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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: December 2016
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Friday, December 30, 2016. Top 10 RPGs For 2017: What I'll Be Playing. Where this blog will go in 2017, I don't know. I have lots of thoughts and ideas to discuss, and I want to know what you want me to talk about. If you have ideas, comments, or thoughts, you can find me on G , or you can email me at kate@bluestockings.ca. It's a clever, intelligent game that will break your heart, hurt your soul, and haunt your dreams.
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: February 2014
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Sunday, February 2, 2014. Confessions of a Gamer: The Little Ways Gaming Infiltrates My Life. 1 All of my characters and games have theme songs. You don't do this too? C'mon So for every character, and about 20% of my NPCs that are important, I choose theme songs. You can see my Deliria soundtrack here. In other words: All my music revolves around my games. 2 I usually have a journal/blog as a character. 3 I will watch a rele...
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: Cruel to be Kind: Abuse in Game
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Friday, December 9, 2016. Cruel to be Kind: Abuse in Game. If you're not aware, the above bit of thought-text is from Monsterhearts. I don't think I would've selected something different if I had really known what I was getting into. Not because I'm like "Yeah! But because I'm like "Wow, abuse." See the difference? To Monsterhearts to My Life With Master. To Dogs in the Vineyard. But why don't we notice abuse, often until aft...
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: June 2016
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Monday, June 13, 2016. When is it your war? Imagine you're playing a fantasy game. We're going to imagine that you are a straight white man playing a straight white male hero. This is probably easy to imagine. Now in Fantasy Land (TM), you're a badass hero. You've stopped wars, you've slayed dragons, you've saved villages. You are a Hero. What do you do? Now what do you do? Do you notice when all the women. Do you notice when...
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: September 2014
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Friday, September 12, 2014. Game Review: 13th Age. Once upon a time there was Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition. And everybody hated it. I mean EVERYBODY. Yr the last Son of Ketch. Players: 4 - 6. Dice: All of them. Materials: Character sheets. Documents. Map (if you like). Minis (if you want). Feel: Epic fantasy, low tech or high tech, grand. Rating: 3/5 stars. Getting there. But I'm harsh on fantasy. Friday, September 5, 2014.
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: Wily Problem Players: A Reality Check
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Monday, December 19, 2016. Wily Problem Players: A Reality Check. But who are these mysterious and profoundly horrible problem players? Why is it we don't just ban hammer them all out of our lives? Where is the line between acceptable and problematic? I've listened to enough podcasts, panels, and random rants to know that problem players are still around and people struggle in dealing with them. Phones In My Face. We all know...
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: January 2017
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Tuesday, January 31, 2017. This Is A Man's World: Fighting Against Bullshit. There's a dreadful moment in a feminist's life when they wake up, open their inbox, and are flooded with messages. From comments about how gaming is a male dominated hobby and women shouldn't be allowed in, or allowed to organize, or allowed to well. do much besides play, maybe? When did we begin to accept this as inevitable? Yesterday I received a r...
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: Thank You to the Best People
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Thank You to the Best People. A special thanks to Fraser Simons, creator of The Veil. RPG, who's been a fast friend and supporter of my work. Thanks for all the encouragement, kindness, and love. One of my favourite people, Rob Deobald. Has generously supported me on Patreon and through our convention making, dice throwing, car driving adventures. He's one of the best people and I can't thank him enough for everything! John W...
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: September 2016
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Exploring gaming as a hobby, art form, passion, and method of social criticism. Friday, September 30, 2016. Game Review: Fall of Magic. Magic is dying, and the Magus is dying with it. We travel together to the realm of Umbra where Magic was born. When our regular games finished, and Fan Expo was just around the corner, which meant limited our ability to play high-prep games, Rob, Rach, and I decided to try out some of the no prep games we had picked up at Jiffycon. But that was my interpretation and not ...
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