Has it really been a month since I last posted? I swear, there’s something about running the Indie Game Reading Club Slack channel that consumes whatever bandwidth I used to have to...
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Fiddling While Rome Burns or Drawing the Magic Circle Anew (probably both: Forbidden Lands session 4)
Last Tuesday we played our fourth session of Forbidden Lands. My heart was — is — so heavy. But on we played. Last week I decided to go all-in on FL’s procedural...
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Push Me, Pull You
Last night we ran our third session of Forbidden Lands. After hewing closely to the game’s campaign materials last session (The Hollows, a sample town in the Gamemaster’s Guide) and grinding against, well, everything...
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A/B Testing: The One Ring vs Forbidden Lands
Yesterday I had an unexpected opportunity to run two similar games side by side. My friends Ralph Mazza (Ramshead Publishing, created Universalis, Blood Red Sands) and Jahmal Brown (indie con rock...
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Forbidden Lands: Cultural Context
A couple things have been nagging me about Forbidden Lands since our first session. They are entirely tied up with the fiction, not the procedures. First: the creators went through a...