I am currently working on several long posts that would take up about 5-10 hours to fully edit and make. My sickness and exercise regiments…
So to summarize, the person is trying to persuade me that my questions are bad and irrelevant to gaming. I ask and seek clarification as…
When i was playing airsoft I ended up using anthropometry more and more because that was the easiest to think about instead of recalling precise…
Narrative Combat. Natural Language and Playing out a Scene. Step 1: Pick a Style. The first place to get a style is to absorb the…
Fear in war should be better explored. There is Fear of the enemy, fear of… … the minor tyrants who use violence and coercion for…
In a discussion on different ways to run Mass Combat with a friend I realized that I cannot imagine how else to run Mass Combat because…
I have a coping mechanism where I break down the mental routes I use and try to hack and analyze them. I can somewhat modify…
Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store and the app available has…
Scope and Scale: Individual vs Individuals with organizations. If I were to look at the Novels and Stories I’m currently into, they are different from…
As a GM or Player, what do you think of the activity of Framing the Narrative? Is Framing the Narrative part of Managing Tension and…
Early on I realized that information is a barrier between people. As much as Shared Interests can connect us, differences in Interests separate us. I…
Keeping things simple, my players will notice I will be using these mnemonics: Minor and Significant Challenges. Minor Problems/Challenges was covered in Non-Binary Consequences. Basically…
Here are tools to use non-binary consequences to further the game. If you’re worried about gamist choices is being encouraged this should muddy up the…
Why it takes me roughly 4 hours to run a game. Part of the Back to Basics because I’ve tried to make my style system…
If you agree with these assertions, then I want to point you towards Agency and Skills. Particularly how people feel a greater sense of Agency…
This is related to my post on the thesis that GMing is very much like Active Listening. Related to my Back to Basics line of…
There is a study about Visualization and Learning [1] and Mindfulness Meditation [2] that seems to a pretty good mental tool for learning and mental exercise (I’m…
Gin no Saji aka Silver Spoon gave me an idea of how Cognitive Dissonance can be healthy. The anime is about farming, and dwelt on…
My brother loves DnD 4e, and I’ve not run as much games in 4e as he has. So I’ll take his word over it even…
Humanization and Dehumanization is something we exercise a lot in RPGs. We humanize our characters, our NPCs, and Allies, and we dehumanize enemies and other…
I will be changing content direction slowly. I have a ton of old posts and material, which I will evolve to be more System Agnostic.…
Edited for Clarity: Here is a funny thing about most of the systems I’ve read, no one gives guidelines as to how many rolls matter.…
First you have to Roll20 Best Practices Gif is the Smallest, and has some lost detail. Comparing the same file from PNG to Gif at the…
Game Preparation in GURPS is a time consuming process, but hopefully more and more GM notes will be available online so that it will speed…
There are many videos out that dispell myths in RPGs and bring a lot more detail and understanding into the game. For me, these highlight…
The way I GM reflects a lot about how I solve or face problems. Which can be good and bad. Having it published the games…
I want side-effects that can make the story interesting. One such side-effect is changing the character a tiny bit in the form of Quirks in…
Since I’ve got so many projects at work and for personal, I will have to trim down my posts by 33%. So I’ll be posting…
On of my current inspirations is “The Good Wife“, especially since it takes current events and current debates and weaves it into the narrative. Given…
Leslie Chow from the Hangover is a legitimate character and I don’t find it a disparaging archetype. Stereo types are tricky and for me, I’d…