#RPGaDAY2024 – Day 5: Great Writing
Today’s standard prompt for #RPGaDAY2024 is to share an RPG with writing that you feel is great. There are a few books that I could quickly and easily suggest and move on, but this year in particular that won’t be enough. This year is a very important year in terms of RPG writing and so … Continue reading
#RPGaDAY2024 – Day 4: Cosmic Monster
Today, for #RPGaDAY2024 I am going to take my prompt from the alternate set provided by “Challenge Rating” in Poland. I will mostly be sticking with the standard prompts, but I want to have fun with theirs, too. The theme for Day four is Cosmos and my roll for the randomizer was a 1 so … Continue reading
Call of Cthulhu Rises Again~
In the imagined situation these characters and their decisions create and keep in motion, I have presented the players with some curious and upsetting details. As the clock ticks on, Terrence and Callum have followed their motivations, their curiosity, and their urge to find fame and fortune in breaking this case open in the papers. Smalls has found the secrets of the bloodthirsty book and its intimations about one Ludvig Prinn to be so fascinating it is worth heaving his massive bulk out of his shop and apartment on Newbury Street to uncover the truth of them.
On Immersion and Engagement in RPG Play
To help explore the topic of what can be meant in general, and what we specifically mean in a given example when we wax eloquent about immersion, I like to separate things into two defined experiences, that of immersion, and that of engagement. Immersion can suffice on its own, but as usual, the more things a word applies to the more ways it can subtly interfere with communication.
Casting Shadows 