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Virtual Dragon Con looks amazing! If you’re attending this weekend, I’m running my 2020 Indie Groundbreaker nominated RPG Return to the Stars, if you are up for some optimistic space opera shenanigans. The adventure include: Rouge One is the most important cosplay tournament in known space...

Gygax isn't a Stafford or a Barker, deeply interested in worldbuilding. It may be productive to think of Greyhawk as being different mostly because of unexamined assumptions Gygax is making--recreating the chainmail miniature wargaming experience as setting, simply because it was his default...

Reading this thread I suspect the real American "fantasy" is people assuming that what games happen to be played has to do with consumer preferences as revealed by the great and powerful invisible hand of the market. As opposed to DnD being dominant because of network effects, and Pathfinder...

You certainly see player surrender in games that mechanically support it. With Fate's concession rule (where you explicitly avoid the worst of your fate, and get bonus Fate points to be awesome later) you can have PCs who act like their fictional counterparts--getting captured, imprisoned in...

In the "not dark" catagory, the current Star Trek licence is well regarded. And there is a free quickstart. My own optimistic Return to the Stars is up for a 2020 Indie Groundbreaker award for Best Setting (awards ceremony Wednesday). Fate based, so easy to play, unlike many other Fate games...

I'm writing (and commissioning) adventures for my space opera RPG, because I think adventures are important part of the genre. But I suspect the more sensible thing for an niche indie creator to do is publish more games, not adventures. Also, to build off of the point about SF settings and...

If a game is based on a licence from living fiction in another medium, forward plot momentum will happen regardless--the only question is if the designers and/or the players will deal with it or how. Constraints not dissimilar to metaplots (at least in terms of tables needing to account for...

It is worth noting that there is a backlog of several hundred additional games yet to be added to the bundle, beyond the 700 there now.

Do you miss going to cons? Me too. That’s why I created A Fun Time at Con a free story creation game that celebrates gathering with other fans, with the twist that you’re playing space opera heroes arriving back home at your post-scarcity utopia after your adventures, and enjoying your shore...

Of course, if they hadn't resolved this, we'd have had to endure endless "speculation" about the next season or, more realistically, the resolution would arrive in the form of p/r related to Stewart filming season 2. This was a cheap poke at emotions tied to really opaque themematic concerns...

I have a Damn the Man Save the Music one shot scheduled for Wednesday, and a Fate game a little bit later. Both should be light enough to play with voice channel on a Discord, with a Google doc for notes.

Sharing that I’ve just released Return to the Stars: a hopepunk space opera RPG powered by Fate. The players of Return to the Stars are a new generation of geeks — makers, genetically enhanced cosplayers, scientists, and pop culture enthusiasts setting out on an adventure of exploration and...