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On the ring since 2026-03-20
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- Making a Character You'll Enjoy Playing Winning and losing in the games you can’t win
- Scores are the Least Interesting part of Blades in the Dark Trying your best and the limits of rewards
- Not All Improv is the Same Stunting, fictional positioning, and the tyranny of human intuition
- What is a “game”? English is a Deficient Language Scripts, plots, and expectations, or “narrative providence in a medium that does not work that way”
- Rulings of Cool Stunting, fictional positioning, and the tyranny of human intuition
- Shiny TTRPG links #288 The Game Master and the game as servant
- On The Nature of Treasure The Game Master and the game as servant
- Shiny TTRPG links #257 The Game Master and the game as servant
- The Minimal and Maximal Players Winning and losing in the games you can’t win
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I recently gave up on running a campaign of Exalted. It’s not a friendly parting. I have many complaints with the game, and have no intentions of ever running it again. There’s...Linked by the ring
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In a story, how do you know what should happen next? Well, of the writers I know in my life, the answer to that usually comes down to “hell if I know,” “I realized in a moment...Linked by the ring
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Nowadays, most of my gaming is online. In part, this is a practical decision. A lot of the friends I have who are interested in the same sorts of games I am are scattered...
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I don’t do reviews. I’ve considered it, don’t get me wrong. It’s not as if I’m opposed to reviews as a format, or anything like that. After playing an RPG for some time, I tend...
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The first RPG I ever played was D&D 3.5. It wasn’t my introduction to RPGs. I knew full well what they were like. I had grown up around them, listening in on my family’s...
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I like to make a point of trying new things. I find it’s very easy to feel like I’ve gotten stuck in a rut, and to not have a sense of how to get out of it, or even if there’s...
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I’ve been having an interesting time with Draw Steel recently. At the start of 2023, Dungeons & Dragons’ new Open Gaming License was released, and people got upset. The history...
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So, I’ve been getting back into Exalted recently. Exalted is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. Normally, I don’t traffic in guilt. I think it’s a rather useless emotion,...
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Roleplaying is a creative exercise. I forget this, sometimes. Pretty continuously, as a matter of fact. I play a lot of roleplaying games on a regular basis in my life, and I...
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I’ve been doing some reading on GNS lately. (Please don’t leave, I haven’t even gotten to the bad part yet.) More specifically, I encountered this post by the irreplaceable...