Podcast: Download A playtest of JB Mannon’s wizard boarding school RPG Boarsdraft. Dan is the GM and Leo, Nolan, and Scott are the players. 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:56 Getting Started 0:02:56 Character Generation 0:23:04 Gordon’s Acceptance Letter 0:43:30 Bran’s Acceptance Letter 058:13 Rod’s Acceptance Letter 1:13:32 Boarsdraft Express 1:38:14 Sorting into Houses 1:52:16 Welcome Feast 2:08:40 Seeking Fortune 2:31:48 Discussion 2:51:40 Outro Scott…
I’ve been reading a lot of psychology books lately that talk about things like cognitive biases and the differences between the emotional and rational parts of human brains. It has crystallized an RPG design idea that I think is worth articulating: When RPG players make decisions for their characters, they want to have the character do the artistically appropriate thing…
Podcast: Download Continuing the story from episode 7, this is another playtest of Final Hour of a Storied Age rev 0.61 with Lance Allen of Wolves Den Publishing, Lenny Balsera the Lead System Designer for the Dresden Files RPG, and Dan Maruschak the game’s designer and host of the podcast. 0:00:00 Intro and banter 0:02:58 Chapter 5 0:19:12 Chapter 6…