I've decided that I want to run more LARPs. Rather a lot more than I have been doing. Specifically, I'm going to aim for a rather ambitious goal of writing from the ground up and running a LARP per month throughout 2009. If I fall behind in writing, I may use prewriten LARPs from sources on the internet. Or include running old LARPs for new ( Read more... )

So since it's been a while since I did one of these things, I'm participating in the Genre Redesign Madness roleplaying game design challenge. I'm also very busy this week at work, so we'll see how much comes out of it ( Read more... )

I think I’ve settled on an idea for Game Chef. It uses the Horstman and Shoemaker sets of art, which also are apparently the most popular sets so far. Hopefully the crazy gameplay of my game will set it apart from everyone else with the same art. I feel like last year my game got lost in a shuffle of similar games, and fear this might happen ( Read more... )

So there are a few things that are taking up a lot of my attention currently ( Read more... )

Since January, I've been GMing a solo D&D game for Amber, which has been fun and interesting. Other than a playtest of Mutant City Blues, this is the first significant GMing that I've done in a long time. Those two jobs GMing add up to me doing more GMing in the last six months than in the previous five years. Possibly ten years.

( D&D, reality revision and using in game events to motivate out of game action )

So you have some characters interacting in your game (I have no idea what the rest of the game looks like). you get to a point where two characters or two players want different things. To resolve these things, play goes like this:

1. One of the two players declares two possible outcomes for the situation.
   
2. The other one picks which outcome ( Read more... )

If you're following Amber's LJ, then you see that we have joined the ranks of the Wii60 movement. And that Bioshock is as awesome as expected ( Read more... )