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Category: Monday Labs
Monday Labs were recorded discussions held among members of the Patreon during 2018-2021, concerning various topics and concepts. They have been generally replaced by the Q&A series and by coursework.
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Monday Lab: Halfbreed
The recent discussion in Actual Play has prompted me to what may be quite a lot of pointed looks at racism in role-playing content. I’ve made a little video to set local boundaries & standards for all of them, beginning right here. You’ll be seeing that link again. To repeat one of the points from […]
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Monday Lab: Gray Sage
I cannot as yet summarize or eulogize or otherwise “state” my response to Greg’s death. It wasn’t that much of a surprise, yet was as hard as they all have been. He was a grandmaster of this activity we do, and he was my friend. This five-video discussion is more of a celebration of encountering […]
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Monday Lab: How Long …
… 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 […]
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Monday Lab: [AA]IIEE[EE]!
Intent, Initiation, Execution, Effect – fictional things, probably the single most direct fictional content to be interfaced with real-people speaking and using rules, in the hobby. In a recent dialogue with Zac Porcu, he called it “the beating heart of role-playing.” Briefly: design zone 1 is to establish a linear order and then to carry […]
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Monday Lab: GM Half Full
Looking at the topic of distributing GM-tasks all sorts of different ways, which we all know well, but maybe its widespread use doesn’t reflect enough of its potential. Anyway, although Champions Now is more visible, I’m also working on Cosmic Zap for Chaosium, and the GM-task technique is reeeeeally its own thing for that one. […]
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Monday Lab: The Other Kind of Map
“Everyone knows” what a relationship map is, but they’re definitely not all the same thing, especially with these variables exposed: Whether the player-characters are in it Group preparation vs. single-person construction Criteria for links/connectors I also had prepared more thoughts on the Sorcerer’s Soul method, with the depicted Forbidden Tome map as the example, which […]
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Monday Lab: Nutz R Us
It is crazy how common and how widely-developed craziness is, in role-playing. As much as world-building, as much as combat options, as much as magic systems, this is a definite feature of the hobby with its own schools and aims. It is clearly a primary path toward characterization, character development, player agency (through its managed […]
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Monday Lab: In a Word
Earthsea was clearly on everyone’s mind in early role-playing. Due to rambling, I didn’t include some of the time we spent realizing how many systems and settings dipped into its terms and the organization of magic. It’s also – at first glance – genuinely perfect for fantasy role-playing, as attractive a package as any. You’ve […]
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Monday Lab: DIY Diagram
I like those diagrams so much that I feel lonely about it, and I was getting so irritated with being too personally talky during labs. that I was pleased to find the solution to both. “Bring your own,” I said, and led a little curriculum through making them. And finally that meant the insights from […]