At #GamesForChange Asia Pacific today. If you're attending and want to talk about interactive impacts, please grab me.

A consistent body of work will ensure you always have an audience, though.

Layla writes a beautiful response to Yochai Gal's Beyond the Pale, but she also leaves out the most important analysis that came out of our play session.

Thanks for tagging me in. I miss The Hard Move a lot. I'd love to get back into similar work.

I have a copy of Vel's rewrite that I'd saved. The basics of the change are that when you tick off an option, it can't be reused (by anyone) until you refresh the list in some way. Or if you're an Orc :D

Walking around Jurassic Pond with my partner, pointing at a Dunkelosteous and quietly whispering, "it you".

The NSR is defined by assumptions. When they remove rules, the "rulings" that fill the space are (more often than not) built on assumptive practices. I always go back to this (OSR, not NSR, I think) game of Stay Frosty (Garske, 2017). "Rulings, not rules" means "manifest assumptions".

The new paradigm is a focused, aligned, mission-defined team. What we call "High performing team in a fault intolerant environment". That doesn't mean a stressed-out, maxed-out team. It means a team that kicks ass when ass needs kicking.

(Snips from Mellick and Adams, 2009)

Based on your opinions about the Gelatinous Cube and Displacer Beast, I can comfortably predict my favourite moment when playing D&D with you.

This is genius. I have a larger kit for home, but wow this is a great pocket option. Thank you, Meg!

"Cows don't look like cows on camera, you have to use horses" demos the two types of game designer I am.

The first sees it as analogous to the aesthetic experience of play being understood experientially.

The second kind:
"What do you do for horses?
Usually we just tape a bunch of cats together."

I've been wrapped up for a while in my rejection of "The Rule of Cool", which is so vague as to lead itself to be so often misunderstood and misapplied.

@jenkatwrites.bsky.social performed the beautiful service of showing me a piece from 2010's RPGs "Warrior Cats Adventure Game".

My game design contemporaries: "After I publish this second book on ludic proxied embodiment I'll probably restart my YouTube series just to bump the ad revenue again".

Me:

This feels like a good first Bluesky post as I start to shift over here for my small communities.

About to enter my Paul Hogan era.