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Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Ogwood

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Germ of an idea: Run an RPG one-shot in the setting of HBO's Deadwood, using the rules from Og.  Here's your (insensitive and horr...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Wild-Die vs Drama Die

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Please forgive my calling Last Unicorn's "drama die" a "wild die" in several posts the last couple days. I've on...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Exploding Dice

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Some RPGs have a mechanic called "exploding dice" - in general, it means that if a die rolls it's highest value, you roll it a...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Wonky vs Broken

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Nerd aside: That title kinda sounds like a lawsuit, doesn't it? Like Mr Wonky is suing The Broken Corporation... Wonkiness isn't ...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Legend, Willpower, Avatar, and Titan

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Trying to post something at the Scion Forum today, I nearly ran afoul of trying to distinguish temporary Legend points from permanent Legen...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Decisions = Challenge

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This is part two of a thought. First read Dice ≠ Challenge for the groundwork of why challenging the players is important in RPGs, and why ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

A different kind of Knack

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7th Sea uses the term Knack to mean sub- skills , and they often allow for minor tricks you can do with a skill. They're rated 1-5, and...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

overuse of the CIA

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In gaming, when you need a shadowy organization to pull the strings behind the curtain, it's far too easy to just say "he works for...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Mystery-Cult Etymology

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When I was a kid, I read tales of Centaurs (half-horse, half-man) and Minotaurs (half-bull, half-man) and assumed they had something (othe...

Liminal Beings

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Today's vocab lesson: The phrase "Liminal Being" is mostly just a fancy way of saying "hybrid" or "crossbreed...
Friday, January 18, 2008

The Midwives Crisis

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The Continuum RPG has a GM's section, which covers "known history" of the setting, from the founding of Antedesertium (17,997 ...
Sunday, December 30, 2007

Bisociation in Scion

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Posted a slightly different version of this at the white-wolf forums in response to something earlier today. Mythology is rife with Bisociat...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Explaining "meta-RPG"

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This used to be part of my Wikiland post , but I decided it needs it's own post I can refer to later. By "meta-RPG", I mean an...
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Monday, December 17, 2007

Groeg ydy a what the heck does that mean?

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Groeg ydy abar a ognise bod 'n lladdedig ail a ail To get that, I took a quote from an archaeologist: "Greece is a corpse that must...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

All About Bacon

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Backstory : I was reading Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast by Kenneth Hite, and the chapter entitled "Six Degrees of Sir F...
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Friday, December 7, 2007

What is Gaming?

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When you say you spent the evening "gaming" or "roleplaying", people assume you spent the night hanging with friends and...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Harpastum! (Rules for use in Continuum)

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This is also from the old Continuum campaign . Here's a wiki link on Harpastum , though the book I was using for reference back when run...

Gods and Scions as Egregores or Memes

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Jake introduced me to the word egregore today. Like syncretic , it's a concept I've been aware of for a while, but for which I...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Interpretatio Graeca

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Just stumbled across this wiki page that has some interesting gaming applications. It discusses Interpretatio Graeca and Interpretatio Roma...
Monday, December 3, 2007

Syncretic Gaming

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The Scion RPG, with it's sexapantheonic foundation (Greek, Norse, Voodoo, Japane se, Egyptian, Aztec) and tertiary embracing of urban l...