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Uninterpretative: March 2015

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Monday, March 2, 2015. This was originally published on a now-defunct tumblr in November of 2013. I'm reposting it here with significant edits because I took the tumblr down but I still think this is worth reading for those interested. The essay ends with an exploration of the implications of this theorization on a broader social. Given that the whole relies heavily on the Marxian articulation of the dialectic - particularly in the form of the Abstract, the Negation, and the Negation of the Negation ...

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Jono’s Big Flowchart of What Game Are We Playing? | Deeper in the Game

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Deeper in the Game. From geekdom to freedom. Laquo; D&D: Eternal Lunar Lich War. Jono’s Big Flowchart of What Game Are We Playing? October 27, 2010. Jono’s been digging around the Forge Archives and making visual aids. It’s not hard to see how many of those steps disappear when you talk to each other from the beginning. Or how many of those steps are unnecessary hassles that come from, and create more, broken social issues amongst the group. Deeper in the Game for Dummies. 1) What's roleplaying? Let&#039...

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The Irrelevant Conflict Trap | Deeper in the Game

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Deeper in the Game. From geekdom to freedom. Laquo; Better Targeting Flags with Antagonists. Proficiency vs. Mastery. The Irrelevant Conflict Trap. April 19, 2015. This is going to be both a design-theory post, as well as a post for how you can look at systems and think about what they do for you vs. work against you at your table. 8211; the characters deal with problems, and eventually it brings them back to making art or music – so the stories all revolve around people who are creative. What problems a...

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Starting Angles | Deeper in the Game

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Deeper in the Game. From geekdom to freedom. Laquo; Exploiting NDNs, RPG version, part 2082. D&D and not being the target market. March 19, 2015. Decide if the characters have a history or not, and if they are friendly or unfriendly. How do you decide? This is a starting point, not set in stone. Characters can start off liking each other or hating each other, and come around to the other point during play. 1 They helped someone you care about. 3 You both struggled for the same cause. 2 You were on opposi...

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Flag Framing 1: Setting up a Campaign | Deeper in the Game

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Deeper in the Game. From geekdom to freedom. Laquo; Cultural Appropriation: RPG Version. Flag Framing 2: Running the Game. Flag Framing 1: Setting up a Campaign. January 7, 2015. An updated, comprehensive version of this style I’ve written about before. This is a method to run RPGs that allows the GM to improvise and adapt to anything the players do in play, without requiring onerous amounts of prep or years upon years of experience. 8221; and go with that. Before you do any heavy lifting in terms of pre...

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RPGs and definitions | Deeper in the Game

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Deeper in the Game. From geekdom to freedom. July 31, 2010. I got a chance to listen to the Geek Nights Podcast interview of Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen. It’s a fun listen- it’s good to hear folks just talking about games and play in general. What is an rpg? So, at one point, it comes to that classic bugaboo of “What is and isn’t an RPG? 8221;, and Luke and Jared point to the idea that in an rpg, “You make mechanically suboptimal decisions” (John Wick has also said the same thing). When you play chess,...

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Flag Framing 2: Running the Game | Deeper in the Game

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Deeper in the Game. From geekdom to freedom. Laquo; Flag Framing 1: Setting up a Campaign. The Adventures of Yellow Peril and Magical Negro. Flag Framing 2: Running the Game. January 9, 2015. What would be interesting to see the player characters face in challenges and complications right now? That’s your guiding principle. That’s pretty much the whole process in a one-sentence nutshell. It’s very easy. Everything you’ve done as prep in the previous article. 8221; cycle that ends up dragging play along.

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GM Improvisation 101 | Deeper in the Game

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Deeper in the Game. From geekdom to freedom. Laquo; Five Fires – Hiphop RPG. December 31, 2013. Realizing that a lot of the questions I see coming up over and over are on “How do I improvise? 8221; so I figured I should just put it into one place to link people. Less hard than you think. Let’s break that down. Notice that both of these methods require that you “make” something ahead of time, guessing at what will be fun, challenging, and appropriate. When the PCs deal with the things you ...Now let&#8217...

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Exploiting NDNs, RPG version, part 2082 | Deeper in the Game

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Deeper in the Game. From geekdom to freedom. Laquo; Improvising as a GM – Video. Exploiting NDNs, RPG version, part 2082. March 14, 2015. Danielle Miller at lastrealindians.com writes about Monte Cook’s The Strange. When Natives reached out to Monte Cook for dialogue on the issue, they have responded by blocking anyone who questions their RPG. I remember years ago. an indie rpg designer asked me “How to do a game on NDN culture that was respectful? If you find my blog entertaining and valuable, consider ...