Ever since Sean talked to me about consulting for his project The Empire of the Dragon Lotus, I've been looking through old files and papers for the earliest work by that name that I remembered from him, fifteen to seventeen years ago. I wanted to review some points of interest - especially since what he was working with now seemed to me pale or lacking in spark, at least as I'd recalled being there, if not what exactly.
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Posted by: Ron Edwards
09 Mar 2021
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Peluutin Palavaa pyörää (Burning wheel) joskus kauan sitten. Minun piti kertoa pelaajille (taustaa perinteisissä roolipeleissä ja D&D:ssä ja ehkäpä Menneisyyden varjojen kanssa) hahmonluonnista.
Posted by: Tommi
14 Jan 2021
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Part of hobby mythology concerns role-playing's origins as bringing tighter focus into table-top wargaming, such that within this or that battalion, or aboard this or that vehicle, the group can look closer and see Sergeant Bob or whoever running around, being a character, having opinions, and doing things.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
24 Nov 2020
Games: Sorcerer, Warhammer, Crimson Empire, Burning Wheel, Burning Empires, Legend of the five rings, Circle of Hands, Dreams of Fire, Godsend Agenda, Mausritter, Savage Worlds, Legendary Lives, Pendragon, Dogs in the Vineyard, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition, Reign
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Justin Nichol and I continue our discussion, or training, regarding game design. This session (in 5 videos) delves into the way we talk / the way we roll. The topic shifts quite logically from whether & when describing things colorfully works, to gaudy and painful consequences of moment-by-moment decision-making.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
09 Dec 2018
Games: Wushu, Tunnels & Trolls, Dogs in the Vineyard, Primetime Adventures, Cyberpunk, Trollbabe, Venus 2041, Sorcerer, Champions, Kinfolk
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I've been working up a Design curriculum for role-playing for a long while, so when Justin Nichols approached me for a game design discussion that leaned toward mentoring, I accepted without reservation.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
24 Nov 2018
Games: Kinfolk, Dogs in the Vineyard, Lace and Steel, Vampire: the Masquerade, Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Apocalypse World
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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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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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A little about our group, because I think it's pertinent here - we're all active members of the LDS church, so we're more than passingly familiar with the source material that Dogs in the Vineyard builds on. We've been in a long-running (3 year) D&D game together, but someone wasn't going to be able to make this session and there wasn't a good alternate date, so I pitched the idea of running DitV for the remaining players, intended as a one-shot. Several of them haven't ever ro
Posted by: daveyounce
11 Feb 2018
Games: Dogs in the Vineyard
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