Sins of the Crusade Season 03 Episode 01
Titled war, this was caused by the stalemate of the talks of Bohemon and Alexios. Bohemmon wants a command of Asia Minor, the equivalent of ~1 million households. An economy,…
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Narrative Mass Combat: Part 1 – Groupings and Leadership
3 part post about Narrative Mass Combat. This helps in running Mass Combat since it gives some basic principles to consider. I will give more specific examples and show how…
Read more →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 to run Mass Combat because I can only run it…
Read more →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 them. I can somewhat modify them and get them going…
Read more →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 and the app available has worn my patience) I’ve almost…
Read more →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 into, they are different from the stories that focus on…
Read more →my Universal Conflict System: foundation of my open narrative combat system
System Summary A combat system that has 3 scales: Individuals, groups, and whole organizations and works follows 3 particular elements that is universal. This rule of 3 helps in limit…
Read more →Back to Basics – Each Session is a Unique Dialogue
Realizing Each Session as a Unique Dialogue is a new mnemonic/coping mechanism and tool for me. A session is not just a Game, but a Conversation where we deep dive…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Time Line Leading up to 1092
The detail and how often the pieces fit from the various Wikipedia entries are awesome. This is for my players but the amount of work it took to assemble this…
Read more →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 part of Managing Tension and Conflict? If it is, how…
Read more →[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 in Interests separate us. I hated the vicious cycle of…
Read more →Proto-Stress Rules
Inspiration from work kinda makes me want to introduce a STRESS penalty rule. Basically responsibilities and worries accumulate, these distractions represents how much levels of mastery in skills are there…
Read more →Solar Power Learnings, It is only works under specific conditions.
Our plant just ordered 100KWh of solar panels. We will be “energized” within the next 90 days. Its often touted Here are some notes from the experience: From our solar…
Read more →Back to Basics: Pacing and Tension, Pacing Tool
Two wonderful videos below on Pacing but I’m here to talk about some ways to apply it immediately. Pacing Grid I have my players/PCs names in the left most column…
Read more →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 covered in Non-Binary Consequences. Basically it is resolved quickly. What…
Read more →GURPS Houserules: No more double pay, Households, Relationships
Houserules I had to make to organize my game better and keep with the setting and immersion. No Double Pay In the GURPS FAQ there is a question about “Should…
Read more →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 this should muddy up the the matter nice and messy. Continued…
Read more →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 to make my style system agnostic and dependent on Active…
Read more →How to GM Abstract Combat Part 3 – Initiative, Combat for the Non-Combat GM
Part 2 can be found here. This is Back to Basics. Initiative is a simple matter, it is for the Player (not the PC), to act or re-act. The matter…
Read more →Sins of the Crusades Notes on Army Organization
Sadly its really hard to research Komnenian Armies. This is because of the haphazard situation and the constant conflicts unlike Justinian/Belisarius and Maurice’s time as well as titles being a…
Read more →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 a greater sense of Agency when they acquire skills, and…
Read more →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 Back to Basics line of articles. I’ve been following Extra…
Read more →Sins of the Crusades – Season 02, Episode 06 – Betreyal
Thanks +Wilton Heath, +Dan Mungham, +Thunder Clonch , and +Il Pella for playing. The team was planning an attack, the problems and challenges were plenty the closest target was Nicomedia (Izmit), assailable by sea and land…
Read more →How to GM Abstract Combat Part 2 – Economies of Attention
This is Part 2 of How to GM Abstract Combat. Here is part 1. Back to Basics. Economies of Attention is as simple as it sounds. People can only give…
Read more →How to GM Abstract Combat Part 1 – Think in Opportunities
Playing a game like Airsoft requires me to have some mnemonic tools to help improve and to compensate for the the severe lack of combat instinct. Which is not bad,…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Season 02 Episode 05 – Byzantine Allies
Note: Listening again to the game, I was really out of it. Thank you goes out for my players patience this session: +Dan Mungham , +Wilton Heath , +Milan Runic , +Il Pella , and +Mike Dulay for…
Read more →What Milsim has Taught me about Describing Combat and GMing
Airsoft and RPGs always keep being a source of contemplation. RPGs and behavior economics give me the words to describe most of what is happening in the game (while philosophy…
Read more →Jan 18 2015 – retreat and Circle strategy, Observations
Most of my main mistakes is my better knowledge running into a limited set of options: which was that I knew what was the danger area and my hesitation for…
Read more →Insurgency Jan 17, 2015
the Insurgency Game today had a lot of lessons. Most memorable lesson is that CTO takes the guard, regardless of the role or rank. This is why CTO dies first…
Read more →GMing Back to Basics: Gming with very Basic Mnemonics – Active Listening GMing
The most basic mnemonic of GMing is being a good listener. Effective and Scientific Communication Skills are easy to take for granted – but there is a Science and Study on…
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