Tag: roleplaying
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What I learned from building actualplaydb.com
I spent the weekend chasing a rabbit down a hole. I built an IMDB for actual plays…mostly from my phone. The thought process went something like this: Aabriya Iyengar has been in a bunch of live TTRPG actual plays, both the mainstream kind (Dimension 20, Critical Role, The Adventure Zone, Dungeons & Dragons official) and…
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3 things role playing has taught me about rules lawyers
I spent a good deal of my college life roleplaying. It was a thing I did. In a very visceral way, you could say it changed my life. One thing it taught me about was “rules lawyers”. A “rules lawyer” is anyone (typically a non-lawyer) who prefers to live according to the letter of the…
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Role Playing Games for kids
Our son loves reading. He’s recently gotten way into The Magic Treehouse series and we’ve since completed the full series (all 45 books!). It occurred to me, since he’s so interested in storytelling, that he might be into those Choose-Your-Own Adventure books that I wasted my youth reading and re-reading until every possible scenario had…