Showing posts with label Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theory. Show all posts
Saturday, May 21, 2016

The curious anger against The Forge

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I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was t...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Flavour of the week - converting between gamesystems

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In between the Fate game I play in, and my resurging love of BRP, I think about these trends in converting games to your favourite system. ...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Using the right tool for the job

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Yesterday I was browsing my collection of game books. Some of them I don't read that often, and almost forgets about. I have a few... ...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Making Star Wars feel like Star Wars

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After thinking about how some science fiction novels differ from my sf gaming, and how a simple western can be told very differently, my att...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

More thoughts on the impact of a story

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In my former post on the matter, I mused about how different the impact a really good science fiction novel had on me, compared to a game s...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

When do you need a game system to support your play?

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A short while ago I read a forum post where someone claimed the game 3:16 did not work for them. I played it a few times and thought it wor...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Emergent Story - in multiple ways

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I was listening to an episode of the  The Walking Eye podcast recently. It sometimes has moments of pure brilliance, and I was hoping to ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

How to write adventures - I keep talking about scene based design

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I'm continuing my thinking on adventure design, and have now come to how I've planned out my Savage Worlds scenarios. Since I've...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

How to write adventures - I keep talking about location based design

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So, what were my experiences from Location Based Design for my adventure? I had decided to play a game of Mutant , one of the earliest gam...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

How to write adventures - some attempts at consolidating ideas

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I've listened to quite a few podcasts  where the topic have been how to write convention scenarios. That combined with my experiences ru...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Character personality as crunch

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I read a post on The Douchey DM , by Stu from Happy Jacks RPG Podcast . He posts on the topic of whether character personality chould be par...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

RIP Professor Barker

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Professor M A R (“Phil”) Barker died just recently. I was away from home, cramming my head full with new skills for my gong fu, when I frien...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

The question of free will - part two

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So, I started off with the situation where a PC want to convince a NPC to to do something. Let's now look at the much thornier issue, in...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The question of free will - part one

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I saw a new episode show up in the feed from Happy Jacks rpg podcast and downloaded greedily to devour my new favourite show. It turned out...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

How to be a good GM

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Since the whole blogosphere is talking about how to be a better GM I am going to toss in my two cents in the ring as well. I guess mine have...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

What do we do when we play?

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I remember seeing this a short while back, and I saved the quote. Well put, well put indeed. We don't explore characters; we explore du...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

The point of dice

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I'm doing some prep work for my new game, and one thing I'm reading is Burning Wheel . In this amazing game Luke Crane writes someth...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

The point of NPCs, and styles of play

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This morning I met an old friend whom I used to game with. We chatted a bit about life, work and family before delving deep into our gaming ...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Randomness and fun - old/new school

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I just revisited some old bookmarks and found two interesting ones I wanted to share. Compare Zachary Houghton and Vincent Baker. RPG Bl...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

What do you have rules for?

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Ponder this. Imagine someone trying to roleplay, but discovering that it wasn't as fun as it could have been. Now, how about we create...