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Tag: Tales of the Round Table
An Arthurian fantasy game by Zac Porcu and Jann Porcu, published by their company Mythweaver Games (in production).
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Designing for Misunderstandings?
I’m following up on a recent Discord conversation at Adept Play on the topic of designing RPGs in terms of experiences that the designer wants the players to have. I also want to make my concerns about this clear, as I think I haven’t articulated myself very well about this topic over the years. The…
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Back to Basics: Designing Tales of the Round Table
Introduction At one point my wife said, in reference to having powerful roleplaying experiences, “seeing is believing…and only seeing is believing.” She meant that you can talk all the RPG theory you want, but that ultimately if you haven’t experienced it at the table, you couldn’t really get it. Ron has mentioned (or despaired?) about…
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That’s how you unfriend people in the Middle Ages
Given the ambitious purpose of Tales of Round Table, it’s useless merely to read and opine about it – one has to do it. But then again, given that the purpose concerns first-time and, preferably, entirely naive users, perhaps any of us “trying it out” is compromised past the point of utility. I’m not that…
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Designing the introductory teaching game
Patrons will recognize Zac Porcu as the instigator and interlocutor in the huge discourse on role-playing that made available to them a few years ago, and viewers here may recall the Sorcerer Musik game that he and Jann played in. He and Jann are now working on a role-plyaing game composed of easily-used cards transported…