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Tight Setups and Oppressive Social Footprints

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Tight Indiegame Setups and Oppressive Social Footprints

Unsolved Problems

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High-stakes argumentation is one of the great unsolved problems in roleplaying.

How to Learn A Game

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When I'm learning my way through any RPG with some complexity, one of the first things I start working on is a player cheat sheet, an explainer that hopefully they can refer to without disrupting the game. It empowers the player to know their choices, and takes some load off me during play.

RHIP

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RHIP

How To Learn A Game 2

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I have this unformed notion in my head of eventually documenting all my various methods of learning RPGs. One of those steps, I think, will have to be how I deal with the fundamental incompleteness of RPG rules.