Saturday, 11 December 2021

Play with a purpose - filler content in streams and actual plays, looking at RPG Blender

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Recently I've been watching some RPG Blender  actual play of Exalted 3E  and I've noticed something about a few episodes or scenes -...
Sunday, 26 September 2021

Boundaries, genre conventions and breaking kayfabe in RPGs

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Recently I ran into a post on reddit asking for advice on how to deal with a player having an emotional response and getting depressed over ...
Monday, 16 August 2021

RPG betrayals and the meta game of friendship - the finale of the Crown of Candy

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Recently, I've been watching some Dimension 20 's Crown of Candy series, which was a somewhat ruthless game reminiscent of Game of ...
Friday, 18 June 2021

Failures and fatalities - why Dungeons & Dragons is awful for Actual Plays, looking at Dimension 20

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Recently, I've watched Dimension 20 's Fantasy High Season 1 , and the show's first two episodes really encapsulate why Dungeons...
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Friday, 21 May 2021

Too many NPCs - the importance scale

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A lot of players love getting attached to random NPCs, all of your Boblin the Goblins. Some games encourage that friend recruiting loop. How...
Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Crown of Thunders and incorporating player ideas into the game

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RPGs are an inherently collaborative medium. Often the GM will be put in the position of the authority to shape the world and direct how it ...
Monday, 15 March 2021

Sidereals, Fate, gods and prophecies - morality of a puppet

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Recently, I was playing a character in Exalted vs World of Darkness  that was a Sidereal, a troubleshooter of Fate. Basically, his heroic jo...