Little Masteries, Proficiencies, High Mastery
Its annoying how “Mastery” is the word that bests describes a level of skill that can be employed almost instantly. The way language is a mastered skill, as compared to…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Reflections on more Historical Gaming
As I get older and learn more about history I learn more about the delicate elements and details that are harder and harder to communicate without being given the benefit…
Read more →GURPS Lite Constructive Review
GURPS Lite Review by Colin Design Goals of GURPS Lite by my guess Basic Mechanics Introduce a Playable Combat. Gun or Sword fight. Can be used for low tech…
Read more →Index Card Heuristic
Inspired by my affection for CCG, need for more portable gaming in Gaming and Dining in the Philippines, Getting things Done, and my need to keep organized. The Index Card…
Read more →GURPS Magic Notes 26: 2016 Update
So I’m listening to Kenneth Hite’s GURPS Cabal using @Voice. I bought the book few months ago and only now had the time to listen to it. Its 93k words so…
Read more →Design vs Art
Design has purpose and should be understandable. Art is Expression and needs to affect the target audience. They are two mindsets that we juggle when we do anything – from…
Read more →GURPS Languages
Collaborative Gamer’s GURPS Language and Some thoughts Language should be treated like a Real World Superpower. We take it forgranted now, but it is a superpower by the amount of…
Read more →Base Rates in TTRPGs, using Social Media to gather information and create better tools.
Base Rates are RARE and can be useful to overcome Planning Fallacy and Overconfidence Bias. So why not use the Communities as a way to contribute base rates via crowd…
Read more →Mandarin Studies Update, Enrolling to Cycle 38
So Cycle 37 (Jan 9 to March 19) in the Confucius Institute of Ateneo in Ateneo Business School ended where I retook Chinese Basic 2 and Chinese Basic 3 with the…
Read more →Updated the Game Mastering Technique Gdoc List
The Game Mastering Technique gdoc list is an Open List of Techniques drawing mostly from Storytelling, Rationality, and Productivity studies and strategies. Edit. This link should be automatically viewable. The Success…
Read more →Progress report 11C Random Character Generation Booklet
Here are some mental models and notes of my progress. I know if I keep needling in useless details my progress will be stalled. 11C is the default. (if you follow the…
Read more →When Certainty Fails 40% of the time, and Luck has a greater factor to Success than skill.
“But the evidence is unequivocal — there is a great deal more luck than skill involved in the achievements of people getting very rich.” – Daniel Khaneman this got me to…
Read more →Intensity Units and Recovery
The GURPS Effort Levels model or simply the Heart Rate Zones (I use fitibit Charge HR and a Basis 1B to know mine). Is a great use for working out and for…
Read more →Extra Credits’s Byzantine Empire Justinian and Theodora Series
I wonder how many hours will it take me to dig up my old notes for this campaign? I love how Crusader Kings, Extra History, Crash Courses History, and many…
Read more →GURPS updated Effort level March 2016
Let’s centralize the Rules of Fatigue and to change some In-game incentives and strategies. Rules Modifications Fatigue Levels and Penalties. B426 Fatigue affects the Mental Faculties of the character. 1/3 remaining…
Read more →GURPS Random Character Creation Draft
Its going to take a lot of work to reference and fill this up. I want the Traits to be something that would be easy to Write on an Index…
Read more →Games and Dining in the Philippines
There has been a growth of Games and Dining places in the Philippines. Currently the are focused on Board Games, and it makes sense. Boardgames and Dining 5-8 usd per…
Read more →Rationality Tools for Gaming: Thinking Fast and Slow Ch 21-23
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman has been a strong influence in game design of late. Especially since I want to design the game to allow GMs and Player…
Read more →How Google’s research in Team Dynamics relates to your Game
Let me try to break this 5,000 word article to something easier. Note that I’m summarizing and simplifying its still worth checking out. As Game in the Brain – I…
Read more →the Bias we have with the Narrative of Success
Chapter 19 is Called Illusion of Understanding (In thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman). Hindsight makes mistakes appear obvious, maintaining the discipline to compartmentalize the narrative without the information…
Read more →Role-Playing Elements as Player Character Cards
Don’t you just hate it if you can’t keep track of your Character’s motives, limitations, nuances, biases, etc… Can I try to fix that? You’ve heard of Death by…
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2016-02-16
DnD 5E
More Physical DnD 5E: movement, strength, and exhaustion.
These rules make it harder to travel and perform feats of strength compared to the Rules As Written. This puts characters in near constant exhaustion if they are travelling at…
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2016-02-16
health
I bought my first set of Weights.
Landmark Makati, 3200php for 80lbs two handlbars I’ve never bought my own weights, my dad had some lying in the house and we have a gym in the condo. But…
Read more →Just a Minor ugprade for both Laptops to 8GB each.
Spent months now and then trying to figure out RAM compatibility. Didn’t know they were pretty much standardized. At the same time trying to find out if I can upgrade…
Read more →It’s all about the agency
In historical settings, where status matters more, it just highlights the adaptability and agency of the character by how they work limitations and challenges. It also informs on their identity,…
Read more →Hangouts Updated 2016
Google System Requirements for Hangouts JUST VOICE 300kbps (kilobit) (35KBps or KiloByte/s) uploading just voice and downloading just 1 other participant for a total of 600kbps (70KBps) For every additional…
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2016-01-29
studies
Listening at x2 speed
High Speed Audio. I first began listening to videos at x2 the speed When I first got my Audible App at the start of 2015. Now I listen this way…
Read more →How I would have Done it – Some of my story telling rules
Some of the Story telling Rules I try to follow (with limits of my attention) that is applicable to games and writing I use for my games. As a logistics…
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2016-01-25
Uncategorized
High Initiative Narrative
A warrior, a guy in armor, is a vision of Prowess being much younger. But then ones grow up and learn the logistics and problems having to depend on armor,…
Read more →汉语 课 Chinese Classes for a Long time.
There are Chinese classes in the Ateneo Confucius Institute of basic, intermediate, advance and practical speaking. There are about 6 levels in each of these categories. That’s 24 classes in…
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