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First post of the year; a rather slow start, but I've been somewhat snowed under. I'm undertaking a massive review of the website and internal wiki at work, plus I have two major assignments due early next week for my MBA (marketing and information systems, god help me). In between all this I'm hanging out with the OpenBSD people as they engage in one of their famous hackathons. After that we're off to Wellington for Linux Conf 2010.

Another time killer has been getting the last issue of RPG Review for 2009 out. There are various reasons (including a dodgy provider of a laptop a/c adapter) but it's been released: RPG Review Issue 6 is a bit of a Glorantha special which includes, among other things, an interview with Greg Stafford. Also there's a pretty hefty retrospective review of Torg: Roleplaying The Possibility Wars.

Went to two small New Year's Eve gatherings on the night; one hosted by BarbaraK and the other by Paula. Both gatherings had fine conversation and it was a genuine pleasure to attend. Also, roadriverrail is an awesome person.

Comments

[shorxrore.livejournal.com]

yea i'm gonna do the free form narrative for now as i barely have time as is (between video games and magic the gathering and....ya know, real life!)

i think i'm just gonna take a bit more control in the story telling so that if a player does something that could hold things up i'll just expand the story to include an immediate response to it...instead of going back and forth with possibilties. i figure that might work better?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

That can work, but make sure that your players know beforehand that that's the sort of ebb-and-flow that you're going to engage in; that if the player doesn't act the story will move ahead and the character will be treated like an NPC when a response isn't forthcoming.

Although it is pretty absolute I would also suggest adding a deadline for responses after posts.

[shorxrore.livejournal.com]

cool - thanks! i'll tell ya how it goes :)