I've posted a few times about previous games using the Spirit of the Century rules, collected under my SotC Tag. Recently, though, I've wrapped up my first run of it using the defined setting - the 1920s, playing members of the Century Club. We played about 10 sessions, rotating who GMed. Daniel made an extended blog post about it, along with a ( Read more... )

So a while back, in December 2005, I had posted "What makes a good celebration?" -- where I discussed the idea of making a good celebration and applying that to RPGs.

I now turn back to that in light of some of the revisiting of Ron Edward's GNS theory -- notably Chris Lehrich's "A GNS Question", plus some Story Games threads including complaints ( Read more... )

I am getting into the details of how to adapt Spirit of the Century to our campaign "Dragons of the Yellow Sea". Background information on the campaign can be found on my nascent web page and on the Campaign Wiki. Basically, I'm mixing Korean history and the Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik for the campaign. They are roughly a take-off of ( Read more... )

So this weekend I played a one-shot game set in the Firefly/Serenity universe using the Spirit of the Century rules. This was partly a chance to play in Firefly/Serenity, which a number of people expressed interest in, and also a test run of the rules. We didn't end up testing the rules very much, though we learned the basics, but we had a lot of ( Read more... )

So more on Spirit of the Century. A bit of news about it. Brian Isikoff spoke about the SotC game that he game-mastered on Episode #12 of his podcast, 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction. This is the same game I mentioned in my last post, Women of the Century, where I played the woman reporter Cat Sullivan ( Read more... )

So there was some recent controversy over Spirit of the Century, starting I think with peaseblossom's post on Friday about SotC entitled Pulp, gender, genre, which has garnered well over a hundred comments.

drivingblind responded in comments, then had his own summary That thread, where he "So at the heart of all the hullaballoo portion of things was how the art was done ( Read more... )