Comments on: White Wolf: Now It’s Semi-Official

By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:00:04 +0000

Yes I am. It is by turns inspiring and depressing.

By: Galen

Galen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:51:18 +0000

Are you aware of the various game ideas and setting that 4chan’s /tg/ churns out on an almost-daily basis? Here’s an archive –

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

By: Ryan Dancey

Ryan Dancey — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:35:07 +0000

A lot of great stuff here. You’re on the right track on many points, and the places you’re off track are not meaningful to the discussion anyway.

By: Next Gen RPGs | Mobunited.com

Next Gen RPGs | Mobunited.com — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:21:55 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:10:24 +0000

Well, it’s coming, whatever “it” is (and whether or not CCP will actually follow through, frankly). Lots of possibilities. Right now I’m asking what can be done for grassroots new roleplaying that won’t be free in the next few years.

I think it’s got to have some kind of quality content stream. I think electronic game management tools by themselves die as paid stuff when somebody issues a user-friendly, complete single-chunk e-tools distribution to plug into something like Google Wave. Content and community have to be big parts of the plan.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:02:02 +0000

The sales volume compared to other media is minuscule, but the money that needs to be tossed at it is correspondingly small. I could probably create a game with industry-leading production values (just short of D&D, maybe) with the money many companies are willing to piss away on less effective development methods, such as the still-used “Sit around a boardroom and stammer at each other while staring at a specifications document.”

The main challenge is pushing those benefits. As I said, the disparity in business tempts tabletop designers to learn the wrong lessons from other media, because those guys have new cars and everything!

By: Gareth-Michael Skarka

Gareth-Michael Skarka — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:00:15 +0000

What I meant was that the biggest take-away I got from your blog entry was the commentary on the Next Big Thing — the “third way” — the coming “post-tabletop” breakthru.

That’s what got me thinking the most, and yet most of the critics ignore that entire angle, focusing instead on saying “RPGs can’t be IP Prototyping for Video Games Because of Scale and Ba-Chomp Ba-Chewy Chewy Chomp!”

By: admin

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:52:41 +0000

I have been specifically sought out to work on electronic projects because of an RPG-related skill set. As I said on Twitter, LPJ doesn’t strike me as a guy anybody would hand the creative reins to.

It’s not an easy sell outside tabletop though, for the simple reason that intellectual property development just isn’t done well, even by major owners. As I said before, Paramount didn’t even keep a archive of licensed Star Trek material around. Plus, the property as a framework clashes with some of the aspirations behind specific iterations, such as a book’s storyline and gameplay as defined in a design document.

Right now I’m involved in a great back and forth process where the content is being integrated at the roots of the design, so there’s some great back and forth. I hope I can b more specific about it eventually.

By: Gareth-Michael Skarka

Gareth-Michael Skarka — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:03:04 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out why Porter and other critics of this post (and mine) seem to think that we’re talking about RPGs becoming IP Prototyping *for the video game industry* — that’s certainly not what I was talking about, nor what I took from your post, either.

*Shrug* Gamers. Who can figure ‘em?

By: Rob Donoghue

Rob Donoghue — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:16:53 +0000

Good stuff. I’m all for the rapid prototyping and all that, but my big takeaway is that idea of the different ways to handle a living IP. I’m going to be chewing on that for a bit.

-Rob D.