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benrobbins

@benrobbins@dice.camp

game designer, made Microscope, Kingdom, West Marches, this that and the other thing

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armadajosh, to random
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You have four days left to get your Crit Awards nominations in! If you haven't already, please nominate your favourite games and AP podcasts.

If you like our stuff please nominate us!

Our eligible solo RPGs are: Wreck This Deck, Not Your Witch, Advent Of Abomination, Monsterball, Gelatinous, and Familiar Friends.

Our eligible multiplayer RPGs are: Imposters and Polis.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG27ZBt5PC__CM2f3zM8KejcDL72lEipfRXwvcXybkewrp-Q/viewform

benrobbins,
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@armadajosh They've got a GMless category? Very cool! I'm not sure I've seen that in a game award before.

benrobbins,
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@armadajosh Speaking of which, have you checked out /r/gmless? It's been a nice spot to talk about GMless games. Very chill, so far.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gmless/

benrobbins, to random
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A nice callout for @jacksontegu magic on Polygon

https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/24160953/best-drawing-ttrpg-sword-loser-adult-art-therapy

benrobbins, to random
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https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/3498/kafka-and-his-precursors/

epidiah, to random
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Speaking of nostalgia, I've been thinking a lot about the adventure board games of my youth. Games like Search for the Emperor's Treasure from this collection: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5811/the-best-of-dragon-magazine-games

benrobbins,
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@epidiah Search for the Emperor’s Treasure rocked. I’m Tom Wham ride-or-die

chobbs, to random

I feel like I’m just being spoiled with a bounty of gaming lately! Sunday I played Fiasco, Monday I played City of Winter, and last night I played Microscope Chronicle! I’m like living a con weekend over the course of a week 🥳

benrobbins,
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@chobbs It's a good kind of spoiled! More games for everyone!!!

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https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/3540/a-bard-as-in-shakespeare/

chobbs, to random

Blog stuff! Wrote up some musings about contributing "boring stuff" to games, and how I've been really enjoying it lately - https://www.lessthanthreegames.com/blog/2024/05/03/the-fun-of-boring-worlds/

benrobbins,
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@chobbs Those insights about the Furniture game are great stuff!

benrobbins, to random
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These are the things we do every time we sit down and play a role-playing game

https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/2180/the-layer-cake-of-gaming/

chobbs, to random

The remorseless criminal:

Linocut print of tuxedo cat eating a leaf

benrobbins,
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@chobbs Innocent of all charges!!!

!

benrobbins, to random
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"I’m ready to dive into the disastrous emotional fallout from my own decisions!"

Now that's a proper story gamer.

benrobbins, to random
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My first step to fixing Microscope scenes: make them about people

https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/3449/a-microscope-for-the-people/

benrobbins,
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@pyloric Exactly. Too much stuff, pulling players in too many different directions.

benrobbins, to random
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We're in the middle of a game of Shock and I just have to say… sooooo good

benrobbins,
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@chobbs
🔥 🔥 🔥
🤖 🤖 🤖
💀 💀 💀

And that's how we accidentally destroyed AI

benrobbins, to random
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My recipe for building your Shire:

https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/3418/union-cousins-once-removed/

chobbs, to random

I've discovered a new-to-me procrastination style: starting writing a new game to avoid prepping to facilitate a game I've never played. Thanks brain!

benrobbins,
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@chobbs YOU ARE FACILITATING THAT GAME FOR US!!!

ludopolitics, to random

I like the look of this cute "trindie" game from the UK about people in space doing little missions, set in the actual solar system.

It feels like the kind of indie game my students would write, something solid and fun but relatively "safe."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/murkdice/void-above

benrobbins,
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@ludopolitics Looks interesting. Backed!

benrobbins, to random
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We just started our setup for our "summer camp for kids who don't know they're witches yet" and it is a YA novel gold mine.

Newt Troop 4evar!!!

ludopolitics, to random

Last few years, I've been feeling that @megueyb + @lumpley's Apocalypse World and Avery's most recent half-dozen games (since Quiet Year) -- plus everything released since -- have left me thinking a lot about "responding to a prompt" as the micro-foundation of TRPG play.

I don't know if I can fully articulate it, or put it into a clouds-and-arrows diagram. And, in the end, it's not particularly complicated or insightful. But I think it helps reframe TRPGs (and all play?) in useful ways.

benrobbins,
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@ludopolitics I'm looking at this vis-a-vis In This World, where a major part of the process is effectively having the players generate prompts (aka statements) from real world knowledge to ease the transition into creation

benrobbins,
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@ludopolitics Exactly. Which leads to the question, what's the starting point? Is this latest prompt just the last thing another player said or static text from the rules or a table (like Quiet Year cards)?

benrobbins,
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@ludopolitics 😂

benrobbins,
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@ludopolitics "Are we gaming tonight?"

"You fool, don't you know IT NEVER STOPPED"

chobbs, to random

Ahhhh!!!! A good mail day!!! So excited for lots of In This World, so pretty in print!

benrobbins,
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@chobbs Throwing Marc under the bus: a legit move! 😆

benrobbins, to random
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Playing more Downfall tonight, and our current hero is definitely resisting the call to adventure.

Such a great game…

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