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The value add of using the physical minis is only really on your end -- your remote players are still not getting the advantage. Instead, you introduce a variety of additional problems -- not being able to zoom in or look from other angles at the situation, etc. The problem you're trying to...

I think that works -- and clearly FATE likes it because the system of ASPECTS apply at all levels of the game. But I think where the ideas actually might be more useful to non-FATE players are the ideas of adventure design -- that idea of being able to zoom in and out to respond to the needs...

No problem -- I'm not the originator of the usage, and I was just trying to explain what I'm seeing out there as I read what others are saying about it. I did, at least, link to an article about "real" fractals, rather than just relying on the usage I found in the FATE articles. And while I...

It wouldn't surprise me if similar ideas were rattling around in other games I'm less familiar with -- probably just not talked about in the same way, with the same terms. Where the idea becomes most interesting to me, really, is when you get to the idea of adventure design -- the idea of...

I've been chewing on all things FATE these days, liking a lot of what I'm reading in both the core rules and community offerings online. One of the ideas that has come out of that reading is a very interesting discussion of Fractals in adventure design. Ultimately, this is a mindset for...

I like these additions. In the case of a RP challenge like the one you've detailed, I think that a Next implementation would probably want to be written much more narratively, and with the structural underpinnings a lot less front and center - by which I mean, don't explicitly start with "5...

I don't think they could do that and still be Kickstarter. Essentially, when the big name guys use it, they're usually funding the last-mile development of a product and getting preorders. They do well because they already have an audience and they market to them. Folks who don't already have...

Well, since I was sort of invoked (to do it properly, you would need to repeat my name three times, but I'll let it slide this time), here's my loadout: Shirt pocket: iPhone 5. Often a pen or two (either or both of a fountain pen or my livescribe pen). Reading glasses sometimes. Pants...

Ha! I'd gotten as far as the Amazon page and wandered away -- your post made me realize I hadn't gotten a confirmation email.... anyway, I'm a backer NOW.... -rg

Thanks for sharing, guys! I just backed Table Connect -- if it delivers on the plans, that could be a very cool VTT to play around with -- I want to see how it develops. The 3d Virtual Tabletop one also looks very interesting. And the Game Decor one produces some very pretty terrain (based on...

Actually, I think this Vine is the perfect demonstration of what ended up happening in a lot of our skill challenges. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbLYiloNmic Because players focused on what they could do well, they wound trying to use backflips to do everything, including catch a purse...

This week I thought I'd take a walk through some of the darker corners of Kickstarter projects to see what might be good fun. There are some winners, so check these out while there's still time. These are kick starters for items that may have missed your notice -- they're not actual games, but...

Got mine with Amazon points, so essentially free.

Okay, got me curious enough to order one to try out. ;)

Suitably Rural. They're called server farms, after all. ;)

You're at least the second person in this thread to mention carrying a knife around with them as part of your regular pocket loadout....I'm fascinated. Don't get me wrong, I like a good knife, have several, some even appropriate pocket knives.... but I don't carry one with me on a daily basis. I...

I think another key is going to be the design that does that, and that also includes a bluetooth earpiece that sockets into the phone somehow. I need to be able to pull it out of the phone, stick it in my ear for my conversation, and then put it back so I don't lose it. -rg

You could wear it on your ankle and pretend you're under house arrest. Answering the phone would require yoga, though.

Mood shirts. They change color like mood rings. Not just color, but different graphics show up -- and you can program the graphics. So, you get to upload your angry picture, your bored picture, your aroused picture....all right, maybe that one's a bad idea. And you can have sites like...

I'm excited to give Google Glass a try -- very much so. And I'm totally into gadgets. Used to wear watches religiously, but my iPhone has replaced that need. I've started to need reading glasses more and more over the past few years, and that's starting to be a real drag for some gadgets...