Apocalypse World – Actual Play

Played our first session of Apocalypse World last night.  Cool! The World Emerges Through Play The setting, a post-apocalyptic world, is integral to the game but only vaguely defined in broad but suggestive brush strokes, just enough to inspire the players to fill in the details.  An agenda and worksheets are provided for the first [...]

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Phlebotarian

“Phlebotarian.”  Dracula was a phlebotarian. There, I’ve done it, I am the first person to use this word on the internet (as of this writing, Google has no record of the word’s existence).  And as we all know, nothing happens until it happens on the web, right? My endlessly imaginative daughter asked me this week: [...]

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Dungeonmaestr!

What would you name a rock band made up of fantasy-RPG players? Beauty Is In The Beholder (artwork of a beholder, smiling, with princess legs sticking out of mouth) Saving Throw (does this sound like “Christian rock”?) Critical Hit Natural 20 Random Encounter Wandering Monster Tarrasque (for a very heavy sound) Dungeon Master (but “Düngeonmæstr [...]

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Faerys in Echo Park: Complete

We finished the Faeries In Echo Park game last week, four sessions in total.  It was a blast.  One day I’ll get around to writing up some AP, but for now I have too many other projects on the go.  But don’t worry, I took notes. I learned a lot about lite-prep GMing and playing [...]

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More Faeries Review

I finished my previous post (initially published half-written), go take a look. I’d also like to link to Ryan (Yak)’s insightful blog posts on the game.  Thanks Ry: Reunited w Yak http://tagsfolly.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/day-41-reunited-with-yak/ More about Yak http://tagsfolly.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/day-40-more-about-yak/ Players are Game Designers http://tagsfolly.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/day-51-players-are-game-designers/ Reunited with Yak More about Yak Players are Game Designers -J

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