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Big Bad Con 2011 Report posted
I've finally updated my Convention Reports page with my report on the premiere of Big Bad Con - a new Bay Area gaming convention ( Read more... ) -
LARP Scenarios Posted
I have just put up three of my earlier LARP scenarios on my LARP Page. Their write-ups are rather rough, but the materials are all the ones that I have used in my runs of them. The three scenarios are:- A Royal Celebration (run at Pacificon 2009)
- A Hero's Welcome (run at Pacificon 2010 and AmberCon NorthWest 2010)
- Reunion Wishes (run at ( Read more... )
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Pacificon 2011 Report
I just posted my Pacificon 2011 Report, linked as part of my Convention Reports Page.
On a related note for those in the Bay Area, there is a new convention called Big Bad Con that will be starting October 7-9. The schedule is posted, and signing up for games in advance will start tomorrow at 1:00PM. -
A Critical History of Role-playing Games
I have an essay from a long time ago on the history of RPGs. I have just now linked it into my RPG Theory page, along with a collection of other links on the history of RPGs. Here's the essay itself:
A Critical History of Role-playing GamesI had written it for an old academic call for papers, and I worry that it's too dry. Still, any comments ( Read more... ) -
French essay on role-playing immersion
So Mike Pohjola posted a link to this essay in French by Vincent Choupat,
http://www.electro-gn.com/article-immersionnisme-1ere-partie-l-enfant-batard-des-theories-rolistes-80373168.html
I scanned it via the Google Translate version, but of course that is prone to huge misunderstandings.
The funny part is that the last section is titled "Kim ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on "Wrath of Ashardalon"
I first played Wrath of Ashardalon in May at KublaCon, but I didn't play it again until my summer vacation in New York. I've now played it half a dozen times, adding to another half-dozen times playing the Castle Ravenloft board game. Besides BoardGameGeek, there is an unofficial wiki with a lot of data from both games and the upcoming "Legend of ( Read more... ) -
Procedures of Play and Streamlining
On vacation in New York with my family recently, I played a bunch of boardgames along with a few RPGs. It has me thinking about game procedures and components of play. My son and two of my nephews were enthusiastic about the PS238 RPGIn addition, I ran a humorous live-action game with the larger family. Our board and card games included Magic ( Read more... ) -
State of Indie RPGs and RPGs in general, 2011
Now that Gen Con Indy is over, I was thinking about the state of indie RPGs and of the RPG hobby in general. Besides the Indie RPG Awards, I was inspired by two threads: Steve Dempsey started thread on the Story Games forums about the state of indie RPGs, and on theRPGsite, "Bloody Stupid Johnson" made a thread on Gen Con Event Breakdowns.
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2010 Indie RPG Awards Announced!
The results for the 2010 Indie RPG Awards have been posted on the website and are summarized below. There are voter comments and details at the website ( Read more... ) -
Belated mini-campaign notes
A few belated notes about a mini-campaign I played back in February. run by Mike Sullivan, playtesting his system for "path fencing". The center was an interesting dice pool combat system, that I thought I should share musings about ( Read more... )