123 – re:play City of the Crepuscular Queen 1/

June 18, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We start our play of Daniel’s homebrew setting and system, City of the Crepuscular Queen.

The first seven minutes or so explain to our magic user, Jim, how magic even works. We venture into discussions on what makes a good and/or fun spell. Thereafter, it’s onto the action.

There’s an entire cycle of play, which let the players (and lets you) get a decent idea of what D&D can be like without D&D. Tense NPC interaction, spell mishaps, combat, hippie storygame nonsense—it’s all here, folks.

Theme music for CCQ is “Monarchy,” the title track of the album from Mosh: https://iammosh.bandcamp.com/album/monarchy

Episode image: public domain

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122 – re:play City of the Crepuscular Queen 0/

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We start our play of Daniel’s homebrew setting and system, City of the Crepuscular Queen. (Warning: mild Bloodborne spoilers.)

This episode starts with a discussion of mechanics and theory, intrinsic vs extrinsic rewards, using drama to structure your game, and giving creative pressure release valves.

Then Daniel moves into orienting the players on the setting, stuff they need to know in order to play their characters.

And finally we set up the first moment of actual play.

Theme music for CCQ is “Monarchy,” the title track of the album from Mosh: https://iammosh.bandcamp.com/album/monarchy

Episode image: public domain

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121 – re:play Hot Springs Island 6/

June 5, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

9 minutes of actual Hot Springs Island play, followed by GG NO RE: UNPLUGGED.

We talk about what we actually are looking for when playing and running RPGs, what effect the DM’s investment in the setting has on the game, using Coggle with investigative games, creating dungeons map-last instead of map-first, shots fired about the utility of unstocked maps, designing for emergent gameplay vs designing something inherently engaging with emergent gameplay a bonus feature, and old multiplayer games. Enjoy, if you can.

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120 – re:play Hot Springs Island 5/

May 31, 2018 / gg no re / 2 Comments

Loosely an actual play, we spend the first 20 minutes talking about Star Wars. Then we look at statues.

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119 – re:play Hot Springs Island 4/

May 23, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We actually play Hot Springs Island this time! We meet people, kill monsters, and talk about what’s good and bad so far about the module, concluding with general thoughts on the role of random generation in modules.

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118 – re:play Hot Springs Island 3/

May 16, 2018 / gg no re / 1 Comment

We talk about how Chartopia can help you organize your random tables, high school drama club, how motion blur is terrible except in VR, and play a little bit of the actual game. More proper play next episode.

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117 – re:play Hot Springs Island 2/

April 25, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We continue our actual play of Hot Springs Island, using a hacked up version of 5e to be more like the upcoming Pathfinder 2e playtest. This one has us fully exploring a hex and getting sidetracked by film criticism and grits criticism.

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116 – re:play Hot Springs Island 1/

April 19, 2018April 20, 2018 / gg no re / Leave a comment

We start our actual play of Hot Springs Island, using a hacked up version of 5e to be more like the upcoming Pathfinder 2e playtest. This one explains the procedures of the book from the GM and player sides and gives some insight into what actually running the thing is like.