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Legend of the Five Rings
I played Legend of the Five Rings tonight in an interesting scenario by Michael H that put together war, arranged marriages, and courtly maneuvering. There were five pregenerated PCs with name, stats, and the same basic setup: all were honorable unmarried women of the Crane clan friendly with each other. The hook was that we all had marriages ( Read more... ) -
Randomness in RPGs
Via a Story Games thread, I happened across a talk from Gen Con 2012 with James Ernest and Jason Morningstar. Ernest's notes are online, as is a mp3 of the seminar. Part of Ernest's point is here:
Randomness in game design can be broken down into three general categories relating to game design: Cosmetic, biased, and fair randomness ( Read more... ) -
RPGs and a Rape Culture Controversy
I've recently been discussing recent controversy over rape and rape culture in games. I wasn't involved in most of the prior discussion, and when I asked about it, there was a lot of misinformation or confusion over issues. Thus, I am creating a collection of links and information regarding the events in question ( Read more... ) -
DunDraCon report up
I have now posted my DunDraCon report to my convention reports page,
DunDraCon 2013 Report
I ran my pulp villains larp, "Shadow Centurions Assemble!" for the third time - and I will shortly be posting the full larp materials to the larp webpage at
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Past and Upcoming conventions
So I've finally updated my Convention Reports page with at least brief reports on
Gen Con Indy 2012
and
Pacificon 2012
As preview, here are the two games I am running at Big Bad Con in October:
Hellcats & Hockeysticks
St. Erisian's school has stood for over a hundred years and survived war, plague, famine, demonic attack, strange explosions in ( Read more... ) -
Rant: deep+interesting =/= negative+traumatic
Looking over my larp list from the last post, one thing that stands out is that half of them are light and comedic, suitable for pre-teen kids. I think there's a tendency in culture as a whole to view tragedy as more deep and interesting than comedy - particularly if the topics are highly charged and extreme. This is reflected in some of the ( Read more... ) -
Wyrd Con and my larp history
Last weekend I was introduced to Wyrd Con, a interactive storytelling con in southern California now in its third year. It's now listed in my convention reports page. As usual, it's long and over-detailed, being a substitute for my memory.
Wyrd Con 2012 ReportI didn't run anything this time, but I think I might next year. It seems appropriate ( Read more... ) -
Solmukohta 2012 Report
I got back from Solmukohta 2012 in Finland two weeks ago, and I finally got around to finishing my detailed convention report. It's now listed in my convention reports page. It's long and is basically an info-dump of my notes, observations, and a few thoughts.
Solmukohta 2012 ReportI continue to have a swirl of thoughts about larp and role- ( Read more... ) -
Player Feedback and Pecking Order
Earlier this month, on the relatively new blog Gaming as Women, Darla Magdalene Shockley posted about some pitfalls of player feedback mechanics - drawing from experiences with Paranoia XP and Primetime Adventures - in a post called "Game Design and Sexism: Player Feedback Mechanics" . This was a controversial post, and by way of explanation, ( Read more... ) -
Street Game Festival
There is an ongoing festival of "street games" that is going on in San Francisco. I haven't participated in any of them, and will be attending AmberCon NorthWest this weekend. Still, I'm curious about the relation of these with live-action RPGs.
Come Out & Play 2011 San FranciscoCertainly a few of the games sound very much like LARPs such as ( Read more... )