey, the real (digital, video) games do it all the time, so we should just do that, right?
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Posted by: Ron Edwards
27 Mar 2020
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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.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
17 Mar 2020
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Zac has not retreated from his call that IIEE (intent, initiation, execution, effect) is the "beating heart of the activity," and Manu - the very soul who prompted this discussion at the Forge fifteen years ago - is still on task. Armed with these stalwarts, we embark upon another Monday Lab to investigate best practices.
Zac began it with this message:
Posted by: Ron Edwards
13 Dec 2019
Games: Dungeons and Dragons Holmes 1977, Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition, Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition, Street Fighter, 7th Sea, Call of Cthulhu, Gloomhaven, Star Wars, Sun and Storm, Apocalypse World, Warhammer, Sorcerer, The Clay That Woke, The Riddle of Steel
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Dan and I go way back although we hadn't met or interacted directly before; he was in at some of the earlier Forge days and has good memories. It's nice to talk with someone with those.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
28 Nov 2019
Games: Primeval Veil, Pendragon, Sorcerer, Puppetland
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Sometimes people email me with questions. Since I don't know them, and don't know the (sometimes) complicated process that led to them deciding to ask, I have to ask dense-seeming questions back in order to know what they're talking about before I can answer anything, or know if I can answer at all.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
23 Oct 2019
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Megan Bennett-Burks and I toss some topics back and forth mainly because we both grapple with them. You'll probably recognize my beefs with crowdfunding, or rather, how it happened to turn out in practice, despite my support for the basic idea; also, my ongoing effort to distinguish between text as teaching vs. reference vs. user manual.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
21 Oct 2019
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My maiden run of Sorcerer came to an end late Monday night. Posted by: robowist
14 May 2019
Games: Sorcerer
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I continue to play Sorcerer with three players from The Gauntlet, an online roleplaying game community. We are now through five sessions (plus a session zero) of our “Demons are Social Media Junkies” campaign. For reference, here are the links for our most recent gatherings: Posted by: robowist
15 Apr 2019
Games: Sorcerer
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The mystic world heard my cry, evidently, and has delivered a glowy burst of conversations about what dice do, especially when rolled in profusion. This time I have the pleasure of talking with Ben Milton, in an almost completely unconstructed, non-interview-like chat just because we like these dice things.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
27 Mar 2019
Games: Tunnels & Trolls, Fate, Cyberpunk, Champions Now, Champions, DC Heroes, FUDGE, Dungeons and Dragons sensu lato, Mutant Year Zero, Legend of the five rings, Sorcerer, Munchkin RPG, Marvel Super Heroes, The Whispering Vault
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So we finalized Azur’s character and played our first session.
Character finalization
We finalized Laura’s character while reviewing the rules together so here is the reworked version. We used the Sorcerer & Sword rules for humanity and she traded off 2 points of humanity for 2 points in Will. Her character, Azur, is now:
Posted by: arakn_e
25 Mar 2019
Games: Sorcerer
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