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.
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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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... 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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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."
Posted by: Ron Edwards
09 Jul 2018
Games: Exalted, RuneQuest, Champions, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, TFT: Melee, Over the Edge, Amber, Sorcerer, The Pool, InSpectres, Burning Wheel, The Riddle of Steel, Primetime Adventures, Blades in the Dark, My Life with Master, Dogs in the Vineyard, Spione, Circle of Hands, Lovecraftesque, Dirty Secrets, Mongrel, Undying, Zero, Hero Wars, Castle Falkenstein, Lace & Steel, Comme Il Faut
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"Everyone knows" what a relationship map is, but they're definitely not all the same thing, especially with these variables exposed:
Posted by: Ron Edwards
17 Jun 2018
Games: Sagas of the Icelanders, Sorcerer, The Sorcerer's Soul, Resistor, Circle of Hands, Sprawl, High Fantasy, Legend of the five rings, Amber, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, Ganakogok, Pendragon, King of Sartar, Champions, Microscope, Deadlands, The Watch, Urban Shadows, It's Complicated, GURPS Goblins, Dogs in the Vineyard, Undying, Monsterhearts
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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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