Last October 31st, I went to the first conference of the Italian role-playing games authors, which has been held during the Lucca Comics & Games 2018 fair, and to which I partook with a small speech with the same title of this post, and with the following abstract:
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Seminar: Hearts & Minds
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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: Daniele Di Rubbo
11 Nov 2018
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Here’s one of the two workshops I presented at Lucca. It was prompted by two short videos I posted here in the past few months: Posted by: Ron Edwards
11 Nov 2018
Games: Sorcerer, Apocalypse World, Fate, Hong Kong Action Theater, Call of Cthulhu, Lovecraftesque, Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition, Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition, Circle of Hands, Savage Worlds, Ganakagok, Dogs in the Vineyard
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In his series of G+ posts based on reading/reflecting on games, Jason D'Angelo mentioned he'd be going through Dungeons & Dragons (1977), by J. Eric Holmes. Unable to resist, I asked him to chat me with about that, and so here we are.
Some of the points in there bear further deep-dives. If you agree, find one or two and say so.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
27 Oct 2018
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Ron’s ideas for Actual Play Reports have started me thinking about the usefulness of his approach for an upcoming experience I’m going to try in my 9th grade English classes.
Posted by: robowist
20 Oct 2018
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Usually I wait a week to post Monday Labs, partly to get enough time to edit properly, partly to keep at least something on a regular cycle at the site. But this time I couldn't help myself, it's been only two days and here you go.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
19 Sep 2018
Games: Call of Cthulhu, Tunnels & Trolls, Trail of Cthulhu, Flashing Blades, Apocalypse World, Alternity, Trollbabe, Extreme Vengeance, Champions, Space Master, Blades in the Dark, Planescape, No Country for Old Kobolds, TFT: In the Labyrinth, Usagi Yojimbo
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The Games and Education podcast series by Keenan Kibrick is no small thing! I am very happy to be invited for a conversation there, and even more so about morality, explicit content, real-world emotions, and boundaries. That's what my 2003 publication Sex & Sorcery was all about.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
07 Sep 2018
Games: Sorcerer, Sex & Sorcery
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In the recent Globalism seminar comments, Alan Barclay talked about encountering ditto copies of Dungeons & Dragons probably bootlegged from the GenCon release in 1974.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
06 Sep 2018
Games: The Window, Champions, GURPS, Chivalry & Sorcery, Fantasy Hero, Mage, Dungeons and Dragons 1974, Legend of the five rings
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A conversation with Jonathan Tweet!
Posted by: Ron Edwards
03 Sep 2018
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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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Apologies for the buzzword ...
The idea here was to examine our respective region when we encountered role-playing, and to think about how role-playing got there, and in what form. It's only four people, representing two slightly different parts of Califoria divided as well by about six years (mid-70s vs. early 80s), the Netherlands at about the same time, and Argentina during the 1990s.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
26 Aug 2018
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