RPG Reflections: In-Character Conflict

[aigantighe]

The topic of in-character (IC) conflict has come up a little recently in my Dragonlance campaign. I’ve not really thought about it a lot in the past; it’s always been there, of course, but I’ve never dealt with it directly before. So far, in this game, it’s not been a definitively negative experience as it’s engendered a lot of character growth

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[aigantighe]

Trust is an interesting take on it. I'm trying to reflect on play a lot with my group, so I might try having an explicit talk about this next time.

I'll definitely be around over Christmas. Very keen to grab those podcasts. Any other good gaming podcasts you can recommend? Most of the ones I've encountered waste too much time with simplistic reviews, music, and general chit-chat. I like my podcasts to be fairly dense. Incidentally, if you've not encountered it already, you may be interested in http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/

I didn't get a chance to visit the Games on Demand area, but spent a while chatting with some of them when they came to the GM booth. Picked up a bunch of things at the Indie Press Revolution booth, too, including '24 game poems', by the guy who writes http://gamepoems.gizmet.com/. Also grabbed Dance of the Damned, The Dance and the Dawn. Meant to grab Dungeon World and Dread, but somehow managed not to - I was standing at the booth, planning to pick them up, but managed not to, and only realized a couple of hours after the con ended.

Looking forward to BGW :)

[anarchangel23]

I don't listen to many anymore. I would look back over past years ENnie award winners and see if any of them grab you.

Paul Tevis' Have Games Will Travel (now defunct) was good, especially for in depth indie RPG and board game reviews.

I hear Canon Puncture is very good, and if you want actual play game reviews, a few of the local LA story gamers do a podcsat called Actual People, Actual Play.

I also listen to Voice of the Revolution: Indie Press Revolution's monthly podcast, but that might not be as dense as you want. Mind you, I don't know what your baseline is, so you might want to check it out for yourself.

[anarchangel23]

I just heard a review of Game Poems on Voice of the Revolution actually. I discovered that I reviewed the author's Game Chef entry!

Dread is pretty cool, I've played it a couple of times with Mashugenah GMing. I love the questionnaire set-up and the Jenga tower definitely works as intended!

I'm a huge fan of Dungeon World in case you hadn't guessed, so I'll definitely be running that at BGW.

I hadn't heard of Dance of the Damned or The Dance and the Dawn. They both sound interesting!