It turned out to be a week for interviews. At long last, I may be conducting this "presence on social media" thing correctly, because people I don't know, working from venues I haven't encountered, have been getting in touch.
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Seminar
What is this table-top role-playing thing? How does it work, what does it do, what kind of designs do which things? I've got some ideas, and so do you. This is where we talk it over.
Some of my posts here present a concept, game title, or a historical hobby event for discussion in the comments, so join in with a will. You'll also find interviews and conversations. (Soon I'll amend the Hearts & Minds blue button so you can post these things on your own.)
I'm also running what I guess I call "labs," which are organized and prepared at the Patreon. I run them on Mondays using Discord, and anyone pledging there can participate when they feel like it. I post the recordings here the following Monday with ongoing discussion in the comments.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
17 May 2020
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Follow-up to this post, June 30, 2020
Posted by: Ron Edwards
14 May 2020
Games: Champions Now, The Whispering Vault, Zero, Extreme Vengeance, Dungeons & Dragons 1977, Bushido
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Here's the follow-up to Conversation: Introducing role-playing, in which Ken Oswald presents an intensive and interactive summary of the hobby as activity. It's hefty, at just under three hours, but full of titles (not summarized here in tags yet) and open doors for further discussion.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
06 May 2020
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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?
Posted by: Ron Edwards
27 Mar 2020
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As part of my recent swim-about in the internets of Glorantha and its associated games, my friend Nick Brooke and I had the chance to mix it up a little! It's regarding the long-standing interpretations of human ethnicities in Glorantha, including those which made it into published form
Posted by: Ron Edwards
22 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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I've finally realized how regularly people ask me to explain RuneQuest, HeroQuest, the Chaosium, and Glorantha, specifically because they've bounced hard off the apparently extensive setting and apprently impenetrably insider-oriented fanbase. It's usually private, and they often present the question as if it's their last fatigued try at finding out what "there" is there.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
17 Feb 2020
Games: RuneQuest, HeroQuest, 13th Age: Glorantha, Mythras
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During one of my consulting sessions, I told Ron one of my major design concerns regarding my current project is the concept of interdependence: it's a game about a group of people fighting things that should be well beyond the possibilities of the common human being. How do they do this? I want one of the answers to be "together".
Posted by: LorenzoC
07 Jan 2020
Games: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition, Dungeon & Dragons 4th edition, Band of Blades, Circle of Hands, Blades in the Dark, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
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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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Fabien Hildwein is one of the enthusiastic participants in the francophone sector of role-playing discourse and design. The thread back to me is probably Christoph Boeckle, who dropped a lot of time and buckets of posts at the Forge, and at some point along the way prompted a similar site (SilentDrift) and scene among French speakers.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
20 Nov 2019
Games: S/Lay w/Me, Murphy's World, Amber, Prosopopee, Le Petits Chose, Freemarket
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