Adept Play
Adept Play
Category: Character death
Death is a common event in fiction but has a difficult history in roleplaying. This section concerns the procedures and the experiences of characters dying, and how the event relates to continuing to play.
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Citadel of Time Play Test: It Plays Fast; Time Travel is Weird
I want to talk a bit about a play test session for a game I am designing. The game is called Citadel of Time and it goes something like this: Trapped in the Citadel, you pursue missions to retrieve graels for the Castellan’s Great Project. Moving to different points in time, your success or failure…
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Dead protagonists, fleeting memories
Psychopomp is another of the many initial/proto game designs that Justin is musing over and playtesting, and he wanted to make sure it got into the scorching too. I had to think pretty hard about how to go into it, because it fits so strongly into a particular aesthetic and an existing set of variables,…
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Change, die, change some more
Dustin was intrigued by my statements in our first consulting session about character improvement, as well as being suspicious that I would start maundering about relationships as reward enough. I was able to surprise him a little, and the discussion was able to expand quite sensibly into his more general design regarding character death. A…