jameswallis.bsky.social
Game designer, publisher, teacher, critic, writer, evangelist, FRSA. Wrote Everybody Wins, runs http://www.gamedesignmasterclass.com, co-host of RPG podcast http://www.ludonarrativedissidents.com, & setting up www.bigtable.games, a trade body for the UK&I.
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I see where you're coming from, and I'm interested to find out where you go with it.
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Thanks for that. Are you familiar with Gary Allen Fine's four reasons why people play RPGs (from Shared Fantasies, and I have no idea where my copy is so can't cite or quote exactly). He says: Socialization, Escapism, Learning and Catharsis. These map fairly closely to the Bartle player types too.
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Can you unplug Google and plug it back in?
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Sorry, can you clarify: does "we" in the second paragraph refer to the players, or the audience of an actual-play?
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Rose Estes and her work are an important part of the history of the RPG field, but as far as I know she has not been active in the field since she sustained a brain injury in a car accident thirty years ago.
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The Diana Jones Award has never been an award for lifetime achievement. It has always been an award for accomplishment in the previous year, and says so on its website.
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The facilities are there if you know where to look (www.enableleisure.co.uk/barn-elms-bo...) and many Olympians only start rowing at university.
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Not regatta, a head. Sorry. Distracted while changing trains.
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Also rowing. Not that many rowers, but as a country we are extraordinarily good at it, and it's great viewing. A decent sized regatta will have over 250 boats in the water over an afternoon.
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Mostly Saxon round here.
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Had too much coffee today already, or I'd dive in.
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Huge thanks for that, will read when I'm on a bigger screen. Will drop you a line separately.
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Honestly, no problem, your post was useful.
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It really is bad. (Did you ever see the MeZolith graphic novel? Kill for a copy, it is extraordinary.) I need to do a bunch of reading for this one, but I think I've got something... would be good to talk to you about it, to get your perspective as an artist.
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Has this been released? (is it one of yours?) I'm thinking solo, and I'm thinking not-journalling because neolithic cave-people didn't write. I have a full system for how mine works, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
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I get to hang out and talk RPGs with @gregstolze.bsky.social and @rosspayton.bsky.social several times a month. Everything else is a bonus.
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My mother always called them 'money spiders'.
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I can't believe they're going at a run-rate of almost four an over. If ever there was a time to play slow and defensive, surely this is it.
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The biggest cheer of the night was the moment Han shot Greedo. It's not a matter of Han shooting first--Han shoots, Greedo's still preparing to fire. By contrast, the first time Luke kills someone is completely glossed, not even noted, which is weird for a farmboy who left home mere hours ago.
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Also frozen chicken stock for dogs.
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It's worn but the colour is sumptuous.
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No, there wasn't.
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1977 archive print
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(I am deeply indebted to @rolistespod.itch.io for the ticket.)
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Also, none of your digital projection jiggery-pokery. 35mm as Obi-Wan intended.