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The invisible rules of role-playing; character; plot; drama
I don't think I've seen this revision of Markus Montola's article, before: The Invisible Rules of Role-playing".
Looking over it again, this jumped out at me:
It is important to understand that a diegetic identity and a movie character are fundamentally different structures. The movie character is an external entity interpreted by the spectator, ( Read more... ) -
Alexander Macris on Sandbox Play
I just came across a series of posts by Alexander Macris where he lays out his GMing philosophy, and I find that my views are very similar to his. Possibly the best way to locate all his "Check for Traps" posts would be through the section at the bottom of this page.
So far I've found at least one useful nugget. In "It's not your story", Macris ( Read more... ) -
Interview with David Weseley
I haven't listened to it yet, but since I've collected a lot of links about Braunstein already, I'll add this one.
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Types of adventure design
For a long while I've been wanting to write up a model of adventure & setting design for some types of campaign that I want to run. I was influenced by John Kim's list of adventure models; this thread from theRPGsite is also worth a look ( Read more... ) -
Old school roundup
Rob Conley maintains a collection of old school links at his Bat in the Attic site. Also check his blog, which has some excellent writeups on creating a sandbox campaign. -
free mapping programs
While reading a bit about Hexographer, I stumbled upon a review with pretty strong negative points about the program. Now, it turns out that Hexographer's programmer, Joe, has since addressed some of those issues. See the first comment here for Joe's response to the criticisms ( Read more... ) -
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Concerning my previous post, "irony" or distance, where I referenced something that Chris Lehrich said, I found the exact passage here:
The point is that I do not think immersion (or whatever term you like) is what it claims to be, or what people claim of it. Here I'm with Fang: I don't think people immerse in quite the way they imagine themselves ( Read more... ) -
"irony" or distance
In case you haven't yet stumbled across Zak's Playing D&D With Porn Stars, it's probably the most interesting RPG blog at the moment. Not only the immediate subject, but the writing and the thought that goes into it.
Right now I'd like to focus on one post, Like Playing Monopoly With Squatters, which brought to mind a much earlier thread on RPG. ( Read more... ) -
Immersion--how did we get here?
I've been working up a discussion of several current threads on "immersion" but I have a thought I want to share immediately, partly in hopes that someone else might be able to give pointers for some research.
If you'd like some more background it might help to link to a couple PDF articles:
Immersion, Flow And The Experiences Of Game Players ( ( Read more... )
