Tag Archives: Group Management

Episode 16: Alien RPG – Framing the Alien

Summary

Part 4: Framing the Alien…  On conceptualizing the process of preparation in the context of who the characters are, what the approach to play is, and how those things intersect with the setting and its genre.

This series of blog, vlog, and pod episodes will explore ⁠Alien the Roleplaying Game⁠ by Free League from the perspective of preparation for horror and improvisation within the framework of Campaign Mode for Colonial Marines.  

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Links: Alien the Roleplaying Game – ⁠Rules and Actual Play 

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Episode 15: Alien RPG – Hearing the Alien

Summary

Part 3: Hearing the Alien…   On description and how it can be approached as a skill for horror gaming. This series of blog, vlog, and pod episodes will explore ⁠Alien the Roleplaying Game⁠ by Free League from the perspective of preparation for horror and improvisation within the framework of Campaign Mode for Colonial Marines.      

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Additional Links:  

⁠Choice of Voice

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Episode 14: Alien RPG – Feeding the Alien

Summary

Part 2: Feeding the Alien – On character and the two modes to enjoy them with in this game. This series of blog, vlog, and pod episodes will explore ⁠Alien the Roleplaying Game⁠ by Free League from the perspective of preparation for horror and improvisation within the framework of Campaign Mode for Colonial Marines.    

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Additional Links:  

⁠Discomfort, Fear, Terror, and Vast Cosmic Horror, on a dime a day~⁠

⁠On Genre Being Rule Zero

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Episode 13: Alien RPG – Embracing the Alien

Summary

Part 1: Embracing the Alien – on the choice of a horror game and how to implement it.

This series of blog, vlog, and pod episodes will explore ⁠Alien the Roleplaying Game⁠ by Free League from the perspective of preparation for horror and improvisation within the framework of Campaign Mode for Colonial Marines.

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Additional Links:

1. Interview with Andrew E.C. Gaska⁠ on Tabletop Talk

2. ⁠Conscience in Gaming⁠

3. ⁠Conscientious Gamers⁠

4. Roleplaying Rank in RPGs

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Episode 11: On Playing Proactively

Summary

Building on a blog post from 2011, this episode looks at three barriers that can be overcome to clear the road for more proactive play. 

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Episode 10: On ‘Story’

Summary

What does it mean to participate in a roleplaying game? Is it ‘to play a character?’ or ‘to tell a story?’ or is it ‘to play a character in a story?’ Something else? This episode looks at that word ‘story’ and poses some questions on play, our intentions, and how our actions – intentional or not – shape the outcomes and limit what outcomes are even possible~

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Episode 3: On Genre being Rule 0

Summary

This post relates an idea which appeared in written and video form in 2013, as an expression of earlier and less specific ideas. Genre is Rule 0 is a set of posts which have proven to be of more use and be more relevant to my RPG conversations than almost anything else. As such, I think it is a good idea to include in the introductory posts of this podcast. Also, taking a cue from Ron Edwards, I reclaim some preferred jargon from the discard pile and reconnect this functional piece of theory with an ambiguous but possibly helpful term: idiom. I still feel that it will confuse some, but it will help others, and that is ultimately what matters to me. 

Relevant Links:

Genre Is Rule 0 (Casting Shadows Blog)

Genre is Rule 0 (YouTube)

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Episode 2: On Character Poisoning

Summary

This is the second of five introductory episodes. On a notion put forward on the written blog in 2011 based on my musings in the 90s, this episode examines both the post and the idea of character poisoning. This is a look at a potential source of dissatisfaction in play, rooted in unintentional conflict between system, setting, fellow players, and/or the character concept~

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Episode 1: On Premature Imagination

Summary

In this first of five introductory episodes to this podcast, 2010 meets 2020 as an early but somewhat important post from the written blog is shared with commentary. The post deals generally with culture of play and the difference between rules and procedure, while going into specifics on an effect of going against a necessary order of operations in play, and an influence on our imagination~

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