Saturday, 31 December 2016

The Names of Places

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I take great pleasure in looking at maps - particularly low-level highly-detailed local maps like Ordinance Survey ones and road atlases. I ...
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Friday, 30 December 2016

A Historical Geography of RPG Playing

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When I was a lad, knee-high to a grasshopper, playing RPGs was a secret shameful activity one generally conducted in a darkened room - typic...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2016

You're the Captain of Your Soul...Know What I Mean?

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Whether Sartre was right about the real world, in the world of D&D, existence precedes essence. Your character sheet is really just numb...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016

What Is A Bard?

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I've just finished watching a documentary in which Nitin Sawhney composed a symphony for animals to listen to. It was successful for sta...
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Monday, 5 December 2016

The Personal RPG Coefficient

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In "The Creative Act", Duchamp talks about something he called "the art coefficient": [I]n the chain of reactions acc...
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Thursday, 1 December 2016

One Page Risus Elementalists

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For a long time, it's been one of my (many and unrealised) gaming ambitions to come up with a system for running a game which I call Ris...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2016

[Actual Play] Behind Gently Smiling Jaws: Session 3

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[Previous session report can be found  here . I should briefly mention how I am dealing with having a rotating cast of PCs. Usually my games...
Sunday, 27 November 2016

Big Spaces in Little Spaces

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Parts of one of the different sub-settings within Behind Gently Smiling Jaws  involve areas which appear small on the map but which are very...
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Thursday, 24 November 2016

Iron Rations

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The word "rations" gets bandied about quite a lot in D&D. A week's rations. Iron rations. Here's an extract from The...
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Thinking Beyond Samurai: the Ryukyuan Paladin

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An old theme on the blog is doing different things with Japanese or pseudo-Japanese settings: getting away from samurai and ninja and all t...
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