timhutchings.bsky.social
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I've been haunted by the book that game was built around... It was Melville-adjacent. There were ancient underground tunnels connecting Pacific islands to Antarctica, I think.
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Thank you for tagging me!
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Oh! So the players all know the book Dracula and then the game puts more in around that base knowledge. Got it. I knew that, but I didn't put it together with my original post!
I got to play in a horror campaign that did the same thing with an actual 19th century book I forget the name of.
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Thanks!
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If I give the hostler to Player A they are suddenly creating all sorts of hostler-related stuff and having a grand time in a tiny roleplay realm they control.
Formalizing that into sketches of city life sounds cool. "Did we just establish that there is a second currency of lizard skins?"
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I haven't even heard of that game. Regular life in the city scenes sounds smart and fun and immersive.
One of the things I figured out playing traditional games far too late was that giving players NPCs to be in temporarily in charge of made everything much role-play-ier.
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In Fiasco the players are all semi-doomed but I chose Desperation as the doomier, foretoldier example by Morningstar.
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Can you tell me how it works?
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A -great- example specifically because it otherwise follows a pretty traditional game format.
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Burning Empires had a scene economy in which the GM describes scenes that involve only NPCs or possibly no one at all. This echoes the comic format of the game's IP. I think this is what I'm more excited about in the 'players know and characters don't' thing.
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There are other rules systems that have arcs with predetermined outcomes. Desperation might be my favorite.
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The Quiet Year does this with the Frost Shepherds. The game also does the opposite, with players learning about The Jackals through play even though the game characters must know all about them.
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That's kind of nicely written. Thank you for getting me to revisit it.
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So when I talk about HARD COPY ZINES, it's not to be "countercultural" - though zines are. And it's not quaint or cute. We're in an information control age. You CANNOT only/mainly rely on social media or the internet to communicate and to DOCUMENT. Under fascism, zinemaking becomes a tool to resist.
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If I was the Republicans I would have a fake assassination plot ready for when Trump has a toilet heart attack. Claim he was done in by political opponents and start arresting the opposition.
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yeah, I got that too!
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Maybe I just sleep in the White Castles war room on a glossy wooden table covered in little hamburger trackers.
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Wait, there's White Castles in Columbus? Fuck. Maybe I can sleep in a hotel emergency stairwell...
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I wish I could come!
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A band I like released an album three or four or more years ago. I still haven't listened to it. I'm too excited to listen to it. Same sort of thing, I guess.
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I've been too excited to unpack mine, not that that makes sense.
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"bat"
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"Little of column A, a little of column B"
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I don't get the lumps.
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There's a lazy-barrier and an if-you-think-this-thing-I-was-about-to-throw-in-the-trash-is-useful-then-I'll-put-it-back-in-the-closet-and-leave-it-there-until-I-die-and-my-landlord-throws-it-away barrier.
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When I was trying to do archive work with TTRPG material I'd bump into folks that had recordings from the 80s if not older. I couldn't get a single person to loan, copy or share the stuff in any way.
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I was a little confused by the similarity of "value" and "valve." I thought it was typos at first.
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I pay but it doesn't let the ill-informed get news.
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I meant to aim the Patreon comment at Sly Flourish, earlier in the chain.
Why did you folks leave Patreon?
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Can you tell me a bit about how you use Patreon and if you did anything differently over the past few months? I'm considering it. I mean, it makes sense.
If this question is too big an imposition please don't hesitate to give this a polite 'like' and move on.
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<bummer high five>
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Thousand Year Old Vampire guy here: This is, by far, the worst Feb/Mar I've had since I started tracking in 2019. Jan was average.
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I read the first book when I was a little kid. Rereading it as an adult was like a fever dream come to life.
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😗
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no way!
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that'd be assault,
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It sounds a little bit like Umberto Eco's "the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
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Jeez, give the kid what it wants.
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I miss working with students, polishing my own ideas through classroom work, and having access to school facilities.