2018-02-21 : Retrospective: How RPGs Work
Over the years, I've presented here a number of series of posts about how I think rpgs work. Some of them were fruitful, some less so, but here are a few of my favorites.
Dice & Clouds (2009)
Prologue: 1-18-05 : How RPG Rules Work
2009-04-07 : 3 Resolution Systems
2009-04-09 : cloud-to-cloud
2009-04-09 : Scale, Depth, Clouds, Dice
2009-04-10 : A Moment of Judgment
2009-04-27 : Dice & Cloud: a Symmetry
2009-05-13 : Now where WAS I...
2009-06-07 : Concrete Examples of Arrows
2009-06-08 : Restating: Fictional Causes and Realization
2009-06-09 : Adequacy, Cause and Effect
2009-06-15 : Lazy Play vs IIEE with Teeth
Culminating in:
2009-06-24 : Rock of Tahamaat, Tyrant of IIEE
Unreliable Currency (2010)
Prologue: 2005-05-20 : Things on Character Sheets
2010-02-16 : Things on Character Sheets (2)
2010-02-18 : Currency - Spanning Divide and Range
2010-02-19 : Shared Positioning at the Micro
2010-02-23 : Can your brains just do it?
2010-03-01 : Reliable vs Unreliable Currency
Monster Mania Con (2012)
2012-02-11 : 3 Problems
2012-03-15 : Monster Mania Con
2012-03-19 : If it isn't an RPG, is it still an RPG?
2012-03-21 : Monster Mania Con: barriers to interest
2012-04-14 : Jessica Hammer on Dread
Positioning, Real & Fictional (2012)
2012-11-12 : Where were we...?
2012-11-14 : Emily on Fictional Positioning
2012-11-15 : the Big Model vs Emily, reconciled
2012-11-16 : System and gameplay options
2012-11-20 : My Premature Conclusion
2012-11-21 : Some Looly Pooly Groundwork
2012-11-26 : Two Timelines
2012-12-04 : Two Timelines in Text
2012-12-07 : Legitimacy and Occult Co-ownership
2012-12-20 : Retroactive
2012-12-26 : what about Resource and Effectiveness?
2012-12-27 : the Okay Cycle
2012-12-28 : Disagreements?
Objects Schmobjects (2014)
2014-07-15 : Procedure, Components, Object, Strategy, Style
2014-07-17 : Strategy vs Style
2014-07-18 : Objects of RPGs
2014-07-18 : Non-Endstate Objects, Strategy & Style
2014-07-19 : Aside: Designing a Bell Curve
2014-07-21 : The Object and Particular Strategy
2014-07-21 : Reminder: Object Schmobject
2014-07-23 : The Trouble with RPGs
2014-07-24 : The Trouble with RPGs (ii)
2014-07-25 : RPGs Have Objects, Q&A
1. On 2018-02-25, Tim Ralphs said:
Thanks for this! That "IIEE with teeth" post is something I've been thinking about lately, playing Blades in the Dark. Nice to have it just there!
This makes...
VB go "Great!"
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