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Roleplaying short

Dungeon Majesty

Dungeon Majesty (Quicktime at the link) is a cable TV show where four women play D&D. Awesome garage TV.

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Roleplaying

Maddoc of Merimna

The First Trump - Maddoc Time to break-up the monotony of this blog with a picture. Here’s a Trump that Amir Arad has done for my character in the new Amber campaign we both just started playing in, run by Joy Bartov. He (the character) is called Maddoc, and so far the highlight of his career was managing to insult Benedict on their first meeting.
Jeez. All I did was demand that he "Explain!". My players do that all the time to my NPCs…

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Roleplaying Software and Programming

Games for people with lives

I’ve got a small number of computer games, and I play practically none; last time I verged on addiction was probably in University, when I stayed home for a day playing Civilization (that should date me). Which might explain why I like this article, Designing Games for the Wage Slave, which argues that game makers need to make games more playable for people with no time.

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Roleplaying Science Fiction and Fantasy

Belly of the Beast

Sean Stewart’s account of writing for the A.I. tie-in web game, known among the developers as “The Beast”, and done in secret by a team headed by Jordan Weisman at Microsoft’s Game Group.

“Existential crisis of killer geisha robot, side order of Socrates,” I said. “When do you need that?”
“Um… 4 hours?”
“Four hours?”
“Yeah.”
“I’ll have a draft in 2.”
Damn, I thought, hanging up, I LOVE this job!

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Roleplaying

Stupid Quizzes

Bah. Real GMs don’t need quizzes.
Blah
Narrative GM: You like the sound of your own voice
and you talk, talk, talk. Your game is rife
with information – usually more than necessary.
Every detail is verbalized and you love
adjectives.

What style of GM are you?
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