A short session this week. The procedures are still prominent but producing interesting prompts. If you're just now finding this, the story starts at the Prologue. I'll keep injecting the mechanical bits per the rest of the series. My takeaway with this session is that Starforged is designed to deliver good gameplay, not necessarily good… Continue reading Echo Sedano 4
Part three of my Starforged fiction! Catch up from the beginning here: Setup. Here's the rest of it: Part 1, Part 2. This session is quite a lot more mechanically intricate than the previous two, which was interesting. Trying to balance good narrative against interesting gameplay. Let me know if you think I hit a… Continue reading Echo Sedano 3
This is a continuation from the previous entry of my Starforged-inspired fiction project, which I posted last week. As such I don't think of it as a new "chapter" and didn't trigger any start of chapter stuff. If you want to catch up from the beginning, the setup is here. Mechanical notes are in the… Continue reading Echo Sedano 2
This is the first fiction out of the Starforged game I wrote about last week. I cover my setup there. It's an experiment! Maybe you're not in for fiction, and that's fine. I've also embedded discussion of the game mechanics that led me to write what I did, which you may find interesting or helpful… Continue reading Echo Sedano: Prologue
Something that occurred to me just this year: having an encyclopedic knowledge of RPGs hasn’t actually made me happier. In fact it’s probably made me less happy participating in my hobby, because I don’t share the same assumptions as the players with whom I spend most of my time. It’s given me all the tools… Continue reading The Usual Suspects
