Our topic this time is the length of play as it relates to game rules. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s not as simple as seeing what the rules say and obeying them; people play long or short in defiance of those rules (when present) all the time. The question is when or how the rules facilitate the decision to continue to play.
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Posted by: Ron Edwards
31 Jan 2019
Games: Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Sorcerer, Trollbabe, Elfs, It Was a Mutual Decision, Spione, Shahida, Circle of Hands, Kinfolk
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This discussion took place a while ago, at the end of February. I wasn't sure it had enough content to merit posting, but as it turned out, BPG found it to be a breakthrough. We've done an intense further session about that, which is tied into the Boiling Pitch seminar and you'll see it, or a text version, soon.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
17 Apr 2018
Games: Directions Storyplaying, Lasers & Feelings, Spione, Sorcerer, Durance, shock:, Apocalypse World, Fiasco
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Who could have asked for a better inadvertent experiment in comparative design? Four consulting clients, one specific historical ideal of role-playing experience, similar influences and familiarities with games and ideas, resulting in four non-converging, distinctive games. Directions Storyplay, Tales of Entropy, Be-Movie, and this one, Jeff Slater’s House of Spiders.
Here’s a summary of some of their comparative features.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
06 Mar 2018
Games: House of Spiders, Amber
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