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Guys, Listen, I Have So Many Opinions About Monsterhearts Skins

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

I’m preparing to run a Monsterhearts campaign again, and one of the players asked ‘did you ever write anything about the individual skins’, so, uh, this happened. Apologies in advance for prolonged opining. (I’m keeping this to the basic, come-with-the-book skins. … Continue reading →

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Murderhearts: Designing a One-Shot LARP

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Last autumn I got invited to a murder mystery dinner at a friend-of-a-friend’s place. It was a really fun evening, but the out-of-the-box scenario was very much a murder mystery dinner rather than a LARP. Its design assumed an audience unaccustomed to role-playing … Continue reading →

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What Is A Storygame?

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

I’m going to be moving soon. I’ve been lucky to live for the past few years in a city which has a deep and diverse pool of gaming communities, with enough space in the ecosystem for the weird little niches that … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 8: Losing the Will to Live

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) I have not been feeling like dedicating … Continue reading →

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The RPG Death Spiral

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Possibly you’ve been here: the heroic PCs, on entering a village, smell something suspicious. They were meant to smell something suspicious, but they get the wrong end of the stick somehow, decide that the headman is a doppelganger spy, and attack him. … Continue reading →

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