Grace Under Pressure #2

nedjer — Mon, 21 May 2012 23:13:30 +0000

Using the phrase grace under pressure to begin to define the intuitive, improvisational skills and actions often associated with free-flowing, open-ended gameplay calls for some further explanation. In particular, it immediately becomes necessary to situate these intuitive or improvisational skills alongside, rather than in opposition to, other valuable and essential cognitive skills.

Zombies To The Left, Zombies To The Right

nedjer — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:47:20 +0000

Werewolves and vampires may grab most of the headlines, but there’s no keeping those zombies down. For a long time they were all about movies and videogames, but not any more:

Alternate Reality Gaming: 2.8 Hours Later

Counter Boardgaming: All Things Zombie

Grace Under Pressure

nedjer — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:01:41 +0000

At the point when the original RPG was first being developed the game was, for the most part, a movable feast of continual RPG homebrewing and invention. This was hardly surprising, as the game’s designers and GMs had to rely as much on their own imaginations as on the short, moving-target of a [...]

Hope for Hope?

nedjer — Sat, 05 May 2012 16:10:20 +0000

Last week’s post on RPGs For Kids and Big Kids has been updated and converted to a page. It’s in the menu at the top level and HERE. The page includes a downloadable .doc version under Creative Commons.

Next up – is there any progress on scenario – become setting – [...]

RPG Advocacy Group: Update

nedjer — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:09:30 +0000

Putting the weekend into getting Hope further ahead, but thought it worth mentioning how things are going with the RPG Advocacy Group on Facebook. RPG Advocacy isn’t exactly the raciest topic in the RPG world and the term advocacy is, rather like the term gamification, not exactly designed to set the heather on [...]

Updates

nedjer — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:30:56 +0000

Quick post about updates/ progress with Renegade, Corruption and Hope.

There were a few pictures left out of the recent update to Renegade, so they’ve been added and a new copy posted. More to add soon. Corruption has a new cover and now includes the optional skills system that’s been getting tried-out. There [...]

RPG Advocacy Facebook Group

nedjer — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:23:46 +0000

This is kind of way ahead of schedule, as some trigger-happy clicking sent the Fbook RPG Advocacy Group live in an instant. Not to worry.

Please feel free to join-up if you’re up for showcasing what’s good about Tabletop RPGs.

So far [...]