It was my 50th birthday last week, so here are 50 lessons I’ve learned about roleplaying. Some of them might be short lessons! If one of these jumps out as...
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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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Radical Transparency
Today's thing is "Which game mechanic inspires your game the most?" Weird question once you get out of the trad/conventional play bubble, but it did get me thinking. Mostly I got hung up on "what even is a mechanic?"
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Attaboys/girls
Attaboys/girls
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Reacting vs Responding
There's a good bit of parenting advice that lodged itself in my head once a long while ago, that when possible we should respond to our kids rather than react to them. It's mostly aspirational; parents are human and we totally react to stuff all the time. But it's a…