Questing for Tabletop Adventure Games
From Adventure Hour!: To use animals as loyal pets, make them friendly, smart, or powerful, but not all three. Let's give some meat to these words: Friendly Likes owner, likes strangers, empathetic.Opposite: Jerk, doesn’t care, needs to be motivated Smart Independent, adaptable, courageousOpposite: Clumsy, afraid, needs to be told what to do Powerful Skilled, effective, … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Pets
In the practice of meditation, you are often told to focus on the breath. Each breath is life-giving. You can’t be without it. And try as you might, focus with all your effort, and your mind will still wonder. One might posit that if you had perfect focus, you would be able to retain all … Continue reading Focus on the World: Return to Play
In this article, the Angry GM answers questions from folks. This question stuck out to me and it's something I've been thinking about for my own games: I like published settings with rich, detailed histories. Like Eberron. But my players won’t read the sourcebooks. Consequently, they don’t really understand the setting. How do I handle my … Continue reading Focus on the World: The players are tourists
A lot of this thinking comes from playing Babes in the Wood with the artist of this piece. Fun times, cousin. 🙂 Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) games are derived from the Apocalypse World. Derived in that they might share one or more of these things: GM Agendas, Principles, and MovesPlayer Moves and Playbooks"Success but" … Continue reading How I use Powered by the Apocalypse
Well folks. It's here. Adventure Hour! is upon us! Many, many, many hours of development. Pulling on now hundreds of hours of running games for younger folks. Editing to the most potent minimum possible. Increasing usability wherever possible. Maze Rats gave me a sense of what makes toolkits and printable booklets so excellent. Electric Bastionland … Continue reading Adventure Hour! – Release
The diamond-headed guy has it rough, methinks. Lots of talk about non-violent RPGs in the community. To me, the idea of non-violent RPGs is weird. To me, violence is an approach. Talking is an approach. Climbing is an approach. Theft is an approach. Feeding someone is an approach. Feeding someone to someone else is an … Continue reading Non-violence
Inspired by this post from Was It Likely on Free Association Monstrosities. Pulling also from Electric Bastionland. Everything (dungeons included) has three purposes: OriginalCurrentTangent Each of these places we'll be creating today will have the "Current" purpose of Dungeon. It's meant to be explored, survived, and looted! We'll roll for the Purpose that it was … Continue reading Laws of the Dungeon: Procedure for Creating Free Association Adventure Sites
"Let's not ring the gong THIS time." This is part of the Playing with Youngers series. It takes little context to enjoy on its own. I run games for kids. I run them online. There are troubles that come with these two facts. One, they're kids. Things come up. For example: *Student raises hand*Me: Yes?Student: … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Moving Right Along
Students. Just regular students and not from anything you know, no siree. This table didn't make it into Adventure Hour! but it has a special place in my heart. Enjoy. Bad impressions are better than good ones at the table. Except it makes being consistent from one session to the next difficult... Ah well. If … Continue reading Goofy voices (d66)
Consult the ghosts for secrets from the past. I initially bounced off of Jon Peterson's Playing at the World. It was too heady and abstract but also grievously specific. Couldn't get into it. Then I saw a couple of reviews of his new(er) book, The Elusive Shift, and figured it was worth a shot. There … Continue reading The Elusive Shift: A Review in Quotes
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