Dragon Heresy Playtest Report: Silent Village
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Dragon Heresy Playtest Report: Silent Village

We had another playtest of the Dragon Heresy RPG. It was a surprisingly challenging session in terms of personal interaction. The productive way to look at this is in terms of how the rules and text of the game can attempt to deal with what is usually one of the only real problems in RPG…

GURPS and Transhuman Space – fear of drowning
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GURPS and Transhuman Space – fear of drowning

+Christian Blouin has started a new blog and a new campaign, and it’s in the 3rd edition setting of +David Pulver‘s Transhuman Space. This will wind up being a bit of a fact-free post, because while I own several of the books (at least two, and only in hard-copy), and have loved reading through them, I’ve always…

Sensible Master Plans redux
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Sensible Master Plans redux

A long while back I got to attend a training seminar by the McChrystal Group. It inspired me to write a bit about using that business framework in RPGs, and in S2E7 of the Aeon game, it came up again. How? We were trying to work out ways to use a recent treasure trove of…