Impractical Applications (An Unexpected Success)
Last week, I talked about a fight scene I was running, in terms of the difficulty of figuring out what sort of yardstick the primary characters were going to be. I’m going to go on a bit more, about...
View ArticleImpractical Applications (Keeping Track of a Battle)
I talked a while ago about a fight I’d run in my solo game, where the sole (and rather noncombatant) PC Kiriko was witness to a fight between her two allies, three enemies, and, at the very end, a...
View ArticleImpractical Applications (What the Cat Saw)
One of the things I love about my solo game is the element of someone else’s perspective: running my old timeline through the eyes of someone else entirely. The player’s been pretty compatible with the...
View ArticleImpractical Applications (Two Subtexts)
This week, I talked about subtext in a scene, and how the amount by which it matters can affect what to do with it. What gave me the idea were two parallel scenes I found myself involved in in my two...
View ArticleImpractical Applications (A Small Party)
Earlier this week, I talked about the uses of casual conversation and of mapping out social situations. I’ve had reason to apply both recently, particularly in my solo game. It began simply; Kiriko...
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Convention Sketchbook Filler: To Keep the Dead Down
More RPG characters in whatever costumes would hold still long enough—and this time, I go literary. Olathe and Kiriko feature here as Sabriel and Mogget, respectively, from Garth Nix’s Abhorsen...
View ArticleImpractical Applications (A New Timeline)
Yes, I spent the week talking about searches—but not only would the events that inspired those posts make a whole lot less sense without context, but we’re still in the middle of one of my major search...
View ArticleImpractical Applications (Seeking Marten)
In last week’s Imprac, I’d mentioned that I’d started off the alternate timeline in my solo game with two search plots. The second, the one currently in progress, was the player’s original intention....
View ArticleImpractical Applications (On the Construction of Rival Searchers)
Last week, I talked about the first search plotline in the new timeline of my solo game, with Kiriko looking for Marten, Amaya’s current incarnation, with three other groups serving as rivals. This...
View ArticleReprise: Impractical Applications (Keeping Track of a Battle)
Originally posted August 14, 2010. I talked a while ago about a fight I’d run in my solo game, where the sole (and rather noncombatant) PC Kiriko was witness to a fight between her two allies, three...
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