Category: Game design
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hypothesis: I game in the same manner I solve problems
In a discussion on different ways to run Mass Combat with a friend I realized that I cannot imagine how else…
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Back to Basics: Listing GMing Techniques
I have a coping mechanism where I break down the mental routes I use and try to hack and analyze…
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Scifi notes – accessibility and abundance tradeoffs
Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store…
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Back to Basics Narrative Tool of Scaling; Definition – World Building Game Style?
Scope and Scale: Individual vs Individuals with organizations. If I were to look at the Novels and Stories I’m currently…
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Back to Basics: Pacing – Dice Agency and Framing the Narrative
As a GM or Player, what do you think of the activity of Framing the Narrative? Is Framing the Narrative…
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[Reflections] Ads for Skilled Players
Early on I realized that information is a barrier between people. As much as Shared Interests can connect us, differences…
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Back to Basics: Organizing your session by Challenges, and a reminder on Pacing
Keeping things simple, my players will notice I will be using these mnemonics: Minor and Significant Challenges. Minor Problems/Challenges was…
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Back to Basics: Non-Binary Consequences
Here are tools to use non-binary consequences to further the game. If you’re worried about gamist choices is being encouraged…
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Back to Basics: My Game Itinerary
Why it takes me roughly 4 hours to run a game. Part of the Back to Basics because I’ve tried…
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A Call for better definition of Skills, and more
If you agree with these assertions, then I want to point you towards Agency and Skills. Particularly how people feel…
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Back to Basics – Empathy as the Goal
This is related to my post on the thesis that GMing is very much like Active Listening. Related to my…
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Gaming and Visualization
There is a study about Visualization and Learning [1] and Mindfulness Meditation [2] that seems to a pretty good mental tool for…
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Experimental Game Hypothesis – Mental Health Care
Gin no Saji aka Silver Spoon gave me an idea of how Cognitive Dissonance can be healthy. The anime is…
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Fallacies and Biases: Attacking the Source and not the Argument.
My brother loves DnD 4e, and I’ve not run as much games in 4e as he has. So I’ll take…
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Selective Humanization
Humanization and Dehumanization is something we exercise a lot in RPGs. We humanize our characters, our NPCs, and Allies, and…
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Community Building Focus Transition.
I will be changing content direction slowly. I have a ton of old posts and material, which I will evolve…
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Weight of a Roll or Opportunity in a Game
Edited for Clarity: Here is a funny thing about most of the systems I’ve read, no one gives guidelines as…
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Roll20 Optimized Combat Mapping
First you have to Roll20 Best Practices Gif is the Smallest, and has some lost detail. Comparing the same file from…
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GM Preparation Formats – Ultra Lite
Game Preparation in GURPS is a time consuming process, but hopefully more and more GM notes will be available online…
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Myth Dispelling – Does it matter when its all abstracted anyway?
There are many videos out that dispell myths in RPGs and bring a lot more detail and understanding into the…
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Reflection of my Gaming Tastes
The way I GM reflects a lot about how I solve or face problems. Which can be good and bad.…
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GURPS Magic Notes 24: Side Effects that Affects Time Stream
I want side-effects that can make the story interesting. One such side-effect is changing the character a tiny bit in…
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Less Posts; Longer running campaign
Since I’ve got so many projects at work and for personal, I will have to trim down my posts by…
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Analyzing Inspiration: Proceedural, Legal, Political Dramas
On of my current inspirations is “The Good Wife“, especially since it takes current events and current debates and weaves…
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Cost of Living in Haven 2
Haven is supposed to be based an amalgamation of 3rd worlds. Such that the cost of living defaults 20% to…
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Problem Solving is the Dungeon Crawl; Mature Theme: Financial Security
Problem Solving is the Dungeon Crawl The idea behind debt is leverage future earnings in a way that when it…
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Putting yourself Out there; Hosting some Hangouts OnAir
Well you heard about nothing ventured and nothing gained? So its kinda true when I’m trying to sustain my gaming…
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Philosophy is how the Brain is Wired; Wishing
I am a fan of Philosophy, especially after all learning on my own when my entire education consistent in metaphysics…
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Design Philosophy: No Counter-Rolls or Interrupt Rolls
I have many unfinished projects related to gaming but despite that I consider them a part of a learning process…