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[Bacchanal] A sketch of an actual play report
This post is DEFINITELY a work in progress. It's the spine for an actual play report on Gametime about my experience playing Bacchanal. So far it's mostly just bullet-points, and when I boil it all down to the main strands, here's what I get:- Bacchanal plays very differently from a typical RPG
- It very deliberately introduces a set of constraints and ( Read more... )
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[Bacchanal] My thoughts on Ivan's feedback (Part 2)
I've almost finished posting about the Bacchanal game. Again, this isn't an actual play. The next post will be me starting to draw together the most significant points from everything I've written about over the last few days; I'll be creating the SPINE of an actual play reort.
Things I need to get down include:- What happened to my character ( ( Read more... )
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[Bacchanal] My thoughts on Ivan's feedback (Part 1)
I've almost finished posting about the Bacchanal game.
Things I need to get down include:
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[Bacchanal] Notes from the post-game talk
I'm posting about the Bacchanal game in a few different parts. This is not really an actual play report (not yet) - it's more of a thought dump.
Things I need to get down include:- What happened to my character ( here)
- What happened to everyone else's characters (in progress, here)
- My experiences playing the game ( here)
- Everyone else's experiences ( Read more... )
- What happened to my character ( here)
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[Bacchanal] My experiences playing it
I'm going to post about the Bacchanal game last Saturday in a few different parts. This is not really an actual play report (not yet) - it's more of a thought dump.
Things I need to get down include:- What happened to my character ( here)
- What happened to everyone else's characters (in progress, here)
- My experiences playing the game (here, obviously)
- ( Read more... )
- What happened to my character ( here)
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[Bacchanal] Did I misread the rules?
I don't think so.
I've mis-read a game's rules a few times (*). It's something I've come to accept - a period of shaking the game down, seeing how it plays and how everything fits together.
(*) My game of Trollbabe with Luke and Same being the most serious, as I completely misinterpreted what an 'exchange' consisted of.
In the case of Bacchanal, that ( Read more... ) -
[Bacchanal] What happened to my character
I'm going to post about the Bacchanal game last Saturday in a few different parts. This is not really an actual play report (not yet) - it's more of a thought dump.
Things I need to get down include:- What happened to my character
- What happened to everyone else's characters
- My experiences playing the game (and everyone else's experiences)
- Notes from post ( Read more... )
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[Bacchanal] Ivan's feedback
I'm going to post about the Bacchanal game last Saturday in a few different parts. This is not really an actual play - it's more of a thought dump.
Things I need to get down include:- What happened to my character
- What happened to everyone else's characters
- My experiences playing the game (and everyone else's experiences)
- Notes from post-game talk
- Did I ( Read more... )
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Thoughts on LARPing and a GM-less LARP system
(This post is a work in progress)
This conversation on nzrag (INSERT LINK) has caused me to write a free-form LARP system. Probably works best for 3 to 7 players.
The basics:
+ First create the setting and then create the situation (what's brought you all here, what sort of crisis do you face) by each taking turns contributing one fact. ( ( Read more... ) -
Steve's Game Plan (2009)
Writing out the games I played last year has me in the mood to plan out what I want to play this year. Last time I tried this, I think I was overly ambitious; this time, I'm keeping it simple:- I want to run a 3 to 7 episode game of Mouse Guard - which my Tuesday night group is already doing. [ DONE! ]
- After that, it looks like we're going to play ( Read more... )