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CommentaryOut-of-Character

Heroic imaginations

mattMar 24, 2007
This is probably more suitable for infurious because it’s riffing off Guy Kawasaki. Nurturing a heroic imagination takes five actions:...
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CommentaryGame DesignGM

Look out of genre for ideas.

mattMar 22, 2007Mar 22, 2007
This thread on TheRPGSite looks for some ideas about how to populate a story based on the theme “Traveller: it...
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CommentaryOut-of-Character

Action is character

mattMar 22, 2007Mar 22, 20075 Comments on Action is character
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Action is character.” A few years ago a friend of mine came up with the theory...
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CommentaryWatchTower

Misfit! Breakdance on the street …

mattMar 22, 20072 Comments on Misfit! Breakdance on the street …
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CommentaryGame DesignLateGamingQabal

r-Maps (and being ahead of the curve)

mattMar 22, 20075 Comments on r-Maps (and being ahead of the curve)
There’s a lot of talk of relationship maps. I’ve been playing with the idea of an r-map for gaming for...
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CommentaryGame Design

More on sexism and racism in games.

mattMar 22, 2007
More on New Horizons the game that is going to put racism and sexism into every pulp game. I’m going...
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WatchTower

Episode Four – 27th October 2000, PM

mattMar 20, 2007Mar 21, 20076 Comments on Episode Four – 27th October 2000, PM
Skycrane and Psiren arrived safely on the rooftop of WatchTower and were greeted by a concerned INDIGO and the team...
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CommentaryOut-of-CharacterWatchTower

sometimes you have to wear your work clothes to the doctor

mattMar 19, 2007Mar 19, 2007
SXSW covers “Confessions of Superhero” which shows the strange and seedy world of superhero lookalikes… We see Joe McQueen demolished...
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CommentaryGame DesignLateGamingQabalViride

Systems

mattMar 17, 2007Mar 22, 200715 Comments on Systems
A posting on RPGnet asks us to describe our homebrew systems. I ended up describing mine thusly. Maths-easy 2d6 comedy...
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CommentaryGame DesignTTN

A picture is worth a thousand words. Literally.

mattMar 16, 2007Mar 16, 20075 Comments on A picture is worth a thousand words. Literally.
It’s always been a frustration to me that I can’t draw. Jared and I have debated this a few times...
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ConventionsTTN

Q-CON. What are we doing for it.

mattMar 16, 2007
On Monday last I was accosted by a small ginger elf who enquired not what TTN could do for me,...
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WatchTower

Episode Three – 27th October 2000

mattMar 13, 20075 Comments on Episode Three – 27th October 2000
Things started off innoculously enough as Donna the receptionist watched the rank and file of WatchTower New York file into...
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Commentary

Insulting the conservatives

mattMar 11, 2007
Morfedel writes: “I think its because my conservatives watch Fox news because they (and I) feel that many other news...
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Commentary

Unborn Ghosts

mattMar 11, 2007Mar 12, 2007
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because...
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Commentary

Live for the moment

mattMar 11, 20071 Comment on Live for the moment
Last Monday, a friend of mine found out they had cancer after a couple of months of complaining about an...
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WatchTower

Watchtower: Just in over the wire

mattMar 11, 20075 Comments on Watchtower: Just in over the wire
++++ADVANCE NOTIFICATION ++++ WATCHTOWER EYES ONLY++++ Five superhuman individuals have been contracted for operations unknown in East Coast North America,...
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CommentaryLateGamingZombi

Zombie Links

mattMar 9, 2007
This isn’t a link blog, but these are very fun. Zombie World News “ZombieWorldNews.com is , as far as we...
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CommentaryWatchTower

Captain America and other patriots

mattMar 9, 2007
From onegoodmove we have Stephen Colbert on the tragic death of Captain America One of my friends, Gav, mentioned the...
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Game DesignStatus: Refugee

Status: Refugee – A beginning

AJMar 9, 20075 Comments on Status: Refugee – A beginning
They repurposed I-90 into a massive people-processing line, putting you through checkpoint after checkpoint. This one for DNA scan, the...
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Commentary

Local Boy living the dream…

mattMar 8, 2007Mar 8, 20075 Comments on Local Boy living the dream…
BBC News Northern Ireland writes: A man accused of a stealing underwear from a shop in a knifepoint raid believed...
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