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PLAY CONTEST: Rebellion in the Mushroom Kingdom
This is a play contest. It sounded like a good idea. Partially because I don’t know of any having been done before, and partially because I’ve been wanting someone to play this scenario for a while.
THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST DO
Play at least one roleplaying session using the scenario provided below, and post an AP for it. You don’t have to go overboard ( Read more... ) -
Lunar Notes
Inspired by John Harper's GHOST/ECHO and Lady Blackbird, I made Lunar Notes last night:
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Bonedogs update
It seems clear to me, now, that Bonedogs as imagined in the previous post would be best as a play-by-post experience ( Read more... ) -
BONEDOGS: dungeoneering, my way
You're a member of the Order of Bonedogs. You are exploring this old, abandoned house you found out in the wastes. You're looking for things of value to take home with you.
The first floor is like a normal house. But once you go upstairs or downstairs, it gets a little... weird.
There's another problem. You've just realized that someone else is here ( Read more... ) -
DOUBLE CRAZY BICYCLE GO!
WHAT ABOUT A GAME ABOUT CRAZY MADCAP ANIME BICYCLE RACING?
They race everywhere: deserts, mountains, jungles, tundra, haunted castles, volcanoes, everywhere.
Every environment would have a set of Hazards that are drawn from a deck at intervals and placed onto the track. Sand storms, avalanches, anaconda attacks, abominable snowmen, ghosts, lava ( Read more... ) -
[Rustbelt] de-ashcanification stage one: I need your eyes!
So, I've got a draft of a new Rustbelt text. I'm not happy with it yet, but I don't know what to do to fix it. Specifically, I'm not satisfied with the "Playing the Game" and "GM Guide" chapters. And there's a few other issues that I don't feel I've covered properly, like abstraction and scale in resolution, and how the Rust behaves, and how to use ( Read more... ) -
I can't do
THINGS I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING
Numbers indicating ostensible priority, numbers in parentheses indicating my actual will at-the-moment to do it:
1 (5). Continuation of the "Story Made Simple" article
2 (4). The Rustbelt 1st Edition (including artwork)
3 (1). Reading lots and lots of comics as part of my research for MASK
4 (2). Working on MASK, ( Read more... ) -
The Four Wizards
THE FOUR WIZARDS
The king needed a new court magician. The previous one had blown himself, along with two pages, a chambermaid, a horse, and three geese, to hell and breakfast in an unfortunate and tragically avoidable accident of alchemical origin. Therefore, a replacement was in order.
The summons went out to all corners of the kingdom, and it ( Read more... ) -
Story Made Simple, pt. 2
YOUR INSTRUMENT
A musical instrument could be described as a collection of techniques for producing an expression in musical form. That is, you could think of a guitar as a physical object representing the collection of several musical techniques, including barre chords, arpeggio, harmonics, chicken pickin’, bends, rasgueado, the golpe, and so many ( Read more... ) -
Story Made Simple, pt. 1
(crossposted with Story Games)
LIT 101 IN A NUTSHELL
Let’s start with the first thing here: how, generally speaking, is a story created? Five easy steps:
1) Create a fictional character. Or more, if you want, but let’s use one guy for this explanation. We’ll call this guy “the protagonist.”
2) Put the protagonist in an untenable situation ( Read more... )