Showing posts with label Doylist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doylist. Show all posts
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Levels of Trust in RPGs

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When you start playing tabletop RPGs with new people you quickly start figuring out the level of trust that's the norm in the group - ho...
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Monday, 20 January 2020

What do you do? What do you want to accomplish? Why do you do it? Three core questions for PC actions

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A good part of any RPG session revolves around character actions, asking questions like "a goblin jumps out of a bush with a sword, wha...
Saturday, 14 December 2019

The game is not about that - iHunt, money, and mechanic as a metaphor

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Recently, my group and I  ran a one-shot of the iHunt RPG . It's a game about being a monster hunter in the gig economy. You're perp...
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Sunday, 8 December 2019

Talk about your game and communicate with each other!

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In the vein of the last post , let's talk about another important thing that doesn't seem to be hammered in often enough - communica...
Monday, 2 December 2019

Agree on your game's vision before you start playing

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Over the years, my group has learned that it's important to nail one thing down before a game starts - its vision, an agreed vision of ...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Punch me in the face for XP - the failure of CoD beats system

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Chronicles of Darkness  is a pretty great series of games. It fixed a lot of things that were wrong with the oWoD and nWoD series and added...
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Sunday, 11 February 2018

The Doylist choices in role play games

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In the culmination of  a recent game of Stars Without Number  an interesting trope sneaked up on us. We were fighting the cartoonish villai...
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