Improvising as a GM – Video
March 9, 2015I’m starting a series of youtube videos on RPG advice.
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- Debunking White Fantasy
- Let's Chat about Censorship and Bullying
- Let's Have a Serious Talk About Gamer Culture
- Race in Your Roleplaying
- Reclaiming Problematic Settings
- What a Brighter Future or Not
- Where is the line in Cultural Appropriation?
- Why is there Hate in My Fun?
Broken RPG Culture
- 1) Roots of the Big Problems
- 2) A Way Out
- 3) Fun Now Manifesto
- 4) Jono's Chart of Roleplaying
- 5) Abused Gamer Syndrome
- A Conveniently Shifting Line
- A social truth about fun
- Indie Games Destroyed My Group!
- Playing with Good Intent
- Plot Killing Situation
- Rule Zero
- The Gamer Hurdle
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- Those who want you dead
- Unbreakable?
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Forge Theory
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Gamers
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Media - Freedom through Geekdom
- "Stories have to be about white people!"
- 1) Tempest's Challenge: Stop reading straight WM for a year
- 2) Let's Talk About Comfort Zones
- 20 Toxic Diversion Tactics used by Manipulative People
- Colorblind enough to erase us
- Comics Follow Society… not really
- Cultural Appropriation is a Cycle
- Dresden Files & the inability to deal w/POC
- Failbending
- Heinlein and Racism
- How NOT to fail at writing inclusive games Pt. 1
- How Not to fail… pt. 2 Gender & Sexuality
- Media & problematic material – critically & uncritically
- Medieval POC
- Monte Cook D&D representation
- N.K. Jemisin Monochromatic sci-fi
- Native People Apologize for Existing
- Orcs still equal Savage Peoples
- Othered only because you say so
- POTC: The Tia Dalma Conflict
- Privilege and Low Expectations
- Publishing & Privilege of White Expression
- Readercon, Harassment, Fallout – privilege is doing wrong & people worry for you
- Reconciliation within Sci-fi/Fantasy
- Shame- by Pam Noles
- Social Spaces & Toxicity
- The Harm of Political Correctness
- The Kumbayah Myth
- The Red Summer of 1919 & Other History America Should Discuss
- The Revolution will not be polite: Nice vs. Good
- The Shukla Test
- The silencing of women
- Things I will never do to my characters, ever
- Transformative Works vol. 3
- We Have Always Fought
- When is erasure acceptable?
- When is it ok to use blackface?
- Why my Protagonists aren't White
- You wanna diversify? Pay us.
Roleplaying Games
- 1001 Nights
- Blade of the Iron Throne
- Blowback
- Dirty Secrets
- Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
- Dog Eat Dog
- Falling Leaves
- Last Stand – Bioarmor vs. Kaiju
- Legends of Middle Earth
- Mars Colony
- Mist Robed Gate
- Primetime Adventures
- Steal Away Jordan
- TAO Games
- The Dance & the Dawn
- The Friendship Game
- Zodiac Final Fantasy RPG
RPG Design
- 1) So you want to make an RPG?
- Design: Choice and Flow
- Fiction & Cues
- Focus Stats vs. Spread Stats
- GMing – Authority and Directives
- Lumpley: How Rules Work
- Resources ARE permissions
- Resources in your game
- Rules & Fiction (Declare vs. Delegate)
- Rules & Fiction 2 (Design vs. Play)
- Setting (Canonical vs. Evocative)
- Siloing vs. Point Builds
Specific RPG Posts
Theory Context
Ye Olde D&D Posts
- 4E Monster Hacks
- 4E Monster Hacks – ideas
- 4E Setting Up Skill Challenges
- 4E Skill Challenges made Easy
- 4E Stunting & Fight Sets
- 4E Tactics
- D&D FYIA tokens
- D20 3.5 Hacks, part 1
- D20 3.5 Hacks, part 2
- DM's Dilemma (wrt Combat)
- In Thy Name – story/politics focused D&D
- Index of hacks (3.5 or earlier)
- Intersecting Experience Awards
- Solving Most of D&D's Problems in One Step
- Spell Accents
- The Five Blades of Bahamut
- The problem of buyable magic items
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