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danmaruschak

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My collected Tabletop RPG Theory tweets from #RPGTheoryJuly

During July there was a social media activity under the hashtag #RPGTheoryJuly with a month's worth of daily prompts designed to spur people to talk about RPG Theory, i.e. the field of study (whether amateur

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danmaruschak

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Tabletop RPG Theory Concept: Posture

The content below originally appeared on my now-defunct blog on June 28, 2013, I'm reposting it here because I wanted to reference it for a Twitter post for #RPGTheoryJuly. It's talking about a

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danmaruschak

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Tabletop RPG Theory: Fictional Position

A few years ago I wrote a big post on my now-defunct blog about the Forge Theory terms “Positioning” and “Currency”. There's an #RPGTheoryJuly activity happening on Twitter, and the day 9 topic is “Fictional

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danmaruschak

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AprilTTRPGMaker Day 4: Describe your work.

4. Describe your work. If you'd like an overview of some of my game design projects, I covered that in this post a few months ago, so I'll get a bit more abstract with this question. There are a couple

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abenad

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From Mixing Beats To Planting Trees

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a DJ in future. Wait wait, don’t laugh yet. Around the ages of 5 to 11, my brothers and I always put up a whole show for my mom before going to bed. We would wear our pajamas,

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danmaruschak

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Tabletop RPG Theory: Forge “Creative Agendas” as families of System arrangements

I've seen some rumblings around corners of tabletop RPG discussion areas of the Internet of some renewed discussion of Forge Theory, and even “Creative Agenda” or “GNS”. This was always the most controversial

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danmaruschak

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“The psychological representation of modality” and its possible relevance to tabletop RPGs

One of the useful ideas that came out of tabletop roleplaying game discussions on The Forge discussion forums was the Lumpley Principle: System (including but not limited to 'the rules') is defined as

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danmaruschak

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[Philosophy of games] An “ending goal” is not an essential element of games, consider platformers

In discussion of the philosophy of games and sometimes in tabletop RPG Theory there's a recurring notion that an end goal or “object of the game” is an essential element of games. For example, in The

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