This was at a small convention some years ago (between 3 and 6, I would say), in the middle of nowhere, Finland. The game master and the other players were all strangers to me. There was maybe three or four players. I went in to fill the table, anyways, as I did with Savage worlds in the same con, too.
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Posted by: Tommi
14 Oct 2020
Games: Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhun kutsu
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It’s been a while, but the new Discord functions are serving my needs to renew Monday Labs! To review the concept, these are discussion topics which patrons (any level) can participate in.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
20 May 2020
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Zac has not retreated from his call that IIEE (intent, initiation, execution, effect) is the "beating heart of the activity," and Manu - the very soul who prompted this discussion at the Forge fifteen years ago - is still on task. Armed with these stalwarts, we embark upon another Monday Lab to investigate best practices.
Zac began it with this message:
Posted by: Ron Edwards
13 Dec 2019
Games: Dungeons and Dragons Holmes 1977, Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition, Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition, Street Fighter, 7th Sea, Call of Cthulhu, Gloomhaven, Star Wars, Sun and Storm, Apocalypse World, Warhammer, Sorcerer, The Clay That Woke, The Riddle of Steel
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Sometimes people email me with questions. Since I don't know them, and don't know the (sometimes) complicated process that led to them deciding to ask, I have to ask dense-seeming questions back in order to know what they're talking about before I can answer anything, or know if I can answer at all.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
23 Oct 2019
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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 his work, with a little bit of reminiscence occasionally. I don't have much to add except for these:
Posted by: Ron Edwards
26 Nov 2018
Games: Stormbringer, Call of Cthulhu, Hero Wars, HeroQuest, RuneQuest, Pendragon, Fading Suns, Ghostbusters, Legend of the five rings, Circle of Hands, Prince Valiant
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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: The role of the roll and Emergent plot techniques, which have led me to a generally larger argument.
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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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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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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The comparison has been around for a long time; I first encountered it in an early edition of RuneQuest. It may even have entered that status of "everyone knows that," but I haven't run into much reflection on its content.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
25 Aug 2018
Games: RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, Sorcerer, World of Darkness
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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 lack in many cases), and emergent plot.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
11 Jun 2018
Games: Warhammer, Call of Cthulhu, Tremulus, Psychosis: Ship of Fools, Sorcerer, Over the Edge, Estimated Prophet, Dread, Cthulhu Dark, Vampire: the Masquerade, Mage, The Book of Madness, Shattered Dreams, Wildest Dreams, Asylum, Unknown Armies, Cyberpunk, Kult, Bite Me, Don't Rest Your Head, The Masks of Nyarlathotep, InSpectres, Champions, Headspace, Khaotic, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Robots & Rapiers, A Penny for Your Thoughts, Bluebeard's Bride, Shadows, Little Fears, Monsterhearts
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